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by alentred 11mo ago
If COVID demonstrated anything it is exactly the contrary, that we should not count on readily available vaccines, and rather should have *systemic* responses ready to be implemented when needed (including vaccine development, but not only)
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by alentred 11mo ago
I wonder what kind/style of music was used in the study. A further study might even try comparing different music styles.
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by alentred 11mo ago
I question the correlation and causality. I wonder how much of these eras are caused by brain physiology and genetics versus changes in the behavior with age, which can even be caused by external sociological factors, for example. Or a mix
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by alentred 11mo ago
Niiice! Thank you for the laugh. I wonder though where is it hosted? Digital Ocean? :) As the Web becomes more and more entangled, I don't know if there is any guarantee of what is really independent. We should make a diagram of this.
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by alentred 11mo ago
Exactly. Even if my eyes adjust well to the relative darkness with my lights, the effect is erased the instant I encounter a car coming on me on the opposite side of the road.
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by alentred 11mo ago
There is an upside too. Us humans, we also need our down time occasionally.
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by alentred 11mo ago
I bet it was the MVP. LOL
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by alentred 11mo ago
Very nice that it can show the metadata. If you rather focus on the data itself, a Swiss army knife in the terminal is VisiData [1] . It works with many formats from CSV to Parquet. You'd need to install Pyarrow I think to read Parque
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by alentred 11mo ago
Ha, curious how preferences vary from a person to person. Even on my MacBook Air I am using apps in full-screen almost all the time. About the only time I drag windows around is when I need Finder (preview, drop a file, etc.), or when I pl
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by alentred 11mo ago
There is ad money at stake, and it is unfortunately one of the key revenue models in the modern web. I don't know if this particular research was sponsored by ad-tech or if it's preventive, but it shouldn't be generally surpr
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by alentred 11mo ago
I think, maybe the part of the problem is that it is sometimes easier to accept the situations as they are, even if we suffer from some, than trying to resolve them. Not better, but easier. Or, at least seems easier. Imagine trying to be co
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by alentred 11mo ago
Here's my take, in no particular order: - Ignoring that all people are different does not make you an expert in human psychology - Discovering what procrastination is (and still failing to name it or provide actual coping mechanisms) d
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by alentred 11mo ago
Haha, do you mean unofficial Teams client, or an unofficial UI for Windows itself? The latter is an interesting idea.
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by alentred 11mo ago
Same experience, Mac and iPhone. What is also amazing is how much collateral damage it creates: the Microsoft Virtual Audio devices that it switches my macOS to, the calls that cannot be ended on my iPhone when the app hangs, etc. They some
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by alentred 11mo ago
Skeeball -> Virtual Skeeball -> Virtual virtual Skeeball "Wow! I could've sworn I was really playing virtual Skeeball!" -- In practice I think you would lose interest very quickly in any game should you do so. Games are
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by alentred 11mo ago
This gives me strong vibes of "The Lifecycle of the Software Objects" [1] by Ted Chiang. Next step is to put this digient AI into a Figure 03 robot [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Softw
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by alentred 11mo ago
If I remember it well, every once in a while a new cool feature was also breaking stuff, doubling the chances of getting to the top page here. But truth being told, GitHub was fixing those at light speed too and it was very interesting to f
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by alentred 11mo ago
I really hope for Steam that the timing is right. Given the rising GPU, RAM and now storage prices, I hope they secured their supply chain with a fixed price for components, and at least first batches are going to be affordable enough for t
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Quart: Flask with Async (ASGI)(quart.palletsprojects.com)
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by alentred 11mo ago
You mean, Guillaume le Conquérant ?
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by alentred 1y ago
Just recently I wanted to show my kids the 5.25" floppy disk - I had a small stack somewhere, but could not find it. I have finally found an 3½" floppy and have shown it to my kids (14 y.o. max). Evidently they never used such a t
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by alentred 1y ago
Thank you for confirming I am not... crazy, just old then. I was staring at the code for minutes, trying to spot something unusual that I missed. So, this really just about the `<table>` element, or do I actually not see something?
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by alentred 1y ago
My rule of thumb: only using single letter variables in one-liners (and never if it spills to another line), or for something that is conventionally represented as such. So for example: ```python bar = [foo(e) for e in elements]
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by alentred 1y ago
Ah, lightspeed briefs fit everywhere, on the beach and on your the fridge.
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by alentred 1y ago
> alphabet just prints the English alphabet in upper and lowercase. I use this surprisingly often (probably about once a month) I genuinely wonder, why would anyone want to use this, often?
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by alentred 1y ago
With respect, this misses some important constraints. Scale it to thousands of locations and target 99% SLA. Now you have a maintenance problem in remote physical places, requirements for hardware reliability, subcontractors to manage, need
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by alentred 1y ago
Most of the time, as a regular user, I agree with having smarter ordering. And smarter all features for what its worth. Except when it doesn't work because of some corner case. In which case the "smart feature" becomes a kind
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by alentred 1y ago
Oh wow, I never thought of that. In fact, this surfaces another consideration: pay-per-use LLM APIs are basically incentivized to be verbose, which may be well in conflict with the user's intentions. I wonder how this story will develo
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by alentred 1y ago
My uneducated guess is: probably not before writing was invented. Populations where nomadic, changes were likely slow and life expectancy was much shorter. With no record keeping it is unlikely they had means to notice the changes.
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by alentred 1y ago
My big hope is that somehow magically we avoid bringing this experience back to AI summaries and chats. Realistically, though, I will be on the lookout for the next generation of uBlock, NextDNS and the like.

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