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I wanted to copy and paste the name of the park from the Times of India article so I could see the location in Google Maps, but the Times of India injects their URL into anything y…

> Disabling alerts is the second thing I do to a new handset Except you can't in Canada. The Canadian government has made the alerts mandatory. The option to disable alerts in not …

What was the large-scale commercial procedure for making electrodes that pass through the glass without letting air in? I assume that electronics manufacturers must have been makin…

> "Get in line" vs "you are already rebooked". (my Air Canada experince.) Which of the two was the Air Canada experience?

In Brazil, people get so much SMS spam and phone call spam that many people turn off notifications for all text messages and phone calls and use only Whatsapp (even for voice calls…

At least in Brazil, it was very rare. In the last 3-4 years, it's almost every time you pay. And you have to grab and hold the payment terminal (especially if you're using tap / co…

Thank you for telling me what it's called! On the positive side, it seems that Wise must block it because I never see the DCC "choice" when using a Wise card. As a negative point, …

I want to mention another infection happening at payment terminals and ATMs if you're using your credit card in a foreign country: You get a message saying "Would you like to pay i…

> Nowhere appropriate to rest without noise, terrible lighting and hard surfaces. Compared to every railway station I've seen, airports are 5-star resorts. Bus terminals are even w…

> https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-24/index.html#article-... I wonder why ChatGPT refused to analyze it? The HN article was "Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are b…

Remember blogs on the old web when the author would plaster his name in a huge font on every page along with his photo, and have an extensive bio about himself and perhaps even his…

But you had the option of having an unlisted or unpublished phone number. To give one datapoint, in Los Angeles in the 1980s about half of all numbers were unlisted. I would expect…

> model drift driven by just small, seemingly unimportant changes to the prompt What changes to the prompt are you referring to? According the comment on the site, the prompt is th…

> Interviewer at Endpoints: You plan to potentially launch a generic GLP-1 in Canada and Brazil in 2026. Looking at the original interview on Endpoints, Sandoz CEO Richard Saynor s…

Patrick Winston also wrote a book about presentation and communication: Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform . It was published a year after he passed away. https:…

Several comments here mentioned shift work as a possible explanation. The paper concedes that shift work is unhealthy[1] but claims that shift work doesn't explain their finding[2]…

There's a discoverability problem with this tool because I've never heard of Fakespot or Mozilla Review Checker until today. > Mozilla integrated Fakespot's technology directly int…

I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. We’ve never met but I feel like I know you because of your book and many other works, and I feel your loss.

In case there are readers who don't know who Clifford Stoll is, he's the author of The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage , that was practically re…

Brazilians don't need a visa for Portugal, France, or any Schengen country. But everybody has to pass through immigration control (at least a passport check even if you don't need …

As a quick test of logical reasoning and basic Wikipedia-level knowledge, I asked Mistral AI the following question: A Brazilian citizen is flying from Sao Paulo to Paris, with a c…