MichaelRo

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by MichaelRo 8d ago
That seems nice. I'm not sure why some guy says on a different comment "People think TX is some libertarian utopia because it has no personal income tax on a W2 salaried person, but do the full cost of living comparison with prope
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by MichaelRo 8d ago
This is the part that struck me: "According to the local government’s property records, the building was worth $1.6 million for tax purposes. The tax liability on the property was $46,000 a year." Do I read this right that the own
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by MichaelRo 10d ago
Main problem was using a corporate card. I don't even know what that is, the concept just doesn't exist here. Second problem was using a credit card. I know what that is but definitely don't have one, nor has anyone I know ar
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by MichaelRo 10d ago
>> "About a year ago I became fascinated by AI-assisted programming. Despite having no formal CS background, with LLMs I managed to build a fairly large TypeScript/JavaScript system [...] At first it felt almost magical: [..
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by MichaelRo 16d ago
I stopped reading at "vibe-coded".
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by MichaelRo 18d ago
On ZX-Spectrum? There was no "MIC" input on ZX-Spectrum, not that I know of. I was in high school at the time with only a rough understanding of the hardware but it was kinda obvious to me that whatever I plugged into the casette
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by MichaelRo 18d ago
I gotta try this on real hardware, reading the original article it seems it's barely audible without an amplifier, unlike on an emulator. Will post an update after I get back to my parent's home, where I have these beauties that l
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by MichaelRo 21d ago
>> he continues to vibe code through me So quit pair programming. I never did, never will do that, nor worked at a place that remotely encouraged that. Each to their own, that's how it should be.
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by MichaelRo 24d ago
I had many Xiaomi phones roughly from 2014 to 2024 and all were chock full of software bugs, going worse in more recent phones up to the point I couldn't take it anymore and bought a Samsung. I will never go back to Chinese crapware. T
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by MichaelRo 28d ago
>> There’s a generational split in those numbers; among the under-35 crowd, it’s 60 percent. The older demographic still prefers coffee, and 66 percent of Americans drink that every day, too. But, but! Isn't coffee consumption su
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by MichaelRo 29d ago
>> the firefighters demonstrate how paramedics leave their shoes positioned at entrances in precise spots What the **?! That seems like one step too far, guy is heaving a heart attack inside and medical personnel first instinct is to
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by MichaelRo 1mo ago
Maybe "take-home exam" is not the proper name. During school, I had "homework". During university I had "projects". Definitely quite a few projects over the course of a semester. And about cheating with AI. Aft
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by MichaelRo 3mo ago
>> Just don’t think about all the suffering you or I could ease with the money we spend on a “good time.” Look man. I am not responsible for any random person or creature that suffers in this world. Lamentations like this ("ease
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by MichaelRo 3mo ago
>> But a restaurant where clients don’t get of food poisoning 98% of time is getting people sick on a monthly (or even weekly) basis. Objectively, I think it's impossible to work in the food industry and avoid food poisoning 100%
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by MichaelRo 3mo ago
>> But sugar maybe? Interesting observation back at you! :) Never thought of this but recently I started being a bit more careful with my sugar and carbs intake, after a blood test has shown an elevated level of glycated hemoglobin. C
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by MichaelRo 3mo ago
Didn't know there's a "car sickness" strictly related to reading the phone while in transit, I knew there's those people that can barely survive riding a car but that was it. I do get the "reading phone motion
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
Don't have an online presence yet, will let you know when I add that.
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free. This argument would have flown 30 years ago with Yahoo. Since then we had Uber pumping so much money into a losing business until
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
Nothing new under the sun. When clocks and precision mechanics started in the 17th century, there was a tendency to view humans as "machines". Computers came, suddenly human brains are "computers". Now we're LLMs. I
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
I had my phone fell from my pocket while in a dancing club at night. Someone found it, took it to the bartender and I got it back (saw the location on my computer using Google's find your phone). But would I deliberately leave my phone
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
>> Friends whose family also worked for the company were sort of privileged as a result. Well to tell the full story, my father was an employee of the Agricultural Production Cooperative (CAP - Cooperativa Agricola de Productie - in R
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
My first phone in the early 80s was a hand-cranked magneto phone like this: https://images.okr.ro/serve/product/572e8fdd848db2d3b02d36d2... Connected by 12Km of telephone wire to a manual switchboard where an oper
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
>> I have a hard time spending, to the point where I would often procrastinate on buying things that I know I’ll need in the future. Well, what I noticed is that I go to great efforts to avoid buying me some stuff that would make my l
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
>> With AI, we‘re cargo-culting understanding We're cargo culting "the manager view". Like the critic you can read on Bret Devereaux's blog about Game Of Thrones having been written from an elite's point of vi
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
My wife gave birth by C-section. That would have killed her up until very modern times. She may theoretically birth another child but there's a substantial risk. There are "physical aspects", just because it's all theore
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
I don't understand the "knowingly stunting the growth of your child" attack. What makes you conclude I'm stunting the growth of my child? He's not chained to a tree. He goes to private school in a country where publ
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
>> But ok, you do you. Thanks for the insults jerk. ROFL. Didn't you notice he's Dutch? And old (add insult to injury). Expect extreme absence of delicacy from the Dutch, they simply lack that gene. Then again, your comment
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by MichaelRo 5mo ago
>> But there are no other kids out there. I'm sending him out into streets empty of kids. This. It's a number's "game". My father, born in rural Romania, had 8 siblings, one of them died of an accident in his
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by MichaelRo 6mo ago
>> Software engineering is looking more and more like it needs a professional body in each country, and accreditation and standards. Doesn't help much, accounting needs accreditation and standards, but that doesn't prevent c
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by MichaelRo 6mo ago
>> We live in a world where someone has to clean the sewers, unblock toilets, maintain electricity lines in snow storms, weld deep underwater, clean, wipe the butts of old people, and 10,000 other thankless, tiring, and dangerous jobs

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