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There is just A LOT of data available- usually an order of magnitude more than in any other related problem. And general weather forecasts are not that hard - we have semi useful f…

If in 17 hundreds you wanted to choose a language that could be deciphered, say, also in China, Latin was a much better choice than any native language in various vicinity.

I keep coming back to In Memoriam AHH way more often than I would expect; it’s really a great piece of poetry.

I guess we got the first paperclip maximiser.

I am wondering for whom this new device even would be. Because phones work quite well for this use case and much more and everyone already has a phone.

Woodland strawberries grow even better somehow. We used to have them planted at the garden, then a few years ago we removed them and planted something else and this year I was surp…

I would tend to agree unless you need those gpio pins. Then there are few other good options.

Most software is much simpler than a c compiler.

I have recently needed to read a skill document because it was more understandable and more through than the official document.

Competitive programming scene always included offline competition and with AI they are becoming more important (and in general they were more fair even before). If CTFs are to surv…

Sort of. There are a bunch of timing attacks bug in general it still works fairly well.

Nothing about PDF is easy. Similarly to what once Tom Scott said about time zones, every time I must deal with PDFs I pray that PDF.js can be hacked in to doing it instead, otherwi…

And with the code, the closer you come to the physical world the worse LLMs fair. Claude can’t really write Openscad and when I was debugging some map projections code last week it…

There is a certain joy in working with RPN and in using a piece of technology that was designed as a tool, not as a toy or an educational appliance. With phone emulation, I probabl…

Just because an AI can craft a decent Japanese text doesn’t mean I can. Just because AI can write x86 assembly also doesn’t mean I can. You don’t give first graders a calculator be…

Quite a lot of companies use and release AI written code, are they all liable?

I don’t know what exactly the op meant by delivering a press release, but at least I after a four year high school german course can read newspaper articles in german but would str…

I didn't even mention France, but if you insist: I am using Fossil Fuel Support dataset from OECD. Latest available year is 2024: Specifically for petroleum there were 5228 million…

You are thinking too logically. In EU fuel is expensive because it’s heavily taxed AND there are a lot of fuel subsidies. Or to quote an old TV show: Hacker: One of your officials …

It’s becoming easier on iPhone (even uBlock origini is now available, if only the lite version), which is nice because internet is becoming more and more unusable without them.

Amara’s law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

There was an election recently and it’s possible there will soon be another… That’s why the fuel is so cheap.

I think it’s more that when you have 300C thermal runaway in a cell in your battery storage bank the release of toxic compounds is the least of your problems. I work quite a bit wi…

It also has very slow rebuild times.

In 2024[1]: - 37.2% in Sweeden - 51.6% in Denmark - 30.4% in Finland of newly registered cars were BEV. Only Norway reaches 89% you are talking about. The total average of newly re…