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All that tough talk stems from fear. That fear is fed with dog whistles like "fighting age men" and ample misinformation. Ceuta is guarded by a 10 meter tall fence equipped with th…

In 2014 there was an attempt to swim over in the same exact place by just 300 people. Spanish police used rubber bullets to repel them and 14 died in the water. More than 60 have d…

Stop sealioning, this is simply Morocco once again using its desperate young population as pawns in their underhanded "diplomacy". Those people had no way to stay in Ceuta or trave…

We are not in the business of mass massacres. Maybe the US should come and study how to deport 60k people in 24h whithout having to shoot anyone.

In Spain, if you drive 1 h 20 minutes southwest of Madrid you get to Talavera de la Reina, which is a town all about ceramic and pottery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talavera_de_…

Practicality and utility to the student must be the reason I started getting junior software engineers that are computer illiterates out of whatever Java IDE they were taught in.

Off topic, but I'm kinda sad there's only one Cosma Shalizi in the world. That dude is a treasure, I've been a fan for decades now.

"Aluminium carpentry" is a thing around here: people that build and install window frames, metal gazebos, conference stalls, custom sheds and so on. These huge data centers probabl…

For me it feels a lot like generated images or video. I've made lots of things now, but those that are 100% LLM written "work" but are uncanny, weird and the details are wrong ever…

I spent a few weeks there back in the day. After the ordeal of surviving the spawn I remember it as a haunting and melancholic experience: you kept finding decayed places, huge pro…

The made up cases are so many that they deflect each other and the few real ones. The real scandal is the state of our judicial power.

My therapist asked me to track my binge eating episodes, empty log after a week...

My grandfather was a smith in deep rural Spain. He made and fixed many roman ploughs, well into the 70s. They were called that because they were pretty much the same tool the Roman…

This is not mere learning, must have some kind of pre-wired special mechanism because it's very quick and very strong.

Are your kids teenagers already? Telling them in front of their friends is 10x better.

Exaggerating a bit, I felt like my old self was dead and I just happened to somehow have inherited his memories. But a more concrete thing: While before I might have been saddened …

I signed up for one of the first MOOCs ever, about self driving cars by Sebastian Thrun, and of course PID was part of the curriculum. I think that PID hits a certain sweet spot be…

71050, not bad for a non native speaker I guess. I missed 9/100. But to be honest many that might catch out a native speaker are just the Spanish/French/Latin word, so it was too e…

Thank you for this recommendation. This last week I have read this, and then also Meditations for Mortals, and they felt illuminating and like written specifically for me. And with…

I don't dream or care about things I definitely can't do. But there are still so many I can actually do that the opportunity cost of choosing any single one of them is infinite, an…

Managers can barely direct me without shitting their pants. What saves them most of the time is my ability to say "No". Until LLMs can do that, which seems quite hard to do so far,…

Skipping airplane maintenance is business-optimal for an airline. For a few months.

I always see these threads and think I'm not working on anything, but I just realised it's a lie, I'm exploring a couple of things right now, both heavily AI supported: Simracing t…

Sure fire away maybe this time something clicks for someone :)