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by raducu 3y ago
In romanian it's the same; but it can also mean "fresh" in the context of dairy. It's the same in Spanish?
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by raducu 3y ago
>. Beyond the importance of controlling the placebo effect, I am worried that a lot of the drug-depression research is overlooking an important possibility: that the thing about ketamine/psilocybin/etc that is helping with depr
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by raducu 3y ago
> I think one of the worst things about society right now is we don’t share the burden amongst ourselves Watched a reddit post about a romanian mother making a fuss about her and her small autistic son being kicked out of an uber because
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by raducu 3y ago
As someone having both tinnitus and eye floaters, this rings (pun intended) so true.
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by raducu 3y ago
There should be a difference between someone doing things professionally and an "amateur". "Programming" is not the same as "hacking". I can hack away in any new language and produce something that works, and I
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by raducu 3y ago
> but, and sorry to be so blunt, fuck em But maybe please don't fuck them? I use Chat GPT 4 for one-off scripts, to explore new technologies/frameworks. Sometimes it's great, but I find it hurts me as much as it helps me i
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by raducu 3y ago
> poorly implemented runoff would nuke a square km or five of ocean floor with high salinity waste. So what is the problem then? We only need to lay pipes to ocean floors that are already not that lively?
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by raducu 3y ago
What if you dump the brine 10 miles into the ocean via pipes? The desalinated water has to make its way back to the ocean somehow, I would not be worried about us making an impact on the Earths ocean salt levels, and if we dump the brine
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by raducu 3y ago
I'm sorry, perhaps my engineering education makes me handwave at problems -- but the water we're desalinating has to return to the ocean someway, it's not like we throw it into black holes, why can't we just dump the bri
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by raducu 3y ago
I could not say I ever experienced it, but I have school-aged relatives that moved to Germany and received all sorts of crap from their peers explicitly for being romanians. Not a race thing because they're whiter than most germans( bl
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by raducu 3y ago
I mean more developed, because a country like Saudi Arabia is rich but not developed imho, and there could be countries that are develope -- i.e. they have good education, infrastructure, medical care, human rights, clean environment etc et
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by raducu 3y ago
I did not know this detail, I know the Danish state offered apologies, the charges were dropped and the child was returned to the parents.
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by raducu 3y ago
There are debatable issues, and clear cut issues -- not providing basic care or medical care is quite clear cut. Homeschooling is debatable, if the children are evaluated to be equal to their regular schooled peers, I don't think the c
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by raducu 3y ago
I'm not implying anything other than the fact in Romania social workers KNOW it's very, very likely the child will fare worse fate in an orphanage or foster care, EVEN in cases that would be considered abuse in the West. Given a m
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by raducu 3y ago
It could be, but communication issues could also be at play, plus overeager doctors/social workers. In Romania they go at great lengths not to pull children out of family environments, in Denmark and other more developed countries i
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by raducu 3y ago
my bad, the piston is indeed just the inner moving part, my point was that we think of syringe as easy because it is not under pressure, but if you think in terms of car piston/cylinder you appreciate more why this can't work in a
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by raducu 3y ago
What was the medical issue for your child being underweight, if you could please share that?
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by raducu 3y ago
> and what's more heroic than swooping in to take the child away from the clutches of the villain? In a (somewhat) post-scarcity society attention from others is hard currency and narcissism is at an all time high.
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by raducu 3y ago
Similar case in Denmark/Romania where a baby was taken from his romanian parents because of the shaken baby syndrome, parents spent time in jail, but the hemorage continued over time so they had to concede it wasn't the shaken bab
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by raducu 3y ago
I'm sure it's easy: some liquids like oxygen and methane are stored under high pressure, you would need an incredibly well built seal and powerful piston. If it's a room temperature liquid probably there are less complicate
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by raducu 3y ago
When does a syringe become a piston?
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by raducu 3y ago
>I wasn’t around for the 90s edition of windows phone I was ... and worked on mobile apps and windows CE. I proposed an app like Tinder back then, but management decided there was no market for it. I guess execution is everything.
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by raducu 3y ago
You've made very good points about smart clients, but at some point one has to ponder if it's worth it or one should just not use kafka in the first place. I've seen databases used as messaging queues and if it was up to me,
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by raducu 3y ago
> afka is a code smell in a lot of organizations from my experience - most do not need it. Kafka is really nice if you don't care that much about latency during peak load and you don't have absurd processing times for messages.
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by raducu 3y ago
> You can get all the same advantages of message acknowledgments. Maybe 95% of cases, but not all. Long message processing time really kills kafka in a way it doesn't kill Rabbit Mq. Combine it with inherent read paralelism being li
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by raducu 3y ago
> who can't just now pluck messages off a queue to process The problem is you cannot mark individual messages as read, for a given consumer&partition you can only update the offset for a partition. If a certain message processin
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by raducu 3y ago
It's why I'm 100% it can't be advanced life: we can't find life anywhere in the galaxy but we find advanced life in our own backyard (I know 120 light years is quite a lot)?
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by raducu 3y ago
I think successful men (and women) can get over any negative bias much easier, I don't think that's the main point. I just feel western society has overcorrected by a lot and now is biased again (straight-white) men.
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by raducu 3y ago
Why all the disclaimers? Unless, you know, all the knee-jerk reactions about talking about any mens issue have very serious, negative consequences in the modern world.
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by raducu 3y ago
> I am flabbergasted, stunned, lacking words. Why would you be so stunned? Would you be so stunned if I said western society has a negative attitude/undertones against women?

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