leisesprecher

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, maybe because this is just an empty symbolic gesture made exactly to trigger progressives and let the MAGAs cheer about their “victory”.

  Google maps uses whatever the name of the feature in question is in the language of the user. For me, it’s not “Gulf of Mexico”, but Golf von Mexiko, and if you visit Europe (as an English user), you’ll see Munich in Bavaria in Germany, not München in Bayern in Deutschland, as would be correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that means unconsciousness (and later death).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack says it could be profitable — but it still isn’t⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like that boy in 8th grade could totally bang 100 chicks and jump over 5 cars with his bike. He just doesn’t want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, line must go up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want to pay employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also my experience. It sometimes tries to be smart and gets everything wrong.

  I think code shows clearly, that LLMs don’t actually understand what’s written. Often enough you can clearly see it trying to insert a common pattern even though that doesn’t make sense at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a very simple phone from Samsung a few years back that had a solar cell on the back.

  Since the battery lasted over a week anyway, you could easily double the battery life by just having it in indirect light.

  Modern phones are guzzling so much power that it’s hardly useful there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of the reasons I lost almost all interest in games.

  It already costs an arm and a leg to stay somewhat on top of the hardware requirements, I can’t justify to myself also investing hundreds of hours into essentially busy work.

  I don’t enjoy fetching Fred’s uncle’s magic shovel of doom from a stupid generic dungeon 4h away.

  Maybe I’m weird, but I use games more like interactive movies. I want a story, not some artificial and ultimately pointless “challenge”.