birn559

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by birn559 1y ago
Just like with vaccines, some people apparently have lived in a first world bubble for so long and so deeply that they have forgotten what the alternatives really look like. Of course there is democracy and corruption is much worse in non-d
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by birn559 1y ago
My inability of being in nature without a feeling of being tortured comes from my brain not working correctly and it's not "undesired behavior". Luckily, my ADHD meds are able to fix that.
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by birn559 1y ago
I stopped using house work as example because people always answer "oh yeah, I also dislike housework". People just don't get it when this example is used. I switched to "not able to go outside for a walk even though I l
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by birn559 1y ago
Largely depends on the parameters. I believe it also assumes infinite resources. In general it's a very simple model not meant to explain all and everything.
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by birn559 1y ago
They can't be chill and like us at the same time. Chilled aliens most likely don't invent faster than light travel so I pretty much hope aliens won't find us or are not interested in us.
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by birn559 1y ago
> I can tell you that it is the output of a function, not a distinct entity that exists on its own independently of the computation. Could you elaborate? What is the output of that function if not an entity in it's own? Having studi
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by birn559 1y ago
When / How did versioning enter versioning the awkward state we have today? There is cl.exe, MSBuild and build chain at the very least (now at work computer at the moment, pretty sure I am wrong with the making here) with versioning th
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by birn559 1y ago
I see, wasn't clear to me on what level you were asking. The letter ß has never been generally equivalent to ss in the German language. From a user experience perspective though it might be beneficial to pretend that "ß" == &
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by birn559 1y ago
> How is that wrong? Not sure where, how or if it's defined as part of Unicode, but so far I assumed that for a Unicode grapheme there exists a notion of what the visual representation should look like. If Unicode still defines capi
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by birn559 1y ago
You can't do that in a performant way and going that route can lead to problems, because characters (= graphemes in the language of Unicode) generally don't always behave as developers assume.
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by birn559 1y ago
I don't see why it should. I also believe parent is wrong as there are unambiguous rules about when to use ß or ss. Never thought of it but maybe there are rules that allow to visually present the code point for ß as ss? At least (from
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by birn559 1y ago
You can decide if you want to get asked at startup.
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by birn559 1y ago
HN (to me) has always mostly been about the other 5%.
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by birn559 1y ago
Saying that about a country is not illegal.
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by birn559 1y ago
> In essence, it’s a century-old colonial project that is entirely inline with the 19th and 20th century European colonialism, with a supremacist idealogy at its core (ethnostate). I don't think that's a proper characterization
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by birn559 1y ago
> as long as the LLM finds a solution, it's not a huge deal if there was a better way to do it It might not matter short term, but midterm such debt becomes a huge burden.
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by birn559 1y ago
They just don't care enough. User experience only needs to be "good enough", mostly determined by the question of users will tend to terminate the subscription without the feature or with the bug.
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by birn559 1y ago
Geeks in general did not abuse women but geeks in general will always be the first victims of AI because the curiosity in parts is what defines a geek. Therefore, your argument is not sound.
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by birn559 1y ago
How would AI reliable pass the turing test when playing Tic-Tac-Toe reliably reveals the weakness of today's AI?
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by birn559 1y ago
Netflix also often only buys the first seasons of an existing show. And of course they love to cancel shows they produce themselves which for me has significantly lowered my loyalty over the years.
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by birn559 1y ago
Prime Video keeps starting the wrong episode when I click on "Continue Watching". That's infuriating in particular because that often makes me watch advertising 2-3 times: When starting, when clicking into the middle of the e
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by birn559 1y ago
In Germany, it's practically impossible to cancel the contract with an elderly person that has lived in the apartment for many years (as long as the person keeps paying the rent that is). The person of course needs to be willing to exe
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by birn559 1y ago
"private *" also ends in failure quite often. The German train system started to fail when it was partially privatized. In general, governments tend to not be able to run a system efficiently, but reliably and robust while for com
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by birn559 1y ago
Dismantling/Crippling institutions and fulfilling wet dreams of power of narcissistic people.
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by birn559 1y ago
A good reason for a SUV in a city is a pretty subjective matter so I don't think that alone is a good argument.
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by birn559 1y ago
Rails can and are used to transport freight. Trucks contribute a lot to bad traffic and therefore the same kind of blockage you mentioned.
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by birn559 1y ago
Budget for German train system has been cut and was too low for two decades. It was well known that would result in what we have today. You have to invest in infrastructure to keep it at a high quality level. It's crowded because it ha
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by birn559 1y ago
AI is known to make things up and it's also stated below every chat that it may contain errors and that you should double check important information. You can only do so much. Some people won't listen and harm themselves.
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by birn559 1y ago
Not sure how to read it. Do you believe covid-19 virus came from an US (funded) lab? I have never heard of that theory.
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by birn559 1y ago
That's great to learn. A a German native speaker I have a tendency to write like that even though I know it's wrong. Good to know at least it would have been correct at some point in time :D.

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