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Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server(lbrito1.github.io)
2 points by lbrito 4y ago|0 comments
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Failing at fractions saved the Quarter Pounder(cbc.ca)
3 points by lbrito 4y ago|0 comments
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by lbrito 4y ago
It's cheaper to do a publicity stunt like this than to raise the salary of bank clerks (which is basically minimum wage).
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by lbrito 4y ago
>You don't want your users to worry they are hurting their help desk chat bot when closing the window We're already there. A couple of years ago Bradesco, a large Brazilian bank, programmed its bot to talk back to abusers. Inst
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Bank chatbot programmed to confront insults(trendwatching.com)
3 points by lbrito 4y ago|3 comments
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by lbrito 4y ago
I don't understand why people tend to fall for this. Any AI is just mashing data in smart ways. It is ontologically different from sentience, conscience and all that.
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by lbrito 4y ago
Sorry, I find that hard to believe (about food). I was in Floripa a couple of years ago and ate a huge platter of seafood for like 100 reais. The equivalent 20 CAD doesn't even buy a hamburger in Vancouver. Yeah, I know inflation has b
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by lbrito 4y ago
Ah, apartments. That is a deal-breaker to me. I tried that, horrible experience. Broken elevators, crazy false fire alarms once per month. Had to go up and down 32 floors with my pregnant wife a couple of times. No one cared, everyone acted
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by lbrito 4y ago
I used to not care about owning, but then I experienced the Vancouver rental market. Long term I don't want to live under the stress of maybe having to leave the house in 30 days because the landlord wants to kick me out so he can incr
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by lbrito 4y ago
Since you've been here for seven years, you might have been lucky enough to benefit from the housing madness. House prices are a strongly disheartening thing about this country. Right now I see more of a future for my family back in ou
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by lbrito 4y ago
Can't pinpoint why, but this seemed adulterated to me.
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by lbrito 4y ago
The borders aren't as arbitrary as we think. You should take a look at this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-...
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by lbrito 4y ago
Yes, exactly my intention.
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by lbrito 4y ago
This really hits the nail on the head imo. I'm in a similar situation, early 30s, parents with not great health. Also, having lived in Spain before and currently on Canada, I have to say the weather and culture here make me miss life i
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by lbrito 4y ago
Hey, I'm also from Brazil. I understand you totally. Brazil is a diverse country and our situations were far different. In my case I was already working remotely for a US company, and living in a small city. My salary was 50% smaller t
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by lbrito 4y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic but the same emmigration/immigration distinction exists in my native language, Portuguese :)
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by lbrito 4y ago
Not really: you emigrate from, and immigrate to. I meant immigration, not emmigration, because regretting it or not depends on where you landed as well as where you left.
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by lbrito 4y ago
I don't - yet - but I can see why it may not be worth it. In short its just not that big of an improvement to justify the cons. But that's just my impression; I'm interested in hearing others.
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Original Tomb Raider Ported to Gameboy Advance(kotaku.com)
2 points by lbrito 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Have You Regretted Immigrating?
56 points by lbrito 4y ago|57 comments
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The strange psychology of the American lawn(psychologytoday.com)
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by lbrito 4y ago
I sometimes wonder how it must've been like to be born German in the early 1900s. Now that must've sucked.
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by lbrito 4y ago
Not really. What's the worst that can happen to someone taking a cab in a canal?
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by lbrito 4y ago
There are some Unix tools I never get around to memorizing the syntax of, and always end up searching "how to"s. find is definitively one of them.
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List of Mutually Intelligible Languages(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lbrito 4y ago|0 comments
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Portal Demake Running on N64(gamesradar.com)
14 points by lbrito 4y ago|0 comments
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by lbrito 4y ago
Wow, is sub 6" considered small nowadays? What have we done
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US Army's Land Trains (2020)(thedrive.com)
284 points by lbrito 4y ago|148 comments
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by lbrito 4y ago
Until the day they don't. This kind of thing is inherently un-provable. You can have a method that works stupidly well for decades, and then it stops working. Building a model that provenly (in the mathematical sense) works with X% eff
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by lbrito 4y ago
Its called Reciprocity and its a pretty well-established concept in diplomacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(international_rel...

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