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New comment by tdiff in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

tdiff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:05:55 +0000

I've always imaginged that Amazonia is a hive of all types of diseases. I'd rather wonder how did they manage to survive there.

New comment by tdiff in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

tdiff — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:11:44 +0000

Would be funny if the defending side sent all the info they have to openai, tipping off to attacking models that they were noticed.

New comment by tdiff in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"

tdiff — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:54:05 +0000

Just using an opportunityto promote guys making really great videos about basic physics, focusing on experiments:

https://youtu.be/kUkgKsEq330?is=uxc8zlUy0z1eng6M

Unfortunately, English version are somewhat reduced from Russian, but still.

New comment by tdiff in "How to Read More Books"

tdiff — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:54:33 +0000

Thanks. Honestly, I am somewhat concerned with all those 3rd party apps obtaining some control of my phone. Personally, would be so much nicer to have the same service provided by system. Vibecoding one is really an option.

New comment by tdiff in "How to read more books"

tdiff — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:12:52 +0000

The most distracting app for me is Telegram with numerous channels, which I find myself doomscrolling too often, and at the same with numerous crucial personal contracts.

Really sad modern phones don't allow to set app's budget for custom interval, like 5 minutes in an hour.

New comment by tdiff in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

tdiff — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:17:05 +0000

I would guess they mean hiit can traumatize e.g. joints or cardiovascular system, especially for the elderly.

New comment by tdiff in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

tdiff — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:53:40 +0000

First thing coming into mind is the number of companies and individuals blocking Russians in the beginning of the war before any sanctions out of virtue signalling.

New comment by tdiff in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

tdiff — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:11:34 +0000

It is sad they are afraid to mention on the page that "data processing for a web analytics system ... similar to Google Analytics" was actually something used in Yandex.

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

tdiff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:30:53 +0000

Out of curiosity, can that model be trained from the beginning without touching "sensitive" areas and remain useful in others? Will it be able to help in building biological weapons without being trained on articles and books about biology/ medicine?

New comment by tdiff in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

tdiff — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:23:14 +0000

Just for context, it looks very much the same as Fast Payment System in Russia. Been a thing for some 10 years, and huge amount of retail works on it.

New comment by tdiff in "Google changes its search box"

tdiff — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:53 +0000

I think perplexity implements the same. Ive been using it as a default search for a month and actually still find myself explicitly using Google instead.

The ai generated summaries are slow, often miss the point of question and seem to be focused on user engagement, not in giving set of infos to sort out myself.

So there are two different types of queries, and when I want llm's answer, I ask chatgpt directly.

New comment by tdiff in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

tdiff — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:47:26 +0000

Interesting if his educational startup turned out to be less perspective at least with the current gen of llms.

New comment by tdiff in "Days without GitHub incidents"

tdiff — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:19:54 +0000

Not buying that untill they use a picture from the Simpsons

New comment by tdiff in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

tdiff — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:26:21 +0000

Was at actually so important to rush with the switch?

New comment by tdiff in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

tdiff — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:18:04 +0000

Ok if there were some rust guys rewriting coreutils with no experience in linux, but how come Ubuntu accepted it into its mainline?

New comment by tdiff in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

tdiff — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:15:56 +0000

If you check what people were telling about him (at least here: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE..., sorry for Russian), you will find what the opinions were very different. Yet in the series it all boiled down to a very primitive character.

New comment by tdiff in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

tdiff — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:25:55 +0000

It is silly how the show depicted Dyatlov as an arrogant sargeant behaving like a bully in American series about mid school kids.

This alone sets the tone of a TV show that needs to have clear goodies and baddies, and obviously life is never that simple.

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

tdiff — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:39:41 +0000

Is it actually allowed to suggest that some races are better than others in some areas?

New comment by tdiff in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

tdiff — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:06:39 +0000

I don't get why people capable of making complex bas-relief could not make the coin more or less round

New comment by tdiff in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

tdiff — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:10:32 +0000

> more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels

I think important detail is that it authorised attacks on any foreign vessel (of a specific nation), not only on pirate ships.