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MikeDelta··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
Nature is full of males and females (with some species being exceptions); the concept of gender is baked in nature and will remain so for a very long time.

About the cultural aspect of gender: this video opened my eyes about what most people think it means to do things 'like a girl', and what it actually is supposed to mean.

https://youtu.be/XjJQBjWYDTs

MikeDelta··on Why do we call Deutschland Germany? (2020)
Interesting, I always knew the word exonym as xenonym.

It turns out xenonym is a synonym of exonym.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenonym

MikeDelta··on When you get locked out of your Google account, what do you do? (2021)
I even recall an article where the google developer account of a company was blocked because it got associated with the personal account of one of their old employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855065

MikeDelta··on Avalanche Energy – Fusion power you can hold in your hands
The solution to all our problems! Where can I invest?
MikeDelta··on Ask HN: What jobs can I have knowing Python?
What about teaching Python?
MikeDelta··on Super Simple Storage Service
You can even make music with the sounds. On youtube there are various people doing this, like Paweł with his Floppotron.

https://youtu.be/G-X-p0C0Uas

MikeDelta··on You build it, you run it [pdf]
True, I've seen cases where DevOps is that you have to build it their way, but all problems are yours.
MikeDelta··on ‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention of Spanish Banks
And in addition to that, it's not just using a computer but also being able to navigate a poorly designed UI.
MikeDelta··on Data Mesh Architecture
Indeed, the Future State Architecture documentation from the central architects that I have seen were all powerpoint presentations with at least 100 slides.
MikeDelta··on I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing
Maybe he could try bonds or deposits.
MikeDelta··on Google Domains is out of beta
I'm not worried about them killing the service, I am worried about them blocking the domains of my business, for some vague reason, and me having no ability to talk to anyone to have it solved.

I am sure it doesn't happen often, but if it does it sure is not going to be to me.

MikeDelta··on Google Domains is out of beta
What if Google suddenly blocks your domains because the algo said so, and no way to talk to a human?

I am having difficulties putting trust back into this relationship.

MikeDelta··on Kawasaki shows robotic goat with human rider
Haha, just before your last sentence I had to think of the Autobots!
MikeDelta··on Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia
You'd expect, according to Hollywood logic, that in the aftermath of nuke attacks the arachnids and insects become as big as horses.
MikeDelta··on Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service
That is about 24 pips, if you can find that price difference on exchanges it'd be arbitraged for sure.
MikeDelta··on Russia’s AI army: Drones, AI-guided missiles and autonomous tanks
I hear that they are hiding road signs in Ukraine so that the Russian army has difficulty finding where to go. Quite the contrast to this story if they don't even have good navigation.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-roads-company-r...

MikeDelta··on [dead]
What does a successful war look like?

I guess one not fought in the first place.

MikeDelta··on Is there a functional reason for wizards to live in towers so often?
Maybe the origin is symbolical because they are different than regular humans and not taking part in normal society?
MikeDelta··on How the 1918 Flu Epidemic Created One of Today’s Biggest Fitness Crazes (2020)
Pilates, if you only wanted to know what the craze is without reading the article.
MikeDelta··on Apple store workers using Android, secure chat to keep unionization plans secret
In my experience, before Teams most companies used Webex. This failed regularly and participants had to constantly try dialling in via phone because the app didn't work.

Teams works, at least, compared to Webex.

MikeDelta··on Nike.com's robots.txt
I can really appreciate the ASCII art
MikeDelta··on Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing company
Yeah, and 20 people looking at this room, booked 10x in the last hour, last one left.

When you go to the hotel website instead, you see plenty of rooms left and sometimes with a nice offer.

MikeDelta··on Simutrans – Transport Simulator
Download version 123.0.1; never seen a version that high.
MikeDelta··on Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory
Next step is having them featured on the cover of an O'Reilly book, or as a character in Aggretsuko.
MikeDelta··on Smarter and faster robots are taking over warehouses
The situation with the workers versus the machines reminds me of the song about how John Henry competed against the steam-powered machine. It didn't end well for him, unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

MikeDelta··on Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
Or Kimchi if you're into Korean food.
MikeDelta··on Can we prove the world isn’t a simulation?
Since it is a simulation, I guess you would only need show the right results in the measurement devices, so that we think we are seeing/measuring it?
MikeDelta··on Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary
Not sure what the distance is to the source, but it is good to realize that us observing the event is only imminent; the event itself happened already many years ago (thousands, millions?) and the signal has been travelling all those years to its very curious audience.
MikeDelta··on More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' superyacht
I guess billionaires could still pay for that, but it sounds great to have your own place that you can move anywhere along any coast in the world, where you can entertain your guests and where service and privacy is exactly the way you want it.
MikeDelta··on More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' superyacht
I guess it is very easy if you have a few months to prepare for it, but on such a short notice probably impossible to find.
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