svilen_dobrev

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by svilen_dobrev 2mo ago
>they will be linked to the World Data Network. Thus everyone will be able to enjoy the equivalent of an Einstein in their own homes. Personal isolation will then be banished forever!" 1969 https://hex.ooo/library&#x
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by svilen_dobrev 4mo ago
some association... the Japanese studied their temples that withstood hundreds of years and thousands of earthquakes.. and found that there's one common pattern: there are two skeleton structures inside one another, with different load
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by svilen_dobrev 5mo ago
they should have been betting on that. Poly-market style. With high-enough bets.. improbability may suddenly reduce..
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by svilen_dobrev 5mo ago
ha-ha. good one. check this one from 1968: https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/animations-1/variatio...
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
github etc hold source code -> scraped -> so AI may generate any of that. And the specs become the new source (code). fast forward.. Atlassian etc hold source specs -> scraped -> so AI may generate any of that.. then any of abov
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
That's how my group got through "Computer Memories" subject. The guy handed us xerox-copy of some Motorola book, and assigned each one a chapter to translate from english to bulgarian, and then type the result into, text file
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
i read the other day this: https://jacobin.com/2026/03/work-deskilling-labor-capitalism... brushing the socialism aside (been there seen that), it talks about the deskilling as inevitable technology consequence. I
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How Work Got So Bad – Or Deskilling being essence of Labor(jacobin.com)
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
Bulgaria.. today.. 95 gasoline , on nearest OMV station = ~~ 1.42E/liter (more prices at [0] : 1.26-2.15E) https://fuelo.net/cheap/where?lang=bg&order=cheap&fuel_type=... come here, the water is fine :)
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
i have been looking on this for an year+.. Here some current (online-shops) prices in Bulgaria.. say shop.chepakov.com / kameasolar.com - panel 490Wp 2sq.m chinese = ~80E - battery 5kwh Li chinese = ~1200E , non-chinese ~2000E+
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
it's easier than that. Take small cabbage heads (also works if cut into pieces, salad style). Put in some container - plastic tank, wooden barrel, glass jar, whatever - 2-or-20-or-120 liters. Add (sea) salt - 30-50g-per-liter-of-water
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by svilen_dobrev 6mo ago
probably. see this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494074
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
> produced something more useful: a map of the fault lines where current practices are breaking and new ones are forming. Here some story. Long time ago, i wrote a (software) accounting system. From 1st principles - nomenclatures, accoun
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
Well, depends on what "translation", and "optimization", means. If even shuffling a few things around counts as translation, then yes.. But then (near?) every change is translation, so it becomes meaningless as a notion.
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
when i moved to this apartment, the wooden wardrobe i had in previous one (built on the spot) could eventually move through that door and corners but absolutely could not move through this doors/corridors/corners (or staircase). S
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
to curb the doomscrolling (laptop is as bad as phone) , i gave my father a big old Lego box - a Volkswagen beetle (which stayed for years, assembled by my kids.. which don't play that anymore. So i disassembled it). He had never tried
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
digital Farthings, here they come
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
i don't think optimization comes after translation.. it is a very small subset of translation and hence can be done easier, even per particular spot (or aspect), keeping more levels of abstraction intact - i.e. no need to change langua
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
it used to be that coding was veeery tough and tedious thing, so specifications had to be really well pre-chewed, down to the bone. Think 60ies and 70'ies . Each decade after that, less and less of the specification is being ever writt
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
> conspires to replace scary feedback > lot of people don't grok what feedback loops are or they grok it very well, esp. the scary part.. Very few people want/enjoy negative feedback. On ANY level, bottom to top, the higher,
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
this new "understanding" priority reminds me of : "... This means the speed of the project is proportional to the speed at which information moves between people's heads. Every obstacle to detecting and moving inform
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
i wonder, is the divide something like Pirsig's classical vs romantic ? First see mostly-functionality / facts, want to understand to the bones, latter see .. appearance / utility / feelings, want to just-get-on-with-it
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
it depends which part of the PM trio+ dominates.. * product part - functionality, overlaps with BA / business-analyst * project part - people AND resources, follow timing/deadlines * program management - not-sure what that exactly
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
maybe Apple is "subsidizing" this ? nudge/"help" people to join the party? trying to ride something around the windows-bullshitization , recent memory-prices etc..
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
here some comparison chart, 2nd image in the article below: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/th... https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.p
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
i've been following this for a while.. and the trend for copyright (of any form - books code pictures music whatever) being laundered by reinventing the "same" thing in-some-way.. is kind-of clear. But what happens with the
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
good work.. one suggestion.. all these page-content-rewrites might be fine for a magazine, but here the user is searching, probably comparing, probably hundreds of items. Mostly because of inadequate/impossible filtering, combined with
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
> the real danger from AI (ads) is the AI slowly convincing you to ${GOAL:-buy stuff} over time. (man bash: ${X:-abcde} means use value of X else abcde by default ) where GOAL can be anything one may be persuaded into. Choosing $15 bur
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
very interesting. esp. The "imagine the unwritten parts" :) For a long-time not seen anything letting me such freedom May i suggest two/3 more/other directions to glance at? - Strugatsky brothers - in "Snail on the
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by svilen_dobrev 7mo ago
sooo ... > it actually did a good job. applies when there is a sea of "prior art" on the topic requested. And that request (prompt) is actually framed/worded properly to match that prior art. Which may be perfect if the t

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