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NicuCalcea

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About NicuCalcea

Investigative data journalist.

https://nicu.md/

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    Comment #49215779

    In London, subway cars are either completely separated and you can't travel between them, or it's just one long continuous tube, there are no vestibules. You don't get much signal …

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    Comment #49211745

    Common Crawl? https://commoncrawl.org/

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    Comment #49211198

    There's usually some space between train coaches (I think it's called a gangway?) or at the end of a coach (a vestibule) that is separated from the seats area by doors on both side…

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    Comment #49211082

    A quarter of Americans (and 40% of young Americans) see Mangione favourably, so it definitely is a society thing. https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/51189-presidential-pardons...

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    Comment #49125327

    So is this mostly a wrapper around Docling, or are there any advantages compared with using Docling directly? https://klartext.it-handwerk-stuttgart.de/lizenzen

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    Comment #49124300

    Here are just a few examples I found in a couple of minutes: - https://www.salesforce.com/artificial-intelligence/ - https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/ - https://upload.wikimedia.org…

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    Comment #49121824

    The sparkle emoji has become an indicator for "this is an AI feature, click here to do AI things". I have even used it. The beige UI with orange accents probably refers to the desi…

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    Comment #49121685

    I read all of these as being about interacting with AI. It says apps made by AI labs have tiny icons, not that AI-generated apps have tiny icons.

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    Comment #49076578

    The fact that much of the world is as unconcerned with the interests of the US as with those of China, if not less so, should give pause to Americans. As a citizen of neither count…

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    Comment #49074374

    The Microsoft AI homepage mentions "human" or a variation of it 15 times, including in the tagline.

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    Comment #49025004

    I've linked this several times, but LLMs are capable of reproducing entire books. Researchers were able to extract books nearly verbatim: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671

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    Comment #49014306

    I'll give it another go, I found it buggy last time I checked, but that was a while ago.

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    Comment #49014002

    You can sync your vault between devices, but what's the point if the clients on those devices don't support passkeys? As far as I know, no KeePass app on Android has mature passkey…

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    Comment #49009265

    Maybe it is easy to explain, but passkey promoters have clearly failed to do it. I don't think a single person I know in real life uses one.

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    Comment #48997072

    I imagine they only downloaded whatever was tagged as "castle" in wikidata. Compare these two: Bran Castle: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390275 Citadel Hill: https://www.wikidata…

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    Comment #48925088

    Not that long (10 hours) ago this was considered a joke: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1uwzr82/got_my_...

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    Comment #48905411

    I can see solar panels on an apartment block outside my window right now, and I am not in Australia. Even the video mentions that it is common in Germany, so clearly people have al…

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    Comment #48905264

    The logo is also strikingly similar to that of the borough of Hackney [0], bar for the mark. If it wasn't for the San Francisco screenshot, my first impression would have been it's…

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    Comment #48837216

    Can you elaborate on what you mean? Why is it more difficult to deal with formatters, scales, annotations compared with other solutions? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the …

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    Comment #48837000

    That's fair, I generally make charts for publication, so I spend much more time and effort on the details. But I can understand this being useful for quick exploration for some peo…

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    Comment #48836575

    I agree that bigger cars are worse, but this seems like a different issue to me than the beeping.

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    Comment #48836510

    I'm sorry, but as someone who creates data visualisation as a big part of my job, I wouldn't say the charts on the website look good. Most aren't awful either, but by no means are …

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    Comment #48833899

    I would assume so since I've never driven a car. That's still beside the point, unlike playing pinball, driving is an activity that involves risk to people besides you. If you have…

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    Comment #48830071

    > What did you have shared with the man in Bangor or the pub staff elsewhere in England? That's the point of being polite, treating people decently even if you have little in commo…

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    Comment #48829968

    That's fair, but what you want is not the only thing that matters. Your driving affects me as well, and I want you to be beeped at when you're not doing a good job.