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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
It may not sound like a satisfying answer, but: because I'm not here to earn a language certificate but rather to live and work, my German is more than fine, and I think my time could be better employed doing something else. I've
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I migrated to Germany 10+ years ago and I'm still here. Based on my limited experience, there are two big issues. First, things are bad : trains are getting worse every year, the highways are in disrepair (ask me about Bonn!), overloa
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
Mild tangent: are there smart glasses out there without camera, without needing internet access, and with custom app support? All my neck and back want is a way for me to look up instead of down whenever I'm bored and smart glasses
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
> Other than suicide and that one incident with facebook, people do not die in appreciable numbers Is your argument that "no one is dying other than those who are dying"? I became radicalized against social media when I saw t
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
Here's an article (in German) from last year where Richard Lutz, boss at the time of Deutsche Bahn, says they needed at least twice as much as what they were getting: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/mobilita
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
For what it's worth, it does say right before and in colors "NOTE: Your name WILL BE VISIBLE TO THE WORLD." I did a double take when reading that part too, but if you're a Meta employee then you should be able to underst
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I'd argue the opposite: because they are focusing on knowledge acquisition they are trying to separate the medium (the books) from the objective. 40 years ago books were the only way to obtain knowledge. Nowadays even those who come fo
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
You are being unfair to the spirit of the original quote. Yes, the quote is naive in expecting a world where those who own share with those who rent without nefarious motives. But sharing, particularly in this context when profit is out of
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I started sewing because I wanted to make a Guybrush Threepwood costume for Halloween. I'm currently making a bag and the next items in the pipeline are a couple summer shirts and a custom cover for a camera lens I have. I also brought
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I didn't see on the list the NES games based on the Captain Tsubasa anime. While technically soccer, they can be better described as RPGs in soccer form where players have energy, special attacks, and so on.
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
Happened with all of tech support, really, or at least in my corner of the world: you take your PC to a technician and you receive in return a fresh Windows install, a folder with most of your files (including a copy of "C:\Windows&quo
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I saw it in Berlin. In two occasions I saw the realtor be openly bribed in front of all of us, although whether he took the bribe or not I cannot say. I also saw a man bring mini muffins and a personalized letter from his wife, family pictu
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
It's on the person who willingly took the public stage to prove that their ideas have merit. I don't know much about microbiology, but that shouldn't stop me from asking someone who "did their own research" to shut
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
After predictably failing at generating a sewing pattern, Gemini gave me yesterday this excuse: > Because AI generates pixels based on visual patterns rather than mathematical geometry, it creates the illusion of a sewing pattern withou
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
Which right exactly are you invoking?
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I think you're misreading the parent comment. As an example: Tesla has promised unsupervised self-driving for its cars for the last 10 years. Every year the promise is "it will be here soon", and yet this year we found out th
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I think your comment points towards the heart of my complaint, namely, that Firefox stopped extensions on its tracks to offer parity with a browser that doesn't care about extensions. It fits the post's complaint about doing thing
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Oh, the irony...
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
> if Mozilla spent all money on the browser only, if Mozilla made the best browser ever, would that really make a difference? It's obviously impossible to say, but when we look at things that did happen due to Mozilla's finan
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
> A reverse centaur is just a person with a horse head right? Well, no. A centaur is a normal person with stronger-than-human legs. That is, it's an augmented person who drives the powerful machinery underneath. Think of a person
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
The point of my comment is to call attention to the SV tendency of hyper-focusing on the newest shiny toy as a solution to all problems while ignoring the real solutions to the real problems we have right now. If we assume roughly 1.2k peop
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. (quote by Stephen Jay Gould)
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Not everyone's footprint is the same, though. If I cut down my plane flight in half that means I'll take a plane every two years, meaning I'll also see my family half as much. You'd also have to include that, since I tra
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
> I think someone should start a community online where AI isnt allowed. In case you haven't followed the saga, the latest[1] digg.com relaunch failed because they couldn't deal with the bot onslaught [2]. Whoever finds a rel
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
The "anti-AI thing" is a direct result to the actions of the "pro-AI thing" crowd. Personally I don't think it's any more ridiculous that the amount of money currently being burned to convince me that I should
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Based on my experience it's more about being able to recognize an opportunity when it shows up and being good enough at your craft to take it. But no one can tell you what that chance will look like. Maybe it's a smart question to
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I vouched for your comment because, while (IMO) dead wrong, I didn't think it was "this should be flagged" wrong. The article uses the word "dilemma" exactly once in the introduction, mostly because that's not
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
The first game I thought of when reading the article was Shadow of the Colossus, mostly because the article opens with a screenshot of the game and talks about it in detail. I appreciate the honesty of recognizing that you commented without
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
You may want to take a look at the "AI hallucination Cases" database which tracks cases when someone used AI and ended up presenting made-up sources in a legal case. https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations&#
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
My understanding is that loitering laws are much older than that - the first versions of these laws seems to date to 1342 [1]. IMO what all these laws have in common is that they're designed to allow the police to legally ask questions

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