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mvdwoord
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- mvdwoord parentAlthough I also know a handful of (euro) people who do not have Whatsapp, and a lot of the "missing out" can indeed be absorbed as you described. However, lots of people have a need for Whatsapp which cannot simply be ignored by walking on the beach. It is all about social trade-offs, personally I have almost all apps installed, most of them (or at least the group chats) muted. Some friends are signal only, some prefer telegram etc... sometimes it is just more "social" for you to adapt to a group. If the situation is that others want something from you, you can dictate the forms of communication, however it is quite legit for people to want to be a part of a larger group. No need for snarkiness.
- I get the point, but myself have no intention of ever sharing a hotel room with anyone I am not comfortable to concurrently use a bathroom with, i.e. my gf/wife. I would much rather see an initiative to show me if a hotel shower has a proper way to keep the water in, so I do not have to use three towels to provide some sort of spot where I can properly dry off whilst not standing ankle deep in water. Never understood why this is the case in so many hotels, it does nt seem to aid cleaning staff either. That, and a proper filter for on premises parking (not the "public parking is plentiful around the hotel" in the fine print bs), and for wifi, show me the speedtest results please.
- Sad but true. Many such cases as well not only limited to this field. There is a huge scandal in the Netherlands where it has been shown that Tax officials have repeatedly, and knowingly, did unlawful things which literally drove some people to suicide, and did irreparable damage to lots of people / families. They also repeatedly lied to parliament about this.
We have the proof. We do fuck all about it. And yeah, the Dutroux case (as well as e.g. Rotherham c.s.) hit hard. Too hard for most regular people to even properly come to terms with it.
- How does a preference become fear?
I am not afraid of other naked people, but I have had it once too many that certain people in e.g. a hotel sauna (for context, this was in some boutique hotel in Southern Germany) do not respect personal space, and the whole sauna naked thing becomes performative and annoying.
Once the nut-sack of a 160kg weighing Bavarian man makes a near hit with your chin as the man tries to climb over you to the bench at the back... anyway.
I found this with a significant amount of the naked sauna goers t.b.h. the claim of additional health benefits has been thrown at me, which is such obvious bullshit, it merely emphasizes the performativeness of it all.
- Did we really let customer service get so bad that people think this will be an improvement? My gut feeling says this will not transform companies who are bad at customer service to improve, rather the ones that are already bad are now just bad with a lower headcount. Curious to hear any positive expectations for this.
- I do not live in the UK, but across the channel.. Had to look it up a bit as I do not follow this in great detail but there is some significant debate there on inheritance taxes I believe?
I appreciate that this is a complex topic, but the point I tried to make in response was that these things are rarely as simple as people make them out to be. Increasing taxes on wealth transfers could have all sorts of side effects which are not easy to link as nothing in the economy happens in isolation. I thought the UK was perhaps a relevant example, as France and Sweden have been recently as well.
The economy is not a zero sum game, and the rich can get richer while the poor get richer as well. Maybe this is not a fair representation of what is going on, and I am certainly no expert on the US economy, but the whole "just tax the rich" mantra does not seem obviously true or effective to me.
I agree though that the system as a whole feels broken.. but also, because it is "small club, and we ain't in it". Wealth has a significant influence on policy...
- I found stylus to work really well for this.. I have most of my apps typically in Nord palette. For some frequently visited websites, such as HN, I apply the Nord theme. Not sure if it was already built by someone else, but something I found chatbots are quite good at is creating custom CSS! I point it at a website and ask for a Nord themed customs CSS. Copy Paste into Stylus... most sites I tried it oneshotted a very decent solution.
- Definitely.... I just bought a new NAS and after moving stuff over, and downloading some new movies and series, "Vibe coding" a handful of scripts which check completeness of episodes against some database, or the difference between the filesystem and what plex recognized, is super helpful. I noticed one movie which was obviously compressed from 16:9 to 4:3, and two minutes later, I had a script which can check my entire collection for PAR/DAR oddities and provides a way to correct them using ffmpeg.
These are all things I could do myself but the trade off typically is not worth it. I would spend too much time learning details and messing about getting it to work smoothly. Now it is just a prompt or two away.
- >a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice.
I think that is the issue here.
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- Indeed.. besides the herd mentality, and obvious bias in all of these authorities, what irks me most is the complete and utter randomness of the outrage over Gaza.
I'm sure horrible things happen there, also that Israel plays dirty, but the selectiveness of the outrage, and complete silence on similar situations, or for that matter, the United States foreign policy of the past century...
I honestly don't care what happens there. I've seen and read enough to know that the conflicts in the region are so ideological that trying to project any rationality on them is effectively moot.
How come so many Ukrainians were accepted into their neighbor countries when Russia invaded, and apparently none of the neighbors want to have anything to do with the Palestinians?
- My intuition, which is of course woefully inadequate in this area, says there is a ton of accuracy to be gained, and I feel also a lot of offloading and therefore pruning or better use for the rest of the parameters...
Anyway,. let me refresh my page, as I am sure while typing this some new model architecture is dropping. ;)
- Progress is hard to keep track of in this fast paced environment, but aren't there already models that can add external tools and simply offload parts of he reasoning there? Maybe over MCP or some other mechanism, so it can offload e.g. calculations, or test code in a sandbox, or even write code to answer part of a question, execute the code somewhere, and take the results into the rest of the inference process as context?
Or is there a more subtle issue which prevents or makes this hard?
Is there something fundamentally impossible about having a model detecting the amount of Rs in 'strawberry' to be a string search operation and in some sandbox execute something like:
% echo "strawberry" | tr -dc "r" | wc -c
It seems agents do this already, but regular GPT style environments seem to lack it?3 - I was so confused by this when it first happened to me....
Watching quite some youtube content, and more than willing to pay any content provider for a worthy dose of content... I refuse to hand youtube any money and will happily play the adblocker cat and mouse and use clunky scripts to remove shorts. Starting to archive the most interesting channels myself. Thanks yt-dlp.
- Tweet content:
"You may have seen recent compaints about Meta's webcrawler (https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45092604) and the fact that people are already leaving the SuperIntelligence Team (https://businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligence-team-rese...).
My internal sources report that these incidents are not just correlated but most definitely causated. One of the standard design questions at Meta is to design a web crawler (https://finalroundai.com/interview-questions/stealthy-web-cr...). However since MSL members were handpicked by Zuck they did not have to go through the regular interview loop.
Unfortunately, as soon as these elite recruits started to check in code to mine the web to patch up Llama 4, shit hit the fan, and it became clear that they all had great hair, but severly lacked in coding skills. Nobody gives a shit about the fact that dowloading the same tarball a million times might bankrupt amateur language designers, the real pain is that Meta's disks are filling up so quick that the next generation of datacenters would have to be at least 8 million square feet instead of the already gigantic Hyperion data center currently under construction (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-...).
Things apparently got so bad that Meta's Infra VP Santosh Janardhan threatened to leave and join either Bill Jia at Google or Jay Parikh at Microsoft if the worst MSL offenders were not let go.
With with Joel Pobar and Aparna Ramani now firmly embedded in MSL, the old boys’ network at Meta proved unshakable, and Mark knew better than to gamble, and ultimately backed Santosh’s side."
- 2 points