Aren't these all solved problems that we've worked out decades ago with certificates? Certificates prove that a website/server (and sometimes the client) are who they say they are. We force the website to renew their…
You could make that exact same argument for alcohol, cigarettes, prescription medication - The reasons are the same.
My partner 10+ years ago used to be very OCD about Asbestos when we had toddlers, and said that she would see tiny white fibers of it in the bark chips at a bunch of parks that the kids were playing at. Turns out she…
For vacation rentals you can often save 20% by Googling. I usually find the place I'd like to stay on AirBnB and then google the title & description and the property management website usually pops up. Since they don't…
Microsoft Authenticator is annoying. It doesn't work if you have notifications off or "do not disturb" on, so I can't log on to anything in the evenings.
I've got an LG Gram 17-inch laptop that weighs about the same as a 13-inch macbook air. Having a huge screen on a super-light, super skinny laptop is so handy for portability and all the extra screen real-estate is…
You used to walk into a newsagent and see the regular papers and magazines, and then the rack of playboy and porn just sitting off to the side, often not that far from the kids magazines and comics.
They did the blood work on premises, the doctor owned the clinic and the on-site pathology.
I was effectively uninsured as a foreigner, and had to pay for it myself hoping that I'd be reimbursed by my company later. I had a nasty ear-infection, could hardly walk, and was in no state to argue, but the nurse…
Australians are more litigious than Americans, with similar insurance costs for doctors, yet our healthcare costs are still half of the USA's. So insurance costs may be a factor, but its doubtful that its a large factor…
I find that LLMs are almost comically bad at projects that have a hardware component like RaspberryPi or Pico, or Ardunio. I think that its because often the libraries you use are niche or have a a few similar versions,…
Internet is a utility, like water. We can't have true competition with utilities, because we'd need six sets of pipes into every apartment just to have six competing providers, so the government needs to step in and…
The change is a good one, and there's still abilities that differentiate species, so dwarves still have toughness, and a bunch of other abilities. Previously a Dwarven wizard was just a really bad choice, and you'd be…
Japanese users are migrating rapidly to Bluesky away from X. Mainly for the extra features, apps & integrations that Bluesky offers: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/25/companies/b...
My brother (Australian) spent some time in Canada and was able to see a doctor straight away and really cheaply a bunch of times, and visited the hospital once with a nasty foot injury with no dramas. It seemed like a…
No I think that there's more to it than superstition - We often blame things on superstition when we don't understand them ourselves. I've been playing around with sleeping with a fan & air-conditioning and I always…
Even in Australia is the LLM lag to a server noticable? Generally an LLM seems to take about 3s or more to respond, and the network delay to the US is a couple of hundred milliseconds. The network delay seems minimal…
There's many companies that have reproduced the tictok algorithm. Surely if it was sold, the multibillion dollar company would have no issue with that aspect.
My SurfaceBook has a better build quality that my MacBook Pro model from the same era (2019) - MacBooks have improved a lot in the last few years though with the new chips I guess? I prefer the MacOs to Windows, but…
> The system settings UI on Windows 11 always shows an ad which says that an account should be used to use office and other apps. Macs also do this with their iCloud accounts, with little widgets all around the place…
Surely if the government wanted to go down this route, it would be a lot fairer and simpler to manage with the government sending a low-income rebate/refund check to low-income households when they do their taxes? They…
I don't know, I used to catch gypsy cabs in London twenty odd years ago and you were taking your life into your own hands. There were some pretty shady operators. I can see why a government might want to license taxi…
At the end of the day, Uber broke the Australian laws as they stood (even if you didn't agree with them). If I had started an illegal gypsy taxi business I would have been fined or arrested. Why are there different…
> If the story or characters or dialog are similar enough, he has to pay Puzo, even if the work he created was quite different and not a literal “copy”. I don't think that you can copyright a plot or story in any…
From your Wikipedia link, the World Bank 2020 GINI index ranks the countries that you mentioned like this: #8 Netherlands #14 Denmark #23 Sweden #108 USA
Aren't these all solved problems that we've worked out decades ago with certificates? Certificates prove that a website/server (and sometimes the client) are who they say they are. We force the website to renew their…
You could make that exact same argument for alcohol, cigarettes, prescription medication - The reasons are the same.
