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by rjh29 4y ago
If you're using hotels with Mercedes then you're booking an entire different class to the hotels I book and that may explain our difference in experiences :)
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by rjh29 4y ago
And yes downvote me but maybe think about whether spending more money going to first-party sites is actually serving you?
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by rjh29 4y ago
I've heard booking.com forbids them to charge first-party customers less than the booking.com price, and the hotel is beholden to the site for income so they play along. The only people booking directly are basically idiots, so for tho
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by rjh29 4y ago
People say that but it doesn't ring true in my experience. Let's face it, you're just paying more for the same service if you book directly.
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by rjh29 4y ago
If your hotel double books you, they're out of rooms and can't help. If Booking.com double books you, they can pull strings to give you a different room in any hotel on their site (and they do). I don't doubt you had that exp
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by rjh29 4y ago
I respect your experience, but third-party sites are cheaper than the true website and hotels refuse to match it even if you ask them. Even if adjustments are easier (and in my experience Booking.com has been fine), it doesn't offset t
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by rjh29 4y ago
In Japan booking.com is often more flexible than the original website (e.g. offering free cancellation, not having to phone)
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by rjh29 4y ago
So I bought a 16GB 6-month tourist sim, and somehow run it out, probably by drunkenly making video calls / using YouTube without realising I wasn't connected to wifi. I think there are unlimited or huge (30GB/month) sims avai
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by rjh29 4y ago
I am in Japan and when my mobile net has run out I've had to use public wifi for a day or two and it's not a pretty picture. I find I can barely connect after multiple tries and they drop out frequently, and often have time limits
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by rjh29 4y ago
It's good for me too, but it took a very long time to train it to stop giving me 'YouTube face' videos, clickbait bullshit, Linus Tech Tips, politics, Amber Heard etc. And it still sometimes serves that up if there's a n
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by rjh29 4y ago
Admittedly I haven't kept up with the PS5 but the PS4 Pro at least basically let you choose between 4k and 60fps and couldn't do both, and generally you're not going to get 4k120hz on any game, let alone at maximum graphics s
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by rjh29 4y ago
> I was resistant to the view that YouTube could host "decent" instructional content for a long time. There is SO much good content on there though. I can only guess "the algorithm" was hiding it from you. Sadly we of
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by rjh29 4y ago
I agree it's not the xbox killer feature, but you can stream new games on your old PC or non-gaming laptop.
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by rjh29 4y ago
Yeah but people who want 4k120hz etc and play console are an extreme minority.
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by rjh29 4y ago
LLMs can also be used to identify spam, not by language, but by the actual intent and "is this email something I want to read". Open question: is there any case where LLMs can be used for malicious purposes, but LLMs can't be
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by rjh29 4y ago
The article says code quality is better but development time and bug fixing time is worse. You chose to simplify that to 'better', I chose to see it as a tradeoff. People are rushing to mypy for type checking, not speed improvemen
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by rjh29 4y ago
> (I won't bother explaining the retrospective idiocy of that.) Good, because people have done actual surveys to show there's no real decrease in bugs, and development time suffers: https://arxiv.org/abs/22
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by rjh29 4y ago
Spam is already easily generated so AI won't change that. Misinformation and manipulation is based on a small number of posts being shared and upvoted en masse, so AI won't help there. However, social hacking and fraud involving a
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by rjh29 4y ago
I'm a longtime Perl user but didn't know about that library, thanks for the link.
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by rjh29 4y ago
What percentage of those people want more friends or friendship time than they have access to? What percentage have a mental illness like depression or anxiety, or alcoholism that would cause them to spend more time alone? I'm open to
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by rjh29 4y ago
This is me, I spend all my time on 1:1 and I have a small but very close set of friends, and no desire to make any more. It's like a romantic relationship - once you find "that person", you're done.
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by rjh29 4y ago
True friends do not need feeding, you can go a year without seeing each other and catch up and be right back to where you were before. And most of my 1:1 friends, I talk to regularly anyway because I want to. I've known these people fo
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by rjh29 4y ago
Yeah, imagine if Python had a 'declare these two things are equal' operator and let you just randomly summon up computations declaratively, but with all of the python standard library and data structures. That would be more approa
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by rjh29 4y ago
I think 1:1 is best for close friends who you have a strong connection with, and groups are better for more casual friends. You can have a group hangout with people who in 1:1 format you'd struggle to converse with. Personally I don&#x
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by rjh29 4y ago
Just the wording in that particular post made it seem like a lot of work. I have had 'friends' like that in the past, and if you need things to 'pile up' so you can hold a conversation, and you find it hard to motivate y
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by rjh29 4y ago
I hate hanging out in groups and almost exclusively do 1:1. I have no problem talking to my friends for hours on end, it never feels like a chore and I always makes time. Your experience reads quite strangely to me. Even if there is nothing
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by rjh29 4y ago
And the entire point of this article is to show what has changed since AlexNet (spoiler: a lot!), let alone GPT-3/DALL-E/Midjourney/Whisper/ChatGPT/Imagen/Imagen Video which aren't even in this article! I
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by rjh29 4y ago
That is what my android phone does, I have to toggle it to allow data every time.
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by rjh29 4y ago
Yeah there's only one valid interpretation of "improvements to web experience" - they're going to make it worse like they've done the last 5 years. There is increasingly a divide between the zero attention span tikt
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by rjh29 4y ago
Yeah I learned pretty much every kanji with jukugo (did Remembering the Kanji at first, but it wasn't that helpful). A lot of failed cards at first since I was trying to learn recognition of the kanji, the kana reading and the word&#x2

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