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ghnws··on Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
SSRIs did the same for me.
ghnws··on Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships
Ship building, like most other industries, is unionized in Finland and I would be surprised if it wasn't the same in Germany.
ghnws··on Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers
Make money gambling?
ghnws··on X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum
More likely that the offense by twatter was more egregious than what the courts are used to.
ghnws··on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
Pretty far fetched benefits
ghnws··on How to build quickly
At least OpenAI creates more noise than useful output if you try to make it tackle a problem this way.
ghnws··on Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990
Sedetary life style combined with lots of sausages, red meat an butter does that to a people. Alcohol is also a huge problem in Finland. Not uncommon for men to drink beer daily.
ghnws··on Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990
You lose all credibility with the butter is good nonsense. You can't even buy the unhealthy margarines anywhere. They have not been a thing for decades.
ghnws··on AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
Poro (reindeer in finnish) is specifically developed to be used in Finnish. GPT etc. general models struggle with less used languages. Unfortunately this sale likely means this development will cease.
ghnws··on Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
More sedetary life. Before most people worked in physically active jobs and past times tended to be more active too. If you work in an office and watch TV when you get home, your energy use is obviously smaller than working in a field for 12 hours.

Apparently more sedetary life does not effect the apetite of most people.

ghnws··on Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
Said the dairy industry.
ghnws··on Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
I'm qurious what that code was doing that could be just moved to the backend. Usually forms have some validation for a better experience with the final validation on the server. Did you get rid of that and just show an error if the submission failed?
ghnws··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
The article reads like all the little annoyances is what is wrong when the doc is expected to work almost 24/7 for days on end. No amount of software improvement will make any realistic improvements.

It's insane that a truck driver _must_ have 8 hours of sleep before work (they should, not arguing against it), but a surgeon can work with a couple of naps for days.

ghnws··on AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
IntelliJ also has "full line completion" built in that uses a local model. I've found it rather good and it's the only in-IDE code generation I use. It does not get in the way and usually gives me exactly what I want.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/full-line-code-completio...

ghnws··on The Decline of the User Interface
That is some custom theme they have on their VsCode though. Not a very good example to use.
ghnws··on The Decline of the User Interface
That seems to be an universal issue everywhere.
ghnws··on UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look
Where are you reading this?
ghnws··on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
Authorization code? Do you mean authentication?
ghnws··on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
Having two almost identical terms that mean completely different things is not a very good idea. Also here you are explaining what the words mean, when "login" and "permission" are immediately obvious. Most people don't speak english natively either.
ghnws··on You are lucky, full moon tonight
Thank you. Unbeliveable that twitter is apparently the best place to post these "long" stories...
ghnws··on "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
TIL almost every european country is in a state of tyrnanny. Also Yemen which is one of the only countries with somewhat similar gun ownership compared to usa (bit less than half as many guns per capita) must be the epitome of freedom and safety.
ghnws··on What UI density means and how to design for it
For the vast majority of people, the mobile bank app is far more useful than a desktop oriented web bank. Many (maybe most by now) don't even own a computer.
ghnws··on Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs
I got the impression they are focusing on the nordic culture as much as the languages.

>Silo AI and TurkuNLP are dedicated to developing models that not only excel in linguistic performance and inclusivity but are also attuned to local values and cultures.

ghnws··on Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs
Then again the culture of Finland is very similar to the other nordics, which looks to be one of the reasons for the project.
ghnws··on A nice way to render Markdown in React apps
The blog post content may be static, the page is not.

Why is react overkill here?

ghnws··on Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant
I didn't see a mention of languages in the readme. Does this understand languages other than english?
ghnws··on A nice way to render Markdown in React apps
The page isn't static.
ghnws··on Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership
Sounds about as succesfull as people destroying social media by removing or editing their posts. Only a tiny minority actually do anything like that.
ghnws··on A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
Depending on the product, your trial may cost the company a decent amount of money. For example audiobooks are rather expensive to stream (due to publisher pricing, not bandwidth).
ghnws··on You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank
Same thing works for email/text alerts that tell you to open a link. I go to the service my self and see if the message is there.
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