My partner 10+ years ago used to be very OCD about Asbestos when we had toddlers, and said that she would see tiny white fibers of it in the bark chips at a bunch of parks that the kids were playing at. Turns out she…
For vacation rentals you can often save 20% by Googling. I usually find the place I'd like to stay on AirBnB and then google the title & description and the property management website usually pops up. Since they don't…
Microsoft Authenticator is annoying. It doesn't work if you have notifications off or "do not disturb" on, so I can't log on to anything in the evenings.
I've got an LG Gram 17-inch laptop that weighs about the same as a 13-inch macbook air. Having a huge screen on a super-light, super skinny laptop is so handy for portability and all the extra screen real-estate is…
You used to walk into a newsagent and see the regular papers and magazines, and then the rack of playboy and porn just sitting off to the side, often not that far from the kids magazines and comics.
They did the blood work on premises, the doctor owned the clinic and the on-site pathology.
I was effectively uninsured as a foreigner, and had to pay for it myself hoping that I'd be reimbursed by my company later. I had a nasty ear-infection, could hardly walk, and was in no state to argue, but the nurse…
Australians are more litigious than Americans, with similar insurance costs for doctors, yet our healthcare costs are still half of the USA's. So insurance costs may be a factor, but its doubtful that its a large factor…
I find that LLMs are almost comically bad at projects that have a hardware component like RaspberryPi or Pico, or Ardunio. I think that its because often the libraries you use are niche or have a a few similar versions,…
Internet is a utility, like water. We can't have true competition with utilities, because we'd need six sets of pipes into every apartment just to have six competing providers, so the government needs to step in and…
The change is a good one, and there's still abilities that differentiate species, so dwarves still have toughness, and a bunch of other abilities. Previously a Dwarven wizard was just a really bad choice, and you'd be…
Japanese users are migrating rapidly to Bluesky away from X. Mainly for the extra features, apps & integrations that Bluesky offers: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/25/companies/b...
My brother (Australian) spent some time in Canada and was able to see a doctor straight away and really cheaply a bunch of times, and visited the hospital once with a nasty foot injury with no dramas. It seemed like a…
No I think that there's more to it than superstition - We often blame things on superstition when we don't understand them ourselves. I've been playing around with sleeping with a fan & air-conditioning and I always…
Even in Australia is the LLM lag to a server noticable? Generally an LLM seems to take about 3s or more to respond, and the network delay to the US is a couple of hundred milliseconds. The network delay seems minimal…
There's many companies that have reproduced the tictok algorithm. Surely if it was sold, the multibillion dollar company would have no issue with that aspect.
My SurfaceBook has a better build quality that my MacBook Pro model from the same era (2019) - MacBooks have improved a lot in the last few years though with the new chips I guess? I prefer the MacOs to Windows, but…
> The system settings UI on Windows 11 always shows an ad which says that an account should be used to use office and other apps. Macs also do this with their iCloud accounts, with little widgets all around the place…
Surely if the government wanted to go down this route, it would be a lot fairer and simpler to manage with the government sending a low-income rebate/refund check to low-income households when they do their taxes? They…
I don't know, I used to catch gypsy cabs in London twenty odd years ago and you were taking your life into your own hands. There were some pretty shady operators. I can see why a government might want to license taxi…
At the end of the day, Uber broke the Australian laws as they stood (even if you didn't agree with them). If I had started an illegal gypsy taxi business I would have been fined or arrested. Why are there different…
> If the story or characters or dialog are similar enough, he has to pay Puzo, even if the work he created was quite different and not a literal “copy”. I don't think that you can copyright a plot or story in any…
From your Wikipedia link, the World Bank 2020 GINI index ranks the countries that you mentioned like this: #8 Netherlands #14 Denmark #23 Sweden #108 USA