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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The most common pushback on the car wash test: “Humans would fail this too.”

  Fair point. We didn’t have data either way. So we partnered with Rapidata to find out. They ran the exact same question with the same forced choice between “drive” and “walk,” no additional context, past 10,000 real people through their human feedback platform.

  71.5% said drive.

  So people do better than most AI models. Yay. But seriously, almost 3 in 10 people get this wrong‽‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to eventually phase out GitHub repo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I must have been living under a rock, because I didn’t even know that codeberg existed. I’ve just created an account there, added my ssh key, and successfully pushed a project there. Will be migrating as much as possible (focusing on code that might actually be interesting to others) over the weekend. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The apps have been very kind to me.

  On Tinder, I met my GF from 2017 to 2022. We had a lot in common, had some really great times, but the long-distance thing in the end was too much, so when she suggested opening up the relationship, I went back on the apps, and after an open relationship phase, we decided to shift from a romantic relationship to friendship. We’re still good friends, though - I saw her last Thursday when she was in my city.

  During our open phase, I met some lovely people (two on Bumble, one on tinder) who for one reason or another weren’t open to a committed relationship, but there was no harm done - we spent good time together and drifted naturally apart once I started a relationship that turned monogamous. No hard feelings on either side.

  On Tinder I also met my current (forever) partner. Amazing, low-conflict relationship. We live together and I’ve kind of stepped into the dad role for her son. We met in December 2021, chatted for three months and then started seeing each other, and soon became exclusive. I get along brilliantly with her parents, as does she with mine. We’re absolutely sure that we’re together for life.

  I never felt that the apps were leading me into cheap, disposable relationships. I never had issues of “What if the next perfect person is just one swipe away?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should print it out: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course! As soon as this kind of thing comes to light, the pitchforks come out. The checkusers have some advanced tools to find linked bad-actor accounts, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia is only a good source on non controversial topics

  There’s research showing that controversial topics ultimately get better Wikipedia articles, because they get more attention, and because editors more strongly feel the need to get good quality sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only steers and bears?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if it’s a black bear, shouting and waving your arms will normally chase it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or how bad something is. “I don’t need a scientific study to tell me that looking at my phone before bed will make me sleep badly”, but the studies actually show that the effect is statistically robust but small.

  In the same way, studies like this can make the distinction between different levels of advice and warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Username is relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve installed Lawnchair and I’m quite happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I recently bought a used Pixel 8 and wanted to install a new launcher - my googling turned up Nova launcher, but the app said it had ads, so I looked a bit further and installed Lawnchair instead. Does the job!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Das Mädchen seht am See und es sieht ihn.

  The girl stands at the lake and it sees him.

  In German, a lake is masculine and all diminutives are neuter, and that includes Mädchen (girl), which is a diminutive of the obsolete word “Magd” (a cognate of “maid”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, I thought a 1Hz display was a typo until I read the article - that’s the minimum display update, not the maximum: for situations when nothing’s changing on the screen to save battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nowhere close to that level. The GOP/ MAGA has been eroding international trust in America for a while now, but realistically, everybody else is on the outside looking in, and even if America removed all women’s rights, including the right to vote, or annexed Panama, all that would happen would be strongly worded protests and further political isolation of America from the rest of the world.

  Nobody wants to fight a war against the USA, and barring something cataclysmic like an invasion of Mexico, nobody wants to sanction the largest market in the world.

  TL;DR: America would have to become much poorer or much weaker before anybody does anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What an unprocessed photo looks like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  #nofilter