Xylakant

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by Xylakant 4y ago
IIRC, FaceTime can fall back to the device passcode in some circumstances.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Likely a similar situation - either you or your client would be entitled to the money, but enforcement is impossible because of the prohibitive costs. We have a few clients in the US and I’m always factoring in this issue when making contra
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The costs paid are based on the “Streitwert” which in this case would likely be the 10k. There’s tables to look up the lawyer fee and the court fee. A good lawyer may demand more, but you’re still likely to come out ahead if you win. You’ll
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Arbitrary bans and deletions are illegal under German law and are open to legal recourse in Germany. A ban must be based on a violation of ToS or law and if the case goes to court, google would need to substantiate that. And even if there’s
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by Xylakant 4y ago
If you prevail in Germany, most of the costs are placed on the loosing party. It’s still a problem, but in a case as such, I would hand it off to a lawyer and see where it goes. The bigger issue here is likely that the upwork terms of servi
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I would expect that to be illegal already in most jurisdictions. I believe in Germany you could argue it constitutes fraud. Either the client received the work and it’s fine, then the contractor is owed payment for the work. Or the client d
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The source may be correct, but it’s not useful. To judge the risk you’d need a breakdown of where accidents happen - it may be the case that motorways have become much safer due to safer cars, but pedestrians and cyclists suffered. Especial
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by Xylakant 4y ago
No, the fundamental difference is that you can reason about your mistake, can correct yourself and try to avoid falling into the same trap again. You are capable of independent thought. ChatGPT string words together.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
So can I, but luckily TV is not representative of the world at large.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
> Because ChatGPT is so new, we are in this weird period where people haven't learned that is just as incorrect as the rest of us. It’s worse than that. It’s wrong, you cannot correct it and it makes up supporting citations on the f
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by Xylakant 4y ago
ChatGPT has no idea what parenting means. It parrots what other people have written about parenting.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Bias certainly, but I wouldn’t even assume social pressure necessarily. The bias in the search can easily be a result of an existing real-world bias. White has long been the default assumption for many of these tagging systems, so I’d not b
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by Xylakant 4y ago
A 20 mile loop trail in rough terrain can be a 10+ hour hike, depending on your skill and fitness. If things work out, you’ll be fine with a smartphone, maybe with a powerbank to recharge. If shit hits the fan, you’ll be in trouble. So it d
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by Xylakant 4y ago
In some ways, a good navigation app with proper hiking maps, downloaded before is functionally equivalent. But hiking GPS devices are optimized for outdoor usage, more resilient and have substantially longer battery life. They often work of
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I always thought the idea was that the reflection from the flash would overload the camera sensor and hide your face/numberplate when a speed trap strikes.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The idea that someone that is good at making decisions that make a company successful would always start their own company is wrong on many levels. Running a company is about much more than making a product successful. There’s all the nitty
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by Xylakant 4y ago
I had an electric cargo bike with a nuvinci, since it was the only option with a belt drive. It works for that application, shifting under load is a nice thing when going up the hill with a heavy bike. But the downsides are pretty big. It’s
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by Xylakant 4y ago
You picked about the most expensive option, there’s quite a few that are fine for commuter bikes, but cost substantially less. The Shimano Alfine series for example. But except for the Rohloff, they all have a smaller gear range than a dera
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Queues can be full most of the time without the system being in a precarious state. Take for example an extremely spiky pattern of processing: once a day, a big batch of jobs is delivered. You know ahead of time how many items there are and
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by Xylakant 4y ago
It’s even worse. The model contains the information that claims are statistically likely to be followed by a citation, for example. So when the output produces a claim, it follows up with a citation- and it completely makes that one up. It
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by Xylakant 4y ago
You're missing my point: The text is produced by an agent known to be unreliable. It might be right by chance, but the onus to prove that (by citing references, for example) is on the poster. It's entirely warranted to dismiss the
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The issue with ChatGPT is that it produces convincingly sounding texts that more often than not contain factual errors that are obvious to people familiar with the field, but require effort to disprove for lay persons. Made up citations, fo
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by Xylakant 4y ago
There’s also an Angry Birds park in Rovaniemi, Finnland https://www.visitrovaniemi.fi/attraction/angry-birds-activit...
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by Xylakant 4y ago
At the current prices, giving a away your Lego is like handing your 401k to a stranger in the street.
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The economics don’t work out in places where almost everyone has a car. And in places where other options are scarce, everyone owns a car. (Works the same for public transit)
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by Xylakant 4y ago
By "were honest" I mostly mean "honest with themselves". There are a lot of costs that are easy to forget or ignore. The cost of parking in the city. The occasional repair. Having to tow your car, because it broke. Depre
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Definitely, I do averages :)
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by Xylakant 4y ago
Meet Oulu, the winter cycling capital of the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU - including the reasons why people do not cycle in winter (it's not primarily the cold)
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by Xylakant 4y ago
People upthread ran the numbers and arrived at 600 USD/month for a used car. Seems high to me, but I don't know how the math works out in the US. For Germany, this is a pretty good modeling of the costs https://financer
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by Xylakant 4y ago
The average speed for a car in cities is often under 20km/hour, especially in rush-hour. My average commute is 9km, I do that in just shy of 30 minutes, so something approaching 20km/hour. Plus, with the bike, I can take a few sho

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