Switzerland is a Schengen country, so a ban of Schengen tourist visas for Russians would mean they also can’t apply for swiss tourist visas, as swiss visas are Schengen visas, i.e. the same rules apply. So unless switzerland exits Schengen, which would require a popular vote, it shouldn’t matter.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician getting applauded regularily, outside maybe of a talkshow setting. And not during a speech, maybe at the end when they finished. They also don’t really take center stage to give big speeches all that often. And having 7 presidents means less cult of personality.

It mostly looks like This is one of the presidents giving a press conference, with several experts/advisors next to him (and more experts in the front row, should more specific questions come up). The rest are journalists. I’d say press conferences make up the majority of appearances, so there’s no crowds/“fans”. Heck even the concept of a fan of one of the presidents sounds weird. Maybe for the parties, but I have never heard of anyone being a fan of one of the presidents.

Then there’s other events, but even for national day celebration speeches, it’s nothing crazy, this has some pictures of several of the presidents giving various national day speeches last year. No people in the background. But then I don’t think most people really watch any of this, so why bother?

“western food” is something that only exists in foreign countries anyways, like “asian food”. If it is something that is available, it’s not really what I’m used to from home, but some weird mish-mash of what someone thinks the typical american/british/german/other (in that order) eats. And on top of that, it’s usually terrible quality, not due to a lack of skill, just well, not having the right ingredients, not knowing the nuances of the food or what it’s supposed to taste like. So between a postmodernist interpretation of what someone thinks I eat, or proper local food, I really don’t understand why you’d ever not eat the local food.

But it’s not only western people. Japanese/Taiwanese/Chinese traveling in Switzerland do like to buy/bring instant noodles and cook them at the hotel instead of eating local food (not that there really is local swiss food, there’s like 3 dishes and then it’s mostly an amalgam of italian, french and german cuisine). Part of that is the high price, but not only. And from the few times I traveled in other european contries with friends from those asian countries, it seems common enough that they prefer to eat at asian restaurants. Except for italy, where everyone loves the local food.

From what I remember last time I read up on this, in conjunction with global warming, there is roughly a line from Paris to Frankfurt where more north than that, temperatures cool down because of AMOC collapse, and south of that temperatures are higher than pre-industrial because global warming outweighs AMOC collapse cooling.

But of course those are just relatively rough projections, and it’s average temperature, the extremes will still be way worse. So it’s not like Frankfurt will have peachy weather while the rest of the world goes to shit.

funny, I like it for the opposite reason. If I am buying a lot of groceries and want to pack them into my shopping trolley nicely, but there’s a line of 10 people behind me at the cash register. So I need to rush to put everything in as the cashier will just put more and more stuff on the conveyor to the point where other peoples groceries end up mixed with my stuff, because there’s only two lanes and the person right behind me only had 5 things, so the cashier is already handling customer 3 while I’m still packing.

With self checkout, I can decide the speed I want to pack at, make sure I don’t put fragile stuff at the bottom, can take it nice and relaxed. there’s 6 other terminals, so it doesn’t feel like I’m the one blocking the line. Just an overall less stressful experience.

Ah ich sehe du hast gern Bären. Leider gibts die nur sehr selten hier.

I wouldn’t say the last ones, though close. E.g. the number of economists saying that income inequality and not paying fair wages is bad (for the economy, mind you, not out of concern for people) far outnumber politicians saying the same, in my experience. Though neither group is very large, unfortunately…

Oh I always took it as a version number, which seems fitting for tech bros. Like alpha version = buggy, not ready for the general public, use at your own risk

The METR one maybe?

and i think Patrick Boyle’s recent video gives a pretty fair overview even though he’s an economics, not a tech creator.

