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New comment by gield in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"

gield — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:57:07 +0000

> The most expensive one was listed for 13 million.

This one [1]? It's a huge villa (not on an island) plus 2 islands for that price, so not really comparable.

I found a more representative example of an island with a house that is currently for sale [2]. It is listed for €1.5 million.

[1] https://www.quotenet.nl/vastgoed/qasteel/a62799798/joop-drec... [2] https://www.funda.nl/detail/koop/loosdrecht/huis-drecht-16/4...

New comment by gield in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

gield — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:16:48 +0000

>Decathlon switched on Wero on decathlon.de on July 20, making Germany the first market in the French group’s international footprint to carry the European payment scheme.

This is not true, it has been available on the Belgian website (decathlon.be) for months.

New comment by gield in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

gield — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:01:14 +0000

What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.

New comment by gield in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

gield — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:35:33 +0000

Only some finishing touches on the inside in 2027 and 2028 are planned.

New comment by gield in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

gield — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:18:16 +0000

For some use cases, AI has been profitable for at least a decade.

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

gield — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:00:48 +0000

The last few years, cycling and triathlon have been experimenting with upto 120g carbs intake per hour. Last year, Cameron Wurf ate 200g carbs per hour when he broke the world record for fastest bike split ever in a triathlon (which was broken again a few months later).

New comment by gield in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

gield — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:24:36 +0000

Oops, I went by the publication date of the book

New comment by gield in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

gield — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:30:56 +0000

(2012)

New comment by gield in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

gield — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:53:13 +0000

This might seem weird coming from a car manufacturer but Skoda is a big sponsor of cycling races, most notably of the Tour de France and other ASO races. And as explained in the footer, they started out with building bicycles in the 19th century.

New comment by gield in "10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)"

gield — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:52:36 +0000

Your analogy to computer architectures doesn't make sense, unless comparing GPT-like LLMs to different LLM architectures like Mamba or RWKV. It indeed wouldn't make sense to not teach about Mamba or RWKV in an introductory AI or LLM course.

AI is much broader than LLMs alone. Computer vision, RL, classical ML, recommender systems, speech recognition, ... are still part of AI, just not very visible to the average consumer.

New comment by gield in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

gield — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:22:32 +0000

It's not an actual file but as a variable in a js file. The last link in the blog post does link to a commit with a file that contains the instructions for Claude, lines 129-737.

New comment by gield in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

gield — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:40:24 +0000

And 10 years ago, Reddit was already experimenting with auto-generated subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator.

New comment by gield in "Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised"

gield — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:07:34 +0000

I just checked all wallets, they're all empty with no recent transactions.

New comment by gield in "Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland"

gield — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:49:29 +0000

Can you please list some of those examples?

You didn't mention Belgium so I'm pleased to hear that Belgium is doing well according to you (4000 cases of euthanasia per year of which 80 are for psychological suffering, 1 child per year).

New comment by gield in "Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland"

gield — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:42:04 +0000

What kind of psychopath is against people dying in a dignified way?

New comment by gield in "Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland"

gield — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:34:20 +0000

Coincidentally, today there was an article in a Belgian newspaper about a 25-year-old woman who will undergo euthanasia in a few weeks due to severe psychological suffering with no prospect of improvement. After years of suffering and 40 failed suicide attempts, I indeed think it's much more dignified to have euthanasia as an option.

Euthanasia has some strict rules in Belgium, especially for cases involving psychological suffering. In 2014, the age restriction was dropped (except for psychological suffering). Since then, 6 minors have received euthanasia.

New comment by gield in "About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5"

gield — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:16:29 +0000

iPad Air 2 was released in October 2014 so the iPhone 6s is not even the oldest device in the article.

New comment by gield in "Models of European metro stations"

gield — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:20:32 +0000

If you want to see a ridiculous amount of escalators, take a look at the Collblanc station in Barcelona. It takes 6 escalators to transfer between the L5 and L9S lines.

New comment by gield in "The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list"

gield — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:35:24 +0000

I'm in a country that uses the 24 hour clock. We also say we meet at 4 or at 10, and are able to derive from context whether that means in the evening or in the morning.

New comment by gield in "Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)"

gield — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:37:56 +0000

>in the Netherlands (or neighbouring countries)

Most supermarkets in Belgium use a coin but some supermarkets (notably Colruyt) lock their shopping cart wheels.

Supermarkets that have a step-less escalator (e.g. to go to the parking lot in the basement) also use these locking wheels to make sure the cart never moves on the escalator. I live near an Albert Heijn that has these.