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As someone who doesn’t live in the US, it was hilariously impossible: you had to call on the phone a number in New York, which never picked up, so you had to pay hours of internal …

I have a very low opinion of the current US administration, which might be a blindspot when they do something both horrible and not caveman-like in its sophistication. I’m genuinel…

The urge to put capitalized, repetitive, borderline abusive instructions should be studied. I haven't read many academic papers looking at the frustrations around repetitive patter…

> the AI says things like “Interesting!” My experience of those utterance is that it’s purely phatic mimicry: they lack genuine intuitive surprise, it’s just marking a very odd shi…

My impression is that the quality of the conversation is unexpectedly better: more self-critical, the suggestions are always critical, the default choices constantly best. I might …

People were still writing code by hand three months ago…

What do you mean by that? Promise some investment? Commit to something?

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I do that everywhere, but it seems to fail for LinkedIn: they don’t redirect the link if it’s not in the same tab.

You are assuming I didn’t know before this news came out.

It sounds like a great opportunity to ask if people have used Apple Maps in Lebanon before.

Yeah, that’s the default option for detailed databases like that. Large deletion are either technical issues (and that should affect a lot more than one country) or deliberate edit…

Satellite source would require detailed editing, and there’s very little chance those are fully automated. The entire Middle-East is being blocked, but only Lebanon is being affect…

You can very easily verify the claim by following the link. Other than three major cities, there are no agglomeration listed in Lebanon. Other countries have detailed maps.

> Seems strange to me but I get dragged in all the same. Maybe it‘s a you thing? > Is it not factual that trains have brake pads which wear down and cause carcenogenic micro dust? …

Trump is too cheap to have paid for those ads.

I’m not saying that Vance is not doing that—God knows that man’s ethics has no floor. I’m doubtful he paid for ads to make his disdain better known. So I suspect someone else is tr…

Some big moneyed interests are trying to split Europe and the US. The current US administration is definitely not helping, but every ad I see on the Reddit main feed is a blatant a…

Do you know what a "useful idiot" is, in the Soviet manipulation tradecraft? Someone who repeats, jokingly or not, an argument that was placed somewhere deniable. One lab, looking …

I wish the millions of people killed by delaying safety legislation for decades knew that pretending to make jokes (what became known as the "stochastic asshole" approach) was also…

You really don’t like factual replies, do you?

> Im sure bikes and trains are too. > … for tyres and brakes You are welcome to edit your comment to clarify.

Classic case of PR leveraging a real, anecdotic observation on one single result, but completely flipping it to pretend it’s a systematic result, to saw doubt on all scientific fin…

Not as long as there are powerful car lobbies and the main source of microplastic will remain car tires. Instead, you have articles like this trying to tell people to look away fro…

The amount of damage to tires is proportional to the fourth power of the weight per axel. That means that for the same journey, a bike sheds (3000 kg / 80 kg)ˆ4 so about 20 million…