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New comment by TomK32 in "4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls"

TomK32 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:06:02 +0000

Just put "Don't use emojis" into the prompt.

New comment by TomK32 in "4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls"

TomK32 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:05:11 +0000

Ran it through several testes, only one flagged a few sentences as AI, including the one you mention. Fair enough, it's unlikely that English is the (turkish in this case?) author's first language and a little AI help can't hurt here.

I learned a great lesson for a gamedev youtuber this summer: Use AI to give you a summary what you have to implement, what functions you'll need, what edge case you missed and then write it yourself. Putting this into practice helps me to refine the ticket I'm working on. With the last ticket I had to persuade the AI (Atlassian's Rovo in my case) that a new data model wasn't necessary and we can do it more elegantly with less code.

Many of us still have to figure out how AI fits into our workflow, letting it do all the work isn't it but asking AI to point you towards the goal and let it review/refine your work sounds a lot more acceptable to me.

New comment by TomK32 in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

TomK32 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:16:50 +0000

Books have been declared dead several times of the last quarter century, yet in the EU alone it's still half a million new titles every year and a 40 billion Euro market.

New comment by TomK32 in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

TomK32 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:06:41 +0000

I've read a few of those articles in recent months, both in English and German, and I did read any book title that was rare. The Rare Book & Special Collection Div at the Library Congress considers books published before 1801 as rare. Searching for old books on abebooks is surprisingly hard but I didn't find any for less than 10 Euro and nothing in those articles suggested they were buying up anything but cheap books.

New comment by TomK32 in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

TomK32 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:16:54 +0000

I had a neighbour once who was quite unhappy about how short their lawnmower cut the grass, I did show them the two adjustment screws to raise the ground clearance...

New comment by TomK32 in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

TomK32 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:21:11 +0000

bbc.co.uk still allows listening to all stations live and yt-dlp has no problem to download shows, you just got to find your way to the correct page that doesn't trigger a redict to bbc.com e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qng7/episodes/player

New comment by TomK32 in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

TomK32 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:17:28 +0000

BBC 6music has a lot of great DJs, Chris Hawkins being my favourite with plenty of banter for a 5am show. While it's just a Friday late night show: Ashley Storrie on BBC Radio Scotland and don't be surprised if you hear the same listeners sending in messages on both stations. But then, they aren't commercial stations with less pressure. Whenever I have to listen to an Austrian (where I live) station I get bored. Even the public funded stations have commercials or, even more annoying, un-labeled advertising for the lottery.

New comment by TomK32 in "Qwen 3.8"

TomK32 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:35:57 +0000

You might want to ignore politics all day long, but rather sooner than later it's politics that will creep into your life and take an interest in whatever things that politicians mis-understand about your little niche.

New comment by TomK32 in "Qwen 3.8"

TomK32 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:32:30 +0000

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New comment by TomK32 in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

TomK32 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:09:57 +0000

Oh sorry, I missed that CA over-cautious warning label nonsense.

New comment by TomK32 in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

TomK32 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:57:57 +0000

I'm getting a lot of calls recently and don't give them more than a Hello and whatever music, radio show or Tour de France broadcast I'm listening to. Sometimes they hang in there for half a minute.

New comment by TomK32 in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

TomK32 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:44:46 +0000

They only do if you give your container that file system as a volume.

New comment by TomK32 in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

TomK32 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:45:33 +0000

The DOT has a list of interesting studies on the active transportation in the form of walking and cycling https://www.transportation.gov/mission/health/active-transpo...

You can also search for studies that compare the societal cost/benefit of using a car vs a bicycle. The generally accepted conclusion is that cars have a cost while cycling has a benefit for society.

New comment by TomK32 in "Count Binface"

TomK32 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:45:02 +0000

> If he goes into the parliament building without his costume

If the people vote for a man in a bin costume then he should have the right to represent them in that very same costume. On the other hand, to satisfy both his desire for a costumes as well as parliament's rules that basically allow its members to look at each other eye to eye, he might switch to a transparent bin. Something that would benefit the whole country as transparent bins allow its users as well as the bin (wo)men to identify bins that have been filled with the wrong waste.

New comment by TomK32 in "Count Binface"

TomK32 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:41:02 +0000

He was re-elected once more in 2009 and because the English have a really weird political system, the direct election of mayor was abolished by a vote in 2012 making him the first, last and only directly elected mayor the town ever had.

New comment by TomK32 in "Count Binface"

TomK32 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:30:27 +0000

Other interested candidates can submit their nomination from tomorrow to Friday and I think one needs the support of only 10 constituents and a hundred quid

More info should follow here today:

https://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/content/13-august-2026-electio...

New comment by TomK32 in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

TomK32 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:10:45 +0000

Wouldn't it be fun if those who are in favour of such measures were the first to behave their messages scanned?

New comment by TomK32 in "Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe"

TomK32 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:11:19 +0000

Fehmarnbelttunnel is the better example because you can see the difference in legislation between Denmark and Germany. Denmark passes laws for projects of such importance while in Germany the project has to hop over every existing legislative hurdle that are great for preventing smaller projects going bad, but do cost extra time and money on a larger scale.

New comment by TomK32 in "Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe"

TomK32 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:04:26 +0000

AOK insured 27 million in 2021, couldn't find a more recent number.

New comment by TomK32 in "My Favorite Keyboards"

TomK32 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:33:22 +0000

That Model M SSK looks real nice. I have not one but two Filco Majestouch 2 TKL with brown MX keys, one for 12 years and counting. They are so much heavier, nicer compared to what I got recently second hand: a WASD with a very wobbly case.