Excellent work by someone there. I love the customer service agent with the ski mask (who can barely keep a straight face) lol

Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment

A whole new generation of the Kobo readers just came out too!

I’ve got one of the previous Gen and I was so happy to find they have models with the clicky buttons to turn the page.

You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?

Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?

It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…

The “fuck spez” map drawing from Reddit

Yeah I agree

The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.

It’s just shows how they’re just glued onto the page with no care or planning. Especially no consideration to the user or user experience.

It’s not for you as a consumer.

It’s to reduce your usefulness as a worker.

Which would be lovely, if our value wasn’t calculated by our usefulness to the market.

It’s not on mine yet.

So some a/b testing maybe

Thank you for letting me know. I will too.

Plenty of dictators still have elections. Well, they call them elections at least.

So I guess it will at least be called an election.

If something was written by V3 and then published, that text doesn’t get updated every time a new version of chatGPT comes out.

The text isn’t dynamic.

It could be a new level added to the peer review of work. Nothing to do with the university. Just “other professionals”.

A thesis isn’t just an exam, it’s a real scientific paper.

And usually claims is contents as fact, which can be referenced by others as fact.

And absolutely should be open to scrutiny so long as it is relevant.

Yeah but if your wrote your thesis in 2024, and the detector is run on it in 2026…

You’re probably busted.

It’s not like you’ll re-write your thesis with every major ChatGPT release.

I bet AI detection is going to get a lot better over time.

I wonder if there’s going to be retrospective testing of theses as time goes on.

Could really damage some careers down the line.

Edit: guys, retrospective testing means it was done later (i.e. with a more up to date AI detector).

Don’t get really drunk or stoned and end up being obnoxious.

Try to be aware of traffic (especially bikes) and of blocking sidewalks/alleys etc. Look both ways on every lane of traffic you cross (including both bike lanes).

Try to branch out your trip from the exact center of the city (or by the train station) and don’t rent an Airbnb inside the city center (they drive up local rents).

If you’re standing on red bricks or red tarmac, you’re probably blocking the bike lane.

If you can’t see the bike lane, it’s likely that you’re standing in it (they aren’t always marked).

Best way to find out is to search for all of them inside Tidal. I don’t know if you need to make a free account or what to do it.

They usually have great black Friday deals though. I think I paid like €2/mth for my first year.

Just a reminder that the Tidal family account at the maximum subscription “grade” costs €16.

So you and 4x buddies can get very high quality audio for €3.20/mth.