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by gregjor 1y ago
Back in the early ‘80s I lived in San Francisco, a city then overrun with tourists. The tourists got fleeced to ride the cable cars, locals paid less (if we used those at all). On Geary Street near Union Square we had the baseball-themed ba
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by gregjor 1y ago
Been to multiple Don Quijote stores many times, never seen such a sign or had anyone ask for my passport unless I applied for the VAT refund. Possibly a bad translation. Photo or I won’t believe it. Edit: Japan (like many other countries) r
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by gregjor 1y ago
I agree that I prefer less surveillance. But I have little sympathy for people who break the law and put others at risk. We all lose some freedom because of a relative few who put their “rights” above the public good. Rather than rampant su
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by gregjor 1y ago
How exactly do you weigh the “suffering” — I would call it inconvenience or annoyance — of traffic fines against bodily harm caused by dangerous drivers? A fine versus a hospital stay or worse?
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by gregjor 1y ago
On the other hand, as an American citizen living in Asia after spending most of my life in the USA, I like not getting mugged, assaulted, or run over by a speeding car. I think you refer to China, or maybe Japan or Singapore. Not every coun
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by gregjor 1y ago
Finland along with most of the rest of western Europe will roll out biometric identification ( fingerprints and photos) as part of the delayed ETIAS program, scheduled for this year.
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by gregjor 1y ago
You gave some exaggerations and misinterpretations. Every country has separate immigration lines for citizens and foreigners. Immigration officials have access to national databases but not those of other countries. Like the USA and most ot
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by gregjor 1y ago
Lol. That’s 6.7 times the median US salary. Fewer than 1% of Americans earn a $500k+ salary. If anyone could tell you an easy way to get to that, or what “niche of the future” you should focus on, everyone and their dog would do it. Look at
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by gregjor 2y ago
Don’t trust important business processes or customer relationships to half-baked tech. This kind of thing tells your customer very clearly how little your company cares about them. Calling a chatbot an “agent” doesn’t make the experience be
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by gregjor 2y ago
I hope AI replaces Bill Gates. Even a bad LLM could write less insipid and vacuous statements, and publish a witless list of books to read every year. An AI can’t fall backwards into tremendous wealth and then imagine it earned it from smar
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by gregjor 2y ago
If the shoe fits… Every day we get new affirmation of the incompetence and malice of the Trump administration. The people in charge of the futures and lives of millions, such as RFK, don’t have public welfare or health in the front of their
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by gregjor 2y ago
> What is so incomprehensible about this viewpoint? Abysmal compared to what? In hindsight? Millions of lives saved in the face of a novel pathogen and public panic. The only people who lost confidence sit in the White house, pretending
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by gregjor 2y ago
Also Tesla holds the record for most crashes, injuries, and accidents on FSD. Impressive considering the cars fail and fall apart at a rate few other auto manufacturers can match.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Needs a workable definition of “smart” and a way to measure it across species. Without that the question has no meaning. Also chimps cannot “speak human.” I think you misunderstand and exaggerate the attempts to teach human language to chim
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by gregjor 2y ago
"Interesting" describes a person's reaction to a story, not a property of the story. My software experience stories may interest you, they may not. They don't interest my wife at all. The stories illustrate an experience
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not at all. I don’t use LLMs, clearly not ready for production work and useless at complicated debugging. So far no customers asking for it either. Had lunch today with a freelancer friend who uses AI, he’s trying to “vibe code” a simple we
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by gregjor 2y ago
alias lg='lazygit'
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by gregjor 2y ago
We will all form an intuition about "vibe coding" before too long, probably not a positive intuition. I'd suggest people "launching stuff" in hopes of feedback would label their work as "vibe coding" to wa
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by gregjor 2y ago
Agoda generally better in Asia, including Vietnam. I have seen the same thing — fake and misleading listings on Agoda for Hanoi and HCMC, then the trick of taking you to an inferior “partner” hotel. I have also experienced aggressive reques
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by gregjor 2y ago
Presumably the NSA warning required ability to read above the third grade level.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Seems like bad advice. Regardless of the reason given, recruiters and employers will likely interpret a request to postpone as the candidate waiting for another offer. I have never heard of “I need more time to prepare” as a reason for post
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by gregjor 2y ago
> Eg I'm fairly confident to generalise and say that for most beginners in 2025 picking Python is a better choice than PHP or Cobol. Limiting choices to “pick one” seems contrived. Beginners should learn to program and think like pr
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not my experience. Plenty of work out there. I see a lot of freelancers with very narrow skills or specialization, a fragile strategy in the software field. I also see freelancers who only have commodity skills (React, Wordpress) to sell, m
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by gregjor 2y ago
I know it sounds like boasting, but I don’t. Customers find me. Referrals, word of mouth, reputation work best and the successful freelancers I know get their customers the same way. I also cultivate long-term relationships so I’m not spend
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by gregjor 2y ago
Intuition comes from deep understanding, a set of learned heuristics. That implies experience that lets you skim and trust your quick judgment. And it informs the probability you assign to the correctness of your judgment. As I understand i
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you get an auth on the card with the information provided the bank has to take responsibility for fraud, at least in the US. I don’t think you can tell if a card number corresponds to a “real” card or not. Some cards, such as the Apple c
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by gregjor 2y ago
Define “vibe check” in a way that communicates some kind of rigor, understanding of the code, a repeatable process, a reliable path to good software. Does it just mean “looks ok to me right now?”
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by gregjor 2y ago
I work for US companies (don't live there anymore though). I don't know anything about your specialty so I can't comment on it or the apparently evaporated market for your skills. I specialize in small/medium-size busine
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by gregjor 2y ago
I haven't seen any affect of AI at the higher end of freelancing -- the polar opposite of Upwork et al. I do see demand for freelancers with skill/experience developing LLMs, and integrating them into business systems. If someone
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by gregjor 2y ago
I see plenty of freelance work available, but how much and how well it pays depends a lot on the kind of work. If all you have to offer is a couple of years writing React or installing WordPress plugins the market looks terrible. At the sam

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