Florian Haas

@xahteiwi
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Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. ๐Ÿ™‚

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.

Trรถts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi.

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Yes I do understand that there's confirmation bias involved in things one considers to have turned out right. I accept that this might influence your answer.

Serious question, if a little philosophical.

If you look back at big personal decisions you've made in your life that turned out right in retrospect, what's an accurate way to describe most of them?

A โ€” I made them quickly.
B โ€” I mulled over them for some time, and modified my thoughts, so what I eventually decided was better than my initial hunch.
C โ€” I spent a long time thinking about them, but in the end I went with something that largely matched my initial hunch.

Boosts appreciated!

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Poll ends at .

It looks like Joe is introducing a new generation to Rory Gallagher's music and there is nothing, I repeat NOTHING, wrong with that.

https://youtu.be/vp9cRofCP4Y

Joe Bonamassa - "Walk On Hot Coals" - The Spirit of Rory Live From Cork

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This week's flavour: salty.
Somebody please revert the change to the search feature in the Wikipedia Android app.

Are Samsung Galaxy Live Buds one of those "they don't make them anymore, so pray they don't break" products?

I've tried several others; they all sucked in one way or another.

My boys were genuinely shocked at the revelation that the track currently topping the middle school's charts is from the past millennium.
If your website does something, and you've failed to provide an EASY option for people to tell you when it doesn't do that thing correctly anymore, you've failed full stop.

I am certainly not disputing her highlighting the role of younger, female leaders in politics, and I'm not disagreeing with the notion of social media being polarising, but the opening statement is spot on: it's the electoral system. FPTP is fundamentally undemocratic.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_6wr5sSwn-I

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin on the beauty of finding compromise through coalition government

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Happy anniversary to the Treaty of Rome!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome

Treaty of Rome - Wikipedia