nicbou

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by nicbou 8mo ago
> Is there even a goal here beyond "generating content"? This is the part that hurts. It's all so pointless, so perfunctory. A web of incentives run amok. Systems too slick to stop moving. Is this what living inside the pa
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT are also killing traffic to information websites
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Didn't their war in Afghanistan precipitate their downfall? So many pivotal decisions in WW2 were economic in nature. Lend lease? Germany's late switch to a war economy? The Allies' much larger manufacturing capabilities? You
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Experimental History is such a consistently pleasant read. It's one of the few publications I read religiously.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
That was super helpful, thanks! Germany is just starting to accept credit cards. I hope that this enables digital payments for small transactions where cash is still king. I hope it works well for visitors and recent immigrants. It can be
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Couldn’t those attestations be sold?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
This will create an interesting problem for newcomers to an area or hobby, since they will have few introduction points. It will work for some people, but exclude others. I wonder if there is another way.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
There is no need to be rude. I am receptive to your argument and trying to understand you, but brevity is not to your advantage here. I can use Google but I do not even know what you are trying to say in the context of my original question.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I do not understand your comments
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by nicbou 9mo ago
The first sentence is gibberish to me. The second one makes me want to ask the same question again: don't we have SEPA transfers already?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Every once in a while, I check it out, and every time I am confused or disappointed. Don't we already have SEPA transfers? What benefits would this add? Why are they completely unable to pitch it to someone who's curious and recep
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Not for me, at least with CharGPT. I am slowly moving to Gemini due to ChatGPT uptime issues. I will try it with Gemini too.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
The God of Small things. The writing is excellent, and I like the story. I can see why many of my friends liked it. I'm halfway through.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I get that issue constantly. I somehow can't get any LLM to ask me clarifying questions before spitting out a wall of text with incorrect assumptions. I find it particularly frustrating.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Clothing everyone is an achievement, but fast fashion is overshooting that target. A bit like feeding everyone vs. having an obesity crisis.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I'm down 55% year on year. Everyone I know is getting similar drops.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I am pretty sure it is completely illegal.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I don't think that there is any ambiguity here. If I light a candle and it sets the building on fire, I'm liable for it.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Damn, the Dark Forest is already coming for open source https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest tl;dr: If anything that lives in the open gets attacked, communities go private.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I come from Quebec, a cultural island in North America. You need to create infrastructure for your culture, so that it’s not swallowed by American culture. Funding culture protects our language, and to an extent our history and our perspect
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by nicbou 9mo ago
That was also me, but it became unsustainable. I got a lot of reader mail and had to update my contact page to redirect some of it to other experts. I stopped treating my inbox as an obligation and I reply at my own pace. I still give each
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I don't think that people are entitled to a quick reply, or any reply at all. Sure, a quick reply is courteous, but not at all an obligation.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Then be upset. Nowhere did I agree to reply to emails quickly, if at all. Your expectations, your feelings, your problem.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
What a clever sentence!
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Communities fragment as they migrate, online and especially offline. ToyTown Germany died, and overnight both the community and its decades-old body of knowledge vanished. An identical forum was created a few weeks latwr, and it's st
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by nicbou 9mo ago
You might want to look at the HN commenting guidelines. Namely you should avoid such uncharitable interpretations and show a bit more curiosity.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
On the other hand, these platforms are free and much easier to work with, especially for non-technical administrators. As of today, there just doesn't seem to be any good simple forum software. They all seem to need quite a bit of upke
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Fantastic writing. The stone walls and fabric metaphor was brilliant. It's the sort of storytelling that made Steve Jobs' ideas so compelling (to me). I see the same value in community, especially as an immigrant helping other imm
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Based on real problems I encounter through my work: - A simple commenting system - A simple up/downvoting system - A simple forum - A simple RSS-to-newsletter tool There are solutions in that field, but they are usually way too complic
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by nicbou 9mo ago
This reminds me of bearblog.dev, in a very positive way. One thing I adore about Bear is their discover page. Have you considered adding one?

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