Sure, if you make oil prices increase, US oil companies and their shareholders rake in more cash. But it's harmful for the average American because filling up the tank costs a lot more. Then that price hike spreads to…
Yes, this is what has always blocked me from learning even basic music theory. I get that maybe it's just the way it is, perhaps the underlying logic is so complex that it would be counterproductive to present it up…
Here there's no skill involved either. It's not that you have some time to catch as many ducks as possible and if you're good at it you catch more. It's that the 10 € give you the right to catch e.g. 3 ducks, so you…
In fact it's the same thing. I said fish by mistake (probably because my mind made an association with the fishing rod and what it's usually used for) but they're ducks. I have edited the comment now.
I get piñatas, but there is an extreme version of this that I find just too much. Not sure in other places, but in Spain there is a kind of fair stall where children use a plastic fishing rod with a magnet or hook to…
Dictators have never had superintelligence, while the point of most doom scenarios is assuming that the AI will. Dictators are mortal and can't be present in the whole world 24/7 and self-replicate. Dictators are human…
By convincing people to do its bidding in the physical world. Language is powerful, and even now, there are some people who have fallen in love with current LLMs. If we imagine a truly super intelligent LLM, it isn't…
I didn't need to plan because we live right in the totality path of this year's eclipse. But our experience was similar... it was a great day, forecasts were good, but half an hour before totality black clouds began to…
So now the bar is not only to be at the level of a human, but to achieve it without the natural advantages of being a machine, while still having the disadvantages (lack of embodiment, etc.). If you went back to when I…
If you like the idea but are disappointed by the blatant errors in this vibe-coded website, there was a video game saga called Real Lives which was basically the same idea, except only for contemporary people (but you…
In Spain, if you try to casually use your bank app to transfer a big amount, you hit a limit. If you need to do that, you can go to a bank office or do a phone call, tell them, and they will temporarily lift the limit,…
And can actually be read, the other is so as-ridden that I just gave up (I know I should probably install some blocker in my phone, but I'm lazy).
I definitely can't - if I had to describe my wife or son, I would be hard pressed to go beyond very generic descriptors (long black hair, brown eyes, and so on), nothing useful to create an accurate sketch. And I…
Yeah, I think I have aphantasia as I definitely don't see anything, but after reading a lot about it I still haven't totally ruled out that it's simply a big semantic misunderstanding with people that describe things in…
20+ years ago, I went through a stage of playing lots of strip mahjong games on MAME, mostly because there weren't (or I didn't know) other ways to play actual mahjong on PC (native PC games that claimed to be mahjong…
As a local, it was actually rather fun. And my kid was amazed. For a traveler it must have sucked, though (and also for some people with special needs, and in places where it's actually common, etc.).
Around 50% is used for road transport, though, which is poised to be replaced and was one of the parent poster's main points.
It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered. I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see…
I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here you never know).
> Vanishingly few books are irreplaceable enough to need to be treated as special relics to carefully preserve for posterity I wouldn't be so sure of that. I always make an effort to buy books I really like (or expect…
You meant counterclockwise, I guess? Because clockwise would mean to write from above, not below? Interested because my son is learning to write and is the only leftie in the family, so I struggle to help him.
If the thesis was true, we'd expect rich people who will never be compelled to move against their will, or to move into less space, would prefer cluttered homey interiors, and poor people would prefer sparse & modern.…
I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines,…
First, weather services would need to report it. None of the ones I've seen do. Most don't even report feels-like temperature, they just report plain temperature... in my city (often windy and humid) it's all but…
The south already mostly had AC. The north was too busy criticizing the south for things like closing shops in the afternoon, using blinds, eating late, and of course using AC. Now I guess they're beginning to realize…
Sure, if you make oil prices increase, US oil companies and their shareholders rake in more cash. But it's harmful for the average American because filling up the tank costs a lot more. Then that price hike spreads to…
Yes, this is what has always blocked me from learning even basic music theory. I get that maybe it's just the way it is, perhaps the underlying logic is so complex that it would be counterproductive to present it up…
Here there's no skill involved either. It's not that you have some time to catch as many ducks as possible and if you're good at it you catch more. It's that the 10 € give you the right to catch e.g. 3 ducks, so you…
In fact it's the same thing. I said fish by mistake (probably because my mind made an association with the fishing rod and what it's usually used for) but they're ducks. I have edited the comment now.
I get piñatas, but there is an extreme version of this that I find just too much. Not sure in other places, but in Spain there is a kind of fair stall where children use a plastic fishing rod with a magnet or hook to…
Dictators have never had superintelligence, while the point of most doom scenarios is assuming that the AI will. Dictators are mortal and can't be present in the whole world 24/7 and self-replicate. Dictators are human…
By convincing people to do its bidding in the physical world. Language is powerful, and even now, there are some people who have fallen in love with current LLMs. If we imagine a truly super intelligent LLM, it isn't…
I didn't need to plan because we live right in the totality path of this year's eclipse. But our experience was similar... it was a great day, forecasts were good, but half an hour before totality black clouds began to…
So now the bar is not only to be at the level of a human, but to achieve it without the natural advantages of being a machine, while still having the disadvantages (lack of embodiment, etc.). If you went back to when I…
If you like the idea but are disappointed by the blatant errors in this vibe-coded website, there was a video game saga called Real Lives which was basically the same idea, except only for contemporary people (but you…
In Spain, if you try to casually use your bank app to transfer a big amount, you hit a limit. If you need to do that, you can go to a bank office or do a phone call, tell them, and they will temporarily lift the limit,…
And can actually be read, the other is so as-ridden that I just gave up (I know I should probably install some blocker in my phone, but I'm lazy).
I definitely can't - if I had to describe my wife or son, I would be hard pressed to go beyond very generic descriptors (long black hair, brown eyes, and so on), nothing useful to create an accurate sketch. And I…
Yeah, I think I have aphantasia as I definitely don't see anything, but after reading a lot about it I still haven't totally ruled out that it's simply a big semantic misunderstanding with people that describe things in…
20+ years ago, I went through a stage of playing lots of strip mahjong games on MAME, mostly because there weren't (or I didn't know) other ways to play actual mahjong on PC (native PC games that claimed to be mahjong…
As a local, it was actually rather fun. And my kid was amazed. For a traveler it must have sucked, though (and also for some people with special needs, and in places where it's actually common, etc.).
Around 50% is used for road transport, though, which is poised to be replaced and was one of the parent poster's main points.
It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered. I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see…
I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here you never know).
> Vanishingly few books are irreplaceable enough to need to be treated as special relics to carefully preserve for posterity I wouldn't be so sure of that. I always make an effort to buy books I really like (or expect…
You meant counterclockwise, I guess? Because clockwise would mean to write from above, not below? Interested because my son is learning to write and is the only leftie in the family, so I struggle to help him.
If the thesis was true, we'd expect rich people who will never be compelled to move against their will, or to move into less space, would prefer cluttered homey interiors, and poor people would prefer sparse & modern.…
I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines,…
First, weather services would need to report it. None of the ones I've seen do. Most don't even report feels-like temperature, they just report plain temperature... in my city (often windy and humid) it's all but…
The south already mostly had AC. The north was too busy criticizing the south for things like closing shops in the afternoon, using blinds, eating late, and of course using AC. Now I guess they're beginning to realize…