As I understand it, debit cards do have some fraud protection too, but even if it's the same (I don't think it is), it's a way different power dynamic if you're begging for a bank to give you money back (debit card) vs just disputing your credit card bill.

In practice credit cards just have way better fraud protections.

Tbh, fraud for credit cards is covered by the bank, so I typically just don't care. I just check my statements for anything that looks off.

Typically the engineer who's reviewing PRs and fixing bugs is not the one with the "refund" button access. Someone with that access should certainly have jumped on the whole thing though.

Boris Cherny (bcherny) is the Head of Claude Code @Anthropic. I believe he can refund whatever he wants.

Going to dispute that. Probably he can nicely ask bean counters if they would please arrange refunds.

Hm, fair, thanks. Wonder why they even got involved then. Bizarre.

Even if this is right, by responding to the public issue here he's taking on some level of customer support. A simple "I forwarded the refund request to the relevant team and you should hear back from them" would be a million times better than ignoring it and closing the issue.

Riichi City the app is better than Mahjong Soul, but the matching/rating system sucks.

It's also like, straight up softcore porn with the avatars. Which is fine I guess, but I feel gross playing it in public, which is annoying. Mahjsoul is not a lot better there, but a little.

Riichi mahjong has a very common three player variant that is quite good.

The Earth isn't the center of the galaxy, so this feels confusing/confused:

> So, as a general rule, the farther out astronomers look, the younger the stars are.

The father out from the center of the galaxy they look, the younger the stars are.

The location of the Earth is completely irrelevant. "closer" and "farther" refer to the center of the galaxy.

Not really. Qwen 3.5 and Gemma and a couple of others are quite good though, and the quants are _very_ runnable on a good gpu.

For me, it's not even cost necessarily. If they decide to change the product they offer, the old one is gone. I refuse to use anything for personal use that's not at least _available_ as model weights.

Bingo. This same scenario with IOT hardware/software requirements and the ever changing software updates where features get added/removed (and firmware), etc would have so many here up in arms!

Oddly, less (vocal) arms on this specific case.

Dead people don't buy much rice, invaded people don't grow much rice.

What you're describing is a recipe for a few people to get rich while everybody else starves and dies in wars.

> What you're describing is a recipe for a few people to get rich while everybody else starves and dies in wars.

That is kinda reality tho. And if you think invaded people don't serve their invaders then look around you

> I'd imagine British spies in WWII sometimes wore swastikas to blend in?

British spies in WWII wouldn't do that if the entire concept of what a swastika was baffled them. You have to understand at least basically what the thing you're looking at is in order to use it as a symbol.

If you have _no_ concept of people being made out of meat being possible, you don't dress up as people made out of meat. You do that if it's a common concept to you and you're trying to fit in.

But they mention species with a meat phase.

The concept of meat isn’t foreign. Meat that’s sentient and has no cybernetic parts or phase is.

And they do say they’ve studied and probed for several human lifetimes.

> And they do say they’ve studied and probed for several human lifetimes.

Only one of them has. The other is entirely surprised by the whole concept, and wouldn't even entertain disguising itself as something it has never considered and in fact it's being convinced during the story it even exists.

It's important for the story to work that one of the beings is entirely unconvinced and has to be told, as they discuss the matter, that this is an actual thing!

The one that looks super goofy?

He’s dressed like someone told “hey you have to try to blend in” and didn’t really know how.

Picking the right name is also important to blending in. For example: Ford Prefect.

Like the guy in Star Trek IV who took too much LDS.

Tom Noonan in the short film, yes.

> He’s dressed like someone told “hey you have to try to blend in” and didn’t really know how.

Blend with what? It (the alien) didn't believe these "meat" sentient beings existed when the story starts! It had to be told during the conversation. It thought there must have been machines somewhere who were the real sentient beings. How can anyone attempt to blend in with something one doesn't believe exists?

I understand the adaptation changes this, because there's no other way of working with human actors and also staying within budget. I understand the decision; I'm just saying it misses the mark and makes the story way less funny.

The way I envision this story is a couple of aliens, much like the scenes with the Simpsons aliens, hovering in a spaceship near Earth, discussing humans, with only one of them having actually seen a human. It doesn't work if both have seen them.

All in my opinion, of course, taste and sense of humor are completely subjective.