MichaelRo

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by MichaelRo 9mo ago
We went from the bullshit "internet of things" to "LLM of things", or as Sheldon from Big Bang Theory put it "everything is better with Bluetooth". Literally "T-shirt with Bluetooth", that's what
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by MichaelRo 9mo ago
Snake oil salesmen will predict that "this will be the year when the snake oil you buy from us will cure all ailments". Nothing new under the sun.
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by MichaelRo 10mo ago
As kids in a rural area in Eastern Europe, summer "vacation" was sure to be filled with "fun" farm work. I recall being amused at hearing one of my friends towards the end of the summer say: "man, I can't wait
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by MichaelRo 10mo ago
Yes, pretty much this. If they worked in the fields 12 hour per day as in a Victorian industrial setting, they would have perished from exposure, not having time to attend obligatory work around the house and to process the food and materia
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by MichaelRo 11mo ago
What's with the ghostly images? Can't we have one picture that's not some disturbing AI hallucination?
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Yeah, I think it was but I was just starting in programming and GOSUB didn't made much sense to me as it's not a proper structured programming procedure with input and output params but more like a hack with data passed through g
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
I recall starting to program in BASIC on CP/M and ZX-Spectrum machines and they didn't have procedures, only GOTO. Just like assembler, you can use all the JMP you want and not use structured programming and procedures but ... it
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> Do people want to live in a world where they can't trust anything they didn't personally see with their own eyes? Maybe it will all turn out for the better, in an unexpected way. Before the advent of the Internet and then
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> At least I realized I loose interest in my side projects the moment they become a chore Unfortunately, any reasonably complex side project eventually becomes work. It's still useful to keep grinding, as it builds perspective o
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
In the old days, TV was chock full of ads, sometimes to such a degree that you watched more ad time than movie time during a movie, assuming you didn't switch to other channels in between, always either missing the beginning of next pa
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> By EOY I had to sell my house, figured I could use the (significant) profits to buy time or I could travel and make the time a little more enjoyable, so I set out to explore most of Europe thinking, well I'll for sure find a j
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
After reading a couple of articles on fraud or just sloppy record keeping almost always behind centenarians, now I'm extremely skeptical on claims of people having past 100 years of age. While there are a few people who seemed to be ne
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
We live to 72 on average so only off by a factor of 1000x :)
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> and spend a relaxing 72,000 years This just shows a juvenile and naive level of thinking. You can't spend 72,000 years with our current brains in full conscience without going insane.
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
I would say, when you have 2, 3, 10 candidates, you don't need an exam. Problem is when you need to be machine gunning waves of assault soldiers. An exam seems better than the usual and increasingly sick alternatives: have people waste
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
The devil is in the details. There is one interview process that is bulletproof but it's NEVER going to be adopted in mass by private companies: university / police academy admission exams. Basically you have a set number of place
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
The fact that a communist dictatorship declares itself to be a benevolent people's paradise, doesn't change the brutal reality one bit. And unlike living under a communist dictatorship, we don't have to accept it. I will stro
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> Assuming someone has a hangover in the middle of the week is odd behaviour Sure, this never happens. Literally, noone in the history of mankind has gotten wasted in the middle of the week.
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Suspicious that it's probably a massive hangover rather than "a cold". And I assume it's during the week, otherwise noone but your liver cares what you do on a Friday or Saturday evening. "A cold" doesn't
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
In Romania I also have some 5 weeks of vacation, but never take more than two at a time. Two in the summer, two in the winter (Christmas - New Year period) and the rest, sprinkled throughout the year, either for errands or bridge days. Like
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> I made the very sensible choice to adopt luxon as the Date Parsing library for Eleventy. Never heard of neither Luxon nor Eleventy but by the ridiculous gay names only I could have bet a million dollars this is yet another instance
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
To write something you must form a "theory of the system", which is orders of magnitude more difficult than feeding on fodder. It's the difference between being fluent in a language and sort of understanding something. It&#x2
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Well, it's an idea. Perhaps de-humidifying the books first... The hypoxic approach needs to last at least until eggs hatch, otherwise you're back to square one. And I'm not so sure if a plastic bag can hold tight for long wit
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
How about stuffing the books in a freezer? Apparently this can kill both bugs and their eggs, although I'm not sure it works on the particular kind of bugs in these books: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsItBullshit&#x2F
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> There is a big difference in getting a guaranteed income in your 20’s vs your 60’s. No, it's the difference between getting a pension (a guaranteed income for the rest of your life) and a second job's salary without worki
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Compared to someone who's basically a zero in programming, any amount of knowledge pushes the ratio to infinity. The average CS graduate doesn't know shit because universities need volume to survive so basically once in, you are s
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Times have changed. My kid and the kids of every friend I know around me, have never opened a book on their own volition. Ever. Although they open the phone, tablet and laptop many times a day. And it's not like they're stupid or
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Well, when I was a kid in the 80s in communist Romania, life was a lot similar to 19th century than what someone in Western countries was experiencing. No TV (obviously no computers), so most significant form of entertainment came from read
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Quite a few people live near riverbeds, if not all of them. I mean like, it was one of the basic requirements of a settlement to have some flowing water source nearby. And while not directly on the river bed, I've seen my share of swol
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Well, that's because in law, you can't attend a 4 week bootcamp, call yourself a lawyer and inflate the ranks of desperate looking for a job. Now, also remote. And as a doctor, you can't attend a 4 week bootcamp, call yourse

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