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New comment by NicuCalcea in "MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser"

NicuCalcea — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:27:59 +0000

It's not very good semantically either.

> Give me a recipe for soup.

> Here is a recipe for soup:

> Saffa-Cake-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-

New comment by NicuCalcea in "When did Google get so weird?"

NicuCalcea — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:08:43 +0000

I get why you would want that, but I don't get why you don't get that it might not be the case for others. I love searching and clicking and reading around. Sometimes I read fascinating things about topics I wasn't searching for. I can't imagine a world where all my web searching is done through an annoying chatbot.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

NicuCalcea — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:51:03 +0000

Corporations can host whatever they want and governments can ban them for it.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "AI Robots – When will they be in our homes"

NicuCalcea — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:46:40 +0000

Scrollable story, sometimes also referred to as a scrolly. This is a particularly bad example though.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "A look under our trunk: what's in our compute"

NicuCalcea — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:46:29 +0000

Surely a person driving 18 people will emit less than each person driving themselves? I can see how dollars can be a proxy for macroeconomic stuff, for example by comparing countries, but it doesn't make much sense for comparing individual units of transport.

I don't understand why we have to do napkin maths to guess what's more polluting. There is countless research showing buses emit less than individual cars per passenger per km, self-driving or not.

And there's no reason buses can't be self-driving as well, if anything, them driving slower, on dedicated lanes and on fixed routes would make it much easier.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "A look under our trunk: what's in our compute"

NicuCalcea — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:42:35 +0000

You're counting emissions from a person's breathing as part of the vehicle's emissions?

New comment by NicuCalcea in "A look under our trunk: what's in our compute"

NicuCalcea — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:22:24 +0000

Most of the cost comes from paying the drivers, but also cost is a proxy for emmissions?

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

NicuCalcea — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:38:25 +0000

If there was a ghostwriting detector, I would use that too.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

NicuCalcea — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:32:19 +0000

It would be compatible with life for longer though. A dry sauna can get to 80-100°C, steam rooms are "only" 40-50°C. And subjectively, I can bear it much longer in a typical dry sauna.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

NicuCalcea — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:13:40 +0000

> You can manage the sponsored content on the Firefox Home and New Tab page in your Homepage settings.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:40:50 +0000

Believe it or not, the BBC has published multiple articles about the by-election, and most of them mention Farage's win in the headline.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

NicuCalcea — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:00:41 +0000

Largest by what metric? And which model is that?

New comment by NicuCalcea in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"

NicuCalcea — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:17:40 +0000

Imagine that you bought an axe, but the manufacturer banned you from making more axes with it.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

NicuCalcea — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:46:11 +0000

The inner screen is definitely not as durable as the outer one. I've not tried it, but it does feel like a hard press with a fingernail will leave a mark.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:24:24 +0000

In London, subway cars are either completely separated and you can't travel between them, or it's just one long continuous tube, there are no vestibules. You don't get much signal underground either way, so it's rare to see people on a call.

Most trains however have a space [0] at the end of each car where you enter and exit. That space can also have a toilet, bike storage, various (locked) train controls, sometimes even a few seats [1] where you can sit if your call will be a while.

0: https://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/uploads/7/6/8/3/76...

1: https://www.modernrailways.com/sites/modernrailways/files/im...

New comment by NicuCalcea in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:15:20 +0000

Common Crawl?

https://commoncrawl.org/

New comment by NicuCalcea in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:40:24 +0000

There's usually some space between train coaches (I think it's called a gangway?) or at the end of a coach (a vestibule) that is separated from the seats area by doors on both sides. You can take your call there.

New comment by NicuCalcea in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:33:23 +0000

A quarter of Americans (and 40% of young Americans) see Mangione favourably, so it definitely is a society thing.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/51189-presidential-pardons...

New comment by NicuCalcea in "Make Everything to Markdown"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:33:07 +0000

So is this mostly a wrapper around Docling, or are there any advantages compared with using Docling directly? https://klartext.it-handwerk-stuttgart.de/lizenzen

New comment by NicuCalcea in "The AI Aesthetic"

NicuCalcea — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:24:58 +0000

Here are just a few examples I found in a couple of minutes:

- https://www.salesforce.com/artificial-intelligence/

- https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Meta_AI_...

- Literally the Gemini logo