Al-Khwarizmi

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by Al-Khwarizmi 5d ago
It's worth considering that the Spanish football league has successfully lobbied to implement widespread Cloudflare IP blocks during matches that affect websites totally unrelated to football (or to any kind of piracy). I don't wa
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5d ago
I have a major ISP and cannot access directly, but in the last few years an VPN has become part of my routine (otherwise I wouldn't even be able to work normally during football matches) so I just click some random country and it'
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6d ago
But he is totally right Spanish is more consistent in that respect, because it has a plural article. You can say "son unos perros" as well when you put that sentence in plural. Of course, that doesn't say anything about the l
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by Al-Khwarizmi 8d ago
The average person? I have a Master's and PhD in CS, code regularly, and have followed and used all the cool technologies from the days of gopher, telnet and Mosaic to crypto, and lately LLMs. And I still don't have a clear enough
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by Al-Khwarizmi 8d ago
Devices that break or get lost, and then either the user had password authentication activated all the time anyway in addition to the passkey, or they have the classic "mother's maiden name" recovery path, or they get locked
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by Al-Khwarizmi 10d ago
No, I mean controlling for location. A specific example. The very same building developer completed these two buildings and offered the flats for sale more or less simultaneously, in the second half of last year IIRC. Building 1. Renovated
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by Al-Khwarizmi 10d ago
I would argue that the inner spaces are also nicer in traditional architecture. Taller ceilings where those of us who are tall can walk below a hanging lamp without hitting anything, or just stretch, taller windows that let more light in, e
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by Al-Khwarizmi 12d ago
I'm from Spain and I mostly see Skechers, New Balance, Nike (doesn't seem to be doing that bad here?), ASICS, Adidas, Puma, Converse, Vans. Lately Salomon. I hadn't heard of Hoka before either, maybe we are behind the times.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 12d ago
Yes, I confess I made the change when the masses started doing it and it became socially acceptable to wear running shoes to work. I think it started around ten years ago and consolidated with COVID. It's been a considerable improvemen
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by Al-Khwarizmi 15d ago
Sure, if you make oil prices increase, US oil companies and their shareholders rake in more cash. But it's harmful for the average American because filling up the tank costs a lot more. Then that price hike spreads to everything else t
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by Al-Khwarizmi 15d ago
Yes, this is what has always blocked me from learning even basic music theory. I get that maybe it's just the way it is, perhaps the underlying logic is so complex that it would be counterproductive to present it up front. I'm not
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by Al-Khwarizmi 16d ago
Here there's no skill involved either. It's not that you have some time to catch as many ducks as possible and if you're good at it you catch more. It's that the 10 € give you the right to catch e.g. 3 ducks, so you spen
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by Al-Khwarizmi 16d ago
In fact it's the same thing. I said fish by mistake (probably because my mind made an association with the fishing rod and what it's usually used for) but they're ducks. I have edited the comment now.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 16d ago
I get piñatas, but there is an extreme version of this that I find just too much. Not sure in other places, but in Spain there is a kind of fair stall where children use a plastic fishing rod with a magnet or hook to catch some plastic duck
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by Al-Khwarizmi 20d ago
Dictators have never had superintelligence, while the point of most doom scenarios is assuming that the AI will. Dictators are mortal and can't be present in the whole world 24/7 and self-replicate. Dictators are human and tend to
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by Al-Khwarizmi 20d ago
By convincing people to do its bidding in the physical world. Language is powerful, and even now, there are some people who have fallen in love with current LLMs. If we imagine a truly super intelligent LLM, it isn't difficult to ima
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by Al-Khwarizmi 20d ago
I didn't need to plan because we live right in the totality path of this year's eclipse. But our experience was similar... it was a great day, forecasts were good, but half an hour before totality black clouds began to form right
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by Al-Khwarizmi 22d ago
So now the bar is not only to be at the level of a human, but to achieve it without the natural advantages of being a machine, while still having the disadvantages (lack of embodiment, etc.). If you went back to when I started working on AI
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by Al-Khwarizmi 22d ago
If you like the idea but are disappointed by the blatant errors in this vibe-coded website, there was a video game saga called Real Lives which was basically the same idea, except only for contemporary people (but you would still draw an ar
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by Al-Khwarizmi 25d ago
In Spain, if you try to casually use your bank app to transfer a big amount, you hit a limit. If you need to do that, you can go to a bank office or do a phone call, tell them, and they will temporarily lift the limit, and then yes, you can
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by Al-Khwarizmi 25d ago
And can actually be read, the other is so as-ridden that I just gave up (I know I should probably install some blocker in my phone, but I'm lazy).
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by Al-Khwarizmi 1mo ago
I definitely can't - if I had to describe my wife or son, I would be hard pressed to go beyond very generic descriptors (long black hair, brown eyes, and so on), nothing useful to create an accurate sketch. And I wouldn't be able
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by Al-Khwarizmi 1mo ago
Yeah, I think I have aphantasia as I definitely don't see anything, but after reading a lot about it I still haven't totally ruled out that it's simply a big semantic misunderstanding with people that describe things in a dif
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by Al-Khwarizmi 1mo ago
20+ years ago, I went through a stage of playing lots of strip mahjong games on MAME, mostly because there weren't (or I didn't know) other ways to play actual mahjong on PC (native PC games that claimed to be mahjong typically we
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by Al-Khwarizmi 1mo ago
As a local, it was actually rather fun. And my kid was amazed. For a traveler it must have sucked, though (and also for some people with special needs, and in places where it's actually common, etc.).
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by Al-Khwarizmi 1mo ago
Around 50% is used for road transport, though, which is poised to be replaced and was one of the parent poster's main points.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 1mo ago
It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered. I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see next year's one :D
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by Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here you never know).
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by Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
> Vanishingly few books are irreplaceable enough to need to be treated as special relics to carefully preserve for posterity I wouldn't be so sure of that. I always make an effort to buy books I really like (or expect to really li
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by Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
You meant counterclockwise, I guess? Because clockwise would mean to write from above, not below? Interested because my son is learning to write and is the only leftie in the family, so I struggle to help him.

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