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> Most often at 5 am, for whatever reason. Cats are crepuscular animals. They are "programed" do start at 5 AM, hunt, and go back to sleep until afternoon. Living in homes tweaked …

That makes no sense: are they going to use this datacenter exclusively for Nashville people use? We regularly access data from datacenters thousands of kilometers away, and the lat…

Unless the scenario is totally different where you live, pro-nuclears are mainly "we need more nuclear, less rerewables, don't care about fossils, just guaranteed production", whil…

> The question is how they get around sabre tooth without being a major obstruction to bite pieces of meat off. If you watch a video/picture of a lion eating or look closely to you…

Slower grow, or even shrink in usage? Right now, the promise of a future "everyone will use our models and pay whatever we ask" is what keeps $$ flowing towards OpenAI.

Publishing is not fire and forget. You usually publish and then network your publication(s) in congresses, where you are approached by many people either working in closely related…

> compared to his own closed and overpriced ones I don't understand how Anthropic or OpenAI can have overpriced models, yet losing money like there is no tomorrow. Taking their own…

> I am not sure what author is trying to hint. But solar does not need artificial subsidies, and can pay for itself! I think he is describing a subside that some governments gave y…

To me, it sounded a bit "euro-A/C-ignorant" meme, but maybe I am on the receiving end and thus slightly oversensitive, because El Niño is not scientifically linked to any climate e…

In case you don't know, there is a meme in the US that Europe don't know/don't have A/C. We do, but in some coutries there are laws banning A/C below 25°C (77°F) in public places, …

> But there is a big flaw I see: 8gb. You're carting around an 8gb flash drive these days?? What is the problem? I have promotional flash drives from 1 Gb up to 8 Gb, that I use to…

In Europe we have plenty of old buildings. The good ones (i.e. made by very wealthy people) tend to be decent, with a skew towards huge living rooms but tiny rooms. The cheaper one…

It is up to their respective Football Federation (Spain: RFEF, England: FA, Germany: DFB, etc.), but FIFA pays each Federation a bonus: https://intereconomia.com/wp-content/uploads…

A quick check shows that they don't store anything as cookies or any other browser storage. The thing that still works is the back button after the redirection to Google, and you c…

Yean, sure, sometimes it is like they train us to dislike those authors. But as a spaniard, had you ever heard of someone who was recommended/required to read Maquiavelo? Maybe som…

One of those links, the first, is from a Galicia school. Incidentaly, I am Galician, and I read "O príncipe, de Maquiavelo" when I was around 40. The difference in Galicia is that …

Because we have a lot of authors from what we call "golden years", and "Spanish Literature" teachers tend to be extra proud of them. Why would they recommend Dante, when they have …

As a born, raised and currently living in Spain, I had never heard that. We have plenty of classical author required in high school: Cervantes, Quevedo, Benavente, Bécquer, Machado…

> The Prince from Machiavelli is required In Spain? Never heard of that, and would not make sense. An italian author writting about politics in Florence?

Think of this as a very old game, with a board simple enough you can trace it on the ground and play with a few stones, with rules simple enough you can explain/understand in 30 se…

I guess you have to put it in context. There are old tic-tac-toe boards also sculpted in stone ( https://legioxiiisl.blogspot.com/2013/02/roman-board-game-te... ), which is a very …

There are some positive feedbacks that once triggered could not be reverted for millenia. For example a potential stop of the AMOC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional…

As of today, batteries are on par with nuclear cost. And falling. As for the "obscenely regulations", I had read this before, but nobody can tell me what are they referring to. Bec…

It is on the list, as Gunnm.

> Society should find a better way to pay for ambulances Society has this figured out, at least a decent solution that works until we find a perfect one. Only the US society seems …