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Or 27.7. in some other places.

My absolute favorite quote: Loss of objectivity The challenge: Ask an AI tool for evidence supporting what you already believe, and it will find it. Confirmation bias now comes wit…

You can add any address as a backup email address for a google account. And for some reason there are a number of people that just attached my email address, possibly by mistake.

I have a very early gmail address. A very common first name plus two letters. It is almost unusable by now. Invoices, subscriptions, important documents about some persons real est…

The extraction prompt would need some hardening against prompt injection, as far as i can tell.

They do show me “how satisfied are you with claude code today?” regularly, which can be seen as a hint. I did opt out of helping to improve claude after all.

Wow. I didn’t know about this.

You need to be 16 to drink beer or wine, so you will be able to do both at the same age.

It is my impression that topics like this one trend up more often today, then they used to a couple of years ago. I guess hacker news is changing over time.

I know it’s a technicality, but the wave is at the very beginning of the park. Not the middle. I can very much recommend walking at least until the lake, if you happen to be visiti…

It’s on archive.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20250923130941/https://tide.org/...

I wonder how it interacts with life expectancy. There is a huge difference between Mississippi and the UK: 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for females in the UK in 2020 to 2022…

The imperative install is as many lines of code as the flake itself. That’s what’s bothering me. But a meta package would be a step in the right direction. Thank you!

How do you do the initial setup? I'm concerned with anything that happens before activating the dev shell. Right now I wrote a bash script to check for nix, direnv, git, gpg, etc. …

I actually have a Taula 2 and a Xone 92 at home. I prefer the Taula 2, due to the simplicity and the fact that it has an isolator. The Xone 92 has a four band IQ and a filter, whic…

How do you bypass the paywall with it? I can only read the “newspaper version” on their site it seems. Edit: Just read your comment again. I assume that’s exactly what you meant.

I just checked and the Berlin public library offers press reader as well. Will need to check that out. Thanks for the tip!

What do you consider the start date of global warming?

This is quite interesting. I'd be interested in more information on this.

My absolute top would be Nicolas Jaar. https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/csp06-nicolas-jaar...

I managed to remove activation lock by proving that I was the original owner (invoice) of the MacBook. Was that no option?

All types of documents go into a paperless ngx. All documents are tagged properly so that I can find them again. Also the search worked quite well so far. I’m still archiving the p…

Not sure if it is still current, but Louis Vuitton has a past: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/17/revealed-th...

If you’re required to accept license agreements to be able to use the device and those agreements restrict you in how you use it, then I see this as a restriction to your ownership…

Based on my experiments GPT4 can often correct itself when the mistake is pointed out. This won't lead to the desired result there.