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New comment by Jverse in "Don't Be Frupid"

Jverse — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:55:22 +0000

We have a word for this in Swedish, 'dumsnål'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dumsn%C3%A5l

New comment by Jverse in "How to get to know someone (2018)"

Jverse — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:35:55 +0000

I understand that you want to stand out and go beyond platitudes and canned answers. But for me, I always get a bit uncomfortable with these sorts of questions.

I've been on dates where I've gotten a barrage of questions like these. What makes me feel like backing off is that they seemingly come out of the blue and appear as canned interview questions. I also get the feeling that I'm getting judged on my answer. That some answers are more "right" than others, for example the article's question about material gifts versus experiences. Will I tick the box as materialistic if I mention that my best gift was an object?

New comment by Jverse in "Claude 3.5 Sonnet"

Jverse — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:36:11 +0000

My answer from gpt4o was correct and similar to your example from claude. Maybe you were just unlucky?

New comment by Jverse in "Meta starts rolling out generative AI tools for all advertisers"

Jverse — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:36:08 +0000

In general, there are certain tells of what constitutes a serious business and advertisement. This makes it easy to the trained eye to filter out the blatant frauds. But coming advancements in AI generated content will blur the line between legitimate and illegitimate. The only reasonable approach will of course be to trust nothing you see on the internet. Very sad.

New comment by Jverse in "The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)"

Jverse — Sun, 14 May 2023 22:12:15 +0000

https://xkcd.com/2501/

New comment by Jverse in "Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle"

Jverse — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 06:39:07 +0000

I disagree about the countdown. It wouldn't change the actual puzzle and arguably wouldn't make the game more fun to play for most people.

New comment by Jverse in "The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)"

Jverse — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:29:26 +0000

Thank you, the article left me very confused about the logic behind two 'and'.

New comment by Jverse in "Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions"

Jverse — Sat, 29 May 2021 17:28:11 +0000

Everyone's use case is different. There are definitely a lot of very useful extensions available.

New comment by Jverse in "The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (2016)"

Jverse — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:43:56 +0000

One thing I've noticed a lot of Swedes don't think about is that 'y' is pronounced the same as 'i' in English, as in the word 'gym'. They instead use the Swedish 'y' sound (like the German 'ü').

New comment by Jverse in "Tired of Stack Overflow"

Jverse — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:44:23 +0000

He credits all contributions to their respective user

New comment by Jverse in "I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)"

Jverse — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:36:50 +0000

How did you get along with your older peers? An age difference of two years is quite a lot in primary school.