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by stakhanov 2y ago
If I correctly understand the linked materials by Patrick Breyer [1], then the parliament (which is the piece of the E.U. where we are presently asked for our vote), is opposed to this pretty much in its entirety: It says "Parliament
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Last time I heard (which was indeed a long time ago, so maybe things have changed), if you wanted citizenship, then your village had to take a vote, so you were well-advised to join the volunteer fire department and that sort of thing, if y
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Because Switzerland is so immigration-friendly?
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Thanks for the pointers! Will look into those. > Will you still pay top dollar if it is open source though? :D There is one OS project that I do support financially. If I get commercial value out of any of the above, I imagine I would
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer. This does indeed look pretty good. Do you happen to know if they're using any APIs underneath the covers? Or are they fully self-contained?
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by stakhanov 2y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but here goes: It seems to me that English TTS is already extremely good, even if you're looking at implementations that are far from being the best ones for English. ...and sometimes I wonder, if it's
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Why do you assume it's an "outside" view? I was freelancing for many years on projects with "Data Scientist" / "Data Engineer" in my job title, having been hired by managers who heard about "Big
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by stakhanov 2y ago
The funny thing about "big data" was that it came with a perverse incentive to avoid even the most basic and obvious optimizations on the software level, because the hardware requirement was how you proved how badass you were. Lik
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Swift developers are not that many. It's less than 5% of respondents to the Stack Overflow developer survey [1]. Microsoft and Google each have languages/ecosystems with larger developer share (Google at over 6% for Dart, and Mic
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> You mean, the people who actually do the work? Yes, that too. But since "managers are a waste of space" was an angle that a lot of people had been commenting from already, I didn't feel the need to belabor that point. M
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by stakhanov 2y ago
In the context of a cost-cutting exercise, it's pretty obvious that the middle of the hierarchy is where you're going to do the cutting. You're not going to cut at the top, because there aren't enough individuals there f
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I'm saying that, even on a grammatical level, it's visible that the author must have had a motive for putting the sentence there that was somehow extraneous to and different from the motive for putting the other sentences there. N
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> I guarantee the industrial-food-complex is paying scientists to identify potential benefits of ultra-processed food. I just don't think that this particular mode of "money corrupts science" is happening much. I mean the
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by stakhanov 3y ago
HN is really on a roll lately, with the ultra-processed food stuff. [1,2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711527 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675111
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by stakhanov 3y ago
You just wrote "inherent", and then you gave a reason that's not inherent to the process of deep-frying. If the use of poor quality oils, and their repeated use are problems, then let's write those into the fda rulebook
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by stakhanov 3y ago
My point was a lot simpler than that, namely: Food/nutrition snobs are made, not born.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Aren't there pretty stringent rules on what they have to list as ingredients on the packaging? At least where I live (in Germany), I would have thought so. And when I buy chips, the ingredients list lists exactly two things: potatoes
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by stakhanov 3y ago
That reminds me of the episode that Jamie Oliver did, where he tried to prove that he could make healthy and delicious (to him) school meals, while staying inside the budget, at scale, as an alternative to fishsticks with chips (as in frenc
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Botulism is extremely rare, though. According to Wikipedia, it's 145 cases anually in the U.S., and 15% of those are foodborne. Compare that to millions of cases each year, in the U.S., of foodborne illness, in general. That's wh
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Medicine is "ultra-processed" as well, and goes in your mouth, but the study is certainly not implying that medicine, on the balance of probabilies, is unhealthy for you. That's where it makes a difference. It's not &q
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> he is an affiliate marketer for an overpriced product Didn't he recently announce that he now even has equity in AG1? So, it even goes beyond "affiliate". That said, if you listen to the actual wordings of the claims he
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by stakhanov 3y ago
One problem I see (besides the paternalism, and talking down to people) is that "rigid schemas" of the kind that drives normies insane when nerdy types exhibit them and being smart vs. dumb are actually two very separate things. S
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by stakhanov 3y ago
If you make your own sausages and deli meats, you can just skip the nitrites; they are not really needed for the taste, just for the red color. So your sausages will come out grey/brown, but will taste just as good. Nitrites are a bit
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I agree as well. "Processing" food is literally what people do in their kitchens. But that's presumably not what they mean. Certain kinds of processing have to be applied to food to make it safe for consumption. But that&#x
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by stakhanov 3y ago
The reason it doesn't fall into this category is not because it's not ultra-processed, but because it's not food, and no one is claiming that it's food either. Presumably the idea here is more about how many calories yo
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by stakhanov 3y ago
It was the first edition of this book that, when I read it 20 years ago, got me "hooked" on computer science as a science rather than as just a fun thing to do (which I had been doing for several years prior). When I met Dan Juraf
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> a language can be a home-cooked meal [...] a tool for use by a programmer [...] a pipeline that transforms a data structure from a format that the human would prefer to interact with into a format that a specific machine can work with.
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by stakhanov 3y ago
> slowed me down and distracted me from actually writing It's a bit of a matter of perspective. The distinction between looking at a document in markdown versus Word is a bit analogous to the distinction between looking at a movie i
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by stakhanov 3y ago
I was thinking the same thing: I would use HTML as an intermediate, targeting PDF through weasyprint. In fact I quite often go .md -> .html with pandoc, but write the .md in such a way that, when translated, it is the kind of html that
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by stakhanov 3y ago
Most of this codebase seems to be Rust. I'm not sure how good the Qt/Rust experience currently is; there might well be room for another player in that space. More generally, I get the impression that the current state of the art

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