josep-panadero

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by josep-panadero 4y ago
> I’m increasingly convicted there is inherent value in humans doing things regardless of whether an algorithm can produce a “better” end product. That question already existed a long time ago. In such a big world I can find a lot of pe
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by josep-panadero 4y ago
Something similar happened close by my old neighborhood. The river was highly contaminated by close by industry. In the 80s a new initiative started to improve the quality of the river. Nowadays, there is promenade along the river and it is
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by josep-panadero 5y ago
> Sequences felt like a good use case for this when we started, [...] We’ve since moved to a different approach which enforces the behaviour we want more explicitly when creating incidents, and we learned something along the way. The ent
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
Why there is no lockdown in Sweden? One of the reasons is how legislation works in Sweden: "Sweden cannot legally declare a full state of emergency to deal with corona, says an expert in constitutional law - and right now Sweden can&#x
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
Many interesting learnings. One of them is how much the level of abstraction has been pushed up thru the years of technological improvements. A graphic designer in 2020 does not need to know how memory works in the CPU, not even most develo
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Copernicus Sentinel-6 measuring sea-levels using radar altimetry [video](youtube.com)
1 points by josep-panadero 6y ago|0 comments
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A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by mason found in Spain 900 years on(theguardian.com)
65 points by josep-panadero 6y ago|19 comments
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What Should Be Done About Social Media?(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by josep-panadero 6y ago|0 comments
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
> "Pippi and the Moomins remind us that madcap humour and imaginative storytelling can convey humanistic ideas at least as powerfully as a more literal approach. " "Moominpappa at Sea" is one of my favorte books of al
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
> Drawing helps me bring back many other emotion-related things because I begin remembering emotions I’ve implicitly stored (i.e., when the person was angry, happy, loud, etc.). I love the sketches. I learned to draw for that reason, I a
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
I have done that in my previous two jobs. And I find it easier to do as soon as I join a new company than later. Once I get involved in projects it requires more effort to get the time. And to know everyone and their opinions is very import
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
It is fantastic how far we have gotten. I had a web in Geocities before the Yahoo purchase. It allowed 150 Kilobytes of storage and no CGI (Common Gateway Interface). I do no see mention of size limits in the article. I just checked Firebas
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by josep-panadero 6y ago
I loved the Computing History museum and highly recommend a visit. I had the opportunity to write some Basic code in an old machine and play old video games. I went walking from the train station to the museum, if you do that, you need to t