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by pflenker 15d ago
The explanation for the German words (widow = Schusterjunge, which means cobbler‘s boy, orphan = hurenkind, as mentioned in another comment) is also applicable for the English ones: An orphan doesn’t know where it comes from, a widow doesn’
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by pflenker 1mo ago
It feels to me as if the author got it backwards - in turning the AC back on, they didn’t „say no“ - the person who put up the note has „said no“ in the first place (to the practice of turning the ACs off) and the author was ignoring this c
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by pflenker 2mo ago
That’s not it in this case, because the book is mostly a recounting of what happened. I narrowed it down to two things: One is that every aspect of the story is treated equally - unimportant facets get an equally profound sounding prose li
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by pflenker 2mo ago
It’s great to have the entire topic brought together into a cohesive book - but wow, I find it very annoying to read.
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by pflenker 2mo ago
I find it very hard to find books worth reading. It’s so difficult to separate Signal from noise - there are just too many books and too few reliable curators. Amazon ratings, goodreads, some book awards, best seller lists - they all are so
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by pflenker 3mo ago
Reminds me of m favorite late 90s messenger, Odigo[0]. It had some sort of radar which showed you people who were visiting the same site. It sure had this town hall feel, but admittedly most sites were simply empty. [0] https://e
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by pflenker 3mo ago
This doesn't work for everyone, for example, if I get motion sick, closing my eyes makes it far worse, almost immediately.
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by pflenker 3mo ago
Yeah me too. It felt like it was designed exclusively for me, it ticks all the boxes in what a dumb phone should and shouldn't have in terms of functionality.
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by pflenker 3mo ago
> If it had an option to install a messenger of choice (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp etc) It has that capability. From TFA: > A flip phone with the apps you need: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. Music, podcasts, maps, rideshare, a great cam
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by pflenker 4mo ago
As a parent, what I find effective are content rating systems, be it for movies, games or apps, along with the ability to control and fine-tune them. For example, with Apple's parental controls, I can blanket-decline access to Social M
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by pflenker 4mo ago
You confuse ease of using a tool with quality of output. A skilled carpenter can work both with high and with medium quality tools and prefer one over the other with no difference visible in the craft they produce.
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by pflenker 4mo ago
One skill that I still possess and that LLMs haven't been able to replace (yet) is to ask good questions, for example: - Rephrasing the original question to validate my understanding - Asking "why" a sufficient amount of time
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by pflenker 4mo ago
Pratchett introduced the concept of active laziness to me. One of his characters is so lazy that he’s working out frequently because he is too lazy carrying around excess weight all the time. That has stuck with me, and a lot of things I do
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by pflenker 4mo ago
The part where data providers lose traffic because their own data is displayed directly on the google premises is what repeats.
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by pflenker 4mo ago
A couple of years back I worked with a company which maintained specific data which was the main traffic driver on that page. Google approached them and wanted to pay for the rights to get the data and display it on top of the search resul
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by pflenker 7mo ago
I had a similar realization today. I work as an EM, and one important aspect of my work is becoming worthless: experience. Having been an IC for a long time usually enables me to support my team, or identify risks, lead projects and so on.
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by pflenker 7mo ago
For me, this misses the point of bookmarks - it’s not about remembering where I have been but getting there extremely fast.
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by pflenker 8mo ago
For a game like anchorhead, which is famous in its niche, shouldn’t Claude already know it sufficiently to just solve it right away? I would expect that its data source contained multiple discussions and walkthroughs of the game.
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by pflenker 8mo ago
I was close to finishing school when Wikipedia came up. A lot of complaints and concerns about LLMs today echo remarks about Wikipedia back then. Kids won’t learn anything, they will just copy and paste! The information is unreliable, our k
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by pflenker 9mo ago
A teacher of mine used to say: Lottery is a tax for people who don’t understand statistics.
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by pflenker 9mo ago
When was that? DB has gotten much worse in the past ~5 years
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by pflenker 9mo ago
All this costs money for little return of invest. As long as the collateral damage is below a threshold that causes reputational damage, there is no business incentive to solve this.
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by pflenker 9mo ago
I don’t mean to defend this, but I know from experience that gift cards are frequently used for money laundring. The laws against that are very strict, incentivizing companies to overshoot and block false positives. At the same time, AML so
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by pflenker 9mo ago
Gift cards are huge in the B2B business as they are used a lot as gifts from companies to employees.
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by pflenker 10mo ago
It’s a well done homage - but no one should believe for one second the actual average page back then looked _that good_!
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by pflenker 10mo ago
Easy. You have data available which tells you about the most likely travel dates, and you set this as the default. Many booking platforms pick a weekend in 2 weeks or something like that. This predefined field changes the task from entering
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by pflenker 10mo ago
> Since then, it’s been incredible to see how much people love it. AI Overviews now have 2 billion users every month. Come on, you can’t be serious.
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by pflenker 10mo ago
The best date picker is the one which doesn’t require picking a date. If done correctly, the browser can auto-fill your birthday, for example. In many other cases it’s possible and makes sense to guess a date and prefill the date field. Pho
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by pflenker 10mo ago
Tangentially related, the AI integrated in Google Chat is hilariously bad. Find a thread which starts with „Bug: (…)“ that has 90+ answers. Hey, an AI could be useful here! Click summarize. Wait. Without fail the result will be along the li
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by pflenker 11mo ago
They should be. Articles have been gotten longer and longer over time, getting an AI summary instead is the logical consequence.

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