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Re:Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:16AM (#50352279)
Casa Darvas is a nice museum, with a good coffee shop in the garden.

The Central Square (Piata Unirii) has been renovated nicely and looks very good. The old main street is still in renovation, so it's not so nice now.

Re:Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:03AM (#50352118)
I'm lucky to live in an Art Nouveau City :) (Oradea, Romania)
Re:Digital Minimalism on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:16AM (#50323856)
How do you ... Talk to people? How do you agree when and where to meet? Genuine question.
Re:Job Loss and Cortisone Mania on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:21PM (#50213278)
Yeah, what the author described sounded an awful lot like CFS to me too.
Re:Job Loss and Cortisone Mania on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:36PM (#50212621)
Look up Grant Genereux. I think he's the guy with Vitamin A toxicity story. (Not that I agree with him)
Re:Open Source as We Know It Is Dead on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:30AM (#49974205)
Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
In the UK there are prepaid electricity providers: there's a card reader at the power panel. When you run out of credit, power cuts off, it resumes when you pay again.
What do you mean? https://www.felonybench.com/

They're almost tied for felonies.

Re:The darker side of being a doctor on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:31AM (#49814459)
Are you sure you can find that many more doctors? That they'll be any good?

Speaking from Romania: here medicine is prestigious. So many parents push their kids towards medicine. There's a glut of newly minted doctors every year, but rumour has it that the quality drops every year. Sure, they pass the exams and residency and what not, but... They're just not into medicine as much.

Do you want to get treated by such a person?

This year I had to go to a neurologist. I went to one locally, they dismissed me in 5 minutes, told me to take some vitamins basically. Went to another one in a much bigger city, they talked to me for an hour, ordered a ton of tests.

Would it help if we get a lot more of the first kind of doctors?

Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:02AM (#49799301)
10 years ago Google had Goobuntu internally.
Re:Giving up on smart rings on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:39PM (#49715125)
Cobalt Chrome ring wearer here (and my wife). Not so niche I guess
Sometimes.
I don't see even when dreaming :)
It's a life tracker, that has come to include everything but the kitchen sync (journal, workouts, food, Garmin stats, music, podcasts, books. Etc.)
Re:Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results on Saturday September 12, 2026 @04:21AM (#49670214)
He's working on Hister now. I really like it.
I just ran this on a personal repo I've been working on for two years. It's 250k loc of Python, that for the last year has been written with agents.

I told Claude to look at this article and the original research paper and calculate the numbers. Verbosity came out to 0.08 (lower than human, that's weird), erosion to 0.495, so between humans and agents. So according to these metrics, I have managed to contain the complexity of code.

Mental models existed before coding. The pyramids were not built by just a couple of guys hauling some rocks together. It was a highly structured organization.

Or the East India Company or many other great organizations that achieved big things before computers.

Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:55AM (#49575682)
Maybe if they don't like the results of the elections, they'll hold new ones until the "good" result comes out (true story, happened in Romania (a EU country) two years ago).
Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:49PM (#49567090)
Haven't american companies outsourced manufacturing to China for a long time now? I think they have enough experience with dealing with China.
Re:Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:26PM (#49552660)
What about hakarl? "Rotten" icelandic shark meat. It stinks to high heaven. Yet somebody thought "let's eat this". I can't imagine how hungry they must have been. And, if it doesn't decompose for 6 weeks under sand, it's toxic, so you die if you eat it. I'm sure they knew that. Yet they still tried it... Must've been a helluva famine.
I mostly agree with you, but referencing Michael Levin, I'll contend that even individual cells have quite some intelligence. Granted, different from ours, but really good at solving the kind of problems cells have to solve.
Maybe it helps with weight loss (I wish)
If it happened and you get to court, it's probably fairly simple to prove in court (subpoena, discovery, etc). It's not like training will happen only once and then they'll delete the data and all references to it. When training models, you want to have a full lineage of how you obtained it.
Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:49PM (#49401480)
With authentication and on mobile?

I agree that on desktop it's not particularly relevant. Or through openclaw.

But for most people who use it through mobile, MCP solves some problems.

Re:Gemini 3.7 Flash on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:27AM (#49294758)
Tell me more about your cucumber bed. We started some raised veggie beds this year and my wife is relying very heavily in ChatGPT and Claude for advice on how to deal with issues.
Body battery is amazing. I had long COVID/ME/CFS, and looking at the body battery when waking up was an outstanding predictor of how my day was going to be. When I hit 5% body battery, I was really feeling horrible.
Jokes about Supreme Leader Trump?

(I'm not the person you replied to, I have no idea)

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