kleiba2

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by kleiba2 3mo ago
> Someone said: java to JavaScript is like car to carpet. You mean the sibling who commented five minutes before you?
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Unlike the states, Germany is densely populated and does not have vast uninhabited areas. Where do you suggest should they store their nuclear waste? Germany has been looking for an appropriate place for the last 50(!) years and does not ex
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
I don't know exactly what you mean by "like Germany", but singling out Germany seems a strange choice given that the main global offenders are orders of magnitude worse in terms of their greenhouse gas emissions. Germany is c
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
> it’s well-understood that very few people actually read those things, they just want to get them out of the way. This is a jaw-drop moment for me every single time I observe someone else using the web and quickly clicking "accep
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
If the "super app" is modular - like Emacs is - you basically get the best of both worlds.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Thanks for your great input. But you might have mistaken what I was trying to get at - certainly not that there's no difference between a computer program and a person.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Non sequitur.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but when I was younger one reason that got me into AI research was the idea that one day we would have these seemingly intelligent entities that we could talk to and interact with just like we do with humans. Now th
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
High prices might be an incentive for piracy but it cannot be a justification. It's a bit like saying it's okay to sneak into a movie theater because the prices for movie tickets are too high. To me, I feel it's an integral p
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
> There is a world of difference between "here's a problem that I'm really concerned with and poured all my expertise to solve it" and "I told Claude to fix it for me and now I'm gonna abandon it as soon as
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
I've always dreamed of having the ability to just talk to my computer (in the right circumstances) so I actually worked in the field for many years. The main reason I never use speech recognition today is because I have zero interest
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Be precise: the quote does not say "individual people deserve...", it's talking about the country as a whole. And even then, you don't necessarily have to agree with it.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Awesome family constellation, thanks for taking the time to explain!
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
I feel you. My son is still younger, but I have similar fears. As any good husband would, I bought my wife an old SNES for Christmas a few years ago. And my son loves playing Super Mario World on it. So I thought some time back, that it cou
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Btw, completely OT but something I found puzzling when reading your blog post: how did your aunt communicate with the Austrian guy who didn't speak English?!
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
One of my best friend loves making music. And he was also always interested in recording tech. So after we both graduated from high school, he went on to become a sound engineer. But even right after getting his degree, he said that he neve
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
There's certainly that. But a lot of the points of the sibling and nephew comments here ring true, too.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
I could probably write a blog post with the opposite title, sth. like "My life got ruined by the Commodore C64". Equally hyperbolic, the narrative would go something like this: I was the exact same child/teen as the guy from
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Every country gets the government it deserves. -- Joseph de Maistre, 1811
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
> > And here I am driving a 2003 Golf with a tape deck (and CD player). > That sounds wonderful. I don't know if people are really serious but there seems to be a good market interest in car's that's not just equip
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
One of the hobby projects that I want to do, and hopefully will find the time for before we get rid of my wife's car, is to retrofit it with a CD player, powered by a Raspberry Pi or something alike. It could nicely live in the glove c
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
I have to admit I don't understand what exactly the problem is we're trying to solve with ML here...?
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Especially if you don't have a phone and don't want to use your google account for anything but gmail, for privacy reasons. Both of these point apply to me, for instance.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Fun fact: a bouncing ball was one of the first programs that the C64 User Guide taught you: https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-user-guide/page/n57... Yes, that's right kids: the C64 came with a man
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Yes. It was around the time when "UI design" changed to "UX design".
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
This one maybe? https://archive.org/details/ibm-saa-cua-basic-interface-desi... PDF link in the box on the right.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Reading this makes me feel like we have not learned any lessons at all in software engineering and UI design since the 1980s.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Prediction: Germany is going to be your worst train experience.
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by kleiba2 3mo ago
Plus, I'm not very hirable to begin with, having wasted most of my professional life in academia.

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