pietrrrek

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by pietrrrek 5mo ago
> In my experience, once the issue is framed as 'Google will decide what you can do with your phone' every single person is immediately outraged. I've had a lengthy debate about this (in the context of right-to-repair) wit
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by pietrrrek 1y ago
> The person could be doing their job to survive, or they could be working a few hours on a fun job on the weekend for a bit of extra cash. Your statement makes it seem as if these populations are of equal size, but in reality the vast m
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by pietrrrek 2y ago
I don't think that Elon Musk can be singled out as the source of these changes, he's didn't just magically appear lur of nowhere and start doing what he's doing.
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by pietrrrek 2y ago
A story is just a sequence of events, it does not necessarily have to be fictional (i.e. inauthentic).
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by pietrrrek 2y ago
Thank you for bringing up the Korean struggle; the main difference seems to be that South Korea has since acknowledged the injustice and brutality exercised by the military and brought those responsible to "justice" (in quotation
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by pietrrrek 3y ago
On desktop it looks more like a footer than a ToC
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by pietrrrek 3y ago
The results that you get in Google also depend on your location
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by pietrrrek 5y ago
My personal experience from working with functional languages at my university is that there is a certain familiarity-floor which has to be reached before you start to see the language as elegant. This doesn't even translate between la
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by pietrrrek 5y ago
Since is not about finding "the truth" as you put it, but it is about finding the current, most fitting truth. As circumstances change "the truth" also changes, as such science will never be able to find anything but &qu
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Show HN: Reactodoro a simple pomodoro timer(reactodoro.herokuapp.com)
2 points by pietrrrek 5y ago|0 comments
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Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know(slatestarcodex.com)
5 points by pietrrrek 5y ago|0 comments
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by pietrrrek 5y ago
One could argue that subscription based news orgs are incentivesed to provide you news which would ensure that you stay subscribed. For some people these news would have to be factual, but, for IMO most people news which are either not full
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by pietrrrek 6y ago
From understanding this is not supposed to add anything to existing workflows. The idea seems to be that the presenter can "live-code" the mathematical expressions during presentation, much like mathematics is taught at universiti
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by pietrrrek 6y ago
> I mean, who made "photography" an "art" anyway that deserved to have such protections? I mean, come on, all you did was be at the right time at the right place and took a fucking picture, with a camera no less. If t
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by pietrrrek 6y ago
I mostly agree based on my own experience, I rarely get distracted by the lyrics alone, what gets to me is bass. Whenever a bass-havy song comes on I feel like my focus breaks, which is also why I started to listen to more jazz and similar,
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by pietrrrek 6y ago
This stereotype is the reason why I wrote this post, i.e. to avoid starting a rewrite only based on my own, very limited, experience. Seeing the contents of sister comments, I see that a full rewrite is likely a _very_ bad idea.
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Ask HN: How should I proceed at work?
4 points by pietrrrek 6y ago|7 comments