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by stefs 7mo ago
i kinda seem to remember that this is a bit misleading and the rates are surprisingly different than expected. i'm too lazy to check the sources right now, but gemini gives me a 15% daily smoker rate for paris, while it's ~30% for
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by stefs 7mo ago
while i don't agree with your general sentiment you're right that bicycles should have their own dedicated cycle lanes. too often drivers get their dedicated lanes while pedestrians and cyclists are forced to "share space and
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by stefs 7mo ago
> Less successfully, the road redesign has also seen a reported increase in hospitalizations among cyclists and pedestrians. well, with a lot more people walking and cycling this is to be expected. the article doesn't mention change
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by stefs 7mo ago
in my area, one of the biggest groups using those vehicles were food delivery riders. for those guys, those electric mopeds were a gamechanger, as they were able to make many more runs that might have made the difference between "just
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by stefs 8mo ago
> The dems are just as corrupt that's just simply not true and arguing like this publicily increases acceptance of corruption.
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by stefs 8mo ago
yes, but that's just one part of the equation. machine code from compiler and/or language A is not necessarily the same as the machine code from compiler and/or language B. the reasons are, among others, contextual informatio
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by stefs 8mo ago
in my opinion, this assertion suffers from the "sufficiently smart compiler" fallacy somewhat. https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
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by stefs 8mo ago
That would still be very close to educated mind reading
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by stefs 9mo ago
i would love to hear Farm-To-Taber answering this. she, a farmer and farm worker, ran as a democrat. i really like and recommend her podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber she regularly does episodes about politics i
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by stefs 10mo ago
of course not, but as far as i understand there are a few factors that are relevant for local water supplies: - evaporation from cooling. the water will come down as rain again, but not necessarily in the same region - when disposing the wa
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by stefs 10mo ago
it's just a lot easier to park illegally (space wise) when your vehicle is huge / larger than the usual parking spaces. on my usual bike route there's at least one spot where people often park huge vehicles partway over the b
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by stefs 10mo ago
While it's true that it was possible to support a family on a single unskilled laborer income in the '50s, their standard of living was far below anything most people would accept today.
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by stefs 10mo ago
i think that doesn't hold true as much in norway and scandinavia in general. as varjag said: "there's a social consensus about the value people get from this taxation level"
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by stefs 11mo ago
Every AI corp has people reading HN.
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by stefs 11mo ago
i'm very doubtful gmail mails are used to train the model by default, because emails contain private data and as soon as this private data shows up in the model output, gmail is done. "gmail being read by gemini" does NOT mea
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by stefs 11mo ago
it's obviously the 3rd of september 1980, but without the 0-padding it looks icky.
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by stefs 11mo ago
I can get better by getting more experienced without getting more intelligent.
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by stefs 11mo ago
That's just like, your opinion man. In my opinion neither of those two claims are universially true.
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by stefs 11mo ago
after my father got an old work notebook without windows preinstalled, i suggested trying ubuntu, his first contact with linux. installation went without problems and a few days later i asked him wheter everything was ok. he answered that e
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by stefs 11mo ago
HIV/Aids have made huge progress and so did cancer. Also "cancer" isn't a single disease, they're quite different.
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by stefs 11mo ago
1. what's a layou tit? 2. does it sometimes raise / lower by 2 units? 3. the "flatten" tool is missing.
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by stefs 11mo ago
The language Kotlin is actually developed by JetBrains
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by stefs 11mo ago
But there's a real difference how easy it is to write crappy code in a language. In regards to java that'd be, for example, nullability, or mutability. Kotlin, in comparison, makes those explicit and eliminates some pain points.
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by stefs 11mo ago
i'm not sure this is an easily solvable problem. i remember reading an article arguing that your cloud provider is part of your tech stack and it's close to impossible/a huge PITA to make a non-trivial service provider-agnost
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by stefs 11mo ago
in the future everyone will have a personal AI assistant subscription. the better the subscription (i.e. the more expensive) is, the less it'll be influenced by corporate and political interests. the poor population with cheap or even
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by stefs 11mo ago
Works for me
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by stefs 11mo ago
neither my answer nor ops point is whataboutism. they bring up a valid point: libreoffice is (in their opinion) harder to use and probably lower quality, so reports are harder to write and taking away time from more important things. in my
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by stefs 11mo ago
is it really that hard to write a report in LibreOffice instead of word? is that more that we can ask of our military top brass?
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by stefs 11mo ago
this tool works by replacing the "general purpose" algorithm by specializing it, which made it less general purpose but simpler and more efficient ... and now there's the request to make it more general purpose. (it's a
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by stefs 11mo ago
on the one hand you have the owner dictating his political bias to all his employees/journalists. on the other hand you have a person/journalist interpreting reality through their own political bias. what's the difference? in

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