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by jorvi 2y ago
> Anyway, I'm not sure what you'd expect. I was just proving the people wrong that were saying akin to that o1 was "oneshotting every question". I completely understand from how LLMs work that they wouldn't be ab
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by jorvi 2y ago
See my more detailed upthread response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569937 But, like Zahlman points out, its a trick question, and instead of admitting it doesn't know or even prepending "I don&#x2
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by jorvi 2y ago
I am rather saying that there is no one national drink for The Netherlands, like a Frenchman would say wine, a German/Belgian would say beer, and a Scotsman would say whisky. Note that I prompted "In the Netherlands, in terms of d
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by jorvi 2y ago
Prompt: In the Netherlands, in terms of drinks, is there a particular spirit that represents the country? > Yes, in the Netherlands, jenever (also known as genever) is the traditional spirit that represents the country. Jenever is a type
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by jorvi 2y ago
> Conveniently? "The population itself" won't be a serious problem for a long time, which was my point. You are deeply, deeply misunderstanding the problem. Maybe when Western-oriented, China would have been able to escape
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by jorvi 2y ago
You’re conveniently leaving out that that China is still a middle-income country. It can bear the burden of developing and producing things like solar panels or batteries or AI because of the sheer size of the population, but that doesn’t w
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by jorvi 2y ago
Very tangential but you should check out the old game “Hacker BS Replay”. It’s basically about how in 2012, with the original internet overrun by spam, porn and malware, all the large corporations and governments got together and created a
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by jorvi 2y ago
NL fishing fleet has been modernized twice over. First cleaner engines, then electric pulse fishing (not nearly as bad as dragnet fishing). French fishers don’t want to make the investments into their fleet, so they harassed French politici
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by jorvi 2y ago
I “devolved” mostly along the same path. Bespoke shell to OMZSH to Zsh to Bash. Zsh has a few nasty Bashism footgun incompatibilities. If I remember correctly the worst one is with how globbing / “*” works, which is why that is guarded
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by jorvi 2y ago
Companies vastly differ in serving amounts and some have multiple serve sizes. What did you expect me to do, bash out a 5x10 multi-company matrix so you can compare perfectly across servings?
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by jorvi 2y ago
Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough has ~25g sugar per 100g. Boba has ~14g per 100g, depending on the type. Coca Cola has ~11g sugar per 100g. In other words, ice cream has 1.8x more sugar content than boba and 2.3x more sugar content of Coca Co
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by jorvi 2y ago
Confidently incorrect. “Grant Upright Music vs. Warner Bros” almost completely killed any creative use of sampling on official releases, which is why the only place you still see it consistently is mixtapes. Think 50 Cent’s “The Undertaker”
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by jorvi 2y ago
I’m very much for legalizing and regulating (almost) all drugs, but watch out with the confirmation bias of “everyone in my social circle who used recreationally turned out fine.” I can’t find it right now but I read a great comment on lega
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by jorvi 2y ago
You wouldn’t ask your partner deeply private questions in front of your mom either. Not sure how you think it’s a dig against voice assistant privacy.
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by jorvi 2y ago
> This guy is wrong, which is why he isn't citing any legal authority. You never asked. https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005291/2024-05-01 article 83 onward > As anyone who has gone to law school will tell yo
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by jorvi 2y ago
No, I know our legal system quite well. You are wrong. The reason for this is so that if you buy a bicycle at, say, a bicycle fair and for a reasonable price, you shouldn’t have to worry about it being yoinked from under you later on. Lawma
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by jorvi 2y ago
That is probably mostly a common law thing, and as the article notes > however, in many cases, more than one innocent party is involved, making judgment difficult for courts and leading to numerous exceptions to the general rule that aim
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by jorvi 2y ago
> End users are not the only customers for SMS. A large number of automated notifications, confirmations, and 2FA codes are sent that way, and carriers get paid for it. Not just paid, they gouge their enterprise customers for it. Signal
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by jorvi 2y ago
> An interesting tidbit is that WhatsApp actually predates FaceTime and iMessage, and thus it was one of the earliest iPhone apps that allowed sending text messages over data as opposed to SMS. Interoperability with Android was a plus. I
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by jorvi 2y ago
WhatsApp has not become the "everything app" in the EU either? People use it for chatting with people, groups of people, or businesses. Virtually no one uses the Status or Communities feature. I have 289 people in my phone book ri
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by jorvi 2y ago
> Like I suspected, you unfortunately don't have the capacity to see things from another persons perspective. No, you're just an arrogant piece of work without an ounce of self-reflection in him. Bye.
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by jorvi 2y ago
> Or think about this comparison: I own a bar where I sell drinks to the general public. Then some businessman comes in, throws out my bar staff and starts selling his own drinks to the guests, and offers 10% of revenue to me. Which is a
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by jorvi 2y ago
It is not a racket when the website owners are mass-injecting trackers and security risks into my browser. Some egregious pages have 700+ (!!) ad partners. Hell, it is the opposite of a racket because other adblockers / adblocking peop
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by jorvi 2y ago
(Other commenter already pointed it out). Really man, drop the crusade. Look at Brave their tech blog (Project Sugarcoat for example, something directly meant to make page ad hiding more cosmetically pleasing). Or the fact that their defaul
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by jorvi 2y ago
> Touchpads don’t solve for muscle memory for the same reasons mouses don’t. Uh, what? I have my touchpad tuned so that one swipe from top left to bottom right is exactly equal to going from the top left to bottom right of my display. An
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by jorvi 2y ago
> but when every cellular carrier is eager to sell off your location data, that level of security is absolutely justified. Before everyone gets scared: this is mostly a US thing.
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by jorvi 2y ago
It’s so funny how the Brave haters will constantly outright lie just to get their point. > Do Brave Ads replace ads on websites? What do Brave Ads look like? > No, Brave Ads do not replace the ads that the Brave Browser blocks on we
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by jorvi 2y ago
Touchpads exist. A mouse (or rather, a floating cursor) is often a much more efficient way to get your cursor in position than slamming your arrow or hjkl keys multiple dozens of times.
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> One time, one system accepted it, but another system that accessed the same data didn't allow apostrophes so the person using the second system couldn't access the record, and it took 2 phone calls and 3 people to come up wit
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by jorvi 2y ago
> my parents would have stayed there, but thankfully they moved here for a more prosperous future for their kids. Social mobility in the US has dropped from 90% to 50%, so good luck with the coin flip.

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