thaanpaa

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by thaanpaa 4y ago
There is nothing fundamentally different about Bitcoin versus other crypto ledgers. There really is no reason to think that its value won't eventually look exactly the same as every other "coin" that have come and gone.
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Crypto is a complex solution looking for a problem. It's kind of funny how it's marketed as a secure alternative to banks. Like; banks were the more secure alternative to hiding your money inside the mattress. Crypto almost feels
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
I've been trying really hard, but for just about anything I've tried, ChatGPT has just been Captain Obvious form the Department of Obvious. It's the newbie who in their first marketing meeting suggests that target groups shou
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
The more I see things like this, the more convinced I get that what most impresses us about ChatGPT is at the same time its greatest weakness: it responds to everything EXACTLY the way we expect it to. Ask it to do anything creative, and
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
None. It's completely subjective to every person.
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Why people still use Spotify when Tidal exists will never cease to amaze me.
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Aviation is responsible for (depending on who you ask) around 2-4 % of all CO2 emissions. It really is at the very end of the list of things to worry about. More than half of CO2 is produced by the energy sector. More than a quarter is pro
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Ah, the good old "we often attribute our dog’s actions to feelings they’re not really having." There's zero credible research to support that statement. However, it has been repeated to such an extent, that it is now taken as
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
In theory, yes, but in practice Java EE is more complex than anything else by orders of magnitude. (We were talking about large projects, I believe.)
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Nice condesending tone you have there. Where Java will never be seen: - equipment in hospital operating rooms - aircraft flight control systems - anywhere where you need clock cycle level precision (e.g. scientific measurement) - any system
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
That would depend a lot on what kind of large project you are building. As an example, Java is unusable for any project that requires high speed processing or highly accurate timing. Also, there's a HUGE overhead that comes from wiring
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
It's not just Gen Z. I'm a Gen X'er, approaching 50 fast, and I think I've had my phone on silent since 2011. More or less the same with my friends. The sound only gets switched on when expecting a call.
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
The painting was behind glass, so it wasn't actually harmed. Just a perfomance.
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Having studied this for some 20 years, I too am pretty convinced that "calories in, calories out" is little more than naive thinking. That's just not how the body works. Yes, often you'll hear things like "studies s
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
The claim is basically that hundreds of thousands of people, in thousands of research facilities, in more than a 100 countries are colluding to lie us about the climate. And I presume the governments who are making themselves very unpopular
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
Yep, 47 here, and no one except a couple of right-wing, anti-immigration activist "friends" seem to actively use Facebook anymore, out of hundreds. In fact, that's the main reason why I and many of my friends don't use
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by thaanpaa 4y ago
That's quite an apples and oranges comparison. I think they are e.g. basically implying, that ATMs or point-of-sale systems or any financial services at the bank counter wouldn't be needed in a Bitcoin-only world. Seems like a fal