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I got my first cell phone as a full bearded adult so I do remember the times where you carried cash and the time you could actually meet people in places without having to constantly update one's position.

I don't think it's just a generational divide.

I do understand the privacy and self-determination problems of a cashless society but I have to admit I'm just to weak-minded to care about that in practice; the practicality of just paying even for just coffee with my phone is just too big for me to care for it.

I think I have 10€ laying around at all times, possibly in loose change between my home and car. I do not always walk around with that in my pocket and I never have more than 500€ at home.

I didn't mean literally zero cash, but once the bulk of your transactions are by card, you don't need to constantly go to the ATM and replenish your cash reserves

I don't know but I find it very practical to not carry piles of cash in my pocket and home and know that we're less likely to get robbed just because of the cash we have.

I don't know how true the relationship between the cashless lifestyle and safety actually is, but it works and I feel ok; I'm not sure that the prospect of a few hours of national blackout once in 20 years will make me change my mind significantly.

Depends on the metric. Humans who up-voted that material clearly thought it was worth.

The problem is distinguishing the various reasons people think something is worth and using the right context.

That requires a lot of intelligence.

The fact that modern language models are able to model sentiment and sarcasm as well as they do is a remarkable achievement.

Sure there is a lot of work to be done to improve that, especially at scale and in products where humans are expecting something more than a good statistical "success rate", but they actually expect the precision level they are used from professionally curated human sources.

I wonder if some sort of summarization / gist of the course correction / teaching would work.

For example Cursor has checked-in rules files and there is a way to have the model update the rules themselves based on the conversation

Laws != Legal system

But yet, due to the nature of asymmetric warfare, it's so easy to discredit a reputable institution that holds itself to some standards which sometimes are not met. All you need to attack it is to not have any such standards but just flood the zone with shit and when you say something wrong just lie or claim "I never claimed to be an expert, I hate experts, I'm just a comedian/or something like that"

just to be clear, mine was not a jab against the georgaphy or culture knowledge of the average Italian. They are likely to know more details about German, French or Spanish geographical or culinary features than something from the balkans despite sharing a border.

If the hawking temperature is higher than the CMB, would there be any net evaporation at all?

A BH needs to be truly tiny for it to be hotter than the CMB

sed invenire potes ibi scorpiōnem martianum

I come from Croatia and have lived in Italy for a long time and it's very rare to find anybody who can barely place our countries on a map until fairly recently and let alone heard about foods or drinks. Not zero people of course, but very few

The problem isn't truthfulness per se but rather the judgement call of knowing that a) you haven't reached a sufficiently truthful answer and b) how to communicate that appropriately

A simple way to stop hallucinating would be to always state that "I don't know for sure, but my educated guess would be ..." but that's clearly not what we want.

Yes. And this mix continues. Even traditional that originally have some common root and then diverge can later resyncretise. For example look at Halloween being introduced in southern Europe thanks to US cultural influence

The way I understood this article, the problem Fibonacci hashing seems to solve is that it turns a hashing strategy that would require a prime modulo into something that can use a power of two modulo.

I think there are some hashing functions around that are already designed to solve that problem at "step 1".

So the question just boils down to which is faster

It would be interesting to know.

1. Which countries are we talking about? Europe is not homogeneous

2. Which type of business? Are workers unionized?

ok, but my answer was about was how to react to request pacing.

If the abuser is using request pacing to make less request then that's making the abuser less abusive. If you're still complaining that request pacing is not pacing the requests down enough because the pacing is designed to just not bring your server down and instead make you consume money, then you can counteract that just by tuning the rate limiting even further down.

The 10s of thousands distinct IP address is another (and perfectly valid) issue, but it was not the point I answered to.

Isn't that what a rate limiter would address?

These are loyalty tests. You prove you belong to the ingroup if you show you believe preposterous things. That's how cults and religions work.

We think this is stupid because it kinda is, but this behaviour is part of the human traits and possibly is adaptive behaviour to enable the very possibility of us living in large societies.

I suggest you build it with https://github.com/ko-build/ko

so you can still have no dockerfile and the irony is not ruined

Probably the plan for that is to do massive gaslighting on social media and find someone to blame for the hardship. Leveraging emotions (especially the aggressive ones) may be an effective way to keep support of the base.

I really wish I was more optimistic and share your position that voters are driven by self-interest. I hope you're right though.

Some companies even have a name for people after they left the company, like "xooglers" for Google and "outfluxers" for InfluxData

When societies get advanced enough that all the basic needs are covered, a new generation arises where people think we can go back to a simpler past and ditch all that ugly gray industrial scientific technocratic globalistic etc etc ( add more scary qualifiers ) things that are perceived to be the the reason why things are bad and never ever concede that these things play an important role in enabling the safe environment where those very thoughts can be entertained.

The hedonic treadmill is driving the world

I feel that the word conspiracy is not helping to bring clarity to the discussion. Covert operations are by definition conspirations but that's not what people generally mean when they use the word conspiracy so let's just avoid using a word that might muddy the discourse unnecessary.

Both the Chinese and USA governments engaged (or have been accused of engaging) in unlawful kidnapping of their own (and foreign) nationals from foreign countries over the last decades.

So I'm not sure how one can dismiss the possibility that this is indeed one of such cases.

No you looked at pyramids the right way.

The disconnect here is what is the meaning of the "width" of the triangle/pyramid in the analogy.

The idea in the journalistic inverted pyramid concept is that the width of the pyramid correlates to the importance of the information.

So you start first with the most important information (the base of the pyramid, at the top) and then as you continue you fill in the details that may be interesting and necessary to support the important information, but not necessarily important on their own (the tip of the pyramid, at the bottom)

unfortunately Plankalkül seems to only have single letter keywords

Language vocabulary and syntax design has been influenced by how "fit" the terms are for use. Fitness includes the length.

Now it's true that English is particularly full of short terms.

But I wonder how a programming language would have evolved if one had chosen German (or another) language from the get go instead of having a translation

yeah nothing wrong about taxes. But you have to qualify when one discusses whether 5k eu month is a good pay or not.

yes exactly like claiming it was a rescue.

this whole thing is so politicised that just pointing out that even the astronauts involved have their own motivation for doing or saying what they do is interpreted as if I'm defending Musk.

I'm disgusted by Musk, during the infamous cave rescue comments and by all he's doing and saying now.

That said, astronauts are professionals that have put their lives at stake. They may have died while going up or died while coming back. They know exactly what they signed up for and if the mission has had technical issue and the mission command has deemed necessary for them to stay there they clearly must obey or they won't be seen as fit for the next mission.

Why is our public discourse so degraded that just pointing that out automatically means you're endorsing somebody?

Trump and Musk and their disgusting braggadocio have truly poisoned society in such a way that normal people immediately jump on the defensive. But by reacting like that you all playing into their hand.

They may have fun up there. But it would be also bad for their careers to not project anything but a "prepared and committed" vibe.

This is all clearly over politicized

Especially if more than half of that goes into taxes