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I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here …

> Vanishingly few books are irreplaceable enough to need to be treated as special relics to carefully preserve for posterity I wouldn't be so sure of that. I always make an effort …

You meant counterclockwise, I guess? Because clockwise would mean to write from above, not below? Interested because my son is learning to write and is the only leftie in the famil…

If the thesis was true, we'd expect rich people who will never be compelled to move against their will, or to move into less space, would prefer cluttered homey interiors, and poor…

I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natur…

First, weather services would need to report it. None of the ones I've seen do. Most don't even report feels-like temperature, they just report plain temperature... in my city (oft…

The south already mostly had AC. The north was too busy criticizing the south for things like closing shops in the afternoon, using blinds, eating late, and of course using AC. Now…

Curious, in Spanish we have the same saying, but always in the negative version ("no hay moros en la costa") which is something you say when you're doing something secret and there…

We might as well say that none of us have ever seen a cockroach that can solve Erdos problems as well as an LLM. Or write code, or stories, etc.

I'm not a fan of that, but it's not like the opposition is going to be different in that respect (or like they have been different in the past). It's the companies and elites who a…

Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recent…

In Spain what he says is sadly true, maybe like 70% of the restaurants no longer have printed menus. But of course, saying "in Europe..." is always risky. Europe is very diverse.

I'm European and I don't see sending my data to China as more risky than sending it to the US. Rather the opposite. I think your vision of how the rest of the US sees the world is …

my skills are at such a high level that it’s almost theoretical that it’ll ever be good enough to replace me for 90% of what I get paid to do. Is it really true for most people tha…

If AI is not better than you at a task, but it's good enough and saves you time, it also makes sense to use it. Many of my uses of AI fall in this category.

If you have some spare time, I'd be interested in knowing what kind of questions you use to test models on understanding of Chinese culture.

Of our own governments. Which makes sense, under the assumption that having a military is a necessary evil, how else would they be funded? This is about players all over the world …

What? Maybe you visited a particularly casino-heavy area, but in general there aren't many casinos in Spain. In many regions (e.g. mine) they're restricted to one per province. My …

In practice La Quiniela works more like a lottery than betting, though. No immediacy, no lights and sounds, no adrenalin rush. I don't think there's much risk of people falling int…

Not bandwidth priority. It's just that our brilliant judges have let the football league implement IP blocks to combat piracy of football matches. These blocks affect CloudFlare IP…

It changes depending on the day. But yes, some days it's really a lot (affecting forums, news sites, etc.). I think Movistar applies stronger blocks than most for some reason, in f…

I'm on Movistar and can't access it without my trusty VPN that I have for football match times :)

Indeed, it's a pity. While many advanced math problems are highly abstract or convoluted to explain to a layman audience, this one in particular is about points in a 2D plane and d…

So now I finally understand why Americans use the expression "proctored exams". Because not all exams are proctored. Here in Spain, we don't have an equivalent expression because t…