What people like Rob Pike don't understand is that the technology wouldn't be possible at all if creators needed to be compensated. Would you really choose a future where creators were compensated fairly, but ChatGPT didn't exist?
Well yeah.
Readit Newsmetronomer commented on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social/?url=https... · Posted by u/christoph-heiss
As expected, the stupidest imaginable policy. Take all the guardrails completely off, even though the ones that are in place are already toothless. Don't worry, the free market will ensure that everything is turned into paperclips at the maximum possible speed.
Let's hope it doesn't get universal
> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta.
NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States.
Apparently, this didn't quite work out due to both language and cultural differences
Then, one of the guests says:
"Yes, there were some challenges. In fact, we ended up getting books with titles like: 'How to manage Spaniards if you are a German'"
tbh that's in mostly an exaggeration, specially among new gens who tend to do more quick lunchs and take-aways.
Even though we have lunch significantly later than the european average (I'd even say closer to 2pm or even up to 3pm rather than 1pm), something that somewhat awkwardly here I agree it's excessive, I doubt anyone (unless they're exploiting the cultural-difference thing and somehow it's working) stays until 5pm lunchin' midweek.
Perhaps it may only be applicable in the context of the weekend (when lots of gatherings at bars and tapa overdoses for who-knows-how much time happen), but overall for at least 5 out of 7 days a week that's an oversimplification.
metronomer commented on Conversations are better with four people thetimes.com/article/why-... · Posted by u/nomilk
I wonder if that's why some people are introverts, without even realising the cause.
I'll do small talk, but it's more boring than mowing the lawn with a pair of scissors. I find large gatherings completely boring, with nothing but noise involved because, well.. it's all just meaningless chatter.
Maybe some people aren't introverts, just "talking to more than a few people means this is dumb" verts.
Same for me, in most situations I feel like 2 people (me included) is the perfect number, as I find it to be the only way for a conversation not to diverge from its pivotal argument ~2-3 minutes into it at maximun. Though sometimes when I feel more talkative 3 people is somewhat like a sweetspot, in disagreement with the article (for me personally) when the irl server reaches four it usually feels to me like a point of no return I wished we didnt get ourselves into.
metronomer commented on Europe's Rail Operators: A Comparative Ranking transportenvironment.org/... · Posted by u/doener
Is Renfe really the second best by reliability? That makes me very surprised, as I have never taken a ride in Renfe that wasn't 5-10 minutes late.
tenƒe (have faith)
metronomer commented on Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022) thecraftsmanblog.com/why-... · Posted by u/samclemens
Curiously enough, here in Spain they're still pretty common nowadays, as lots of houses purposely incorporated green awnings, both to protect an exponentially-growing number of these houses from harsh sunlight during summer season, and to presumably 'soften' the arrival to the city of an increasing quantity of newcomers from rural Spain, as they already were very familiarized with them and, the designers thought, would find spots of green on the building more appealing comming from a greener countryside.