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by borroka 8mo ago
I am developing a web application for a dictionary that translates words from the national language into the local dialect. Vibe coding and other tools, such as Google Vision, helped me download images published online, compile a PDF, perfo
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by borroka 9mo ago
I have a Subaru with driver's assistance. Basically you input speed and distance from the vehicle ahead, and the car turns, accelerates, and brakes. It disengages quite often, in particular when the lanes are not clearly marked. I used
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by borroka 9mo ago
Think about having to assemble a car (you can find specs and tutorials online, say) and then drive it, or asking engineers and mechanics to assemble it, and then using the car assembled by others to go for a drive.
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by borroka 9mo ago
Of course I judge, and I expect other people to judge me. It is what we do every day: we assess, evaluate, and draw conclusions. What people have problems with is not to be judged per se, but judged negatively: "oh, please stop judging
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by borroka 9mo ago
What are the empty claims? It is simple logic that dressing with intention is not hard. But let's define 'hard' with an example: running a marathon under 3 hours is hard for the general population; that is, it is an activity
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by borroka 9mo ago
I live in a beach town and dress almost always in trousers and sports coat, occasionally in a suit, sometimes casually in jeans and shirts and desert boots, but always with intention. Well, what can I do? I am terribly vain and don't s
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by borroka 9mo ago
A most surprising remark. Dressing with intention does not require any particular willpower, just some desire, intention, a bit of time, and a taste that may develop over time. Avoiding doomscrolling is not that hard. The first few days are
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by borroka 9mo ago
Couldn't the same be said of all professions in which some people earn a lot, such as acting, sports, singing, entertainment in general, and which are considered less “serious” than the professions of medical doctor and engineer? One m
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by borroka 9mo ago
There is a mix of culture and food at play here. Most people, left to their own devices, without cultural pressure, are lazy, unproductive, and slovenly. We can see that with food: as soon as the shaming of people for being fat weakened, as
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by borroka 9mo ago
It is certainly fine where you are; the world is a big place and it is charming because it varies in people and experiences. Some time ago, I wrote something about "mood", which can be adapted, or parallels can be found, with &quo
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by borroka 9mo ago
This comparison is hardly apt in the way it is formulated, but it is fitting when considering tailors and seamstresses. A few decades ago, numerous tailors made custom-made clothes and skilled seamstresses repaired them. Today, since clothe
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by borroka 9mo ago
I read Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist a few years ago, and I was impressed by the breadth and depth of the great physicist. Later in life, he became a geologist, working with his son. Those physicists worked hard: he writes in the book
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by borroka 10mo ago
I feel a similar way when I read Lunch with the Financial Times, which I used to love and now find tedious, partly because of the interviewer's snarky attitude and partly because they rarely, if ever, get to the point. The idea is&#x2F
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by borroka 10mo ago
I wanted to appreciate Malick's films out of a sense of intellectual snobbery, but it was too difficult for me. And I think most people who love his films appreciate them in a snobbish way; they really try to convince themselves that i
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by borroka 10mo ago
As an aside, most of us, when watching a video of ourselves, may notice how slow our movements actually are. I had the subjective impression that I was fast and agile when practicing jiu jitsu, judo, or team sports, yet when I watched some
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by borroka 11mo ago
I have found them to be very useful. Here are just a few examples of how I have used them. My fountain pen stopped working, so I tried the common solutions recommended, but they did not solve the problem. Claude told me to try using a mixtu
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by borroka 11mo ago
There are books and Google and Wikipedia. Like people refer to meditation and don't explain all the process involved in one of the traditions because there is a wealth of information available, I would much prefer to answer to specific
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by borroka 11mo ago
May I recommend an alternative to Eastern Meditation practices? The alternative is Autogenic Training (AT), a method invented by Dr. Schultz a century ago. It is a well-tested scientific approach, and the outcomes are generally very positiv
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by borroka 11mo ago
Two things. First, not all smart people are overthinkers and not all overthinkers are smart. Second, I find that a great way to change one's self-damaging behavior is, rather than the therapy that is often recommended, to try to be as
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by borroka 11mo ago
I add that most problems are solved, assuming possessing the average (maybe even sub-average) intelligence needed to execute on them. Think about weight loss: it's a solved problem, except in extremely rare cases of particular patholog
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by borroka 11mo ago
"Asking why smart people aren't happier is a bit like asking why people who can jump high aren't more empathetic. There's no direct link between the two" - I disagree. If we consider happiness, as we should, as some
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by borroka 11mo ago
I am interested in languages and have learned a few. It takes time to learn a language. When asked how much time, one can look at the estimates from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center on how long it takes to become profi
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by borroka 1y ago
I was laid off, and only a couple of my former colleagues reached out to me. People I had talked to for years and helped, some significantly, didn't even send me a message. Consider that at one point, I had put myself out there to ask
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by borroka 1y ago
I don't think there have ever been any particular incentives to become a full-time writer. Most of us have read articles or books (Graydon Carter's) that have recently talked about the huge sums paid to some journalists 20 or 40 y
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by borroka 1y ago
Society's desire for regulation of behavior ebbs and flows. Not limited to the US: prostitution was legal and then it was not and now there is a laissez-faire of some kind in some places, in others there are brothels, in others you can
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by borroka 1y ago
I am referring to the gray market: you buy the peptide in powdered form, reconstitute it using bacteriostatic water, store it in the fridge, and inject once a week. The protocols are well known. Some people titrate (adjust the dose up every
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by borroka 1y ago
I don't know how long people will be willing to pay so much for something that is complex and expensive to develop and test, but extremely cheap to produce, to the point that we are talking about a few dollars a week when buying peptid
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by borroka 1y ago
No, they are different things. Physicists of today are technically much better than those of 50 years ago; basketball players, soccer players, musicians, they are all better, on average, than their colleagues of decades ago, for obvious rea
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by borroka 1y ago
I guess I was imprecise with my language and did not think about the father-in-law effect. He surely responded extremely quickly to the study just published. However, I would advise waiting for further studies, replications, etc. Let me rep
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by borroka 1y ago
You cannot compare the cigarette tax to a study saying that even minimal alcohol consumption increases the risk of dementia. If you increase the price of wine 5x, I am sure fewer people would drink, but that's a very wild extrapolation

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