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Saudi Arabia Faces 'Worst-Case Scenario' After Being Rebuffed by Trump(nytimes.com)
7 points by prmph 2d ago|1 comments
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by prmph 4d ago
Interesting project. One small suggestion though: try to always make the first sentence show fully in the card. Several times I was a bit miffed I had to actually click to find out what a card was about, when it would have been better for m
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Light from phones or crack under doors could be damaging your heart, study says(fastcompany.com)
4 points by prmph 5d ago|0 comments
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by prmph 6d ago
I really do not see any proper argument you are making here. > their (almost certainly wrong) intuition So because some people can't use some information well, we should deny that information to all? > I also don't really se
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by prmph 6d ago
> What are the practical uses of a world scale map beyond sailing? Wow, is this even a genuine question? I can use a world scale map to illustrate or explain some geographic point I make in a presentation. I can use it as a quick reminde
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by prmph 6d ago
Well, I'm sure people wish Africa wasn't so smack dab in the center, haha. But, you can't ignore it without making Europe also peripheral, not unless you exchange longitude for latitude and vice versa. And fun fact, Ghana is
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by prmph 6d ago
No, the Mercator map has been the world map you'd see everywhere by default, and it is not that useful except for sailing, which most of us are not doing This is a correction to that.
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Ryanair will dispute passenger's claim he was sucked out of window(theguardian.com)
8 points by prmph 6d ago|0 comments
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Japan seeks change to new UN world map over Russia 'misconception'(theguardian.com)
2 points by prmph 6d ago|0 comments
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by prmph 7d ago
Your fault for not using a statically strongly typed language, haha. It thinks a type annotation means nothing in Python, and maybe it is not wrong.
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by prmph 7d ago
Has Lean itself been proved?
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by prmph 9d ago
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596956
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by prmph 9d ago
If you don't need something much larger than 43 inches, and you are cool with wide monitors, there are a couple ones that seem good: - Samsung 40 inch Odyssey G7 (G75F) Series WUHD Curved Gaming Monitor ( https://www.amazon.c
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by prmph 9d ago
Just don't buy a smart TV. Buy a good "dumb" TV (or just get a good large monitor), then hook it up to a set top box (with TV capabilities as needed).
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by prmph 9d ago
The sad thing was produced by the machine, as its idea of something sad. It is not s result of this particular episode of sadness. Put another way, “draw me something sad” is too vague; a million people can issue the same prompt, and what c
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by prmph 10d ago
Does it matter whether things are true, even if their impact is not readily apparent? Now, as to impact, one could argue distorting the relative sizes of landmasses causes geopolitical ignorance. For example: do people understand how relati
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by prmph 10d ago
> The Mercator projection was used because it made it easy to navigate using straight lines: But, why should a map made for sea navigation continue to be the map used for everything else? The vast majority of us are not using a map for n
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AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody's(theguardian.com)
8 points by prmph 11d ago|0 comments
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by prmph 13d ago
The question of whether machines or humans are stronger is moot, isn't it? In any intellectual contest between human and machine, all the machine winning implies is that the endeavor is algorithmic. The machine can be given practically
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by prmph 13d ago
Uber in Ghana has fares that are not much higher than the others. In fact, many times Uber is cheaper. Not sure about Nigeria or Uganda though. And they even have a motorcycle ride option that is even cheaper. And, although Uber Ghana was n
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by prmph 14d ago
Where are the AI-will-render-software-engineers-obsolete and/or vibe-coding apologists? They can make all kinds of nice-sounding arguments, but if AI is contributing to a degradation in product quality, their arguments cannot stand up
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by prmph 15d ago
This is why I do not fear the ALI/LLMs will take over everything about Software Engineering anytime soon, if ever. The amount of tacit knowledge I am applying to the architecture of my projects is probably too deep for LLMs to even app
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by prmph 17d ago
So if I search for A, and I get results for B instead (where B has only the slightest connection to A), it is not a bug? What about if B has no connection to A whatsoever? Still not a bug? If it is not, then we may have discovered a softw
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by prmph 18d ago
At what point does search quality degrade to the point where is becomes a bug? A bug is when actual behavior does not match stated or intended behavior. If the search bears little connection to what was searched for, then it is a bug, as fa
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by prmph 19d ago
Yeah, Claude's writing is weird nowadays, and it uses words that are weird and non-standard in context, and its sentence structure is sometimes weird as well. Working with it on my code, it's now frequently making weird word choic
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by prmph 22d ago
Hmm, let's see: I tried to install stuff with Homebrew; it kept warning me that they don't support such an old macOS. Almost everything I wanted to install with it, it tried to do a source build, because the binaries did not exist
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by prmph 22d ago
This one was incredibly nasty, and smelly (mostly from piss, I should say). In Brooklyn, if I remember correctly, with the Manhattan skyline in view. It was a public restroom, and I was part of walking tour group.
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by prmph 22d ago
Proper macOS virtualization, for example. Also, I do not want to have to upgrade my machine and OS every few years just to keep up with apps that stop working or installing, not because the hardware is no longer capable, but due to ridiculo
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by prmph 22d ago
Yes, the death of Windows phone was a tragedy for the mobile phone market; it had a fresh take on things, and could have stirred up healthy competition with the duopoly of iPhones and Android phones. I never could understand why MS would no
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by prmph 22d ago
Yep, vote with your wallets. It’s about time Apple learned that excellent hardware alone would not make up for what macOS lacks and where it fails for development.

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