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by v-erne 3y ago
Judging from first few chapters Seldon did manage to create probabilistic model, and not a deterministic simulation (he was not sure how the interview with government representatives will go in the end). So I guess even syfy writers do not
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by v-erne 3y ago
I bet that it does not matter that they are garbage. They are so entrenched in their market segment by the basic business requirements and existing business relations that there is nothing to "disturb" without rewritting it featur
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by v-erne 3y ago
I do not understand how can anybody take seriously this simplistic dichtomic way of looking at world. It's like the only thing that you learned about abstractions/modeling is boolean logic and now off you go to proving there is su
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by v-erne 3y ago
And this is why only go to boutique gym where you get personal trainer and whole room full of equipment only for yourself. I did not know that this kind of arrangement is possible (I used to go only to normal gyms which were overcrowded mos
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by v-erne 3y ago
If you work for people that are only extracting value and are making decision based on next quarter predictions then I can see that. This is why I do not work for faceless corporation. I deliberately sticked with small lifestyle business th
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> Both maintenance and testing are not valued by business. It depends on the incentives I suppose - if commission and bonuses for sales people comes only from new sales, then sure, maintenance is irrelevant and will be ignored. >&
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by v-erne 3y ago
You mean floro (your nearby comment mentions it)? Hmm this looks more like na attempt at building better merger by getting rid of unstructured text and replacing it with some kind of structured/hierarchical data. I think that this can
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by v-erne 3y ago
Anyone who lived through Model Driven Development era (late 90 and early 2000) knows that this solves only like 20 percent problems that those who complain about lack of version control are really talking about. The real unsolved problem is
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by v-erne 3y ago
My latest one is boardgames. It gives me chance to get off computer (so only physical boardgames - no BGA) and meet new people (so no solo games). And since I like collecting stuff it also plays nicely into this quirk of mine (my collection
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by v-erne 3y ago
I second rotring! Especially 800 model, it's just so nice piece of precision machinery which combines ideally with Moleskin P notebook and leuchtturm pen holder (after retracting its tip 800 fits nicely on the side)
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by v-erne 3y ago
And I struggle to understand how can you make any real connections without seeing and hearing other person. There is so much communication hidden in body language and voice that for me any kind of text communication is just poor substitute.
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> How did you develop them from zero if you were missing those basic skills? It is really hard to answer this question because it seems that they were an emergent property of dozens of hobbies that I had (I tend to be seriali hobbyis
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by v-erne 3y ago
I really do not know the proper name here but it is akin to visualisation (but with music). I could not recall intervals and rythm that makes given song recognizable (could not replay the song in my head) just like if you lack visual imagin
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by v-erne 3y ago
>>I know plenty of people who can do basic 3d sketching with no specific instruction, but that's not me I used to think that I am tone deaf and have no memory for melodies. Bu t after I forces myself to spend a lot of time singin
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> username checks out Only tentatively :) Thorin is from Hobbit and was long gone when plot of LOTR started.
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by v-erne 3y ago
I noticed the same thing. We are at the end of Two towers and thanks to forcing those books onto my children (lets face it - they are quite slow and "boring" in comparison to normal children books) I have found new appreciation fo
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> I think these days your non-social approach might work out better No, that's not possible - in the end all important decisions are still made by humans ( I'm still waiting for chatGPT 7 executive edition ) with their emot
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by v-erne 3y ago
Ok first thing first - allow me to vent my existential frustration with few off the cuff (mostly rhetorical) questions ... You call decade a substantial longevity? Is this some kind of a joke? Is your ability to assess being held hostage by
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by v-erne 3y ago
That's my favourite non alcoholic drink also - it's really worth waiting for.
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by v-erne 3y ago
Out of curiosity - which values are those?
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by v-erne 3y ago
Only if you have access to end user. If between you and your client four people are playing deaf phone (client's project manager, our project manager, team leader and some random product guy just to get even numer), then actually this
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by v-erne 3y ago
Knack 1 & 2 worked great for my son. It has a really great coop mode where you can help other player exactly as much as he needs.
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by v-erne 3y ago
I have this intuition, that we (people), even the really bright ones, are really bad at predicting emerging properties of systems. This phenomenon might be seen almost everywhere, but I find it that using cellural automata (Game of Life any
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by v-erne 3y ago
That's the most obvious pick - US medical industry is so famed for being obnoxiously expansive that even their own movies makes fun of it. Just from the top of my head I remember two scenes from two different movies - the one from Hang
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> Health & Fitness (lose your health and you have nothing) And I'm guessing first step here will be getting rid of scooter? :) Only half joking here - health and two wheelers, especially ones with engine, does not combine gr
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by v-erne 3y ago
Thanks for that - I was wondering why it sounded so familiar (actually I had this name on my board games to-buy list for quite some time : https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304783/hadrians-wall )
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by v-erne 3y ago
Lately I have come back to playing board games big time. I used to do this few years ago but then children happened and everything was put on a hold. Now, that they have gotten older and do not require so much attention I finally manage to
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by v-erne 3y ago
I'm guessing you would do this in advance - "pay attention to tech news next week - our botnet will unleash hell"
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by v-erne 3y ago
Playing devils advocate here - how this is inherent to communism? I would rather guess that this is emerged behaviour of any human system that is facing collapse and has no preventions build in. I could probably find a few not so great cap
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> I'm really skeptical that it's easy to automate those assembly line jobs away I think most people here on HN does not see this because they tend to do software related work, but this is happening faster that you may think

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