kennismigrant

kennismigrant, 2 months ago

Why not bring your phone?

Your SIM/IMEI are tied to your ID. The police can visit you at home later. Details depend on the country.

kennismigrant, 3 months ago

Reported dead 2024-02-16 11:22utc, exactly the moment you posted your comment.

huh

kennismigrant, 4 months ago

I did the math:

Room temperature is often defined as 20 degrees Celsius (although I remember it being 23C in some old textbooks).

20+16.6 is 36.6 which is the normal temperature of a human body.

20+18.6 is 38.6 which is above normal temperature, i.e. fever.

AFAIK ~42.0 degrees is lethal.

kennismigrant, 5 months ago

Meanwhile Telegram is one of the most effective and bullshit-free social networks, way more popular among certain audiences than Meta, X, and other garbage.

kennismigrant, 5 months ago

Everyone was pissed

as someone who had worked in transparent jurisdictions: everyone should absolutely be pissed about not having this info available publicly always in real time.

kennismigrant, 5 months ago

I like trains

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research

The article was published 3 days after the arxiv release. How is this an “exclusive preview”?

Successfully tricking existing models by a few crafted samples doesn’t seem like a significant achievement. Can someone highlight what exactly is interesting here? Anything that can’t be resolved by routine adjustments to loss/evaluation functions?

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

This might be OK depending on your location and the government system in place. Voting for a single person that has to answer all questions sounds like UK or US to me.

Take a look at the Finnish or the Dutch parliament. 7, 8, 16 parties there? Independent (no-party) politicians too. Each one of them is free to represent people with specific needs and only focus on that.

Also keep in mind that some questions like “healthcare” and “welfare” may be less relevant too. It can be pretty much resolved (you can always promise to “increase doctors’ wages by 30%!”). More specific issues remain.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

They don’t have to cover everything. Pirate Parties often ally with other parties that cover other specific problems, e.g. Piratenpartij & De Groenen (“Pirate Party” and “The Greens” alliance) in Netherlands, and they work well together.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

Yes they do.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

At first I though “surely this is about the US”, but no, even in the US at least some states require public bathrooms in all coffee shops, cafe, restaurants etc. Some states have exceptions depending on the size of the establishment and some states do not have this regulation at all.

I also just checked Dutch and some other countries’ laws. Public bathrooms are required for new establishments with no exceptions. I have not found a EU-wide regulation though.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

I just have people come to my house

This step is pretty difficult. (1) You know people, (2) they would agree to come to your house, and (3) you have enough room to have guests.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

There are plenty of dishwashers with windows. Unlike the others devices mentioned, you don’t need to see what’s in there. The window is just for fun. They make you pay for fun.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

Bird that does not live up to its name: tit.

Estonian edition (I’m not a native speaker): viinamäetigu. Not related to any alcohol (viin), does not live on mountains (mäe), mostly found outside of vineyards (viinamäe). At least it is a snail (tigu).

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

Of course the English have the longest spelling. Why write “paz” or “pau” or “pís” when you can add two more letters? Even French did not fuck it up as much.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

myoor

That does not sound close. The slavic* word for peace is me-r, “me” as in “me” and “r” is rolling “r”. Mostly everyone can pronounce this correctly.

*Polish (and sometimes others) say “po-ko-i” instead, Ukrainian has a different pronunciation, Latvian (is balto-slavic, I know) adds “-s” at the end.

kennismigrant, 6 months ago

The legend of… (click here to continue reading)

kennismigrant, 7 months ago

This software will not solve the problem - and is probably not even meant to. The company is likely harvesting data to abuse users or sell it.

No extent of privacy invasion will solve cheating. I have made - as a fun university project - demo cheats that do not even need to run on the same computer as the game. They give significant competitive advantage, and detection systems give too many false-positives to even begin to counter these.

kennismigrant, 7 months ago

I have played in online and offline CS and Overwatch tournaments. My team won prizes. We had a wonderful anti-cheat measure: reputation and respect.

kennismigrant, 7 months ago

Maybe !venting or !vent ? If it is relevant to your location then you could search for options on a local instance like feddit.uk.

kennismigrant, 7 months ago

330km/h is the sound barrier

This is false. Sound barrier is an aerodynamic effect that affects vehicles at speeds close to the speed of sound in air, which is slightly above 1200 km/h (at sea level, normal temperature and humidity).

kennismigrant, 8 months ago

This depends on your location. In many countries the ducks at the park are way more expensive than the ones you can get at the grocery.

kennismigrant, 8 months ago

Is French just the most commonly spoken common language, even in Germany and Czechia?

No. This title is likely taken by Turkish.

Or is it something else?

Many phrases from European languages are common knowledge across Europe. I’m about to go grab some coffee. When I walk in to the coffee shop, I’m free to say “Hello” in one of 10+ languages and no one will think anything of it. Why would I do that? Maybe because I’m in the mood. Ciao!