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> we survived That shouldn't be the bar for most of what we do daily. We can also "survive" without doing any physical exercise. The question is: yes, we'll survive, but in which c…

Yes, they're terrible. That's why relaxing the rules for fixed AC is the way to go.

Trees that disappear in huge fires more and more often, unfortunately.

"Switzerland outright not allowing residential ACs": That's not completely true, though. First, mobile/portable ACs are allowed pretty much everywhere in Switzerland, I think. Then…

> It's a shame though that this is gonna kill so many sites and projects. Sure we have ChatGPT, but also with things like Google AI summary getting so much better traffic to sites …

I've finished IMDb's top 250 a few years ago. I'm now using this list ("a list of greatest films of all time") as a reference: https://www.phi-phenomenon.org/ It's merging dozens o…

> Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves? I don't buy that. I understand that it's not the main p…

Do you know this from personal experience or after watching a "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" episode or a similar documentary?

It's difficult to know what people really believe, especially after only a few minutes of discussion, but I would say most people I talk to don't believe AGI is even possible. And …

Isn't that an argument in favor of taking care of wild animals instead of continuing factory farming, though?

I read Ecclesiastes back in 2019. It's probably one of the more interesting books in the Bible. I wasn't particularly impressed with it, but it's a short read, so I still think it'…

I have the opposite anecdote. I left a lot of leaves on our lawn last winter (by pure laziness) and it definitely damaged the lawn. Edit: it was a rather young lawn, I guess (less …

The only time I had to hire somebody, the university I was working for in Switzerland made it mandatory for the candidates to send their application via mail, not email. That was b…

I know people who still love to receive ads in the (physical) mail.

My latest LTS upgrade ended up completely breaking my RAID partitions. I had to completely reinstall everything. It took me days. This was not a smooth experience.

I guess it worked in the sense that most people listen to music using legal services, instead of still using eMule, BitTorrent, etc.

Isn't it perfectly normal/healthy to keep some of your private feelings totally private? Your best friends/spouses shouldn't necessarily be your psychotherapists.

Having kept a diary/journal since 1993 and reading old entries daily, I'm struck by how we often see the past through rose-tinted glasses. The opposite is also true: I tend to forg…

Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near" was published in 2005 and at the time he placed the technological singularity in 2045, so 40 years in the future. He said it was "near", b…

What's ASI?

TIL: in French, "nightmare" is "cauchemar" and has the same etymology (the second part, at least).

I've been suffering of anxiety for decades. Nothing really serious. I stopped caffeine for one month in 2022, cold turkey. No coffee. No tea. No chocolate. I stopped alcohol as wel…

You mean Shopify?

In Europe at least, where most (?) transmissions are still manual, you will still get way more noise from an ICE vehicle than an electric vehicle at low speed. This is my experienc…