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by john61 1y ago
I just asked Mistral.ai, using it without an account: what do you know about me? 2:50pm I don't know anything about you unless you share information with me. How can I assist you today? 2:50pm you do not know my IP and its location? 2:
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by john61 1y ago
> If you’re not on WhatsApp, no updates or news from your kids school, your sports team, your family, your car dealership etc. for you. Maybe, but not being in WhatsApp is also a signal.
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by john61 1y ago
I think that Python has inherited a lot (but unfortunately not all) of the artistic qualities of Lisp. So in a sense the artistic dynamic approach of Lisp won given the popularity of Python.
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by john61 1y ago
I have a heat pump for hot water and calculated this with an offered floating energy tariff. It is not economical because the high net tariffs are not floating but fixed per kwH and negative / very low prices are seldom here and only f
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by john61 1y ago
I have just read this book and found it very interesting and helpful: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-We-Sleep/Matthew-...
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by john61 2y ago
> Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them. Mozart ripped of Händel. For example parts from his famous Reqiuem are a rip of of Händels Messiah. And a lot of classical Composers (ex. Beethoven)
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by john61 2y ago
We use https://groups.io/ and are happy
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by john61 2y ago
The Linux based Nokia N900 was the best phone I ever owned. With a bit of polish, finish and maturity it could have also been the best phone for the masses. RIP.
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by john61 2y ago
By naming the variable ID it is crystal clear what the value is. Most of the time an explicit type only adds cognitive load to the reader, and limits the universality of the code. At an high abstraction level, most of the time a type is fro
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by john61 2y ago
In a dynamically duck typed language it should not matter if an ID is a string, a number or a GUID. The code should work with all of them. The semantically important thing is that this is an identifier. No String, number or GUI data type ex
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by john61 2y ago
A function is clear or not. I fail to see how the scale of the code, team, dependence is a factor in that.
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by john61 2y ago
I do not agree that typing leads to less cognitive load. Typing often leads to more and more complicated code. Dynamically typed code is often shorter and more compact. If dynamically typed code is well written, its function, inputs and out
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by john61 2y ago
The hard part is not writing code but to maintain a deep understanding of how it works for a long time. The tools you mention do not help in this regard, maybe they even worsen understanding, structure, format and comments.
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by john61 2y ago
DNT is legally effective. A German court ruled: "According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the right to object to the processing of personal data can also be exercised using automated procedures. A DNT signal represen
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by john61 2y ago
Since the end of the Iron Curtain Vienna population grew dramatically by the size of the second largest city in Austria (Graz). During the time of the Iron Curtain Vienna was the only big city in Europe that lost population. It was a grey,
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by john61 2y ago
Double entry bookkeeping is the gold standard in finance bookkeeping since the romans. It is not overkill, because once mastered it is very easy to handle especially with a program that implements the logic like GnuCash. The problem for nov
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by john61 2y ago
sqlite is stable for GnuCash, I moved from xml to sqlite a few years ago. No issues.
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by john61 2y ago
I am also a solo freelancer with simplified bookkeeping. I experienced that Double-entry bookkeeping is - beyond the initial learning curve - not more effort than simple book keeping. That is because it automatically avoids common errors. G
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by john61 2y ago
> There are always been floods. But now they get worse. How much worse ? I don't know. From the OP: "But if warming reaches 2C, similar episodes will become an extra 5% more intense and 50% more frequent, the WWA warned."
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by john61 2y ago
According to this logic there are also intelligent aliens living beside us.
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by john61 2y ago
We do not know how our brain works.
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by john61 2y ago
Yes, as it is absurd to call a generative statistical model intelligent.
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by john61 2y ago
I do this kind of work in Europe as a freelancer since 25 years. I really enjoy it because technology is not an end in itself for me, but a tool to help companies to work better.
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by john61 2y ago
This is not a mass market device for everyone. That is good. I hope it stays the same.
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by john61 2y ago
There is alcohol free beer. Tastes ok and is socially accepted. people often do not realize that you are not drinking.
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by john61 2y ago
https://www.freedombox.org/
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by john61 2y ago
This is not a problem, because in my market each day at 17:00 the fixed hourly prices for the next 00:00-24:00 period are published. Weather and therefore renewable energy yield is good predictable for 24 hours.
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by john61 2y ago
Flexible, localized net usage prices could smooth the intermittency and lower the demand on the net.
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by john61 2y ago
I am not going to allow the grid to control by heating and warm water.
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by john61 2y ago
There are flexible consumer energy tariffs based on the spot market + fee now. But although you even get negative prices, I was surprised that those tariffs are not economical for me. I have 2 heat pumps that are responsible for 75% of my e

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