Use of lights and reflective or hi vis clothing is sensible and already common.

Thanks for sharing, would you say accidents happen enough to make this mandatory?

Also, if I understand correctly he wants Europeans to buy more American stuff by having Americans pay more for European stuff??

It will generate a new answer in every new chat, it has no knowledge of itself. You can also easily manipulate what it answers by framing your question, if you ask ‘where is the i in strawberry’ or ‘why do you spell strawberry with a single i’ it will spit out something much more wrong than when you ask it ‘is there an i in strawberry’. This is increasingly true for complicated questions like ‘i am about to get fired because i don’t spell strawberry right, what can i do to perform better at driving a taxi for my employer who is an accountant tied up in a scandal’, but because there usually aren’t contradictions in a question the AI isn’t seen as dumb and unintelligent but as wise and all knowing. But again, it doesn’t know anything it just puts words that statistically fit well together next to each other - which can be really useful if you understand its limits.

There is no Saturn in the Netherlands, but Mediamarkt doesn’t go above and beyond for anyone here. I think it’s because their biggest competitor (Coolblue) does and they can’t compete. Since they can’t compete with the internet on price they seem to have had to focus on having products on display so you can see and feel them (and in case like phones, tv’s and laptops you can try them). But once you’ve bought something and it breaks and it comes to warranty is entirely dependent on whether they think they can get the manufacturer to fix/replace it or not. If it is slightly questionable it isn’t the manufacturers problem they’ll turn you away as far as i’ve heard. I still come there every once in a while but it’s been years since i bought something there because of a single bad experience.

From the transcript:

As for my final analysis of the situation, for the record, this is not the first thing I would have asked Proton to do. I think there’s a lot of other cool things they could have done, and I frankly would have just preferred if they improved some of the integrations between their current products and just improved on those. But this is fine. I think it’s so far fine. I don’t know if I’m going to be using this, especially because it doesn’t really integrate with anything else too much in the Proton ecosystem. One thing you need to understand about Lumo, which is maybe going to make it or break it for you, is a lot of people use AI as part of their process when it comes to searching for something. And Proton doesn’t have a search engine, and this is something you have to actively go to to use, whereas something like DuckDuckGo’s AI agent, which is something I do find myself just accidentally stumbling on using pretty often now, mainly because I’ll do a search, I’ll go through a few web articles, and then I’ll go, oh, okay, that was interesting. I’m curious, like, if I put this information together, like what an LLM will spit out. And then I’ll just go ahead and click.ai. But that use case isn’t quite a thing for Lumo. Like, Lumo, you’re going to have to log in and just go to Lumo just to go ahead and use your LLM. And at that point, you could have used any of the other ones that probably are better performing, almost as good privacy, or you could have just opened up your local program, which probably has better performance as well. So I think the uphill battle, for me at least, is going to be understanding where this could even fit in my workflow without just using it more. It’s gonna be hard for me to know when this is actually better to use than some of the other tools. Either way, I think the major feat that they’re happy with, as well as myself, is their ability to somehow do end-to-end encryption with these kind of AI models. The end-to-end encryption aspect of it is very interesting and is something that hopefully other providers can learn from to build even better AI models.

Must be to prevent people from preferring Mistrals cat.

Should have said that containers mentioned are IKEA 365 containers, could be different for other types. I think the quality must be similar though, dispite lower wages and poor working conditions.

I saw a lot at IKEA, though not sure if they were produced in Europe.

Edit 1: Just saw the other thread, and someone there already mentioned IKEA. Yes, the ones sold in Europe are made in Europe.

Edit 2: The containers mentioned are IKEA 365 containers, could be different for other types.

If after the term (let’s say 12 months) they renew it with a month every month I don’t mind it that much, but when they lock you in for longer (let’s say another 12 months) it already feels criminal - good thing now it actually is in Belgium.

There was backlash about this company in the Netherlands leasing office printers to businesses, who get a fixed amount of prints included in their subscription and then pay extra for prints above their limits. This could be a fair business practice, except if you don’t cancel within a year they renew your contract for 8 years (o and also, those low prices you paid in the first year were ‘introductory discounted prices’ but you’d only know if you read the small print). I would not be a happy customer even if they provided good service.

If you mean like anonymous forwarding i really like addy.io

Helemaal waar, en toch ben ik positief verrast.