frereubu

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by frereubu 5d ago
I think it's a fair example given how untruthful the US administration has been about whether the strait is "open" or not compared to the practical reality. Both would work with or without quotes, but the Iranian one is quote
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by frereubu 5d ago
Are there good examples of this from the BBC? Genuine question - no snark intended.
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by frereubu 8d ago
I think I'd care because the entity on the other side cares about the game in a similar way to me. It's not just the technical details of how the pieces move, it's a human interaction.
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by frereubu 9d ago
I think the main point here is that they don't want their data going through yet another cloud service.
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by frereubu 14d ago
I think the trouble with "opted in to training by default" is that there was no "opting", i.e. no choosing. I can't come up with a better suggestion off the top of my head though!
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by frereubu 15d ago
I think it's fair to say predictions that Altman and Amodei make should never be taken at face value, as well as Zitron. That's fine. But that doesn't have any bearing on Dan Luu's claims. This feels like an example of w
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by frereubu 17d ago
I had the same thought, but I think the idea is that it didn't so much create a specific cadence as the cadence was a bit odd because the language needed to fit the visual layout rather than feel natural when spoken.
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by frereubu 22d ago
In a UK context, journalists are on there because politicians are on there... and politicians are on there because journalists are on there. It's politicians that need to pull the plug - if they left en masse the journalists would go w
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by frereubu 26d ago
I know what you mean, but it comes across - even to me, a paying customer who does really like Kagi - a bit like talking to someone involved in an MLM who can't wait to steer the conversation around to their product. I'd just pref
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by frereubu 26d ago
The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" rather than about the content of the blog. And I'm a happy Kagi subscriber! I get that th
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by frereubu 27d ago
The best thing about gaining an appreciation of this aspect of life is it opens up so many extra pleasures. I can spend an entire day at the (free entry!) V&A in London and never be bored. Likewise with a great book (when my 11-year-o
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by frereubu 28d ago
Sorry - that probably came across as more passive-aggressive that I mean it. Just wanted to point out that guideline. People have easy access to AI, so they can always ask it for a summary if they want to and it doesn't really add anyt
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by frereubu 28d ago
I was hoping for this too. I spend far too much unfocused time on there. It'll be interesting to see if I crack and start logging in though. There are definitely posts I've found useful on Reddit, which would probably be the gatew
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by frereubu 28d ago
"Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by frereubu 29d ago
I'm in the UK, and I've found that pretty much anything I can get on Amazon I can also get at John Lewis. It's probably more expensive - I'm in the lucky situation that I'm not particularly price-sensitive - but I m
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by frereubu 1mo ago
Fair point, but my desire is for "good enough" rather than perfect. I know my emails go into other systems, it's more about feeling that my inbox is hosted by a company solely based in a jurisdiction where it can't be co
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by frereubu 1mo ago
Thanks.
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by frereubu 1mo ago
I'm a happy user of Fastmail, but I would prefer a properly EU-hosted service. (Fastmail now have data storage in the EU, but much of their infrastructure is in the US and data still passes through there - something that they're o
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by frereubu 1mo ago
LLM-generated content is not allowed in HN comments, but it doesn't mention submitting links to LLM-generated content. This is the only mention in the guidelines: "Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conver
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by frereubu 1mo ago
Thanks for the constructive feedback.
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by frereubu 1mo ago
Fine, don't read it, but also don't comment about not having read it!
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by frereubu 1mo ago
I really wish there was an HN guideline that I could point to which says that you shouldn't complain about LLM writing, in the same way that's there's guidance on site annoyances: "Please don't complain about tangen
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by frereubu 1mo ago
This has been going on for a long time. In the early 2000s I knew someone with the relatively common name Ian Smith who was routinely held up in airports because someone else with that name was on a watch list. I think in the end he managed
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by frereubu 1mo ago
I presume you're not a woman, because there's cervical screening for women aged 25-64 every five years. Also depends on what you mean by "mid life", but there's breast screening offered to women aged 50-70 and bowel
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by frereubu 1mo ago
I'm almost as tired of complaints about people using AI to write things as I am about people using AI to write things.
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by frereubu 1mo ago
They deal with this in the discussion after stating in the abstract that 43.75% of people who offered their seat didn't consciously notice the person dressed as Batman: "Interestingly, while the data suggest that this perturbation
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Boeing 737 MAX operators told to check fuselages for cracks(theguardian.com)
9 points by frereubu 1mo ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 1mo ago
Fair - I have an iPhone 13 mini, which works well, but I can imagine anything bigger getting quite annoying.
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by frereubu 1mo ago
The number is too high, but dropping: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx4762znr6o
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by frereubu 1mo ago
You may have tried this, but I run with my phone in an elasticated belt that's just tight enough to keep the phone stable without being uncomfortable. I really don't want to fork out for another device just for running. (I also

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