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by rvieira 2y ago
I agree with most of the examples at the end of the post, except HelloFresh. I'm a huge fan of HelloFresh, and I think it solves an important problem which is one of waste. Before this service, I would buy odd quantities of ingredients
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by rvieira 3y ago
There's always a degree of subjectivity and personal taste, but I do consider this to be the peak of OS UIs. I have an "ironic" machine at home that is an old retina iMac, with Linux installed and themed with Chicago95. My at
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by rvieira 3y ago
I couldn't find an explanation for why a TV series (Twin Peaks: The Return) is in a Greatest Films of All Time list. In any case, that's a handy reference list for things to watch.
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by rvieira 3y ago
It's interesting that the Guardian was so famous for their typos (in the 1970s) that it earned them the "Grauniad" nickname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian (2nd paragraph) https://
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by rvieira 3y ago
Can't speak for other cats, but mine is crazy for tuna. I can't even finish opening the tin with his head butting in.
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by rvieira 3y ago
Cats "meow" (miˈaʊ̯) in all languages. Dogs can woof, blaf, ham, ao, ...
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by rvieira 3y ago
Just as side note, I clap as in figure A2. However, it's one of those things in life where I don't remember when or why I started doing it like that. Surely I didn't clap like that before my earliest memories (3 or 4 yo).
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by rvieira 3y ago
Perhaps it's not really a "talking" instrument (as an actual voice is modulating), but Peter Frampton always comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rFYbMhcG8&t=345s
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by rvieira 3y ago
I've tried Borg but I settled with Kopia and a[0] cheap S3-like storage. Everything is automated and runs on a schedule, but when I need some ad-hoc restore, say, of a single snapshot or folder I can always use KopiaUI. Been quite happ
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by rvieira 3y ago
These are not "small things", but things people generally don't pay attention and just use a cheap version. Using good quality ones really makes life better: A mechanical keyboard. Retina displays. Comfortable shoes. Prescrip
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by rvieira 3y ago
> Python is the de facto glue language with one of the biggest ecosystems out there I never contested that. > ML is very specifically about manipulating data (a fundamentally dynamic task) I disagree strongly with using dynamic langu
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by rvieira 3y ago
I really think that Python is not a good language for ML, it just got "there" first. The ecosystem is the real plus, of course. But the language is a headache for this. I agree with the "false economy" angle. I would hap
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by rvieira 3y ago
Yep, exactly. Unfortunately, it is working. People will choose convenience over mostly everything else.
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by rvieira 3y ago
My takes: The UK has a ridiculously assymetric economy. You either move to London or fight for scraps anywhere else. This ties with the housing problem. Education is a debatable investiment, because highly qualified work presumes moving to
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Small caged animal [Financial Times](ft.com)
2 points by rvieira 3y ago|1 comments
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by rvieira 3y ago
That's exactly my experience. In areas where I'm an expert, I find myself correcting ChatGPT constantly. But for a language I want to learn, it's been really helpful to get me started on a simple algorithm or debug an error m
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by rvieira 3y ago
What a coincidence! Only yesterday I was reading the WP page on Camel Spiders, saw the chewing animation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11#/media/File:20220... , and thought it was quite cool!
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by rvieira 4y ago
Moved from London to Newcastle. My personal experience is that, despite London indeed having an impressive offer in terms of culture, entertainment, food, social life, etc. it's an illusion. Most people do home -> work -> home, w
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by rvieira 4y ago
Not saying this is good news, but given the current amount of plastic floating around in the oceans, isn't aggregating as a big chunk better for the environment[1] than disintegrating into micro-plastics or small debris? [1] excluding
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by rvieira 4y ago
I disagree, in the sense that it was heavily toned down in the 1984 film, but less in the 2021 one. The Bedouin analogy is much more underlined in the recent film. Everything from clothing, skin tone to language is more Bedouin-like than in
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by rvieira 4y ago
Interestingly, Spanish farmers say they have enough to go around and Brexit is to blame: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/23/uk--fresh-f...
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by rvieira 4y ago
It's interesting that there seems to be a core generation target for these kind of things. I remember many years ago, the craze of the "see how you'll look as an old person" filters. Now it's the "see how you&#
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by rvieira 4y ago
Immanuel Kant famously said > There are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Surely there are more. Dancing is perhaps one of them.
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by rvieira 4y ago
What about IoT?
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by rvieira 4y ago
Particularly ironic using the defence of "it’s not the technology that’s to blame, but the person, not the machine gun, but the person". Machine guns, an advanced piece of engineering widely known to being developed purely as an a
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by rvieira 4y ago
I'm not sure about all this futurology. One thing I'm sure, despite all the papers and theoretical advances Google has on AI, the translation to Google products and user experience is dismal. I use business GChat and recently I&#x
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by rvieira 4y ago
It's funny and a bit sad that society is so complex we (I) don't even know something as "simple" as what the forms of acceptable currency are.
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by rvieira 4y ago
Yes, the world is complicated and there are numerous simpler explanations. The fact that a few (plural) of their friends were talking about X, means that they probably had a recent contact with X (searched for it, watched the videos, etc).
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by rvieira 4y ago
I'm not sure if it passes a rigorous security analysis, but my approach is to have two different keepassxc databases with different passwords. One for passwords, the other for TOTP. The TOTP db is mainly for backup, I use a phone app o
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by rvieira 4y ago
Collection of retro CSS: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun...

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