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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
What Europeans think that Scandinavia is not in Europe?
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
You're right, it's nothing like LA-NYC - corrected. (Tangential - the source of my faulty research was Claude Haiku 4.5, which I will quote verbatim: "Two major US cities separated by approximately 2230 km are New York City,
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
First, 300 mph (480 kmh) is not on the cards. It's feasible technically but the energy usage rises exponentially, so it's quickly less attractive. (Obviously planes are even more inefficient for exactly the same reason, but wind r
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Seems it's always the same trade-off: either a commercial site with an opaque business model, or a weekend passion project which might go away when the hobbyist in question finds they have other (or more lucrative) things to do.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Indeed. This is usually the go-to example of writing as performance art. So far I haven't had the courage to dip my toe in.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
I'll resist the temptation to dunk on that last line. The case for reading (and why its demise may lead us to dark places) was laid out very recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Nicely put. When I read, "I always knew I wanted to be a writer", I always think to myself, "Oh yeah? But did you know what you wanted to write?" Anecdotally, it feels like I've seen that line in a whole bunch of ea
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
>people from France who did not consider themselves French but to be Breton, Basque, Corsican Corsicans, sure. But, in my experience, for Bretons and Basques it is very rare for them to deny their French identity in the way that plenty o
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Angry vulgar comments like these are why HN should just avoid politics altogether.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
True (and can confirm) but this assumes a lifetime's habit of interchanging the two.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Which either kill you or make you stronger (marginally!). That is not the case of particles and corrosive gases.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
A lot of people want this to be true, but alas it isn't. The stuff lasts. Probably for a simple reason: Any given product line is bought by millions of customers, so design flaws are quickly found and remedied. I see it as a form of sa
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
>to pour life’s meaning into my kid and family It's grammatically awkward but IMO this is the fundamental reason people have kids. We need a project and most of us don't have any better candidates.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
It's said by lots of people every time this subject comes up, it's obviously true, but IMO it's also a little tautological. I read it as essentially: "I created a massive problem to solve, and here I am successfully solv
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Sure. Of course it's been passed.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
>You can, I can Even this (assuming it's even true) will likely not be true in some near-term future. >continuously claiming this or that is a bot I see it as a contemporary form of religious thinking. Like (say) pilgrims seeing
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Indeed, so do I. 1984 was a great novel but its worst predictions have still not come true. Turns out quite a lot of humans appreciate freedom.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
>not enough producers (people taking things out of the ground and converting them to useful goods) This is an oddly outdated vision of progress IMO. Indeed a dematerialized economy of "content creation" among other things, wher
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Sure, but even when (or if) it these issues get fixed, it will all be academic unless the devices can run the apps that normies want (or "need"). Up to and including the OS-level wallet app that unbricks the NFC chip, and all the
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
This may be true for your average pizza-delivery rider, but it's not an automatic property of e-bikes. I recently crossed a mountain range on a regulation e-bike (i.e. a pedalec with capped motor and a limited battery) and I can confir
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
If you or OP suspect ( suspect ) that a blogger's taking shortcuts, and that's a problem for you or OP, then you or OP can just skip that blog and find another that appears ( appears ) to meet some criteria for labor input. To the
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
The former. As did everyone else who read it, including you. Capitalization and punctuation are not decorative extras, they were invented for a reason.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
So blame whoever signed off on it. AI or not-AI is their problem.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Ironic anecdote. Although I don't care about AI, I'm triggered by your own carefree attitude to orthography (no capitalization, unpronounceable words like "llms"). At least AI is easy to parse!
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Sure, I get that argument. I just don't buy it. What counts is whether the article helps you fix your brakes. If it doesn't, it seems immaterial to me whether or not the bylined author sweated over it for hours. Not least because
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
Am I really the only one who doesn't care whether or not prose was written by AI? Assuming that a text is signed off on by a person, then surely what counts is its substance, not who or what actually strung the words together. I&#x27
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
>Americans are Legion and have a lot of money And perhaps also (unironically) more persuadable due to the rampant commercialism and historic openness (to ideas, strangers, everything) of their society.
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by bluebarbet 2mo ago
You meant, "people say interesting stuff only on hackernews". Theme vs rheme.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
Still too complicated for just about anyone except the kind of people who frequent this forum.
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by bluebarbet 3mo ago
>All you need to install graphene is a web browser and USB cable. Outside a section of the Western middle class, ordinary people in 2026 only own one computer and it's in their pocket.

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