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New comment by ashwoods in "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27"

ashwoods — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:18:44 +0000

Not really. Spain's traditional format is dd/mm/yyyy with slashes. This applies for a good chunk of Europe. Germany/Austria uses dot, I think nordic countries embraced the dash. While you might see more adoption in offical/digital contexts, I just double checked a few popular spanish websites, all slashes.

New comment by ashwoods in "Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed"

ashwoods — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:46:22 +0000

I'd venture to say that the person meant that these kind of devices should be designed to work "locally first".

New comment by ashwoods in "Buy European: EU Commissions New Apply AI Strategy Launched"

ashwoods — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:01:08 +0000

I think this comment is, while factual, slightly misleading. Only around 16% of people "living off the government" are public servants, from which over 50% are for essential services like education health or public safety.

Over 50% of those "living off the government" are pensioners, so mostly coming from a pool of people who already worked (and most of them in the private sector), and paid their share in taxes. In spain, the private sector makes 70% of the active workforce, while the public sector around 13%, self employed 13%, and unemployed 10%.

I know Spain (and Europe) have quite a lot of structural problems, but I fail to see how having so many pensioners has anything to do with AI regulations.

New comment by ashwoods in "[dead]"

ashwoods — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:58:22 +0000

My take from the article isn’t that it’s really expected from Amazon. It’s calling out the hypocrisy of what Jeff has done at the Post.

New comment by ashwoods in "Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences"

ashwoods — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:08:35 +0000

I think you didn’t get the question. If we were to seek that evidence, who would turn to?

New comment by ashwoods in "Long-term nuclear waste warning messages"

ashwoods — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:03:32 +0000

I don’t know, there seems to be more evidence in support of this fact than there seems to be of it being propaganda: https://www.twz.com/45098/ukraine-situation-report-evidence-...

New comment by ashwoods in "Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem"

ashwoods — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:01:46 +0000

I now prefer to use overlayfs with a tmpfs overlay. Much simpler to configure and update.

New comment by ashwoods in "Ask HN: Help – Locked out of 10 years Gmail account"

ashwoods — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 13:57:58 +0000

They might not explicitly, but you have the right to take any data you have or they might have on you of any service, no matter if you have an account or not: aka right of access. I don’t know if it has been used this way, but it might be a possibility.

New comment by ashwoods in "Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights"

ashwoods — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:23:42 +0000

Calling out anthropomorphization of corporations when related to morality or politics while attributing rationality or self-interest is a contradiction.

Corporations have no self-interest or do not think. Corporations are human artifacts composed of human beings that have specific rules applied to them in the great game in our societies, and tend to behave accordingly. This behavior have patterns that we as humans recognize unsurprisingly as human, because they are composed by humans. A corporation is a as rational as a group of humans can be.

Corporations do not always "act" in their self interest, and we can (and in my opinion should) expect moral obligations from them as we do with humans.

New comment by ashwoods in "Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist"

ashwoods — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:19:21 +0000

Wouldn’t this easily be circumvented by creating a website that shows you the source of any other website?

New comment by ashwoods in "Microsoft passes Apple to become the most valuable company"

ashwoods — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:46:08 +0000

The parent mentioned not what alphabet does, but where it gets (most) of its revenue from. Google is making phones, but not really making a lot of money from them. So the question is, what is the future of alphabet?

New comment by ashwoods in "Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company"

ashwoods — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:53:32 +0000

I remember reading about the talc issue in Spain, and a quick search led me to congressional action on talc: https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-kri... I’m afraid the bias might be elsewhere.

New comment by ashwoods in "“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”"

ashwoods — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:20:30 +0000

For a few months my wife had a baking job that required her getting up at 4. I’d get up with her and start to work after breakfast. I’d have the days work before 9:00 standup. More time for sport and cooking. Think it was a healthier lifestyle in total. Social life was impossible though, we couldn’t manage to stay awake long enough to meet up with friends. And impossible to maintain once she switched to another shift.

New comment by ashwoods in "'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out"

ashwoods — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 09:14:27 +0000

I think this post is just ignoring some of the realities that a lot of people have gone through. In many places you weren't allowed to leave your home at all. In spain, only one adult member of your household was allowed to go outside for basic necessities, without leaving your neighborhood, for 3 months. For about another 3 months you were limited to certain times and areas, which made having social distancing for walking/running practically impossible. Couple that with the fact that in some cities people live crammed in small rooms in shared apartments, the access for healthy movement for a lot of people was greatly impacted.

New comment by ashwoods in "'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out"

ashwoods — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:32:14 +0000

What about older people who couldn't even have their daily walks for several months? Should they be squatting in their tiny apartments holding water bottles instead? I'm sure there are plenty of people who can work out at home, but I believe there are plenty of people who can't, or at least is a lot harder, for a variety of reasons.

New comment by ashwoods in "Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]"

ashwoods — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:25:06 +0000

We have been trying to reverse engineer Roman cement for quite some time. There are quite a few things that past civilizations did that are impressive by today’s standards and then lost to time.

New comment by ashwoods in "Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’"

ashwoods — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:02:40 +0000

I think the point is that even though it is called a phone, it is actually a portable super computer, and in many cases the only one people have. We can’t pretend it is only a device we use to call other people, it is the gateway to our digital lives. From banking, access to government services, to connecting to our loved ones and leisure.

New comment by ashwoods in "German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management"

ashwoods — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:40:33 +0000

Happy user of bunq.

New comment by ashwoods in "Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers"

ashwoods — Mon, 04 May 2020 19:39:52 +0000

Hmmm... I see a correlation between taste of bread and evilness here.

New comment by ashwoods in "The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis"

ashwoods — Fri, 01 May 2020 07:34:10 +0000

I agree generally with what you say but I’d substitute experts with humans.