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Just like with vaccines, some people apparently have lived in a first world bubble for so long and so deeply that they have forgotten what the alternatives really look like. Of cou…

My inability of being in nature without a feeling of being tortured comes from my brain not working correctly and it's not "undesired behavior". Luckily, my ADHD meds are able to f…

I stopped using house work as example because people always answer "oh yeah, I also dislike housework". People just don't get it when this example is used. I switched to "not able …

Largely depends on the parameters. I believe it also assumes infinite resources. In general it's a very simple model not meant to explain all and everything.

They can't be chill and like us at the same time. Chilled aliens most likely don't invent faster than light travel so I pretty much hope aliens won't find us or are not interested …

> I can tell you that it is the output of a function, not a distinct entity that exists on its own independently of the computation. Could you elaborate? What is the output of that…

When / How did versioning enter versioning the awkward state we have today? There is cl.exe, MSBuild and build chain at the very least (now at work computer at the moment, pretty s…

I see, wasn't clear to me on what level you were asking. The letter ß has never been generally equivalent to ss in the German language. From a user experience perspective though it…

> How is that wrong? Not sure where, how or if it's defined as part of Unicode, but so far I assumed that for a Unicode grapheme there exists a notion of what the visual representa…

You can't do that in a performant way and going that route can lead to problems, because characters (= graphemes in the language of Unicode) generally don't always behave as develo…

I don't see why it should. I also believe parent is wrong as there are unambiguous rules about when to use ß or ss. Never thought of it but maybe there are rules that allow to visu…

You can decide if you want to get asked at startup.

HN (to me) has always mostly been about the other 5%.

Saying that about a country is not illegal.

> In essence, it’s a century-old colonial project that is entirely inline with the 19th and 20th century European colonialism, with a supremacist idealogy at its core (ethnostate).…

> as long as the LLM finds a solution, it's not a huge deal if there was a better way to do it It might not matter short term, but midterm such debt becomes a huge burden.

They just don't care enough. User experience only needs to be "good enough", mostly determined by the question of users will tend to terminate the subscription without the feature …

Geeks in general did not abuse women but geeks in general will always be the first victims of AI because the curiosity in parts is what defines a geek. Therefore, your argument is …

How would AI reliable pass the turing test when playing Tic-Tac-Toe reliably reveals the weakness of today's AI?

Netflix also often only buys the first seasons of an existing show. And of course they love to cancel shows they produce themselves which for me has significantly lowered my loyalt…

Prime Video keeps starting the wrong episode when I click on "Continue Watching". That's infuriating in particular because that often makes me watch advertising 2-3 times: When sta…

In Germany, it's practically impossible to cancel the contract with an elderly person that has lived in the apartment for many years (as long as the person keeps paying the rent th…

"private *" also ends in failure quite often. The German train system started to fail when it was partially privatized. In general, governments tend to not be able to run a system …

Dismantling/Crippling institutions and fulfilling wet dreams of power of narcissistic people.

A good reason for a SUV in a city is a pretty subjective matter so I don't think that alone is a good argument.