lazyjones

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The recent trend of ideologically motivated downvoting of factual arguments puts users‘ accounts at risk (banning, shadowbanning), so it teaches them to avoid such discussions altogether and downvote the posts they would have replied to instead.
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Comment · 4 days ago
The numbers suggest that said hostile community is actually very small, or that it never intended to contribute to the site in the first place. As opposed to Wikipedia for example, where the very hostile admins and moderators actually add a lot of content.
Comment · 1 month ago
Did you manage to get it to search local files too, like the default integration does? Would appreciate a pointer (trying with ollama + Qwen/Nemo).
Comment · 5 months ago
Better check what crypto.js is actually doing in your exact setup. Weak polyfills exist...
Comment · 8 months ago
These large trucks must go. While the mentioned numbers make some economic sense (cost per tonne transported etc.), the road wear is excessive due to the fourth power law. Most cargo can be split into smaller chunks.
Comment · 1 year ago
Haters will say a major factor in still using Perl is the difficulty to replace up to 25+ years old Perl code written at startup pace AND the difficulty to teach old Perl devs a new language.
Comment · 1 year ago
The domain was a gift by the founders of inode (former Austrian ISP) and the website grew pretty fast after the brand change in 1999.

But it curiously turned out that while Austrians mostly like the name (notable exeptions were delusional marketing people of "premium brands" considering advertising on the site), Germans are really not so fond of it. Cultural differences, I suppose.

Comment · 4 years ago
I won't complain about this new world of "algorithmic desire" because my desires provide me with interesting and enjoyable content (none of Mr. Beast).

Perhaps the problem isn't the algorithms of yt and Tik Tok, but rather the people who decide to watch these things instead of moving on?

Comment · 4 years ago
It's pretty evil to troll people into giving them e-mail and name and then have the audacity to ask for a phone number. Without giving people who don't want that the possibility to delete the previously entered personal data...
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> That is very far from the truth - please check the recent events

You are forgetting or ignoring Russia's bigger guns. If Russia wanted to use NATO methods, it would be over in one day with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties.

> For multiple decades Russia was using energy as a way to corrupt EU.

"Interesting" narrative.

> If Ukraine falls, Russia will invade Europe in a decade with Ukrainian military on its side.

If Russia wanted to attack NATO and start WW3, it would already have done so. Why would it need to attack Ukraine first?

Please try to think logically.

> Europe need to remove its dependence on the Russian gas completely for its own safety.

The same as above applies. If Russia wanted to conquer Europe as you seem to believe, independence from Russia's gas isn't going to help in any way to prevent that.

Comment · 4 years ago
Putting NATO soldiers on the ground is equivalent to declaring WW3, few are willing to do that.

Therefore, Ukraine's fate is sealed and the outcome is dictated by Russia's desires.

The open question is how long it will take and at what cost, to Ukraine, its allies and Russia. And it seems that there are vested interests in prolonging the conflict as much as possible.

Comment · 4 years ago
AI-generated media in general will likely plunge us into a new dark age. Every report you see on the news, every "secret recording" of a politician doing something dodgy, will be either an AI generated fake or considered as such by many viewers. Nothing will be certain anymore and MSM have already lost their credibility for many viewers.
Comment · 4 years ago
Someone should build stackable, pluggable shipping containers with a battery in the floor, to power both container ships and trucks.

Tesla?

Comment · 4 years ago
> I bet if you correct for the effect of GDP per capita, they will rank near the bottom among European countries too.

If you start correcting for other variables, you'll have to look at demographics, size and flatness of the country, prices, public transport availability, population distribution between rural and urban areas etc. etc.

Relatively poor Romania has a lower number of cars per capita and if you live in Bucharest like me, you'd believe everyone owns a car (half being Dacias), nobody rides a bicycle.

Comment · 4 years ago

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