@andrewdwilliams @Nonya_Bidniss yeah knowing about that "famous" glass factory in Poltár, which closed 22 years ago, coming handy any minute now.

@atwolf @hacks4pancakes well it's also often the case in Germany and the UK, at least for the practices we have lived nearby. Not for every refill, but maybe once a year.

@cstross I've heard a pod where @timnitGebru was telling @parismarx about how the current gen of LLMs does worse job at speech transcription than the previous models/tools that were tailored for that task. So I wouldn't hold my breath.

@airtower @quixoticgeek @mgleadow @benc senk jou for tchravellink withs Deutsche Bahn.

@Rhodium103 free tier Strava is basically useless. The only thing it is good for is giving you bouts of envy. Don't do it.

@cstross Canticle for Leibowitz, huh?

XKCD gets real political, which tells you something as it mostly is rather tongue in cheek.

https://xkcd.com/3081

@mms @davidgerard sure, you can be a core contributor to a large project without being in the top 100 by whatever metric Microsoft uses. But then other people involved in the project would know, right?

@990000 @clive tell me, in which sport is that not the case?

@crazy2bike @jakob_thoboell regardless of individual safety (which I don't doubt), in countries with compulsory helmet laws (Australia), their introduction led to decrease in the number of cyclists participating in traffic.

Episode 4711 from the "I used a permissive license for my Open Source project and $BIGCORP took my code and made it their own product" https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/ This is why I prefer GPL-style (copyleft) licenses for my code, where reciprocity is embedded and not optional :)

@Meowthias @dramypsyd calm down, Frank Zappa!

@cstross how about when you want to let everyone know you hate LGBT people? J/K! Nobody would do that.

@mia @jwildeboer @karlpoe Yeah, having commuted in London around 2015, it just was not possible to commute in your work clothes during winters - you'd get covered in so much wet road grime. The one bike I had also barely fit in the £600 a month shoebox I rented with 5 others...

@jwildeboer the issue I have with this thinking is that if your partner is repeatedly threatening you with letting thugs into your kitchen, your only choice is to get out and pick up the pieces once they knock each other unconscious.

@jwildeboer @karlpoe good for you, Jan. In some places I've lived, I wouldn't wear a three piece suit to a wedding, not to mention to work or commute in. I guess you just sweat less!

@jwildeboer @karlpoe I don't see anything wrong with that, but then again, I like lycra. I mean, there are worse things than having a shower on company time!

@unir AI. I wish I was kidding.

@Lautre @GermanZeroHH @verkehrswende i think there are two assumptions here that are incorrect: 1) that these journeys of middle and upper managers to their offices are necessary, and 2) that suburban sprawl is able to cover its infrastructure cost via taxation.