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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
My grandfather was for a short time in the railroad construction business under Japanese leadership about 50 years after the Hudson project. I have never met him, but I can imagine he would be delighted if the death rate would just be 25%.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> Today? Most of my generation struggles to make rent because we're being bled dry. As a kid I remember visiting a friend who lived in an old workers house. I was in awe to see such a small house, and in shock to learn they actually
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> Today in my country at least a single workers death is not acceptable Tolerance for workers death is highly related to location and time. We used to have large families for a reason! N=10, but nevertheless a comparison on the differenc
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Food Hacks I Learned In Restaurants [video](youtube.com)
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Maintenance for humans means understanding the code, which leads to all sorts of requirements. Perhaps GPT does not care about that and is comfortable with spaghetti code (just like the compiler BTW - rather one bowl of spaghetti versus a l
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> After careful calculations and experiments, the researchers determined the optimal size for the holes drilled through the perforated material, which in their tests was made of polyurethane. [0] Really nice innovation, you need holes of
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
It would make an awesome toy for my son (and father) to have generative control over a robot.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
In China they solved halve of this problem: there are more houses than inhabitants. Yet, house prices are unreachable for most people.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Well that is far on a limb. I just googled Ozempic sales, seeing they did 50,000,000,000 DKK sales in Q1 '23 for Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer. Also 'blockbuster' and Ozempic are often used in one phrase. It all suggests a l
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received 265 reports of suicidal thoughts or behavior in patients taking these or similar medicines since 2010, Reuters found in an examination of the agency's adverse-event database. Seem
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> Most other countries seem to rely on direct customer to customer for most transactions Realtors are everywhere. In the Netherlands selling a house is mostly exclusive to realtors, and there are good non-realtor alternatives available a
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Small contradiction there on the role of realtors and investors. Add drag to trade really hits the investors. Look at the Netherlands, recently the buying tax has increased from 6 to 10%+ when buy to let or flip. Consumers buying a home pay
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
These kind of blogs do not help remote work argument, it is polarising the discussion. Especially when the advice is to sabotage the company while drawing your own plan. BTW, I completely understand remote workers and I have no issues with
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Nice to read this confirmation! I like working in the office, but I also received the ultimatum of working in the office and decided to look elsewhere.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Was the remote working 'movement' then based on data? Or was it covid?
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> It blows my mind though how the moment that someone offers free stuff... Try to launch a free service for consumers and experience how they are entitled to stuff just because you offer this service.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> With proprietary technology choosing technology means marrying vendor for life I learned the term Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the age that closed source would warn businesses to move to open source. I guess the roles have been rever
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> "I'm entitled to use this without paying" Agree, this happens a lot. But the other side of that coin is the free publicity via Github and the exposure to an avid community of engineers. Something you would not get so eas
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
"Open Source" is such a strong brand nowadays, it suffices to claim to be open source. Even after so many projects flipped their license.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Response from Amazon/Kindle: > This title is not currently available for purchase - Have you moved recently? Apparently this book did not pass the Dutch or Amazon censor. Makes me extra curious.
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TU Delft scientists put ChatGPT to the test(tudelft.nl)
1 points by j-a-a-p 3y ago|0 comments
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Introducing GraalOS(blogs.oracle.com)
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> (1) Does the roadmap clearly connect to the higher-level company or product mission, vision, and strategy? Okay, engineers are now supposed to evaluate the roadmap to strategic goals. in principle all good that everybody is involved in
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
There was a time when Linux distros tried to concur the desktop. For that they needed the normal user to re-install the OS. Windows never really had this challenge as Windows was and still is pre-installed. To ease the self installation qui
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Did some ETL with Python. ChatGTP got it right 99%. And, remarkably understood a public API that I was feeding from, which used 2-letter abbreviations.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I don't get your reasoning. First not all knowledge is the source of revenue. Many products and services are supported by know how to implement, use and maintain. This kind of knowledge can benefit from protection. And if selling knowl
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Indeed, but search exist for humans. And if search becomes unusable because the web gets filled with AI noise, humans will stop using search. And also for models, to feed them with data generated by AI seems like an issue to me.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
My prediction: knowledge will start to be reformatted into an LLM directly and knowledge providers will stop publishing it otherwise. Thus the chat interface will both improve and protect knowledge access once the traditional formats are no
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Title is misleading. More like what is under the hood in the near future, a technical perspective. I thought to find some inspiration on what kind of software we can expect. Nevertheless a nice and agreeable read.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
We regularly eat tofo (tastes great) but never as a replacement for meat.

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