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by narag 3y ago
Can a blog post trigger what an open war in Europe hasn't? Decision makers get their information from other, probably more accurate, sources. How many times have you heard the line "nobody expected that Russian army was so useless
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by narag 3y ago
Another one for the collection: vísteme despacio que tengo prisa .
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by narag 3y ago
Yes, your "I know you so I don't like you" is close to our "you know me so you need to suffer me" but subtly different.
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by narag 3y ago
How is that supposed friend, who might very well be aware of this person's blog, going to feel after reading this? In Spanish there's a saying, la confianza da asco , that could be translated more or less as "familiarity s
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by narag 3y ago
I use documentation a lot but reading from cover to cover? Impractical for everything but if some tool is your bread and butter, it's a good idea. I read the whole TurboPascal and Delphi manuals, the former in college, the later when
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by narag 3y ago
..."cult of personality" types like Jobs and Elon? I haven't met Elon, but the impression I got from videos is very different to Jobs. He has a cult following indeed, but is it really because his magnetism or PUA tricks lik
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by narag 3y ago
I've only used a state machine in code once. Guess what I was writing. BUT. Once a state diagram saved my team a whole lot of pain. We were translating a piece of regulation to code. There were a bunch of people directly talking to u
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by narag 3y ago
No, you can't get away with this semantic dodge... Right, what about this one: the bugs are all found eventually, only not by the right person. Just kidding :)
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by narag 3y ago
It’s a chandelier/candle holder or heating device, is it not? I'd love to have a replica for that purpose, I wonder if someone makes them. Edit: of course they do, one search away. A nice conversation starter :)
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by narag 3y ago
...the Spanish descriptions unashamedly used the word "propaganda" That's not what you think. At the time it was common to use that word instead of publicidad to mean advertising. A construction typical from Latin, propag
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by narag 3y ago
Sorry, it's been a couple of months and I can't remember the details. Is there a different threshold for minors? I don't know your legal system and maybe I "translated" what I was hearing with ours in mind. Or the a
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by narag 3y ago
Lots of comments that didn’t read the article... I didn't read it either... because I'd read a bunch of other articles and watched videos about the problem a couple of months ago. IMHO the root cause is that it's impossible
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by narag 3y ago
Microsoft will be happy providing everything, paperwork included at a reasonable price.
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by narag 3y ago
Yeah, the infamous September was really a thing, more than sharing. Another factor was that maintaining a news server was a PITA for the ISPs.
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by narag 3y ago
It's been three years for me. Last time it was in Freenode, but there was some drama more recently and if I'm not mistaken, people migrated to a new net called libera.chat. Chanels, depending on what you're looking for, but t
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by narag 3y ago
My point is that it doesn't matter if some arbitrary string looks like an email address, you need to check. If it isn't valid the server won't annoy anyone. The problem is that the address is valid. And not theirs, it&#x2
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by narag 3y ago
A "this doesn't look like an email-address, did you mean... Stop right there. I'm tired of receiving mail from people that gave my email address as if it was their own. Never ever accept an email address unless you can in
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by narag 3y ago
I bought this book in paper time ago, put it aside (I bought half a dozen at the same time) and when I finally got to read it, I found out that I had brought the wrong version. Too late to return it... A question: is any of the currently ho
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by narag 3y ago
I wonder how much of that is due to increased exposure to content, plus a function of being young when seeing it. Not much. That's not the only movie I've seen recently. Not all of them have been so forgettable. An alarming port
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by narag 3y ago
The sad thing about this film is that I remember nothing about it a few years after watching it. Nothing. I have a vague recollection of a desert scene and a rainy one, but no idea what happens or who are the characters. The original one I
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by narag 3y ago
Even if his education is in physiology, most of his fame is due to his work as critic and historian of the perfume world, having written some best-seller books. His scientific works have been heavily criticized though: https://en
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by narag 3y ago
Indeed. Moreover, I'm not (so) ancient and the words made sense to me instantly with no dissonance. Deep sea is purple and dark. Some wines are also purple-leaning. The association is very obvious unless you insist in "wines are r
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by narag 3y ago
9.6 vs 6.6 is like 2/3 for Amazon. Those numbers were for past year. Now there's a new one launching. The market is very fragmented and the fiber is here very strong, with the sports being a big part.
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by narag 3y ago
Remember we're talking about Spain. It's higher, but not much higher: https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/1043679/numero-de-abona... Two notes: not sure if official numbers, but it's about paying a
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by narag 3y ago
Losing 1M users is not good, but isn't the real question how many accounts they lost? There's another question: how's the competition doing? Amazon and Sky Showtime are much better in new subscriptions. HBO is 50% in new su
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by narag 3y ago
If transport over big distances wasn't a problem, both technical and political, solar would be the only source we need. I've read here multiple times that a "small" solar farm in the Sahara desert would suffice to provid
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by narag 3y ago
Are general purpose tools scams? No. But I'm old enough to remember how the people that bought the first IBM PCs complained that the computers were useless. Of course they needed much more than the very expensive machines: software,
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by narag 3y ago
My not so humble opinion: rather than making no-code tools, improve the usability of the yes-code tools, simplifying them and removing decades of cruft. Start by identifying the silos, including the allegedly open ones. Then, from first pri
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by narag 3y ago
Every model, except paying individually for what you want, has big-picture problems that eventually surface. Collective subscriptions are terrible. You don't a voice to ask for the things you like. Ads brought us private surveillance,
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by narag 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxoM9lvzVA

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