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by piokoch 2y ago
It has nothing to do with capitalism. You can have capitalism and society that is aware that having good public services pays-off, as overall spending on schools, security, etc. will be smaller if done at the whole country level. In the USA
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by piokoch 2y ago
I doubt anyone would use this kind of fancy machine to garbage handling until they become a commodity. I would bet that the first application would be to send those robots to trenches and foxholes...
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by piokoch 2y ago
No worries. You know the hard part: dealing with hardware. ML/AI/Comp Vis can be learned fairly quickly if you don't need to dig very deep into algorithms by yourself, but use some higher level libs like scikit-learn, pytorch
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by piokoch 2y ago
Russia is playing with matches since NATO allows for this. It would be sufficient if in Kaliningrad Oblast or in Petersburg NATO forces jammed GPS/Glonas/Beidou and, as a bonus, also VAR system (much more important than GPS for av
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by piokoch 2y ago
Yup, relying on sadistic, communistic regime that puts people into concentration camps is a great idea! What can go wrong!? For instance trading with Russia, Nord Stream, didn't have any bad results... Oh, crap, no, we have some full s
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by piokoch 2y ago
When it comes to search Google needs to do something. Asking LLM chat questions + asking for sources of information works better for me then Google search responses, cluttered with sponsored links/infomercial/spam blogs, etc. We a
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by piokoch 2y ago
Yup, Joseph M. Juran noticed that in the 1940-ies and called that Pareto principle.
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by piokoch 2y ago
“There’s a very decent chance you can do that with wind and solar,” It is so pathetic that Standford professor spreads this kind of crap. No, wind and solar will not save us, as on majority of our planet we have long period of time without
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by piokoch 2y ago
The author is a "Chat GPT operator". Sadly, there is more and more such content hitting Hacker News.
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by piokoch 2y ago
"Name the various types of servants in a household and what they do" This is incredible...
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by piokoch 2y ago
This is very simplistic way of interpreting what Trump said. I would advice to read a bit about the significance of the GIUK (Greenland, Island, UK) in view of warming climate and growing importance of Arctics - melting ice might provide a
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by piokoch 2y ago
And how Bill mom (IBM board member) helped him to win the contract for... IBM, despite better options on the market. Thanks to that we were all rewarded with such gems like Windows 98 ME or Windows Vista.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Good to know that not only my homeland Olympic Committee is a pathological organization!
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by piokoch 2y ago
It seems there are just two clubs: you go with bare metal (Rust, C# native AOT) or you use some higher level abstraction (virtual machine, garbage collector) and then there is no significant difference between Java, Node, Go or Python. For
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by piokoch 2y ago
Off topic: there are two key technologies that "digitalized and computerized" the World: Visual Basic and PHP. And Excel.
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by piokoch 2y ago
"PearAI offers an AI coding editor. The startup’s founder Duke Pan has openly said that it’s a cloned copy of another AI editor called Continue, which was covered under the Apache open source license. But PearAI made a major misstep: P
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by piokoch 2y ago
You can agree with me or not, but Voyager 1/2 is a top technological achievement of the humankind. A piece of hardware so good that it survived working correctly 47 years in a hostile environment, driven by a computer with the power of
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by piokoch 2y ago
"The merits of the case are mostly irrelevant because the ICC doesn’t have the authority to enforce any of its judgements." - tell this to Slobodan Milošević
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by piokoch 2y ago
Well, IDF soldiers themselves were adding to their social media proofs of their war crimes...
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by piokoch 2y ago
Leaf blowers are one of the most idiotic inventions ever made. What is good about moving throwing leafs from place A to place B, where they will be rotting in the same way. Blowing with all other dust and trash. Luckily they got recently ba
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by piokoch 2y ago
Catholics didn't have any issue with Gutenberg. In fact it was exactly the opposite. Please check a letter from Enea Silvio Piccolomini (future Pope Pius II) where he expressed his feelings on how great Gutenberg invention was, how cle
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by piokoch 2y ago
This never worked like this in the history of mankind, but who will forbid very rich people to try that out.
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by piokoch 3y ago
"Given that the Greens have been shutting down nuclear plants due to general fear of nuclear technology" - so true... Something that Greens do not want to admit today. For long, long years they were fighting nuclear, thanks to the
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by piokoch 3y ago
From this review it looks as this book was some version of infamous Youtube "coaching" that gives you advice "to be strong", "hard working", "believe in yourself" and if you feel depressed, well, you
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by piokoch 3y ago
I see more and more AI solutions to be simply not available in European Union. EU is a big market, true, but apparently not big enough to justify all the hassle, risks of handling random bureaucrats who want to become famous because they ma
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by piokoch 3y ago
Voyager 1/2 is a pick of human achievements in XX century. A piece of hardware run by the computer having a power that today car keys have is flying for over 40 years in the space, outside Solar system, delivering priceless information
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by piokoch 3y ago
Right. Unit tests are typically a waste of time unless you have some complicated business logic (say, some insurance rates calculation, etc.). This was advocated long time ago in the (great) book "Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG a
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by piokoch 3y ago
There is no alternative if you want Postgres "embedded" within your test, I have researched that for a long time, as full PGSQL as Docker image sounded as overkill, but nothing else exists.
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by piokoch 3y ago
Some people believe that algorithm that is calculating probability of occurrence of some word given the list of previous words is going to solve all the issues and will do the work for us.
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by piokoch 3y ago
Well. IBM, the "tech" company we all remember from cool servers, AIX, OS400 and other innovative technologies, that were used all over the world for various purposes - from banks and airlines to supporting Germans to send Jews to

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