f_allwein

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by f_allwein 7d ago
Fun fact: The iPhone Duo‘s outer display is 5.4 inch, just like the iPhone mini. Ok, with different proportions.
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A Quest for the Gros Michel, the Great Banana of Yesteryear (2018)(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by f_allwein 2mo ago|0 comments
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by f_allwein 3mo ago
Realistic costs of owning a car are around 1.000€ per month - see https://assets.adac.de/Autodatenbank/Autokosten/autokostenue... (pdf, German, look for Gesamtkosten (total cost)) Wherever I tell this to people he
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by f_allwein 3mo ago
> While critics will question the feasibility of this vision because it relies on a radical reform of global financial institutions and massive wealth taxes – both of which have long been dismissed as unthinkable by rich countries – ther
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'Happiness is not just about GDP': ambitious plan or utopia?(theguardian.com)
3 points by f_allwein 3mo ago|2 comments
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by f_allwein 4mo ago
Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?
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by f_allwein 4mo ago
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304
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by f_allwein 4mo ago
No. Takes decades to build/ projects run over time and budget/ where would you build?/ where would you store nuclear waste (bonus points for: in your region)?/ contributes little to global energy mix atm/ uranium is
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Meet The Sad Wives of AI(wired.com)
9 points by f_allwein 4mo ago|0 comments
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by f_allwein 5mo ago
I have another one: What is lost when you put any of these in an LLM? Yes, we can get plausible sounding answers generated algorithmically. But these are great starting points for humans to develop their own thinking. My university, LSE, as
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by f_allwein 5mo ago
maybe “The Only Way to Win is Not to Play”
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by f_allwein 5mo ago
> Jobs saw the Apple Store not so much as a retail outlet but as a church for evangelizing to the unconverted. He wanted the world to know that Apple’s simple but powerful tools would give people access to whatever stirred their passions
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by f_allwein 5mo ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I really want to like the Vision Pro, but haven’t even tried it yet. Hope it will evolve into something good.
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How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple(wired.com)
16 points by f_allwein 5mo ago|4 comments
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by f_allwein 6mo ago
„Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.“ Oscar Wilde
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by f_allwein 7mo ago
triple submission - could they be merged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037772
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by f_allwein 7mo ago
It is a global challenge. Climate change is caused by rich people in developed countries (the average Indian person causes very low co2 emissions). There are some good initiatives to mitigate climate change, but so far, it is too little, to
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by f_allwein 7mo ago
Here’s the science: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/possible-nort... „Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that
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by f_allwein 7mo ago
I like the original title, „ Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn“. Why edit it?
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
Still available in Germany („Rechenschieber“), eg https://www.wissenladen.de/products/der-rechenschieber
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
Maybe it should be „forked“
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much informat
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
on the other hand, WETI still seems to be up, so you could contribute there. http://weti-institute.org/
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
Don’t live like a rich person in a developed country - they’re the only ones whose co2 footprints are too high.
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
Power tip: replace the Word docs with Markdown.
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
Interesting! I wonder a) how much of an issue this addresses, ie how much are people worried about privacy when they use other LLMs? and b) how much of a disadvantage it is for Confer not to be able to read/ train in user data.
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by f_allwein 8mo ago
Hint: The aspect ratio sqrt(2) should be quite convenient for foldable phones. Current ones seem to be more or less square if unfolded - what use case is that good for?
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by f_allwein 9mo ago
Which calendar is that? I haven’t found one with a decent year view similar to the one here.
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by f_allwein 9mo ago
I understand Twitter posts are still shared here, even though I would often (usually?) have to log in?
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by f_allwein 9mo ago
Then check out the Pomodoro technique if you haven’t done so! I’m always amazed how much I can get done in 25 minutes of focus.

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