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by bertil 27d ago
Your comments makes problematic suggestions, but I found it funny that the more childish one —farts– is actually very true: with the lower pressure, people do fart more on airplanes.
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by bertil 2mo ago
As someone who doesn’t live in the US, it was hilariously impossible: you had to call on the phone a number in New York, which never picked up, so you had to pay hours of internal call, or send a fax, something I hadn’t done in two decades…
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by bertil 3mo ago
I have a very low opinion of the current US administration, which might be a blindspot when they do something both horrible and not caveman-like in its sophistication. I’m genuinely surprised they would look into differential privacy (again
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by bertil 3mo ago
The urge to put capitalized, repetitive, borderline abusive instructions should be studied. I haven't read many academic papers looking at the frustrations around repetitive patterns.
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by bertil 5mo ago
> the AI says things like “Interesting!” My experience of those utterance is that it’s purely phatic mimicry: they lack genuine intuitive surprise, it’s just marking a very odd shift in direction. The problem isn’t the lack of path, is t
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by bertil 5mo ago
My impression is that the quality of the conversation is unexpectedly better: more self-critical, the suggestions are always critical, the default choices constantly best. I might not have as many harnesses as most people here, so I suspect
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by bertil 5mo ago
People were still writing code by hand three months ago…
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by bertil 5mo ago
What do you mean by that? Promise some investment? Commit to something?
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by bertil 5mo ago
I do that everywhere, but it seems to fail for LinkedIn: they don’t redirect the link if it’s not in the same tab.
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by bertil 5mo ago
You are assuming I didn’t know before this news came out.
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by bertil 5mo ago
It sounds like a great opportunity to ask if people have used Apple Maps in Lebanon before.
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by bertil 5mo ago
Yeah, that’s the default option for detailed databases like that. Large deletion are either technical issues (and that should affect a lot more than one country) or deliberate edits.
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by bertil 5mo ago
Satellite source would require detailed editing, and there’s very little chance those are fully automated. The entire Middle-East is being blocked, but only Lebanon is being affected. It could be that they have a provider in Lebanon that wa
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by bertil 5mo ago
You can very easily verify the claim by following the link. Other than three major cities, there are no agglomeration listed in Lebanon. Other countries have detailed maps.
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by bertil 5mo ago
> Seems strange to me but I get dragged in all the same. Maybe it‘s a you thing? > Is it not factual that trains have brake pads which wear down and cause carcenogenic micro dust? Not a point I have contested, but yet another suggesti
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by bertil 5mo ago
Trump is too cheap to have paid for those ads.
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by bertil 5mo ago
I’m not saying that Vance is not doing that—God knows that man’s ethics has no floor. I’m doubtful he paid for ads to make his disdain better known. So I suspect someone else is trying to make that happen beyond what Vance can with his spee
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by bertil 5mo ago
Some big moneyed interests are trying to split Europe and the US. The current US administration is definitely not helping, but every ad I see on the Reddit main feed is a blatant attack on the relation, from brand new subreddits, pointing a
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by bertil 5mo ago
Do you know what a "useful idiot" is, in the Soviet manipulation tradecraft? Someone who repeats, jokingly or not, an argument that was placed somewhere deniable. One lab, looking at a small study, published a correction saying th
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by bertil 5mo ago
I wish the millions of people killed by delaying safety legislation for decades knew that pretending to make jokes (what became known as the "stochastic asshole" approach) was also a common tactic taught by those PR firms, to make
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by bertil 5mo ago
You really don’t like factual replies, do you?
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by bertil 5mo ago
> Im sure bikes and trains are too. > … for tyres and brakes You are welcome to edit your comment to clarify.
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by bertil 5mo ago
Classic case of PR leveraging a real, anecdotic observation on one single result, but completely flipping it to pretend it’s a systematic result, to saw doubt on all scientific findings around microplastic. The same companies behind this la
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by bertil 5mo ago
Not as long as there are powerful car lobbies and the main source of microplastic will remain car tires. Instead, you have articles like this trying to tell people to look away from that main source of problem, and blame, say, indoors or fo
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by bertil 5mo ago
The amount of damage to tires is proportional to the fourth power of the weight per axel. That means that for the same journey, a bike sheds (3000 kg / 80 kg)ˆ4 so about 20 million times less. Assuming that the rubber is the same—and n
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by bertil 5mo ago
The silence from that from media that make a lot of money selling ads for cars is becoming quite suspicious.
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by bertil 5mo ago
Precisely. I was focusing on a theoretical dynamic analysis of competition (Would a monopoly make having a competitor easier or harder?) but you are right: practically, there are many players, and they are diverse enough in their values and
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by bertil 5mo ago
We are all fans for Simon’s work, and his test is, strangely enough, quite good.
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by bertil 5mo ago
It could be, formally, if they have a monopoly. However, I’m tempted to compare to GitHub: if I join a new company, I will ask to be included to their GitHub account without hesitation. I couldn’t possibly imagine they wouldn’t have one. Wh
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by bertil 5mo ago
Why do those essays read like the watch that they look at every hour somehow became illegal in the last decade? You can buy one. People still make clothes, pencils, cutlery, automatic watches, furniture — more than they ever did at any po

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