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As always. But it's a first step.

i get a lot of tool call errors with gemma-4-26b-a4b, because the tokens don't seem to match up.

i kinda seem to remember that this is a bit misleading and the rates are surprisingly different than expected. i'm too lazy to check the sources right now, but gemini gives me a 15% daily smoker rate for paris, while it's ~30% for detroit, 21% for philadelphia, 10% for new york, 5% for L.A.

while i don't agree with your general sentiment you're right that bicycles should have their own dedicated cycle lanes. too often drivers get their dedicated lanes while pedestrians and cyclists are forced to "share space and just take care of each other".

> Less successfully, the road redesign has also seen a reported increase in hospitalizations among cyclists and pedestrians. well, with a lot more people walking and cycling this is to be expected. the article doesn't mention changes in accidents involving cars though.

> For young, trendy and able-bodied Parisians ... i live next to a bike path. the elderly make up a a significant amount of the cyclists, probably because they don't trust themselves to drive a car anymore.

in my area, one of the biggest groups using those vehicles were food delivery riders. for those guys, those electric mopeds were a gamechanger, as they were able to make many more runs that might have made the difference between "just enough" and "just not enough". now those are becoming illegal (on bike paths & without registration), but they're not making sense one the roads due to congestion. it's a lose-lose situation for the delivery riders and the people that order online, but a win for bicycle safety.

as far as i can tell most full time riders didn't switch to "pedal assisted e-bikes" but probably went looking for other work. we're back to students riding their private bicycles to make some money on the side.

> The dems are just as corrupt

that's just simply not true and arguing like this publicily increases acceptance of corruption.

yes, but that's just one part of the equation. machine code from compiler and/or language A is not necessarily the same as the machine code from compiler and/or language B. the reasons are, among others, contextual information, handling of undefined behavior and memory access issues.

you can compile many weakly typed high level languages to machine code and their performance will still suck.

java's language design simply prohibits some optimizations that are possible in other languages (and also enables some that aren't in others).

in my opinion, this assertion suffers from the "sufficiently smart compiler" fallacy somewhat.

https://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler

That would still be very close to educated mind reading

i would love to hear Farm-To-Taber answering this. she, a farmer and farm worker, ran as a democrat. i really like and recommend her podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber

she regularly does episodes about politics in regards to farming.

of course not, but as far as i understand there are a few factors that are relevant for local water supplies:

- evaporation from cooling. the water will come down as rain again, but not necessarily in the same region

- when disposing the water into the sewers, the water might get "lost" into the oceans, where it's not available as drinking water

- when disposing water used for cooling into the rivers it was taken from, there might be environmental issues with water temperature. i know that this is an issue with rivers in europe where the industry is allowed to measure and report their adherence to the laws regarding the maximum allowed water temperatures themselves and, to no ones surprise, the rivers are too warm.

so water is not destroyed, but it can be made unusable or unavailable for the locally intended purpose.

it's just a lot easier to park illegally (space wise) when your vehicle is huge / larger than the usual parking spaces. on my usual bike route there's at least one spot where people often park huge vehicles partway over the bike lane, forcing me to divert into oncoming vehicular traffic. small cars fit, broad cars don't. by law, they're plain not allowed to park there, but when you call the drivers out on it, they usually just argue that it's not their fault if the parking spots are too narrow.

While it's true that it was possible to support a family on a single unskilled laborer income in the '50s, their standard of living was far below anything most people would accept today.

i think that doesn't hold true as much in norway and scandinavia in general.

as varjag said: "there's a social consensus about the value people get from this taxation level"

Every AI corp has people reading HN.

i'm very doubtful gmail mails are used to train the model by default, because emails contain private data and as soon as this private data shows up in the model output, gmail is done.

"gmail being read by gemini" does NOT mean "gemini is trained on your private gmail correspondence". it can mean gemini loads your emails into a session context so it can answer questions about your mail, which is quite different.

it's obviously the 3rd of september 1980, but without the 0-padding it looks icky.

I can get better by getting more experienced without getting more intelligent.

That's just like, your opinion man. In my opinion neither of those two claims are universially true.

after my father got an old work notebook without windows preinstalled, i suggested trying ubuntu, his first contact with linux. installation went without problems and a few days later i asked him wheter everything was ok. he answered that everything was great, except for that "edgy desktop background of a skull" (he mentioned something about that being a typical linux hacker thing).

it was the "intrepid ibex" version and the "skull" was actually a stylized ibex.

HIV/Aids have made huge progress and so did cancer. Also "cancer" isn't a single disease, they're quite different.

1. what's a layou tit?

2. does it sometimes raise / lower by 2 units?

3. the "flatten" tool is missing.

The language Kotlin is actually developed by JetBrains

But there's a real difference how easy it is to write crappy code in a language. In regards to java that'd be, for example, nullability, or mutability. Kotlin, in comparison, makes those explicit and eliminates some pain points. You'd have to go out of your way and make your code actively worse for it to be on the same level as the same java code.

And then there's a reason they're teaching the "functional core, imperative shell" pattern.

i'm not sure this is an easily solvable problem. i remember reading an article arguing that your cloud provider is part of your tech stack and it's close to impossible/a huge PITA to make a non-trivial service provider-agnostic. they'd have to run their own openstack in different datacenters, which would be costly and have their own points of failure.

in the future everyone will have a personal AI assistant subscription. the better the subscription (i.e. the more expensive) is, the less it'll be influenced by corporate and political interests. the poor population with cheap or even free agents will be heavily influenced by ads and propaganda, while the one percent will have access to unmodified models.

Works for me

neither my answer nor ops point is whataboutism.

they bring up a valid point: libreoffice is (in their opinion) harder to use and probably lower quality, so reports are harder to write and taking away time from more important things.

in my opinion libre office is absolutely good enough for this use case and thus not taking away significant time from other tasks. furthermore, the austrian armed forces are free to contribute to the project to improve the perceived paint points themselves.

on the other hand microsoft products are closed source and probably upload data to datacenters outside the customers (i.e. in this case, the militaries) sphere of influence. this may include the data (for storage and or AI training) and meta data (for advertising and telemetry).

microsoft may even silently introduce or reactivate (after they've been declined) those options after updates (don't quote me on this, but i think i remember this happening at least once).

microsoft apologists may argue that this is only the case for improperly configured corporate deployments, but as the software is closed source nobody can really be sure and if it's that hard to get right, it's a security problem in itself.

is it really that hard to write a report in LibreOffice instead of word? is that more that we can ask of our military top brass?