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manucardoenon Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?

Belgium's not there either, and that's definitely in the EU.

manucardoenon CSS now has an if() conditional function

Somewhere, someone has just started porting Doom to CSS.

manucardoenon GPT-4o shows humanlike patterns of cognitive dissonance moderated by free choice

What is sentience? If you are so certain that ChatGPT cannot ever be sentient you must have a really good definition for that term.

manucardoenon Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

It's not good at making ASCII art. This, for example, is when I ask it for a realistic depiction of the Eiffel tower on fire:

                       .
                      .'.
                      |o|
                     .'o'.
                     |.-.|
                     '   '
                    /     \
                   |       |
                __/_________\__
               |###############|
               |###############|
               |###############|
               |###############|
               |###############|
              /###############/|
             /###############/ |
            /###############/ /|
           /###############/ / |
          /###############/ / /|
         /###############/ / / |
        /###############/ / / /|
       /###############/ / / / |
      /###############/ / / / /|
     '-----------------' / / / /
      |   FIRE & ASH   |/ / / /
       '---------------' / / /
          ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ / /
         ~~ /
          ~~ 
           ~~     ⬆ SMOKE
            ~~

manucardoenon Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Only about 18% of which is actually owned by Russia. The rest is money that happened to be in transit between private persons at an unfortunate time. Do we really think it's fair that a lady who happened to be selling her house at exactly the time the war started... should have that money donated to Ukraine's war effort?

manucardoenon Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator

really nice. Unfortunately once I spotted the score tells you you've hit the correct rotation, I just looped over all the squares clicking each one until my points went up.

manucardoenon Ask HN: What's the best book you've read so far in 2024?

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead. It took me a while before it clicked that the book's title was meant to rhyme with David Copperfield. It's really well written coming-of-age story of a life lived under modern-day poverty. It's well written with clever and subtle phrases and a really good pace. The book stays with you a while after you've finished it (which in my case was fast as I couldn't stop reading). Afterwards I got to reading more about opiods and their nasty origins.

manucardoenon Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

Samsung Dex does this but it only works on some devices.

manucardoenon Memesmarket.io – Create, Buy and Sell Memes [Feedback]

Sell me a meme. Why would I want to own one?

manucardoenon John Carmack Leaves Meta

You can find John Carmack's full post here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...

manucardoenon Modder pleads guilty to piracy charges, will pay Nintendo $4.5m

His name is Bowser, which I must admit I found somewhat amusing.