That I’m still paying the rent amount from when we moved in nearly ten years ago. Comparable places cost twice as much when we last looked in 2024. We’d actually like to move to a more modern place but at these rates it’s extremely hard to justify a nicer and/or nearer place
The landlord is super lazy, they do the bare bare minimum for maintenance and repairs so we just do the small things instead of trying to motivate him to do it or send someone, but also, bless this landlord lol!
If pitch made differences in meaning at the word level, it would be called a tonal language afaik
English has pitch for other aspects of speech, such as indicating emphasis or what sentences are questions. Try saying “you did it” with an emphasis on the first word, without changing the volume or tempo: it’ll change pitch. If you raise the “it” instead, you get a question sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_declarative). The pitch could make a difference for how you understand a word, like you’d not think the person said “what’s that cent?” (same set of base sounds but, due to the question pitch, it’s more likely “… scent?”), but it’s not a fixed property of the word like in a tonal language
Variants of “mhm” are also tonal to me. I don’t know if this works the same in any English-speaking region but, where I’m from, “hm” with
Not sure that’s considered a word, though
Unrelated but this reminds me of a thing that happened earlier today while we were playing a board game. European languages aren’t considered click languages, but we still have them. One player asked a question of another, and someone from Turkey tsk’d. They made no other sound or head movement. Apparently this meant “no”! Native DE/NL speakers won’t understand that this is an answer to a question. We do use tsk here, just for other purposes. Was interesting to notice the culture difference!
I remember reading something about LLMs not being able to learn “x is y” equivalence relations. Can’t find it now but limitations like this are what make differences clear between what humans do and what we’ve managed to teach the neural network (which will be used to iterate and improve the model further, of course)
In the Chinese box analogy, this would be like them knowing cats are considered cute but not whether considered-cute animals include cats (if I remember the limitation type correctly). If you happen to slip the right instructions/questions, something they’ve seen before or something they’re capable of extrapolating, then nothing seems off; but if someone can say in one paragraph that cats are cute but they know of no cute animal, you’d not think they’re understanding what they’re saying, and so don’t really understand the language even if they give you plausible words in all other cases
(For cats it’ll work because there’s a billion example sentences out there. LLM vendors are also trying to sidestep such problems by having it generate a bunch of tangential text (in which it might happen to regurgitate the tokens it needs to piece together the answer) before answering the prompt, but that’s still not being able to apply logic)
You can’t ask a compulsive liar for the truth
LLMs have no concept of lying, being truthful, or being correct or wrong, even if they exhibit behavior that seems that way and generate words that say as much. Explaining this isn’t trivial, but I think it should be self-evident when considering that there are situations in which asking someone/something about themself/itself doesn’t give you the full story. One could play pretend or exhibit misleading behavior
Regardless of any browser, consider that there’s probably a half dozen background programs using the internet connection as well. You’ll want to install something like a firewall that you can turn on that blocks all connections except from some allowlisted apps you currently want to use. A simple message check from a handful of installed messengers can occupy that connection for a few seconds while you’re trying to load something that’s much more important to you right now in the browser
(that^ was my situation this morning on ~12kbps 2G network, trying to load my ~4KB grocery list webapp in the grocery store with bad reception… ended up connecting to the store WiFi and sold my soul with a checkbox ^^')
Add in a weather app updating, system update check, some app trying to download a new version, the keyboard sending telemetry or downloading new words, the OS trying to load a “generate 204” page to detect whether there is connectivity, the GNSS subsystem loading SUPL data for positioning, Google submitting its WiFi scan data to either obtain a location or improve their service, calendar sync…
Factorio 2.1 was announced today, so that :)
Netherlands, it depends on the level and where you live:
¹ “higher” is the term that is officially used. I find it a bit derogatory. Having done some of basically every education level, each one has strengths and it’s not like everyone from the “highest” one would be able to get a diploma on the “lowest” one. They’re just different. Idk what word is commonly understood for this
GSam Battery Monitor, I use to check things like until what time I was up or how cold it was in the bedroom overnight. The graphs show when my phone screen was on (when I set my alarm) and log the battery temperature which I’ve found matches room temperature after a few hours (with WiFi/data off so it’s not doing whatever background tasks if people are conversing in a group chat or so)
One time I was absolutely certain my alarms hadn’t gone off but you could see a little blip on the screen graph, once every minute, matching precisely the (turned off) alarms. Either Sam is in on it or I just slept really soundly that day :D
Apparently it has ads though. Wouldn’t recommend, I always had it firewalled because I didn’t think it needed internet access to display some offline data from my phone in the first place and apparently that also works as an ad blocker? Fun side effect. But so I’m very interested in any open source alternatives people know of!
