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I didn't read the article, but it's likely they are faster than light is when traveling through that water. light can have different speeds through different media.

for charged particles (so not for neutrinos) this leads the Cherenkov radiation, often observed in the cores of nuclear reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

as to why in this case: it can be somewhat intuitive to think that photons would be forced to take a somewhat longer path when traveling through a medium they interact with a lot (water, anything with a charge) then something which is almost going at the speed of light and famously doesn't interact with almost anything!

No, Anthropic did not want Claude to be used for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, in response to which the Department of Defense banned them from every defense use

edit: Disregard the above, do I take my car or walk to a car wash 50m away

wow, thank you for sharing that, fascinating read! glad you (presumably) recovered well from that episode, sounds quite scary!

Since the other guy wasn't particularly helpful, i'll try to add some context (mostly through my knowledge of iDeal, the Dutch payment system which Wero is based on).

You're right that it's a bit confusing, as Wero's marketing is mostly focused on P2P transfer usecases, ie like US's Venmo/Cashapp, which as you note we can already do with SEPA transfers. Wero does have a small benefit in that case, as it's slightly more secure (you don't need to share your bank account, and there's a dedicated app that most Western Europeans will soon be familiar with).

The bigger benefit I think is as a unified e-commerce solution. While Wero is not directly an EU initiative, it's still supported by the EU commission. In general a good thing to keep in mind when evaluating EU financial/economic news is that one of the main things the EU tries to do is strengthen and protect their "single market": they want to make the flow of commerce within EUs borders as seamless as possible.

Having a unified ecommerce payment solution, so that you can eg just as easily order goods from German webshops as a Frenchman as you can from a French one (barring shipping etc) is in the EUs interest. Of course it's also in the banks that put forward this initiative's interest.

But, speaking as a consumer: this rules! iDeal is really nice, much nicer to use than credit cards or PayPal imo. I think it's easy to see why you would prefer a dedicated payment system in ecommerce rather than plain SEPA transfers (which most shops don't support) or credit cards, but in case that's not clear:

- Faster checkouts

- Don't need to share bank account numbers/sensitive credit card info

- Fees are much lower than credit cards (at least for iDeal its fractions of a cent per transaction: https://ideal.nl/en/ideal-fees)

- (Coming) built in support for subscriptions

Hope that gave a bit of an idea!

wrong, also the netherlands

this is really really cool, this makes archiving so much easier!

great job

shut up man you know what they mean

this isn't just an empty comment -- it's the same llm slop infesting every part of your existence.

thank you!

Unlikely any vegan would have any moral qualms about algae, given that they’re not animals. Maybe you were thinking of oysters/clams/bivalves?

why do you think the reason for them becoming vegan has something to do with B12 levels? likely they became vegan for different reasons, became much more aware of the importance of B12 and started taking a supplement.

every vegan should supplement b12, so they probably do too

i’ve had this happen due to going from beta builds to stable builds or vice versa. not super clear exactly which of those triggered it, or whether it was just a beta build bug, but the 5x reboot always fixes it

I struggle to find non-evil applications of voice-cloning. Maybe listening to your dead relative's voice one more time? But those use-cases seems so niche to the overwhelming use this will likely have: misinformation, scamming, putting voice actors out of work.

It is significantly better.

i use Storyteller to sync an audiobook and ebook, then prop up my phone/ereader and have it navigate automatically while reading/listening. very comfy

you’re right, i just had a visceral reaction at the idea of reading a novel at a desk.

you should have included screenshots

thank you for actually including a fricking screenshot!

Theoretically it would be much less expensive to just continue to run the existing models, but ofc none of the current leaders are going to stop training new ones any time soon.

What perspective change? Your brains splattered on the wall? While I am also grateful to be alive, I don't think it's that hard to imagine other people being in situations where they feel deeply unhappy about being born, and that that feeling really can't be dispelled with a simple "perspective change", unless you mean suicide.

Im pretty sure the commenter means that they do not experience (or at least see) life as a gift, but as the complete opposite. Anti-natalist-y

thanks for sharing, that’s wild! i’ll definitely take stretching more seriously now

damn that’s a good idea

What are you talking about? No one’s writing their paper in HTML.

The problem is having the submissions be in TeX and converting that to HTML, when the only output has been PDF for so long.

The problem isn’t converting HTML to PDF, it’s making available a giant portion of TeX/pdf only papers in HTML.

If you’re arguing that maybe TeX then shouldn’t be the source format for papers then I agree, but other than Typst (which also isn’t perfect about HTML output yet) there aren’t that many widely accepted/used authoring formats for physics/math papers, which is what ArXiV primarily hosts.

i think that specific turn off phrase is more of an indicator of llm usage then age imo

typst is great, but there are many many steps between “markdown isn’t sufficient” and reaching for typst.

1. typst only really has pdf output at the moment 2. so much less tooling available (linters, site builders, converters etc) 3. much less of a markup format, extremely tightly coupled to a specific tool (typst compiler)

again, love typst, but it has (atm) so much fewer applications

mdx does tho. you could just not define any components, then you can nest markdown inside html no problem