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by eloisant 24d ago
I feel like too many people have a binary vision of the world, i.e. you're either "pro AI" or "anti AI". Ed Zitron doesn't say that AI doesn't work, that its impact on the world will not increase. He'
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by eloisant 25d ago
A mistake for IBM maybe, but a blessing for computing.
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by eloisant 25d ago
It doesn't matter how much cash the iPhone does, some people have "boost the sales of the Mac Mini [or other product]" in their OKR.
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by eloisant 28d ago
When was that coalition of nations? European countries were literally at each other throats until 1945, then we gradually built the European Union.
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by eloisant 28d ago
Yes, Mayotte is very much part of France. Monaco, Vatican and San Marino are however sovereign micro-states that switched to the euros because they already had a monetary agreement with France or Italy.
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by eloisant 28d ago
The euro is very stable because it's a used by some big countries (in population and economy). So prices can fluctuate but less because there is little currency-related fluctuation. Also yes, a country can adopt the euro unilaterally,
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by eloisant 28d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_kr%C3%B3na#2008_fina...
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by eloisant 28d ago
Look what happened to their currency in 2008, at the time they really wished they were using the euro.
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by eloisant 28d ago
Yes, Luxembourg has a higher GDP per capita than Switzerland, also for banking reasons. If anything when your economy is based on European countries relying on your banking services, being part of EU makes it even easier for said countries
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by eloisant 28d ago
You can see it as "the best of both world", or you can see it as having to follow EU rules without having a say in those rules because no EMP.
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by eloisant 28d ago
Yes their currency suffered a lot in 2008, they would have been protected if they were using the Euro at the time
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by eloisant 28d ago
Good news, the Steam Deck mostly runs on open source software!
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by eloisant 29d ago
The Japanese gate machines with tickets are even more impressive because they're mechanical, and super fast. You can put a single tickets or 2, insert in any direction, and in a few seconds the tickets is out at the other end of the ma
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by eloisant 29d ago
Yes but I'm not going to buy a phone with an OS that I dislike just for my occasional trips to Japan.
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by eloisant 29d ago
It doesn't work with most Android phones not bought in Japan, because they don't support FeliCa.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
It wasn't needed but now it is, so things need to change because people are already dying. But hey, at least we preserved the nice 19th century Parisian landscape.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
That's where the image of AC in general matters. It needs to be seen as a life saving tech just like heating, not a luxury item for rich people. If it was just a matter of red tape it would be fine, but in France people would fight you
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by eloisant 1mo ago
It's a big mess in schools now, the whole messenging system is down as a preventive measure so the only way they can communicate (between each other, to parents, etc) is by phone. And kids are back to school in one week.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
Yes I hate when Claude explain in comments how it is now compared to how it was before, or how it could be if a different decision had been taken. Dude, just talk about the current state of the code!
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by eloisant 1mo ago
Yes, the Claudisms are the smoking guns
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by eloisant 1mo ago
I didn't fully understand why but apparently there is also a legal reason to destroy the books, it makes it them less likely to be considered copyright infringement.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
One interesting thing is it's encoding system. Unlike Unicode that unified Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters, TRON had a different code points for characters that have the same root but are written differently in the different la
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by eloisant 1mo ago
It is, but claiming that it was "killed by the US government", and suggest it would have became the dominant OS is dubious at best. So it's not just clickbait-y, it misleading at best if not just a lie.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
"artificial intelligence" is a vague and moving target. I'm not sure I would call that "a field". It's been used to talk about computers playing chess, then machine learning, and now LLM-based systems.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
You're thinking about The Boy who Cried Wolf, Pierre et le Loup is a different story.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
They don't just sell furnitures, there is all the small accessories like cutting boards, plates, bowls, towels, cushions... Everything they're selling at their lowest floor before you reach the self-serve warehouse.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
Watermarking or not, LLM are already using RNG to pick a variant between different words/expressions.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
Additionally, LLM are already rolling the dice on different wordings so I don't see how this watermarking makes it any less precise.
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by eloisant 1mo ago
Besides cancer isn't really "a disease" but rather "a family of diseases" that can vary a lot. Even breast cancer can be one of many different cancers. It's like saying "we'll cure infectious diseases
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by eloisant 1mo ago
There is money to be made in AI, the loss we're seeing is because they're in a bubble of spending way too much on R&D and building datacenters. AI companies aren't losing money on individual queries. I agree the projected

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