ricardobayes

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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes, anyone who has been looking for Spotify alternatives can readily tell how poor the music recommendation algorithms of competitors. I feel like the only comparative one is weirdly, youtube, since they simply have more data points and co
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I believe it's been crickets because open-source/DIY solutions almost never become mainstream. Devs tend to think everyone wants a self-service to save a few bucks. Most ordinary people don't care that much about privacy and
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I suspect because the English colloquial text training data it had access to was early 2000's message boards and social media. Therefore it uses "honestly" and other expressions that took hold in the late 90s and early 2000s.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That brought back some memories. I would always order a Filet-o-Fish which they made fresh due to the low demand.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
To be fair that is also true to the Internet itself, it's very useful but has negative side-effects.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Bad posture, and perhaps even more importantly, sitting is a really, really bad thing. There is a reason why taxi drivers have massively shorter life spans than the general population - sitting all day and the following poor circulation is
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes, for what it's worth, solar is an incredibly good start (for Spain at least) for said energy abundance. Approaching from the other way, there are actually quite a few Spanish who say using the aircon is wasteful, expensive or even
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That's kind of my point. It's not cold - to you - because you are used to it. In Hungary or Romania since energy is (or was) cheap, due to residual/waste heat from power plants everyone heats their homes to 23-24C. Because if
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
We haven't really been able to figure out the responsibility thing properly yet. I'm ok with AI/LLMs but not so much on agentic stuff, a human always needs to be in the loop. If there's anything we learned from Robocop,
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
In Dubai and other gulf states, you can order gas to your home and they fill your car up in your driveway.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Ortogonal to the discussion, but I think in an odd way, Australia is one of the most similar countries to Spain in this aspect. Very limited to no natural gas proliferation, electric heating, if any, but houses made rather cheaply but someh
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes that is a split A/C, which is also a form of heat pump, that's not really what people refer to as heat pumps by default in Europe. A heat pump is normally an air-to-water system here, which drives either radiators or heated fl
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes and for something rare or complex, you can always fall back on the public health insurance.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I love heat pumps, but they are well out of reach for most people at 25-30k for a full system with insulation and radiator change. 5C is indeed a cold night, for Spain, in an uninsulated house which most are, and 13C/55F daily high, i
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes, most households don't have the 25-30k available to switch to heat pumps. If we dig deep I think we partially solved why people don't have kids anymore in Europe: for that you need optimism, and to be told every few years even
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes, I see that now. That excerpt I took paraphrasing a google summary which apparently used a youtube video as its source. But I see it now it's not true, thanks. However I do stand by the part where I said if renewables were never us
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I find something very refreshing in this, reading from Europe where we get told "gas" is the big bad, even threatening to make condensing gas boilers illegal from time to time [0], despite over 95% of homes (in the UK) being heate
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Thanks for that! Let my forever suspicious, eastern european mindset step in. Couldn't companies just create smaller sub-companies to offload risk to, to "operate" the vehicles, and then if there is an "event", they
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
That's actually a great classification and I've never seen it being laid out like that. I guess it can be useful to know "what kind" of programmer one is.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I think this general situation has been on peoples' minds since Erin Bronkovich. Gosh that movie came out 26 years ago.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
No, I agree renewables didn't cause the blackout themselves. Spain due to not having hydro power had to use renewables that were inverter-based and didn't have rotating mass to dampen any oscillations. The Entso-E report said ther
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Who bears the responsibility in a hypotethical scenario when a self-driving rideshare vehicle, without a human driver, god-forbid, hits a pedestrian?
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
It works in some countries with a low gini coefficient. In places like Germany or Spain people use public transport because everyone, broadly speaking, is in a very similar socioeconomic status. In some other countries, the wealth inequalit
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Not saying to refute your point just flagging that in places like Germany the bus works flawlessly. People there are really proud that you can even go hiking with public transport, buses are clean, safe and cheap (cheaper than using your ca
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
For disclosure I'm not in the US and I'm not well versed how things are set up over there. However the cameras seemed to have worked, here: crime has dropped by 10% year on year.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
> the oceans will "seed themselves" Yes they already do, as evidenced by the sargassum that wrecked this season for Florida and Mexico.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Germany's output is almost irrelevant in this context: it amounts to a mere 1.4% of the global output. To add to that: there are no good alternatives to coal as the stabilizer in a renewables-fed grid, for Germany. They don't have
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Yes, although it's nowhere near as bad as the Danube, whose level sits at currently -93cm [0] - a record low which meant the nation's nuclear reactors had to be scaled back to just a single turbine and was only a few centimeters a
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Or Deepseek with a fiver.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I really like ANORAAK

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