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I drag-drop PDFs and ePubs, read PDFs and ePubs, and sync mobile with laptop, etc.

Not true. It’s just an undocumented myth. The Spanish Civil War is the reference to the invention by Alexandre de Fisterra, and it’s decades later than the first table football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_football

Why always sunny days?

I had read the story. So cool! Maybe once we will see a new specification allowing the code solution.

The font is great. What I miss is a step forward in technology: variable glyphs. The feeling of reading a handwritten text is lost when the letters have always the same shape. If it were possible to add 5-6 little variations for each letter and alternate them randomly, it would be awesome.

NUMBERED PARAGRAPHS, YESSSS! Seriously, once page numbers have become optional, electronic editions of books (monographs, essays, and academic texts) need to number the paragraphs so we can keep references working. I’m fed up with referencing the entire text or specific chapters.

Haha! Please, don’t! We don’t need clipart or senseless AI generated schemas on PowerPoints :-)

Every improvement in image generation seems to reduce the value of the images themselves. When anything can be faked or created in seconds, what is an image really worth? With text or code, you can dig into a meaningful dialogue because their reality is digital too. But images become like the plain people to show up photo frames.

I guess it's just a completely personal feeling.

Not just futuristic, they’re designed with intention. That’s what I miss most of all about the current buildings.

> half of his cabinet.

That’s bold and inaccurate. What you shouldn’t trust is El Corte Inglés, who would code another shitty platform for the Spanish institutions.

Do you mean Discord is a kind of community for young hackers? I’m curious about Discord because I’ve been asked about a chat app for teenagers who don’t have mobile phones.

I’ve been following this approach since last school year. I focus on in-class work and home-time is for reading and memorization. My classmates still think classrooms are for lecturing, but it's coming. The paper-and-pen era is back to school!

Yep, it's easy to shortcut AI plagiarism, but you need time. In most of the universities around the world (online universities especially), the number of students is way too big, while professors get more and more pressure on publishing and bureaucracy.

You also might let them get some rest and sleep to fix memories ;-)

Here you speak about your data as if it were rocks you found trekking, but the data we’re talking here isn’t even paper or pictures: it’s digital data you can’t access or backup by yourself.

You definitely need uncontrollable entities all over the world for that data to exist. Somehow you’re doing what some of those entities allow you to do, and some want you to do. That’s my point.

40 years ago, we weren’t living in a dystopian society –we may be closer now. Back then, most people kept less than 50 photos at home but spent more time with their families, sharing stories and souvenirs.

Companies have taught us to do otherwise for their profit, don’t forget to back up that.

IMHO the constant complaints about losing chats or needing conversation backups aren’t technical problems—they’re social ones. We need to reclaim the freedom to speak with others ephemerally. No one should want all their conversations recorded, yet we’re heading toward the opposite with smart glasses.

Ideally, we’d agree universally: chats saved for one month (the context we can actually remember from a conversation), emails for five years (for administrative control), and conversations never recorded. However, we’ve been manipulated into needing exactly the opposite. Worse yet, we think it’s possible to maintain privacy while transcribing and archiving everything in our minds, making it public.

I wish I could upvote you twice.

Now it can remind you iOS 18’s iMessage. I just upgrade and got that 2000s feeling with the new emoji and text effects…

Cutting admin people might mean more paperwork for professors and researches, which can lead to less grants and funding because you can’t do science while doing paperwork. Not that easy to be efficient without losing productivity.

My parents' generation used to add sugar to everything because they considered sugar a source of energy.

I remember eating strawberries directly from the plant, and they were sweet. However, my aunt would serve the same strawberries with sugar as an afternoon snack.

I'm giving the new Sonnet a chance, although for my use as a writing companion so far, Opus has been king among all the models I've tried.

However, I've been using Opus as a writing companion for several months, especially when you have writer's block and ask it for alternative phrases, it was super creative. But in recent weeks I was noticing a degradation in quality. My impression is that the model was degrading. Could this be technically possible? Might it be some kind of programmed obsolescence to hype new models?

My only complain is on the low value of the search results the average person gets, which is easy to judge: passive advertising, SEOsites, etc.

I don’t care what they search, read or watch.

But they don’t get attention-public-funding enough to be profitable because of the garbage. The garbage is burying them in search results but also literally.

Not CEO, President… the interim CEO is a well known donor.

I liked the 1=l because I thought it was intentional. This quick “fix” unsettles me.

I wonder if instant decaf is more effective, as you skip a step to pour your coffee cup.

But it is from dialogue that knowledge emerges. Please feel free to ignore questions that don't interest you. I appreciate the question and its answers.

Wow! Could you suggest some extra bibliography that discusses this?

Won’t say that TikTok audience is a pound where you’ll find future scientists. I’ll invest on promoting alternative spaces both virtual and local best.