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by bojan 10mo ago
> LLMs are much easier to understand when you think of them in terms of human psychology Are they? You can reasonably expect from a human that they will learn from their mistake, and be genuinely sorry about it which will motivate them t
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by bojan 11mo ago
We switched completely to Microsoft/Azure a couple of years ago. My previous employer as well. There was no stopping it, I'd tried and they looked at me like I'm crazy. "Everybody else is doing it" is a very strong
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by bojan 11mo ago
This is a popular meme, but compared to the combined regulation of 27 member states, the EU as a whole is doing great.
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by bojan 11mo ago
Otherwise you get an economy stifling patchwork of regulations, which is what we have within the EU now. Further, it'd probably be two Chambers, and we have proportional representation, which should make a slide to fascism a bit more d
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by bojan 11mo ago
"Europe" is, unlike the US, not a single entity. Yes, we have European Union which helps a lot, but it is not complete (and certainly wasn't in the time when Microsofts and Googles of this world started), making that all-impo
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by bojan 11mo ago
I still use Duralex glassware I bought 15 years ago. The plastic lids are not in the best shape anymore, but they are still closing just fine. Maybe I'm not that great a customer for the company.
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by bojan 1y ago
It changes often. Right now it's Singapore.
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by bojan 1y ago
> Looking at the EU market: Does it work? Is that your reading? The EU single market isn't really single yet - and that is in my views the biggest obstacle to innovating start-ups being able to scale. If you want to release EU-wide
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by bojan 1y ago
> Europe does lag behind though for many different reasons. One big is that the single market of EU is on paper large but in practice it is a lot of different countries with very different cultures and languages. This is the biggest one.
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by bojan 1y ago
> Because then the question arises: What if the current way of handling labor protection in the EU (as one of many components) leads to destroying yours and everyone elses standard of living, simply because it's unaffordable? It&#x2
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by bojan 1y ago
We used Stack Overflow for Teams, but when the first batch of questions got asked and reacted to, the activity subdued quickly. Some time after that we somehow got locked out of our account and it was deemed not worth the hassle to try to g
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by bojan 1y ago
1) Dutch may be easier to learn for English speakers than, say, French, but it's not easy . Learning it to the point that you can have a naturally flowing conversation with a native is still very difficult for an average person. To
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by bojan 1y ago
While I agree with your point, don't underestimate how different the pronunciation is between languages, especially if you have an English monolingual on the other side of the counter that is not used to ever hearing anything other tha
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by bojan 1y ago
As someone who learned Dutch from scratch in adulthood, these points come up very often but I don't think they are true. 1) Dutch is not an easy language to learn if you speak English. Both the grammar and the vocabulary are way closer
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by bojan 1y ago
Agree. It's also often that Upwards has a literal meaning, where the Upper place is literally geographically higher than the Lower place. Think of Lower Saxony, which is in the northern part of Germany, for example.
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by bojan 1y ago
Former Dutch PM used to have an old Nokia with a very limited capacity to store messages[0], so he could always say he had to delete messages so he could keep receiving new ones. [0] https://nos.nl/artikel/2429354-wisse
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by bojan 1y ago
That sounds dystopic and I'm not sure it'd even be legal where I live. Here they simply have a + button so you can set the amount of the item. No need to scan all of them.
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The Fairphone 6(shop.fairphone.com)
3 points by bojan 1y ago|3 comments
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by bojan 1y ago
The new generation of the phone with replaceable parts with as much as possible fair sourcing of materials. They have opted for 6.31" screen, which is smaller than majority of today's phones.
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by bojan 1y ago
You'd think so, but Europe grew ever smaller, with open borders, low-cost flights, single market, until at some point it didn't any more, and that process is since 2016 reversing.
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by bojan 1y ago
I'm also interested in this. My workplace is looking into this, and my intuition says no, but I'd really like to hear other people's experiences, both positive and negative ones.
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by bojan 1y ago
Next to the Messiah parties, there are also other established (far-)right wing parties that have a reasonably steady electorate. The Netherlands indeed didn't have a left majority for some decades now.
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by bojan 1y ago
In the Netherlands we have this phenomenon that around 20% of voters keep voting for the new "Messiah", a right-wing populist politician that will this time fix everything. When the party inevitably explodes due to internal bick
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by bojan 1y ago
> The EU has zero tech companies that rival FAANG et al here in the US. Zero. Because of it's (well-intentioned but harmful) business regulations. Not really, it's because the EU has 28 sets of business regulations , those of
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by bojan 1y ago
Our (NL) elementary school places pictures of the fun activities they do with kids on Instagram, but they blur children's faces, resulting in the photos straight out of the uncanny valley. I do wonder also if the blur effect they use i
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by bojan 1y ago
I could teach high school math, but it takes two years to qualify to be a high school high school teacher where I live.
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by bojan 1y ago
What do you mean by "graduate school" exactly, is that a Master's or a PhD? If it's the latter, in the Netherlands you get paid salary to do it and it's the easiest path to a work/residence visa. Keep in mind t
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by bojan 1y ago
"War with Russia" sounds like someone willingly started that war, and Russia was the target. Of course, nothing is further from the truth. "Russian invasion of Ukraine" is what should be written there.
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by bojan 1y ago
The number of critically acclaimed games remains the same though. So for now we're getting quantity, but not the quality.
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by bojan 1y ago
The public services are deteriorating because that's what the people are voting for.

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