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New comment by Anduia in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

Anduia — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:33:10 +0000

Flat earthers don't use Mercator projection, they use polar azimuthal equidistant (AEQD) projection centered in the north pole.

I think it would be something like Portugal-Kamchatka:

https://i.ibb.co/9mqz8fvb/image.png

New comment by Anduia in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

Anduia — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:27:09 +0000

It would be a straight line (in their official map) from the south of Portugal to Kamchatka (east Russia)

New comment by Anduia in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

Anduia — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:06:25 +0000

If you are talking about the trail from Cape Town to Vladivostok, that one is not a straight line.

New comment by Anduia in "We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native."

Anduia — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:00:38 +0000

I'm so confused with the "Upgrade" example. Why does it lose the title case and why does it end up phrased as "upgrade to" instead of "Upgrade"?

New comment by Anduia in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

Anduia — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:22:23 +0000

Having tried gel rollerball and fountain pens, I always end up going back to clutch pencils with soft leads.

The author dismisses all pencils because he has to press down hard to use them, but I don't press down any more than I would with a fountain pen.

Being able to erase is also a bonus. Not to mention the ASMR sound!

New comment by Anduia in "AI makes programming differently difficult"

Anduia — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:23:32 +0000

It's existential crisis Tuesday

New comment by Anduia in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

Anduia — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:24:55 +0000

Scroll down, there is a huge ad but the article continues.

New comment by Anduia in "New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain"

Anduia — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:56:25 +0000

It wasn't millions, it was half a million. And what they're getting is permission to work in Spain, so it's unrelated to the article.

New comment by Anduia in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

Anduia — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:28:57 +0000

I don't think "less rich population" is an accurate description of Spain. It's a high-income developed country. Perhaps you assumed the article was about Spanish speakers worldwide rather than Spain specifically?

New comment by Anduia in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Anduia — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:51:31 +0000

They're describing EU sanctions on individuals, just very dramatically

New comment by Anduia in "window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world"

Anduia — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:04:03 +0000

"Choose your browser cache folder to improve performance"

New comment by Anduia in "Dav2d"

Anduia — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:51:47 +0000

Well, if every asset request hits the origin (no CDN, no caching...) that would be a misconfiguration of the website. It should never happen for a blog.

New comment by Anduia in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

Anduia — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:09:49 +0000

for those with parents yes

New comment by Anduia in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

Anduia — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:13:20 +0000

That's why I start any prompt to Qwen 3.5 with:

persona: brief rude senior

New comment by Anduia in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

Anduia — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:47:21 +0000

Less bloated site:

https://carnewschina.com/2026/01/22/catl-unveils-worlds-firs...

New comment by Anduia in "Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users"

Anduia — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:59:26 +0000

> draws a pretty clear picture

You have "memory" activated in your settings. It is recording information about you and using it in future conversations. Have a look at settings > personalization

New comment by Anduia in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

Anduia — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:32:15 +0000

I cannot audit and report GDPR violations if I do that.

New comment by Anduia in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

Anduia — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:29:57 +0000

> YouTube eventually restored both videos

Okay, nothing to see here then. Just some sensationalism around a content moderation mistake.

New comment by Anduia in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

Anduia — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:32:56 +0000

To the authors of the site, please know that your current "Cookiebot by Usercentrics" is old and pretty much illegal. You shouldn't need to click 5 times to "Reject all" if accepting all is one click. Newer versions have a "Deny" button.

New comment by Anduia in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

Anduia — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:22:40 +0000

Not at all, look at Tiktok