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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Ah yeah, my grandparents never used AC even in the car. They just cruised with windows down even in the height of summer: they had the most bizarre ideas that it was somehow "bad for the heart". But cooking with lard was okay for
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
It's not the gist of your comment just mentioning that if you never open your windows for fresh air, CO2 levels can quickly rise and impair cognitive functions including ones for strategical decisions.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
It's an extreme taboo topic to discuss but I suspect it's going to be a slow fix if at all: society kind of stops functioning at its best when people live until 90 or 100, and spend decades on pension, disrupting inheritance chain
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I just toured Europe and none of the lodgings (private dwellings) had AC. It was not fun when it was 35C out. South of Spain is actually one of the most comfiest places to be in summer despite being hotter on average, because many homes hav
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
It should be tested on Firefox, but its global usage share is hovering around 3.3% and dropping. At this time, even Opera is comparable at 1.7%.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
If you click the "address" link in the Google Maps sidebox in Google Search it will show you on Google Maps -> even in EU.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I read he leased a fresh car every 90 days to keep driving on dealer tags.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Whatsapp had 55 employees until the buyout (of reported 19B).
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
In my subjective opinion, they don't. Layoffs almost always cause an atmosphere where taking risks is disincentivized.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Not trying to be snarky, but how exactly? How would it help your mental health to be told "your work was borderline useless anyway and we needed to get rid of you to boost shareholder value. Goodbye!"
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Appearances still matter, and IMO it will be really ugly if we all decide they don't.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
To add to author's point, I did work at an organization that decided to focus on bugfixing for a full release cycle, and the PM was sacked after that.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I'm doing the exact opposite: I'm maxing out my PTO and taking long holidays. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be in this field in five years time so why bother. It's time to figure out what other passions I have ap
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
That's just the energy part of it, German heavy industry needs petroleum-derived products as raw materials.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Not a sarcastic response, instead, to double down on your point. If you show this to 99.9% of the world and require the spend of $50 for the screen protector on the $500 iPad to get the "paper feel", they will tell you might as we
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Get a kindle and buy some really gripping books.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Anecdotal, but the passing grade is much higher in medical school than other programmes, like 70-75%. But interestingly, it's often pass/fail instead of grades.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I'm paraphasing but the Chinese premier said recently AI should be seen as a common good that should benefit everyone.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
AI model providers have zero "moat", clients change them as they see fit. This week ChatGPT, next week Claude. The real value is and going to be in hardware - as long as China doesn't enter the GPU/RAM race. I increasing
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
Masters, or even a PhD might be the play long-term, as software is very likely to become even more commoditized than it is now. A Master degree (even in a non-computing field) or a computing-adjacent PhD might give you expert knowledge requ
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
I don't know how high paying it is, although I can see how it can be , especially given there is a shortage of watchmakers in the developed world, even in Switzerland.
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by ricardobayes 3mo ago
My friend told me when he visited India that they repair everything over there: it's a beautiful thing IMO
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
It somehow reminded me of this: (How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
Life of Brian is banned from public screening in parts of Germany on Good Friday. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23227452
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
We'll see if we ever get something like that in Spain. I guess not, fireworks are just too deep in the culture here.
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
Fallas festival in Valencia is not your thing then. But at least I realized why there is an audiologist on every corner.
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
Well that was the peak of the kickstarter era, tons of wearables and new projects. You know, like Pebble
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
That's really cool honestly. This took me back to around 2017 when everyone was into hardware startups.
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
This trope is very widely documented in Russian literature, in fact it's one of the "corner truth" of Russian existence. Checkov, Gogol, Pushkin and Dostoyevsky all wrote novels with this exact plot, because it was so lifelik
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by ricardobayes 4mo ago
Loosely related https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/06/why-so-many-top-hackers-...

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