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by begueradj 11mo ago
If everyone refuses to pay, such incidents would largely reduce.
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Long Hongqi bridge collapsed in southwest China(twitter.com)
3 points by begueradj 11mo ago|0 comments
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by begueradj 11mo ago
From my experiences, a good book takes me a year to several years to read. I have one book (science & philosophy involved) which I kept re-reading for the last 16 years. There are levels to reading.
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by begueradj 11mo ago
> "I put effort to think about design, structure, and implementation more than coworkers." Everybody thinks the same.
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by begueradj 11mo ago
Not surprised when you are born in the smartphone era where your attention and memory are constantly hijacked.
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Microsoft Azure Outage(azure.status.microsoft)
3 points by begueradj 1y ago|1 comments
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by begueradj 1y ago
>"The repetition of behavior, not the sincerity of belief, is what shapes character" To perform behavior X repeatedly and consciously for a long time, you have to have a belief (whether it is good or bad). Hence it is the since
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French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence(bbc.com)
406 points by begueradj 1y ago|530 comments
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by begueradj 1y ago
How a society which is supposed to be of the hunters gatherers era raised such monuments and set up that site?
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by begueradj 1y ago
Accepting yourself as you are is the worst poison to tell to your child or someone you care about. Life is about in inventing yourself through craft, doing, trying, discovering, challenging, achieving goals and self improvement.
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by begueradj 1y ago
By giving candidates problems you know they can't solve during the interview, you give yourself the right to dismiss anyone "you don't like" by telling them they failed the test.
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by begueradj 1y ago
When someone makes a search and lands on your tutorial, you are not giving him unsolicited information.
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by begueradj 1y ago
"the world has been replaced by graphics (more generally, images)" Humankind started to record its history by images (google for instance about the city of Sefar, Algeria). Nowadays, even in tech we use graphics (diagrams and so o
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by begueradj 1y ago
For me, the most important statement is: >Rereading a book can give you an insight into how you’ve changed since you last read it. Said in a different way, I noticed I understand from a different perspective some of the books I re-read.
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by begueradj 1y ago
True. But it's the same trend in every other field: new born babies lecture soon to die people about life. Example of such lessons: recently, a well known dating coach who gives lessons that costs around 8000 euros per hour about how a
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Study Links Thumb Length to Brain Size and Cognition(neurosciencenews.com)
2 points by begueradj 1y ago|0 comments
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by begueradj 1y ago
>The quiet observer who speaks only when it truly matters Never do that unless you're around the top of the hierarchy.
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by begueradj 1y ago
> "don't try to behave like companies much bigger than you" That's a good point.
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by begueradj 1y ago
There are more than 4000 varieties of potatoes available in shops around the world.
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by begueradj 1y ago
> Yet, I see people blindly trusting LLM outputs to develop SQL queries, without knowing how to explain or debug them. The same is true about every other single instruction produced.
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by begueradj 1y ago
He was a Freemason :)
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by begueradj 1y ago
I agree. For example, electric cars were around already in the mid 1800s. But some people believe Elon Musk is the original inventor.
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by begueradj 1y ago
"Life is, of course, just like this: You get only one shot, and it’s up to you to make the most of it by rejecting okay or even pretty good ways to allocate your time or other resources" Simple counter example: a boxing champion g
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by begueradj 1y ago
Maybe we could say something a bit similar about Express.js and other "boring technologies".
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by begueradj 1y ago
"History is a mathematical truth" No, history is a web of lies written by the winners, just like your daily news.
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by begueradj 1y ago
It should turn grey. Unless you have grey matter deficit.
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by begueradj 1y ago
Some workplaces actually ask for new ideas in special must to attend meetings. But an idea is worthless as long as it's not implemented. That's why you can find free online resources sharing, for example, "70 Small Business I
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Reading Hits Differently to Listening for Your Brain(sciencealert.com)
3 points by begueradj 1y ago|0 comments
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Early human ancestors showed extreme size differences between males and females(phys.org)
15 points by begueradj 1y ago|0 comments
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by begueradj 1y ago
> Compared to virtually any other animal, we can vastly outperform them in the most arduous environments. Our bodies are mechanically optimized for running at every level. I'm not sure from where you got this because any documentar

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