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Comment · 3 months ago
Imagine the backlight of the button is broken. Now you enter the elevator and want to go to floor 7, while someone else already pressed the button ;)
Comment · 10 months ago
I don't think that the day of the week matters that much. But the correct way to rise prices is clearly: - announce the new prices and the day from which on they are valid. - ensure that your customers have time to react based on your announcement.

Based on the article it seems like the only information before the change was "some day in january we will change prices" which would not be enough for me as a customer...

Comment · 2 years ago
Not a CLI tool, but I recently started using https://klogg.filimonov.dev/ klogg (which seems to be a successor of glogg) more and more often.
Comment · 2 years ago
Political flyers seem like something very different to license plates. The court might decide differently under different circumstances.
Comment · 3 years ago
And distraction is a bad thing because humans can focus on useful things 24/7 while being productive?
Comment · 3 years ago
Why would machine generated porn be different from, say, machine generated minecraft worlds? Both seem useful as a form of distraction and for entertainment to whomever wants to enjoy it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
If you need syntax highlighting and an easy way to navigate between files to understand a large code base, is it still source code?
Comment · 3 years ago
Not google maps style questions, but it's quite easy to add POIs using OsmAnd.

You need an OpenStreetMap-account, then long tap on the place, "actions", "Create POI" - enter the name and the type (restaurant, wastebin, whatever...) and save it.

If you're used to it and know the categories it takes maybe 30 seconds to do it everytime you visit a new restaurant or to add a new shop when you're waiting for the bus.

Comment · 3 years ago
> I custom compile gtk+ to remove the 'search on type' behavior in file>open dialogs

> I'm not afraid of change

If that minor issue is a reason to recompile a whole ui-toolkit, then I guess you should just stop applying any os update at all...

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker. What do you mean by "It's just Ukraine now". Was it always just Ukraine or hast that changed recently?

Edit: But thanks for the information :)

Comment · 3 years ago
There's a little gap between a programmer saying he "gets no value" from AI and "turning programming into a completely different process".

I'm sure AI will close that gap ;)

Comment · 3 years ago
Afhanistan and the Ukraine both have a little less than 40M inhabitants. (Which is around half of germany, or like 20M less than France).

The Ukraine has/had a relevant IT-offshoring sector, from Wikipedia there's around 1/3 of the soviet military industry that was sitting there (including companies like Antonow)... and they had a few years of preparation since the krim was occupied where they knew that russian secret services would try to undermine any kind of communication infrastructure.

I doubt that they currently rely on WhatsApp for military communication...

Comment · 3 years ago
> One can guess as to why (...job market).

I guess the farm tractor killed way more jobs (from potato harvesters, cereal harvesters, ...) than AI would even in the most utopian ways. But that doesn't matter: Both tractors and AI would and did shift wealth from the working class to the owning class. So I don't get why the "above" would try to not give GPT-4 the training data that they currently own anyway...

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