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I’m just listening to an interview with the head of the Icelandic National Broadcaster and their line is that this was “not a political decision” on their part, but because this programme item would no longer be the “joyful unifying event” that it has been and is supposed to be, so they’re not taking part. There is a bit of hand-washing going on, but they’re not really wrong either.

It seems that no decision has been made about whether to hold the usual preliminary local competition, and the media reports don’t even mention whether the finals will be shown.

It’s probably time to put the kettle on and stay away from the Internet, and perhaps other people in general, until you’re feeling better.

If that’s the literal point, and worth getting aggro about, then why on God’s green earth are you talking about tea? And milk?!?

And yet it’s too hot for a proper cup of green tea.

Faithfully projecting a globe onto a flat surface is impossible and all projections have to balance a number of compromises. Mercator retains compass directions and the shapes of land masses but entirely sacrifices relative scale between equatorial regions and polar regions. This makes it great for navigating a 17th century vessel. Other projections strike a different balance, like this one, and sacrifice compass direction and land mass shapes in order to perfectly retain scale. On this map, my little Arctic island looks like someone stepped on it.

IMO a balanced projection will compromise on all the nice properties a projection can have, and if that isn’t acceptable, then get a globe.

Sure you do. You go there for the Indian food and the Thai food and we have a Burmese place we go to each time we’re in London.

And sure, might get some bangers and a pie while we’re there.

Would that be a problem when travelling to the… oh, right, we’re not doing that anymore… would this be a problem for Europeans travelling to Canada?

So… they chose to make a very Pixel-specific OS and you’re mad at Fairphone?

I do not.

See my other response to your pre-edit comment.

How about this, this is a real easy one. What type of function is this:

There is a theorem that “all smooth functions are locally linear”. In other words, most “normal” functions are indistinguishable from a straight line on the graph if you zoom in far enough.

So that’s not just not an easy one, it is an impossible one.

Or you can just admit you dont have any data to quantify your assertion that AI advancement is exponential growth.

Ah, that’s a fair argument. LLMs growing exponentially is just an assertion being made and we’re supposed to believe that then the steep growth must be just around the corner.

But all over this post you’ve got heavily downvoted comments that sound like you are misunderstanding exponential functions rather than doubting that they’re the right model for this.

We might be on the steep part of an S function right now.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I saw her in a place called San Martino.

And obviously since it’s got Monica Bellucci.

It’s hard to avoid completely. Just clicking the link can be considered buying American. (Even worse that Wife and I subscribe to NYT. But WaPo got cancelled)

Do you also expect the cost of titling and taxes be included in the advertised price?

As a European, yes. Absolutely fucking yes. I drove a Model 3 away (a while ago obviously) with all papers in order paying exactly the listed price.

Citation needed wrt France

and hopefully it stays that way.