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StackOverflow was destroyed by a steady stream of miserable questions, and then by the infinite ego of moderators and power users.

They forgot that there are still people asking good questions and started to close everything.

Z downvote from z bozo weights the sama as one from an expert.

You need to bend backwards znd then lay flat to not annoy mods

Meta is the nest of psychopathic narcissists.

And many more.

Stack Exchange sites such as cooking or latex (and other niche ones) work very well. It is just that people are not full of themselves.

I started with SE ca 2014, loved it, participated a lot, accumulated half a million internet points and now hate the place. It did not age well.


> then there's a fair argument that you should not be out.

Better kill them, then. Their stay in prison will not help them, and there will be less costs and risks.


> unvwaxxed not allowed to enter

This is the correct approach. If you are an asdhole for not caring about others but using the herd immunity znyway, this is the latest that can be done to show contempt.

My wife is immunodepressed and cannot be vaccinated. She avoids plenty of places because shit people like this do not care.

I once physically threw away someone sick and unvaccinated from a place for babies only that are not protected by the mother and too young to protect themselves. It was violent, I called the police afterwards myself.

People don't be dicks with other people life.


Covid vaccines never prevented infection and transmission. If anything, out of the people I know the vaccinated got it much more often because they were more careless.

No one claimed it totally prevented infection or transmission. But it did significantly lower the rate.

Please stop stating idiocies and behave like a grown-up.

Look at the numbers and you will see the drop in BOTH the number of infections, AND the transmissions (because of a reduced viral payload).

These are sensibly larger than would be expected from natural herd immunity due to infections.

Vaccines also greatly reduced the severity of the disease, when caught anyway.

If you do not believe in science, treat this as a religion and do it anyway without thinking.


Exactly. Only by selecting 0 this will put pressure to get rid of it

I saw this in two restaurants already and I am pissed


It won't though. A screen on the card terminal is free - if just 1% of people misclick the button and pay a tip, the company still wins.

A restaurant is fundamentally selling an experience. These screens do not improve the experience. Therefore, they have some cost to the business. The question is whether the cost is recuperated.

Doesn't matter in touristy places though, because you don't rely on repeat customers.

> A screen on the card terminal is free

... consulting companies developing the terminal entered the chat ...

(just kidding, I agree with you)


This is no pressure. You can exert pressure by saying that you are cancelling the transaction because of the tipping screen and you'll eat somewhere else.

This is too late, at that stage you have already eaten. I am not sure if they appreciate if you give them the food back.

You could tell them that you are very happy to pay them the price they printed on the menu and that they can present you with a payment terminal charging exactly that price, but that you will not do that job for them. Basically make the waiter select the 0% option.

But in the end you'll only annoy the waiter and not the owner of the restaurant who is actually running the tipping scam.


At least in that case you can safely select a 0 tip. It's worse when you pay up front and have to worry about a lower than expected tip resulting in some kind of retribution from the staff.

Yeah that's not possible. When you're presented with the terminal the food is already in your system.

Or maybe you can be like our former Ministry of Culture, Jack Lang, who just resigned from a prestigious, if useless, post in the wake of the Epstein scandal. It was revealed that he never paid for anything in his 60+ years of public "service", always leaving restaurants, hotels, etc. without footing the bill.

For you and me, this would be called stealing and would eventually land us in jail. But if you're a minister in France it's called "living like a prince" and being "a little stingy".


Oh, that one is weird.

I see this feature in Poland. The choice is clear. Or there is no choice and it is paid in local currency.


I saw the same in an ATM in Greece. The first screen wanted me to let them convert the currency (at a 20% markup), I declined, and the second screen said "are you sure? You might be charged a lot" and had "accept" and "decline" where the small print said "do you want us to convert anyway?".

It was really scammy and I almost fell for it.


That one is not weird. There is an intent to deceive, so it is fraud.

The rule is always "pay with local currency"

We have the same thing in Euroland


Here in Greece it always asks "Euro or USD?". Most merchants know to press Euro, the rest ask me. I think I've maybe had one merchant press USD by accident in ten years or so.

Exactly, who has more incentive to rip you off, your bank or some random merchant/payment processor/local bank that you are probably never going to interact with again either way.

We have legorafi.fr in France which is a reference. To the point that some foreign papers quoted it :)

Some articles:

- resolve your attention problems in 328 steps

- according to studies, humans use only 10% of their smartphone

There are others that are very good but to close to France to be understandable abroad


> LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff

Could someone please elaborate on this? This is intriguing


In general, text isn’t a great medium for transmitting spatial info. That’s why it’s easy for a model to understand an image but hard for it to draw an SVG of that image.

This is a big reason why SOTA models are trained multimodal these days. Even when you're using them for text, the knowledge they gain from images and video improves their world models.

I did my PhD in physics using nn back in 1997. It was not thriving yet, but was quite advanced already.

I remember I used a library (THE library) from a German university which was all the rage at that time.


And yet we are everywhere.


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