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Betaalbaar uit eten? Bij deze tien restaurants dineer je voor minder dan dertig euro
Het bestaat nog: buiten de deur eten voor een schappelijke prijs. NRC tipt tien restaurants waar je voor minder dan 30 euro gegeten en gedronken hebt.

In 1917, as canadian troops fought at Vimy Ridge in northern France,
Lieutenant Leslie Miller collected acorns from the battlefield and carried them home to Ontario.
Saplings from the resulting oaks were sent back to France about a century later, and became a living link between the two countries.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted that story in Strasbourg last week to the European Parliament as he proposed an alliance that went far beyond trade
to encomp…

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave
They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

Idle coding: I found an API for tides in France at #julialang
It allowed me to relatively quickly answer a long-standing question of mine: how much bigger are the tides in Brittany than else…

The enemy is not fighting on the battlefield!

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinciali: Ukraine is demonstrating amazing capability on the battlefield.
Recent operations recapture territory with zero losses of infantry.
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Ukraine’s Armed Forces Enter Luhansk
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

The line of cyan markers runnung WNW from approx Roscoff in Brittany shows vessels working on the new France-Ireland electrical connector. Cables already on the seabed.
From Sibiril to Youghal!

Opinion by Eric Schmidt
the former CEO and chairman of Google and chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project.
Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming
Russia is mobilizing for total war.
It is considering another vast call-up of troops,
which Ukraine expects to happen this fall,
and is building the industrial capacity to produce weapons in extraordinary quantities.
Ukraine cannot match such enormous capacity on its own.
This…

Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming
Russia is shifting its strategy to erase Kyiv’s battlefield advantages.

@… I like to sketch the rate of progress in terms like: "because computers are one million times as powerful as back then, we can forecast the weather 10 days ahead instead of just 7".

LLMs are extraordinarily good at understanding what an answer would look like.

@… I bet it has already been done! (But on face value, LZ compression of a textual representation of the tune seems like a very good first-order approximation.)