Sheesh, but DuckDuckGo and Google are quite useless. I just tried to see if The Internet has a record of the heli that flew to Chernobyl to shoot that first footage of the blown reactor (IIRC from Moscow, although that does not seems a plausible flying distance), and the search engines think I want to instead find out about the heli that crashed after hitting a crane...

If they had a cause to fight for, they'd probably have more resilience, but it's just a ship being swayed bu the back-and-forth of moronic decision-making.

Feels like their job is mostly to enrich the corporations profiteering from these inefficiencies, they're doing admin fighting the sick and dying who also gained the job of admin of fighting them (a job thrown at them to - in a lot of cases - literally save their lives, financially and physically).

OP should probably add this to his list of accomplishments on LinkedIn...

God damn it all to hell when even the comms department issues stupid crap like this.

The hacker groups would be a little frustrated trying to find all of the different CDs.

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As the article mentions, these are probably people who don't have the money in their bank accounts to pay for those things straight away.

Frakk, even at a sane repayment terms (e.g. fixed interest monthly, no steep penalties), it's an interesting way for finance companies to profit from the misery of the leg of the K in the K-shaped economy.

Same with the Nordic flags, which have similar geometry but different colors.

Nicely curated.

I use it on the phone to set alarms, add tasks or calendar events, I swipe up on the home screen to launch the app, and talk. For calendar, speech ("add calendar event dentist appointment on September 22 at 4pm") is even much more convenient than scrolling to the right month/date, using the UI to pick the time.

I'm currently vibe-coding a replacement app to use on-device speech recognition and setting alarms or adding calendar events. Sadly third party apps can't add stuff to Google Tasks without further interaction (or without OAuth) like Assistant/Gemini can.

Funny how the 2 mean are in each other's story as "anonymous" extras.

I used to read anything and everything on HN, but my allergy to slop has made me stop doing that. I suppose that's a good thing?

An example of "tasty" writing...

You wrote, in all lowercase, "i still tell it what to say." You can ask LLM to write something, and hypothetically, if he were still alive and you could persuade him enough (with a huge amount of money, maybe), you could ask Martin Amis to write you something. LLM will write something full of LLMesque phrasing, which many loathe (your post is flagged to death for a reason). Martin Amis will write you something which readers will find engaging and beautifully written. That's the difference.

And if you can't tell the difference, Dunning and Kruger wrote a paper about that.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/02/politicsphi...

Of course I don't expect human writing like his, but the typical LLMesque phrases are overused and just frustrates my brain when I see them yet again. In contrast, Amis' writing is delightful because it surprises.