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by kozikow 4y ago
Look at music. You could have computer generate something that sounds like a pro for many years. Indistinguishable with good audio setup to non-musician ears. And yet music is probably standing stronger than ever.
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by kozikow 4y ago
Dear users: but our VCs love subscription services.
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by kozikow 4y ago
There is strong evidence out there that some spiritual things are real, more than just being a placebo/make-believe. There is something else going on, contrary to the accepted belief that the brain is a biological computer. https:&#x2
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by kozikow 4y ago
Sometimes to make a project work you need all types of work, not only high visibility, high impact work that gets management attention and raises. Good example is promo process at a particular large tech company - you win promo by picking a
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by kozikow 5y ago
Big deer or boar can weight over 300 pounds. About 2/3 is edible. Let's say one pound of lean meat is 800 kcal. And daily intake is 2000 kcal. Assuming eating only meat that's 80 days of calories.
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by kozikow 5y ago
One bullet can last you very long time. I have been eating the same deer as a single source of meat since January and I'm not even half there yet. Add some means of meat conservation and you could easily last a year on less than 10 bul
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by kozikow 5y ago
I also live near Ukraine (Poland): - IIUC even if a tactical nuke were to hit Ukraine, if you stay inside for couple days, cover and stay away from windows, use your own water, use air filter - the amount of radiation is going to be small e
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by kozikow 5y ago
For me it's hunting and long range shooting. Being able to hunt, accurately shoot 1000 yards, having 1000 ammo pieces and handloading set, 150 lbs of frozen and/or dried meet (a small deer weights that much). Hunting gear is a gre
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by kozikow 5y ago
There is a lot of clownery: - They destroyed their own secret comms system by accident, used civilian phones and general was killed based on the geolocation from the call. Amount of high rank leadershipo KIA would be embarassing even if the
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by kozikow 5y ago
I remember when searching for vacuum cleaner recently. Google 1st page is 100% SEOers gaming search to earn money on affiliate links. On reddit you can find comparisons like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/VacuumCleaners
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by kozikow 5y ago
At my work in a tech company there were social circles loosely formed along the lines: "natives", Indians and eastern Europeans. One Indian guy was an exception - he was a part of our eastern European group. Later I learned that h
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by kozikow 5y ago
His arguments are based on the assumption of "we are biological computers made out of atoms flying in spacetime". Authors of this conference argue precisely against this assumption - e.g. they explore alternatives in the "bey
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by kozikow 5y ago
The "materialism" consciousness theory is primarily what they are arguing against and people in this video gathered lots of solid scientific evidence against it. If not "brain is a biological computer" then what? We don&
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by kozikow 5y ago
Yes, if we cared about energy efficiency of computation, there are much lower hanging fruits than codecs, even besides cryptocurrencies. And there are much lower hanging fruits than the computation.
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by kozikow 5y ago
What I do spiritually: Meditation - it's proven to have health benefits, even in purely non-spiritual setting. Besides that: trying to be good in general, etc. Experience love and gratefulness. What I think it's there: My main poi
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by kozikow 5y ago
There are many more crazy things regarding the brain. Man living with 5% of the brain: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-... . One case IQ 75, but another case IQ 176 and degree in Mathem
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by kozikow 5y ago
All people are OK with such setup. It was shared decision of the team, not just management sitting up in their high castle and issuing a decree. It's a small company with less than 20 total employees and most "executives" sti
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by kozikow 5y ago
We have daily dev (remote) standups at noon. It's about 9 people on the meeting, so even if someone gives quick update about what they working on, discuss a few top priority issues that came up, it still ends up eating up the whole 30
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by kozikow 5y ago
Some people are fully remote and only meet with a team once in a while and that's ok. You can say "I will WFH on Monday, because I am waiting for sofa delivery". It is not a big company and we don't have anything formali
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by kozikow 5y ago
I forgot to add that our office is not in San Francisco, so you can get decently priced apartment within walking distance to the office, without people injecting heroin at your front door and a good public transport.
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by kozikow 5y ago
We had one guy, who completely isolated himself from the world for 6 months during Covid. Total 0 interaction - he even ordered groceries online and he would wait a few days before unpacking them. Before Covid he was great. During the isola
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by kozikow 5y ago
Working in the software company management, I think 100% remote is not great either. We developed a policy that Mondays are required, Wednesday are encouraged, rest is work from home. We have some fully-remote employees. When there was a lo
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by kozikow 5y ago
Pathfinder is great for optimization nerds like us. If you can't find tabletop group check out pathfinder:kingmaker and pathfinder:wotr computer games. I think I spent equal time on character sheet than actually playing. Some META buil
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by kozikow 5y ago
Is there a way to remove paid articles from search?
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by kozikow 5y ago
As a Pole, I only like Lem from this list of authors. I dislike most of Polish literature. Most of modern Polish literature tries to be edgy too hard. Older literature is too political, up to the point that they usually forget that it suppo
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by kozikow 5y ago
Hunting in Poland is not like in the USA, where it is an outdoor activity generally accepted by most of population. Many if not most people would want to totally outlaw it. When you ask them if they are aware about boar damages to crops or
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by kozikow 5y ago
I know a construction worker who emigrated to the USA from Europe and built a house for sale with a higher standard (e.g. reinforced concrete construction). He had a hard time selling it, as it was more expensive that other similarly lookin
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by kozikow 5y ago
Much more likely it's obesity, highly processed foods, lack of physical activity due to sitting at the computer, etc.
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by kozikow 5y ago
So just add a significant tax for plastic usage, reflecting an actual damage to environment? All use cases where it's still necessary will still be able to do so, while price-cutters will switch to alternatives.
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by kozikow 5y ago
Why following wouldn't work for licenses: Train 3 models: 1. Only permissive licenses - Only include in the training set repos with permissive licenses - MIT, Apache. 2. Copy-left - Step 1 + GPL, excluding AGPL and other "hardcore

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