inglor_cz

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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Same in Ostrava: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Milady_Horákové_(Ostrava)
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Most of that I knew, but I was surprised at the beans. I thought beans were a standard medieval fare. It turned out that these were fava beans, which stem from the Old World.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I used to be a young mathematician sometime at the turn of the century... "waste their time trying to prove it" is the MBA approach, where you should spit out results and articles. Outside the MBA-thinking box, attacking hard prob
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I was in Copenhagen (DK, not NO, but close enough) in June and yeah, it felt like Barcelona in late February.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Beware of the weather, though. It may be geniunely soul-crushing for someone used to sunny skies. As I am growing older, I also feel a tug to move from Central Europe to maybe the Mediterranean, precisely because of the winters. And Norwegi
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
The picture is more complex. It is possible that Minsk has some shelters, rehabs and psychiatric wards that can house many of the homeless anyway, and policies that incentivize them to use one of such options instead just building a camp. (
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
If Simon reads this debate, I would gladly vote for such a gallery. It would belong to "digital heritage of mankind".
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I have read quite a lot about it and my conclusion is what I wrote above. A mostly ideological distinction without real difference - even less difference than your examples of theft (intellectual property aside - that is not theft by any de
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
They started the largest war in Europe since 1945 and I fervently hope that Putin will pay for that in a way similar to Hitler. That entire war is a massive, futile attempt to revive their glorious imperial days by annexing lands that they
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
That requires buying into the very concept that "colonialism" is a specific sin different (and worse) from ye olde "I am stronger than you and will occupy your territory and take your wealth". I have even met people who
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
"Colonialism" is a weird Western guilt fetish that some others successfully milk. After 10 generations, the people are every bit as local as the previous population was. 300 years is such an abyss of time that most of us would fai
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
"I doubt many secretaries were replaced by postgres." The maximal relative share of typists, secretaries, admin assistants et al. in the US workforce was 4% and this apogee was reached in 1980 after ~ 100 years of sustained growth
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Setting Nazis aside, Germans are used to having a single source of correct grammar and vocabulary. The first Duden was published in 1880 and helped standardize German language a lot, even though local accents and dialects still persist. But
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
"it's now feasible to create all kinds of experiments, test fixtures, visualizers, analyzers, and support software you never would have had time for before, which you can use to improve your process and create a better product.&qu
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
My experience with regard to quality is quite the opposite. With LLM at my disposal, I had the time- and effort-budget to expand test suites considerably, I was even able to attack a somewhat thorny question of reproducible builds on MSVC,
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Yeah, it is a big difference to undergo aggressive treatment at 50 vs. 80. Not just because of the potential years or months gained, but also because older bodies don't heal that well, or at all. This is something that may be revolutio
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
But the origin of SpaceX is not one of a government-cultivated monopoly. There were more than 200 space startups so far, I believe, and the vast majority of those simply went belly up. SpaceX was once an absolutely unremarkable element of t
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Sending robots to space is still a form of building presence there. Not every colonist has to be a human. In fact, they are probably coming last, into pre-prepared positions and bases.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Logistics of food distribution is a technological problem, and nowadays famines tend to happen less due to absolute shortage of food in a wider region, rather than due to insufficiently developed transport infrastructure. IIRC no place in t
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
In some places. Starlink is a global phenomenon, good ISPs were at best a local phenomenon.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
"I'd consider this public pollution caused by extremely greedy billionaires ruining the planet." This is such a weird framing, as if Starlink was a frivolous project for some rich person's fun. There is genuine demand fo
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
When I was a teenager in early post-Communist Czechia, Internet connection was also expensive. So what we did was that we pooled resources. Five or ten households had a common connection and shared it. I don't doubt that similar scheme
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
He definitely does not want to put this power into the hands of EPP and S+D, which are precisely the two fractions that pushed this through.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I cannot imagine Musk simply submitting to this sort of EU demand, and he has enough hue-and-cry capability on X to maneuver other tech firms into very uncomfortable positions in the same regard.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Logistics was not on their side. You can easily sail with a fleet of several hundred longships across smaller bodies of water like the North Sea and concentrate enough power to threaten existing kingdoms on the other side. This is a journey
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
They do have us in their power. They don't have Iran under the same power.
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
I don't get you at all. Is going to your doctor or eating better food "navel gazing"? Predispositions to some diseases can be read from your DNA. Remember Angelina Jolie undergoing preventive mastectomy because she had a high
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
"The Great Patriotic War" is a label intended to divert attention from the fact that Stalin was Hitler's peer in almost all attributes, except that his system of concentration camps used hunger and frost instead of gas to ext
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Sure, you are right, but that does not mean that the EU as such is totally innocent in this. Most liberal constitutions of Europe operate on the principle that their governments cannot be fully trusted in execution of their power and need a
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
That would definitely help a bit.

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