barrenko

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by barrenko 1mo ago
+1
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by barrenko 1mo ago
Man, one of these was my fever dream as a kid.
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by barrenko 1mo ago
My brother in Christ.
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by barrenko 1mo ago
I am still using gemini flash 2.5 for an old app I have running that does some OCR as well if necessary, is it time to switch up?
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by barrenko 1mo ago
Synthetize=?
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by barrenko 1mo ago
So in a way Luna is the new Gemini Flash? I've been out of the game for a while.
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by barrenko 1mo ago
They've been unfortunately hugged by the "little death" of working with the EU institutions, though I wouldn't bet on them not coming back.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Post WW1, the US was a world hegemon, lent money and set low interest rates and for the past 100 years the countries of the Western EU, fattened from their ancient trade and slavery profits were engaged in a lot of delulu thinking (we could
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by barrenko 2mo ago
We did, and we have our public spaces (public in the non-physical sense here) to show for it.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Our public offline lives are also miserable. If you live in a westernish society, you know exactly what are the problems, and if you are 40 something you can see that for your whole life no one has ever attempted to solve it. We just live w
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by barrenko 2mo ago
We've already defunded the police, and you can see the ramifications all over the world.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
I can give you a couple just in regards to my programming career: - Got my first dev job after several bootcamps and then just decided to YOLO and move to a different country (??), thinking stuff will just work out in regards to my budding
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by barrenko 2mo ago
HR is modern priesthood, and their function is to prevent the "unwashed" from ascending up the higher ranks. Now there I've made it much worse (or better!) than the actual reality, which is that there's just not enough q
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Agree for stuff like alphafold, for the likes of education, imho, it's been solved for at least a couple of centuries. Textbook and blackboard > ipad.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
This has started to feel a bit like the beginning of railroads and then the steampunk fiction of "let's just build railroads to everywhere". We don't need it and there's no use for it. As with painting, after a whil
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Is this electron?
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Very common around my mom's house.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Pieces of Belgian cities?
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by barrenko 2mo ago
+ with nation states becoming poorly run cesspools, we're going to see what happens to that.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always had the same charac
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Humanity is a bit of a stretch, and to be seen over time, not that I'm saying it won't happen; let's get some hubris here.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
The problems you have are solutions to the problems you don't want to admit to yourself are actually having.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Would it? Tongue in cheek.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Interlinked.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Proobably the later.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Also just the general timezone stuff, genetics ~ I've moved from the right end of a timezone to the left end, it's been killing me.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Yeah, what did I say?
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Post-money people with side interests are what built the current western civilization.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
On X.com on my Chrome browser I am unable to correct digits if I entered a wrong number. Very nice blog layout btw.
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by barrenko 2mo ago
Best thing you can do for your professional life, if you're in that sort of arena, is to get extremely jacked.

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