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> but the chat absolutely needs to happen in German. Why? Work culture. It's absolutely normal that people speak their mother tongue when they have the possibility. One can be kind…

It's incredible how the “Chinese Room” argument, as well as its counterarguments, is still incredibly pertinent despite being now more than 40 years old. Scientific American publis…

Not OP, but my interpretation is this. Quantum waveform collapse has been proposed as explanation for consciousness, allowing to explain how an entity can have free will and yet ob…

I've been away from the Wikipedia environment for more than a decade, but this seems the n-th chapter of the WMF implementing something that the contributor community does not want…

Hello HN, I have built a mod for Grand Prix Circuit , an old 2.5D racing game: the latest episode of a long series of community efforts to reverse-engineer and improve the games ma…

What would be the purpose of the clause "not exceeding 15 minutes" then? The rule is clear: the competition can choose an inverval duration between 0-15 minutes, the referee can al…

The IFAB, just like in any other event. The Laws of the Game are codified, and FIFA has insufficent voting power to change them unilaterally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_…

Changing the pauses of the game alters the momentum and, as consequence, the results. How is that “inconsequential”? There have been cases of corrupted referees before, but violati…

Graphic adventures ceased to be popular before YouTube and smartphones started to damage the average capability to focus. The famous post https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.h…

I found the puzzles fair enough, but my impressions about writing and characters match yours.

> My theory is that if you are a systems person you find using LLMs fun and fulfilling and if you are a details person you find that they are the opposite. There was echoed by Andr…

This is literally the tale of Alexander and the pirate, told in “The City of God” (V century). Nothing new under the sun, unfortunately.

The argument of your imaginary dialogue is very weak. To run a valid marathon one must cover 42 kms, but we do not run marathons because we want to be 42 kms away. Building a robot…

> people defending theft and then arguing that if you change the position of one comma in the entirety of Harry Potter, then it's an acceptable new product. History rhymes, indeed.…

Obligatory xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529...

> It's surprisingly hard to know what your team has to do to get through with the new regulations. As an Italian, I disagree :-) Really well made site. Good info density, plenty of…

I think because a proprietary IP owner can allocate some budget to sue the infringers. A community of OSS contributors may lack the money, the will or the know-how to do that. They…

The dev blog is one of the best retro-reversing journals you can find. Happy reading!

Unless you develop your AI agent from scratch or you clone a never-released game, it would be extremely easy for the rightholders to claim that both agents have most certainly inge…

I got 96/100 with minimal guessing. Being a native speaker of a Romance language is a huge advantage here; words like “Quotidian” and “Defenestrate” might be exotic in English, but…