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- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I meant, the device is directly next to the heat source. It’s never going to be accurate. And you can tell in the way people use the two systems. In Germany, people don’t think about our check the temperature of the room or what the dial is set at, just, I’m cold, turn it up. In the US, the room is set to a specific temperature and just left alone except for day/night, home/away
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t been in many private houses in the Netherlands. I could only speak to Germany
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but they are not electronic and they don’t reflect the temperature of the room like a wall thermostat does.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
TBF, over 15 in Germany I’ve only seen a couple of actual thermostats. The vast, vast majority use a valve on each radiator. There are electronic solutions for the radiators, but sticking a Nest on the wall is going to do nothing for someone unless the customer installs specific hardware that the Nest would have to support
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 2 months ago:
I don’t know. I go to news portals or aggregates or feeds for news. Do people actually just type “news” into Google? I suppose for specific events, but I could actually see it being true that news searches weren’t making up much of the activity. The way it’s going to be is subscription based or publicly funded for anything worthwhile
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 2 months ago:
I think it’s problematic to require an organization to do something and then charge for it. It’s one thing if they do something of their own volition and then are required to pay
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 2 months ago:
I think they’re setting up to negotiate not paying. I don’t think people should depend on Google to provide a social good at their cost
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 2 months ago:
This was more a stunt because France is demanding Google pay to link to news sites. It’s the opposite of whether search engines should be required to list them
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 2 months ago:
That could be, even just considering one language to parse from. I heard efficiency and just thought speed
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 2 months ago:
I would hope so, but as a demonstration, it wasn’t very impressive. They should have left subtitles up transcripting everything
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 2 months ago:
How much faster was it? I was reading along with the gibber and not losing any time
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
Since you have completely hijacked this from talking about the Gulf, as I said, call it what you want. I’ll probably continue to call it Denali, because it’s just a name.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
You conflate not agreeing with not reading, because if someone reads your posts, they have to agree, right? So if someone doesn’t agree, it simply means they didn’t read your post.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
Whatever. Enjoy your rant. It’s going to be a fun four years for you
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
I’m not ignoring it. I’m saying it’s just a name. I will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico for the rest of my life, or probably just “the Gulf”. I never used another term for French fries, # is still a pound sign, and I’m not going to worry about this.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
And I’m saying it’s just a name. Call it whatever you want. He means it as a distraction. There’s more important things
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
I’m telling you this is what he wants: people to get all worked up and virtue signaling for MAGA
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
No one can own the Gulf anyway. Trump just wanted to stir shit up and people like you getting all bent out of shape are just playing into it. It’s just a name
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
Mexico didn’t own it before any more than the US owns it now. I don’t like the nationalistic intentions, but I can rationalize it to myself that Mexico is also part of [North] America
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
Is there Google maps in China? If there is, I’d be surprised if it didn’t say that. That is claiming ownership. Countries can’t own a gulf beyond the domestic waters convention. But, I don’t know, that’s a good question because a regular Chinese person would just be confused. It wouldn’t effect any policy change
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
My point is the names are different in different places. At some point, people named things from their perspective irregardless of what others, including those living adjacent to the thing cal it
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
It’s stupid, but it’s not that extreme. Countries have different names for things. For example, Germany calls the Baltic Sea “Ostsee” (lit. east sea) and Lake Constance 'Bodensee" (lit. bottom sea) but those things are only at the bottom and east for Germany.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 3 months ago:
No, it’s not “spin” like a top or top be dizzy. There’s a bunch of meanings, and some are similar to those two, but none fit for dizzy
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 6 months ago:
The street sort of counts too. Licensing requires them to stop for accidents, etc
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 6 months ago:
Here’s how the creation of the graphic went: /: Create a binary Ignore vast majority (of people working with subject) Slap together chart, cherrypicking Gloat /
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 6 months ago:
Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 6 months ago:
Spanish conveniently missing
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 7 months ago:
I’m not going to fault anyone for typos. I fight my phone’s autocorrect all the time, but it was odd that just those two letters were transposed
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 7 months ago:
Did you switch the keycaps for your r’s and t’s?