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The villages I clicked at random were added 7 years ago.

Apple Maps’s main data source is OpenStreetMaps which definitely has the villages. So it doesn’t matter when the villages were removed, someone at Apple went out of their way to do it.

The massive turnout also made it impossible to pull anything funny. It’s relatively easy to slip in a few thousands of fake votes when you control the electoral apparatus, but trying to skew such a lopsided election with such an high participation rate would create participation rates above 100% in some places.

Romans 1:26-27 is not better.

The post is clearly hyperbole (I shouldn’t have to explain this but apparently some people around here aren’t aware of figures of speech), but computers used to me much louder than they are, floppy disks were very “talkative”, you could hear the HDD heads move and disks spinning under heavy load, and fans were much louder on average than they are today. On top of that, the motherboard speaker was used very liberally by everything.

Oh, and everyone had mechanical keyboards, but people of culture still do.

But this was already the case. When someone submitted code to Linux they always had to assume responsibility for the legality of the submitted code, that’s one of the points of mandatory Signed-off-by.

IQ test results follow a normal distribution by design (i.e. they are calibrated so 50% of the people are on each side of 100, and most people land on the middle of the range).

If we are talking about intelligence in general, it’s a very fuzzy social construct that encompasses a wide range of innate and learned skills, so we will never be able to boil it down to an objective number.

How does the phone confirm the payment without a network? With NFC the phone has a low bandwidth connection to the payment terminal that’s enough to sign the transaction.

Do the QR codes work without internet? The NFC payment schemes do.

Did you remember to fill out the Willkommenmenschengrößewurstanfrageformulare when you arrived?

I’ve been saying that since forever. There’s exactly one job that can be replaced by LLMs (and maybe a good PR person to show up for physical events).

(2) can mean getting access to production credentials of something important and causing an incident for the ages.

AWS already had a few because they gave agents too much access.

Let me guess, the containment was written by the previous iteration and was the digital version of a wet paperback.

We all saw the state of Claude Code’s codebase.

A ceasefire were you don’t achieve any goals, and the opposing side gets major concessions is a defeat.

The Iranian regime survived. The nuclear programme survived. Iran now has the right to charge tolls on an international strait. The US is negotiating an withdrawal from the Middle East. Iran will get rid of the sanctions. And in they will get reparations as cherry on top.

Based on the rest I think they don’t mean actual natural language interface, but having enough personalisation options to setup the UI in a way that’s natural for your workflow. They are just speaking 2026-corporatise instead of English.

The full sentence is:

“Definitely, the idea of extensions and just customizations in general is: can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?” Varma added. “For example, we announced an update that we’re doing to our design, which is called Project Nova. And a lot of people didn’t like the rounded corners modernization. Now, we can let people pick how round they want their corners. People care, so we put it in the settings.”

They also mention some misguided “AI” features, but not in this part.

The T-14 was supposed to solve that problem, so it’s not like Russia didn’t know about it. They are just too much of an undeveloped backwater to actually manufacture it beyond a few mock-ups for parades.

From a programmers perspective it takes a grand total of 2 minutes to do bash/python script or jupyter notebook that exposes semantically adequate interface. Maybe 5 minutes, if instead of just doing something quick and dirty yourself you design to get into an argument with an LLM.

I believe as big part of this resilience is that, unlike Russian made tanks, the Leopard doesn’t keep the ammunition in the turret.

I wonder if Russia set the amount of explosives in their drones based on what would need to destroy one of their own tanks, and just forgot that only requires igniting the tank’s own ammunition.

without shaving

Trimmed, not shaved. Unless you are into women that are into prepubescent boys, you can get away with trimming once a week.

So women expect men to trim and groom their body hair at the very least

That’s not my experience. Ironically, the only negative response I got about body hair, was when I shaved it.