Would they use violence though? We might still be better off with the paper conflicts that these people have with each other 🤔
Would they resort to violent conflict though? The question was violence, not competition at others’ cost
Surely that’s just meant as a general concept and we don’t need to split hairs on the definition of that? Imagine an IQ test or whatever else people normally understand when using the word intelligence, and that such a person would get 1.5 times as many questions right
I discovered this site because they wrote a JavaScript n-body gravity simulator as a side note for an article on iirc Cyclers. That’s the level of commitment I expect from a particularly dedicated space enthusiast, not a journalist! Especially when it’s not essential and a prominent piece in the story. Incredibly cool
They also have a podcast which I would recommend. Ain’t got no time to read the long pieces* but having them stories read to me while I’m cleaning the house? You bet!
* this is a lie; I read books for crying out loud
You mean registrar. The registry is the place that administers the register of domains within a TLD (like .se or .mobi) and for some reason doesn’t let you order domains unless you want to become a registrar first
I don’t know which registry is the best but I can tell you about the worst. My registrar was also not amused by the mess that is AFNIC (twice now, concerning different domain names, and I don’t have many domains so if I already had multiple problems…). They sit in Paris and operate the TLDs of former colonies
For registrars, I picked OVH because they’re among the cheapest and their servers have been very reliable and fast across the months where I tested them before switching over. Their software is ass though, the forms frequently display three languages due to broken translations (their source language is French, my contract language is Dutch so a lot of elements are in Dutch, and then English trickles through where I guess they have a translation available but not to Dutch), multi-year ordering broke at some point and hasn’t gotten fixed, automatic renewal is wonky to set up… but once it runs, it simply works well so I still recommend it for people who want good service on a budget. You can also set records by editing the zone file which I appreciate. I’ve had registrars before that wouldn’t let you use certain record types; don’t have such problems here
I always have trouble with this perspective. Wouldn’t you put your private life before yet another job? It would have to be a very unique dream job before I would put it before a potential life partner
It has to go so badly wrong for this to become an issue
Especially (as it is here) when you don’t work with each other daily, I’d take the low odds of losing my job for the chance to find a life partner
Not saying you should as well. I just don’t understand it
Why do lucky days come from replies with vowels in them?
Not technically an answer but perhaps the absence is surprising / of interest to someone:
We don’t typically do this in the Netherlands. I find it very strange to call someone something that isn’t their name (or at least a part thereof if the parents chose something unwieldy), especially to the point where a culture develops a set of default secondary names based on their real first name. Mostly obvious ones but sometimes also entirely unguessable. I learned this is a thing in other countries from my German partner
We do have birth names (some biblical crap, like the holy Johannes for someone called Jo) but it’s not like they’d ever introduce themselves to anyone as such (not even when meeting the king). It’s not their name, their parent doesn’t say it when they’ve done something wrong, and I doubt they’d respond to it if it’s not super obvious from other clues that you mean them. It’s just there for ceremonies at church altars and airport terminals
German also has Mustermann (“Muster” meaning template)
We don’t have that in the Netherlands or in English afaik and would use something like Smith, that is Janssen in our case. Of course you could also see something like “Last_name” or “Example” in the place of a last name field, but it doesn’t look like a name the way that yours does
Janssen or Jansen (without that final s) is also the default last name in the Netherlands
In the north you find a lot of de Vries (the… frosty? There’s an origin story involving Napoleon that I don’t know whether it’s correct)
Regarding Peeters, a crush of mine was called Peters, in Dutch Limburg. Besides that I don’t know the name so I’d guess it’s uncommon here
Pronounced “win” with a slight N sound before, for anyone else wondering
What’s the motivation? The underlying reason matters for the approach and extent we should recommend