Some other scenarios to consider:

• AI company decides to up the profit by switching your agents to a cheaper, worse model behind the scenes while keeping your costs the same
• AI company deciding that your business is plenty lucrative and now that you’ve onboarded their agents and they know your day to day, what do they need you for? You’re just a shell around their agents. So they cancel the contract, create their own competing business and poach all your customers.

the interesting bit is, 90%+ of ai revenues come from a few big companies, not regular Joes. And i think ai is a way for some companies to extract every drop of value from other companies, now that people are squeezed dry. I guess companies turning on each other, which might be fun to watch, though I doubt we will just be on the sidelines. It’s the logical next step in capitalism, if you run out of people to cheat and rent seek from, there’s plenty of easy corporate victims. Sure at first it’s, smaller mom and pop stuff (I mean, that’s been going on for a while now), but no reason not to do it for bigger companies, might even have less overhead and easier pickings. And ai is perfect for that.

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There’s gemini (terrible name unfortunately due to Google). But anything that becomes popular will just get flooded, too.

So your stance is that as long as there’s anyone in the world not speaking out against everything made by immoral people, you can use whatever you want?

Also just FYI, Omarchy has a big history of beginner-level exploitable bugs, so just from a security standpoint I wouldn’t use it.

Ja die Zeremonie war super unterhaltsam, ich war positiv überrascht. Einer der wenigen positiven Effekte von Trump, anstelle von USA ist es jetzt dieses Jahr in Zürich, nächstes Jahr in Belgien. So haben mehr Leute die Chance, teilzunehmen.

Zu deinem zweiten Punkt, redox flow Batterien skalieren deutlich besser als einzelne Batteriezellen und machen für Grossspeicher mehr Sinn (weil mehr Speicher = grösserer Flüssigkeitsank, nicht mehr Zellen, was deutlich günstiger ist). Von denen gibt es einige im Einsatz, mit total so 2-3 GWh Kapazität. Hauptsächlich mit Vanadium, das ist das einzige Problem, weil das eher ein Nebenprodukt und nicht gezielt abgebaut wird.(also noch geringes Angebot und Preisschwankungen). Aber Forschung in Richtung Eisen Redox Flow ist da sehr spannend, des könnte das Rohstoffproblem lösen. Sie machen 0 Sinn für E-Autos oder ähnliches. Aber für Netzspeicher haben sie eig. nur Vorteile (längere Lebensdauer, einfacheres Recycling, günstig zu skalieren, kein Feuerrisiko) und die Nachteile (schwer, gross und klobig) spielen für Netzspeicher keine Rolle.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is just the tech industry in general, not just AI. It’s been deeply unserious for a while now, cutting corners, throwing ethics out the window, just trying to get rich quick. But for the most part, they had to pretend to be serious people. Now AI is giving them a reason to give up the pretense and go mask off.

there used to be enough senior engineers to reign them in most of the time, but now they can just out-shit the serious engineers who can’t keep up with all the shit, and management’s obsession with AI is giving them the free pass to get away with it.

I think it really started some time around 2010, when the promise of easy money as a software engineer started attracting more people that do not really care for the craft, just to earn well while phoning it in with an easy desk job*. And AI really empowers that crowd.

*not saying this is necessarily wrong given that a lot of tech companies suck and if you leech off of them, well, more power to you. But it does not make it fun to work with those kinds of coworkers.

Ich dachte, das ist ein physikalischer Prozess, bei dem beide Teilchen zerstört werden und ne Unmenge an Energie freigesetzt wird?

Also the highway is usually fenced in, making it clear that in this case you’re not supposed to be there.

To be fair to the AI slop detector, Kurzgesagt is pretty close to slop…

of course in part because AI slop copies their content/style a lot, but imo that’s because the content lends itself to that. Cute cartoon to give you pretty colors to look at plus voiceover superficially discussing a topic is right up AI’s alley.

not that this is ok of google, and it’s yet another in a long series of things that show that youtube does not care about its workforce at all.

Ich stimm dir vollkommen zu, ich wollte nur sagen, wenns die nicht an jeder Ecke hat, ist es noch schlimmer.

Und man kann sich darüber aufregen so viel man will, das ändert die Leute leider nicht. Und je weniger Aufwand es ist, desto eher machen sie es. Und leider, ja, wenn der Mülleimer nicht gerade in Sichtweite ist, gibts leider viele die nicht erst suchen gehen.