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Feel free to ask me about OSM mapping ( best at https://www.openstreetmap.org/message/new/Mateusz%20Konieczny - requires OSM account but it is needed for mapping anyway, please note that you write based on HN profile )

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  1. Well, so far I tried using LLMs in hobby/open source/personal projects where I get benefits of code working.
  2. likely it was not yet mapped in OpenStreetMap!

    So it is missing in OpenStreetMap-based map.

    Feel free to edit it if you can!

    (even if this specific data is not possible to be added by you - feel free to add say nearby shop or park)

    ad: if you have Android I can recommend StreetComplete (great for newbies)

    if you have iPhone - GoMap!! is great though a bit more complicated to use

    Vespucci is more complicated and more powerful than StreetComplete editor for Android phones

    or you can edit directly on osm.org from desktop

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    disclaimer: I am a walking conflict of interest as far as OSM goes (for start, I am StreetComplete contributor)

  3. someone having ability to precisely target other country likely would not be stopped much by need to find power plants themselves

    while such open data has also positive effects

    have you considered both? it is not like deleting power plant from single map would hide it

    disclaimer: I am OpenStreetMap contributor

  4. It is possible and likely that some data was not yet mapped in OpenStreetMap. So it is missing in OpenStreetMap-based map.

    Feel free to edit it if you can!

    (even if this specific data is not possible to be added by you - feel free to add say nearby shop or park)

    ad: if you have Android I can recommend StreetComplete (great for newbies)

    if you have iPhone - GoMap!! is great though a bit more complicated to use

    Vespucci is more complicated and more powerful than StreetComplete editor for Android phones

    or you can edit directly on osm.org from desktop

    -------------

    disclaimer: I am a walking conflict of interest as far as OSM goes (for start, I am StreetComplete contributor)

  5. I suspect that it is more about being a cool fact than being common.
  6. >> Question can be marked as duplicate without an answer.

    > No, they literally cannot.

    You missed that people repeatedly closed question as duplicate when it was not a duplicate.

    So it had answer, just to a different mildly related question.

    LLM are having problems but they gaslight me in say 3% of cases, not 60% of cases like SO mods.

  7. > It is as though people think they are being insulted when they are immediately given a link to where they can get the necessary answer, by volunteers.

    Multiple times my questions closed as duplicates of question that was answering a different question.

    Even when I explicitly linked that QA in my question and described how it differs from mine.

  8. > but it's just silly to imply that everything it can produce is slop

    that is why people use slop qualifier, rather than not using qualifier

  9. > Google has been announcing quarter after quarter of record revenues and profits and hasn’t seen any decrease in search traffic.

    this kind of things may take some time to spread across population

  10. > What is Amazon doing in country X that should be taxed?

    its profits within that country (income minus actual expenses)

    in practice expenses are fakely inflated to transfer tax payments top jurisdiction with near-zero taxes

  11. Would you take 5% chance of earning 100 dollars if it would cost 1 dollar?
  12. was

    https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/436695...

    > The new Trump-class battleships will replace the Navy's previous plans to develop a new class of destroyer, the DDG(X).

  13. > whose development process was described in the book (and later movie) “The Pentagon Wars”

    both of these are NOT documentaries, they wildly misrepresent reality and are basically fiction

  14. "unquestionably"? Given that vast majority of ads are for harmful self-destructive projects or misleading or lying or make place where they got spammed worse... Sometimes multiple at once.

    Spam alone (also advertisement) is quite annoying and destructive.

  15. > > It's like saying that Maximizing Shareholder Value is always the right thing to do. No, it isn't.

    > it is, for the agents of the shareholders

    Even if we care solely only about shareholders, in extreme cases it is not beneficial also for them

  16. yes, exactly. And article makes the "completely" claim

    > The privilege that American scientists have taken for granted—one that is now being trampled—is the ability to go about their work free of political interference.

    which is just wrong and further erodes trust.

  17. in such case ability to delete comment would be enough
  18. "largely insulated from politics" note that claim they made is that in past there was no political interference at all, not that it was smaller or manageable
  19. > what RFK is doing is quite frankly insane.

    oh definitely - that is why I have not commented on this part of article, as I agree that such pseudoscience is simply idiotic, dangerous and will kill people and I am in agreement that it is bad

    But this part made me go "really? really? really?" - this kind of reality denial is not helpful either and prompted my comment. And they could phrase it a bit more mildly for far greater accuracy.

    I edited my initial comment a bit.

  20. > The privilege that American scientists have taken for granted—one that is now being trampled—is the ability to go about their work free of political interference.

    Communism style solutions ("it is better to have everyone being extremely poor, rather than having some poor and some rich people") is a terrible solution. Trampling on everyone because other group got trampled earlier is not a solution at all.

    Presenting insane and deadly pseudoscience as science is stupid, dangerous and will kill people.

    But claiming that there were no problems whatsoever and no political interference at all is a really dubious claim. This kind of reality denial is unhelpful and further erodes whatever trust was left.

  21. > researching how durable something is

    how I am supposed to know (or research) which fridge or vacuum is more durable?

  22. Being able to get useful feedback immediately rather than 48 hours later is useful if you need text today.
  23. > Just have AI do it so you save $3 and 4 minutes.

    Maybe I am deeply suboptimal, but typically this kind of decision takes me far more than 4 minutes.

  24. > Or, what's so wrong with anything so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it?

    not claiming that it applies here, but I wrote some small programs where writing my own library from scratch too less time than I spend on trying to understand existing one

    In another case I was unaware that existing solution exists and I tried writing my own one (then migrated when I realized that surely this kind of thing was done and people on local hackerspace chat pointed out that it sounds like Ansible).

    For that matter running joke on hackerspace chat is about spending 500 PLN and 20 hours on building a chair to save 400 PLN. Because in this case hobby playing with a wood was actual point, not maximum effectiveness.

    Similarly, this year I planted basil - and fixed costs for pots etc are large enough that it will never make economic sense. But looking at plants growing from seed (and then eaten prematurely by some caterpillars) was really cool. LARPing a farmer and seeing how plant grows from tiny seed to about 50 cm plant was really cool and I recommend it.

  25. Do you mean

    > Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II to the 1980 CCW Convention as amended on 3 May 1996)

    or some other document? IIRC for start it does not have article 18.

    I am quite confused by your weird unusually formatted citation style.

  26. This is a lie. China has an ongoing invasion of Bhutan.

    China built a road and villages and military outposts in Bhutan, over China-Bhutan border.

  27. IIRC correctly they were not targeting civilians in this case (which is distinct and different from "no civilians were harmed")

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