Icelandic elections: The newest polls are in the news every day. Candidates and elected officials are approachable. Parties and civil society organisations urge people to vote. 80% turnout.
EU elections: They've been at this since 1979 and the media has not learned how to make this interesting. Parties and civil society knows this is the most important legislative assembly on the continent but don't do much to get people to vote. Turnout hardly crosses the 50% mark.
"AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. However, amidst the allure of newfound technology lies a profound duality—the stark contrast between the benefits of AI-driven software development and the formidable security risks it introduces."
As someone who works on the development industry... I've yet to see a single colleague saying AI is going to have such a significant effect in the industry. The usual stance goes from "a nice little helping tool" to "this is useless". The executives are the only ones I keep seeing repeating how industry-shaking AI is going to be
Also, quite a lot of "but public transport don't work in rural areas!"
Look, I grew up in a rural area. I could literally watch sheep grazing on a hill less than 50m from my parent's house kitchen window. My town was around 4k people.
Still, we had a bus going to the nearby (and similarly-sized) towns every 15 minutes. Two buses per hour to the provincial capital, and one to the other "big" (around 200k people) city of my province. A train to the capital and another to the 'big city' every hour. My town was in the bottom of a valley, and around it had maybe 20-30 hamlets (10-100 people each) between 2 and 10 km away from town, mostly in the surrounding mountains, and every day several buses go through them to pick the kids who live there and take them to school/high school in my town and back.
Hell, these are some of the stops in the train line that took me to the province capital, the one I used to take every day to go to college:
I don't think I've ever seen more than 1 or 2 people take or leave the train in any of those three stops. In the last one, you couldn't even see any houses around from the train. Most of the times, the train just stopped and left without taking or leaving anyone. Still, they were important for some people, who deserved to have a trustable public transport network.
Public transport in rural areas is perfectly possible. You just need to remember that it is a SERVICE and not a BUSINESS.
I just shared pictures of train stops with literally no houses around. The population density of most of the central areas of Spain (excluding the provinces of Madrid & Zaragoza) is about the same as Iowa's.
And still, there is public transport network. Worse than the one in densely populated areas, of course, but it's there.
Economies of scale only matter if you want to make a business out of your public transport network. If mail gets daily to a place, a bus can get to that place several times a day too. It only needs to be considered a service people have rights to.
It works great in America! a lot of american countries have excellent public transit networks. Now, the US is a big exception, but not because it can't work there, but because they don't want to pay for it.
oh of course, there are places that it's just not feasible to get public transport to. In the US and everywhere else. But those are rare and covers only a small percentage of the population. Let's say that 90% of the population of a country could, or should, be covered by a decent public transit network. There's always going to be a small percentage of population that lives too far away from population centers to be covered. But again, that's a small minority and that doesn't mean that the other 90% of the country shouldn't have it.
I disagree that the cost/benefit ratio is any different. Here, we pay for it. It's a cost. It's not supposed to make money. Those nice high speed trains we have here? A money sink, massively subsidiced by the state, won't exist without those subsidies.
And they are a great money sink to have, if you ask me.
Oh 99% of the cases are just not relevant (you start writing a function and it offers to auto complete it for you with code that doesn't do anything close to what you need) or trivial (the kind of auto complete any well-configured IDE already gives you).
sí, la cosa es que openAI pierde como 600 millones de dolares AL MES, y la única razón por la que no han cerrado es porque les están metiendo pasta a saco, esperando en que algún momento ... yo que sé que. Pero la realidad es que seguramente no vayan a conseguir dejar de quemar esa barbaridad de dinero, y ahí la hostia va a ser gorda
Ok, now the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, clearly accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity, I hope that means it's time for the UK, US, Germany, etc to finally drop the support for the gazan genocide. I'm probably too naive, though.
as of today, from 56 requests of a warrant, only two of them has been initially denied by the ICC pre-trial chamber. And both of them were accepted after appealing. So there's zero cases where prosecutor has request a warrant and it hasn't been issued.
And Neil G. Tumblr's is literally the most followed account on the platform, so his gaze is akin the eye of sauron, but nice. So expect a lot of action ... For weeks if not months.
Joder yo lo qué no se es por qué el nuevo le está quedando tan tocho. Entre Harrow y Nona ya deja toda la trama encarriladita, si me apuras casi parece que lo que queda es solo que Alecto le de de hostias a Jod, y como no sea 200 páginas de eso y luego otras 800 de G y H dándose besitos, no se
Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.
What's going on:
The Dutch artist have been showing some mild unease at the Israel presence there this year during the past week. The Irish ones have been forced to change their looks because it included the words "ceasefire" and "freedom for Palestine" in ancient gaelic script.
Yesterday, someone from the Israel delegation staff joked about the dutch artist's father death (the Dutch song is dedicated to him) and there was "an incident" (undisclosed, but the rumor-mill says the Dutch guy may have punched the jokester it looks it was only a verbal confrontation)
Eurovision have disqualified the Netherlands from today's final.
The Dutch broadcaster association (those who pick who to send to EV) posted this a few hours ago:
There has been protest within the Finnish public broadcaster asking for Finland withdrawal
The head of the political party who is the junior partner in the government of Spain is also calling for our withdrawal.
The Israeli delegation seem to have spent the week literally harassing anyone they perceive as critical, with several complains about their behavior already being published.
The Israeli song is one of the favorites to win, and if they do, next year Eurovision would be organized by them. If that happen, there is no way several countries wouldn't just refuse to take part.
So yeah, there is a chance this may be it for the festival. Good job, Eurovision. Great fucking job.
Oh you mean that specific bit. Ok, by the time I wrote that post there hasn't been any official comms on the matter yet. I'll take a look and update the post