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New comment by benhurmarcel in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:23:17 +0000

Now add up the engineer’s salary and you’ll find that software seats already cost more than those R&D ones.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:52:10 +0000

I often use LLMs to suggest recipes based on some criterias, but yes once you decided what you want to cook always go find some non-IA recipes for it

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:37:08 +0000

And then we have the national post office sending its notifications from the scammiest-looking domain they could find: noreply@notif-colissimo-laposte.info

New comment by benhurmarcel in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:16:19 +0000

It has a good title

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:53:18 +0000

Can it store multiple urls for the same password now?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:53:56 +0000

I’m left handed and can use a mouse with either hand. It’s just a matter of habit.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:34:37 +0000

In his case of a large company, I’d expect that completing the useless training is necessary to get access to the tool. That’s how it worked in mine.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:20:58 +0000

If you disable your watch history, Youtube won't show you personalized Shorts anymore. Much less addictive.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:16:33 +0000

I don’t think PWA can do widgets indeed, but they can have an icon on the iOS home screen.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:39:44 +0000

I’m surprised the author went for native apps rather than a PWA for this use

New comment by benhurmarcel in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:20:52 +0000

For column types there are STRICT tables now

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:02:44 +0000

Standard card payment that you need to autorize on your phone in your bank's app...

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:27:56 +0000

Did you stop looking at cars after 2015 ? Most electric cars look very normal.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:43:07 +0000

> cite wanting things to "just work", often claiming that they "don't want making the computer work to become a second job"

I feel this way, yet I've used Linux on the desktop for a decade before, even selecting my hardware for compatibility. Yet even when using "stable" distros like Ubuntu, it did require maintenance regularly. With more hyped distros like Arch it was constant. Sure I was always able to fix it, but I had to do it.

I installed Windows back when I started having kids. I just don't have the time and mental space anymore to dedicate to fixing the OS regularly. I need to be able to let updates happen and not wonder whether I need to have 20 minutes free afterwards to fix something.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:29:52 +0000

> they provide roads for lots and lots of EU transit traffic

Not for free though

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:35:30 +0000

In many countries, the word “government” only refers to the executive branch

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:24:55 +0000

They never claimed it was faster, but healthier

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:38:32 +0000

In that case, if you stick to pre-ground coffee, just get an Oxo Rapid Brewer. It’s cheap, easy and fast to use and clean, and only requires a kettle. You’ll get decent coffee.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:27:18 +0000

I wonder how many grams of coffee beans they consider are in 1 cup though.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:22:45 +0000

Especially if you like Americanos, chances are you'll be happier with filter coffee from good beans, rather than spending it in an espresso machine.

Get an Aeropress, or Hario Switch, or Clever dripper. A kettle and some filters. For beans buy from roasters that do light/meduim roasts, and print a recent roasting date on the package/website. The only expensive item should be a grinder, look at 1zpresso Q/Air/X or Kingrinder K6 if you want to limit price.