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by nosianu 1y ago
Vertical, as in those incredible never-ending stairs: https://youtu.be/257PMPqPgXE
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by nosianu 2y ago
That is not a good representation of the story. I added a few sentences to show you the parts we can already relate to. In addition to that, we already had discussions here about emails and ads and other things where it is conceivable we en
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by nosianu 2y ago
> I want Al to do my laundry Stanisław Lem has told us about the grave dangers of such a development decades ago. This is a good summary, summary quoted below, full article linked on the page (requires a login - but reading Lem's
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by nosianu 2y ago
There was an HN topic less than a month ago or so where somebody wrote a blog post speculating that you end up with some people using AI to write lengthy emails from short prompts adhering to perfect polite form, while the other people use
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by nosianu 2y ago
In this day and age, you can do this for FREE and on the side, whenever you have time! There are tons of very well-done professional level video courses on Youtube. There are more organized courses that only ask you for money for the "
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by nosianu 2y ago
That reminds me of the Meaning of Life sketch playing a rugby match with the boys team against the masters as punishment for not paying attention in sex education class :) https://youtu.be/HKv6o7YqHnE
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by nosianu 2y ago
Russia refused to accept the turbine! It was in Germany, and Russia blocked the delivery. "Moskau blockiert offenbar Weitertransport von Nord-Stream-1-Turbine" ("Moscow apparently blocks further transport of Nord Stream 1 t
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by nosianu 2y ago
Or they wanted this, because this could be part of the privatization of many government functions. They, or at least some of them, could see this as controlling this function for money. It's a regular stream too, the valuable subscript
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by nosianu 2y ago
> Isn't the US supposed to be the birthplace of modern democracy? I would not dare not mention the revolutions in England and in France. And before that some Greece city states, and definitely Rome. The US declaration of independe
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by nosianu 2y ago
> There is still a working pipeline available and Russia stated clearly if would continue delivering gas, if Germany wants to. You conveniently leave out that minor detail that it was RUSSIA who stopped the gas. Germany tried hard to
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by nosianu 2y ago
No no, The Meaning of Life is the best one, how can there be any doubt of that! "Every sperm is sacred..." ( https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk ) or "Can we have your liver?" ( https://youtu.be/Sp
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by nosianu 2y ago
> 2) People eat better Except here in Germany, at least the restaurants (but the art of cooking has declined too, favoring frozen pizza and similar foods). Especially since COVID. Our restaurant food is not good, and will still get fiv
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by nosianu 2y ago
Just a minor nitpick. > For example, European regulation prohibits GMO GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_in_t... (section &quot
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by nosianu 2y ago
He is 94. No matter how much experience he has, I question the value of anything he might say these days, at least in comparison. There should be other people to listen to by now - probably even from his same organization, if you want to.
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by nosianu 2y ago
I software and IT services (cloud) etc. "goods" or not here? As far as I know that very large sector is not included in that calculation. A follow up question is how US company subsidiaries located in Europe are counted - the gain
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by nosianu 2y ago
It's nice to be against something, but incomplete to uselessness if you are leaving out your alternative suggestion(s). They will always be dependent on someone . If you were to go the most direct route, you might want to let the actu
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by nosianu 2y ago
> "We will not accept students from politicians that support anti-education policies" Given how many stories there are about children seriously at odds with their parents about political issues, I don't think that is a g
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by nosianu 2y ago
For the original argument above about Republicans and college I would focus more on things like who has been trying to make student debt as something special, something near impossible to get out of. I don't accept an argument of perso
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by nosianu 2y ago
> If you look at the people on the actual political left in the US (Bernie, AOC, etc) are they talking about identity politics? Great example! So... what happened to Bernie in the Democratic party?
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by nosianu 2y ago
> Who said it cannot be visual? It's still a “conversational” UI if it's a chatbot that writes down its answer. You can't be serious?? Oh it's 1st of April, my apologies! I almost took it seriously. I should ignore
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by nosianu 2y ago
It still has to tell you. Visually in a form it's much faster. Similar reason why many people prefer a blog post over a video. Talking is not very efficient, and it's serial in fixed time. With something visual you can look at w
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by nosianu 2y ago
In the GDR there was this BASICODE record (German website, no https, a personal blog site): http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2016/01/08/hard-bit-rock/ (German) Wikipedia article: https:/&#x2
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by nosianu 2y ago
Just a funny, or depressing, aside - and then a point about LLMs. Real coding can , unfortunately, be as bad as that or worse. Here is one very famous HN comment from 2018, and I know what he is talking about because participating in this
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by nosianu 2y ago
You mean like this? [2025-03-19] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/ > Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth > Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-g
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by nosianu 2y ago
> the main idea right now seems to be massive amounts of debt, which can get very ugly in the long run The economy, unlike one's personal finances, is a circle. Unless the Europeans buy abroad, all that money is going to stay in E
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by nosianu 2y ago
Note: It is expected that this rocket will explode and reaching orbit is not planned. The company said getting at least 30 seconds of flight time would be nice. Their only goal is to collect as much data as they can in this first flight. (G
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by nosianu 2y ago
> depends upon numerous factors that coincide with how strong the evidence is Might I venture the guess that seeing tangible advantages for oneself when using that new theory is more important? If you adopt it, will you become one or m
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by nosianu 2y ago
Riiiight.... https://youtu.be/eVddGSTjEd0?t=51 Or maybe the explanation is that everybody behaved "responsibly" but they never got the changes they wanted, and chances for anything different looked more and more b
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by nosianu 2y ago
I wonder how Camp America is doing it these days. https://www.campamerica.co.uk/the-experience/camp-jobs/campo... Back in 1997 I participated. I had to get a J-1 visa, worked in a summer camp for about two months
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by nosianu 2y ago
She had an airline ticket. She missed that flight now. > Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, and a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin

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