v-erne

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by v-erne 4y ago
Wow that's amazing - he actually created almost an entire gameboy just to "capture" video signal from gameboy. Its astonishing and terrifying at the same time. And rises some interesting philosophical questions (if he managed
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by v-erne 4y ago
I'm not sure You could call Watson an product at any given time in its history. The thing is that it was mainly a marketing stunt (the Jeopardy) and the technology behind it never was production ready and IBM was not able to turn it in
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by v-erne 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm very bad at taking notes and generally at writing (both aspects of it - physical and intelectual). But having said that... I do love expensive notebooks - at this moment I'm going through moleskine hard cover pocke
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> There is a big difference between 80k jobs created by the government and 80k jobs created by the free market. So let's start with the obvious - I was not trying to propose "big government" as a solution here, sorry i
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> I believe if you set a limit on an individuals net worth, the economy will lose one of its major drivers and job creators This is a really intresting intuition. My off the cuff resposne would be something like this: So what? This d
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by v-erne 4y ago
I think this story/abstraction of "owning money" has to break at some level. I mean if you believe, as I do, that money (especially at trillion level) is direct substitution for power over people and even whole societies then
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by v-erne 4y ago
Yeah, I agree that it would be nice to have option that works for all and takes all National quirks under consideration. Do You have some specific way of template definition in mind that You think would work here? And what about curly brack
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by v-erne 4y ago
You just made me to get my MacBook out of closet :) (I stopped using it two months ago and moved to X1 carbon right before pandemic) The ergonomic of \{X} is exactly the same on it as on my carbon x1, my keychron tls and four other keyboard
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by v-erne 4y ago
Im guessing that the second backslash was deemd unecessary (and in my opinion it is - no need for additional key strokes in the name of some arbitral consistancy). Besides you are probably looking at this wrong - backslash here is equivalen
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by v-erne 4y ago
And why should tinkering be easy ? The whole point of it is understanding things beyond the initial use and this is the mindset that, I believe, only handful of people have (like one in ten). I distinctly remember that when I was tinkering
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by v-erne 4y ago
Its only true if we are not only sum of our experiences with bit of genetic modifiers sprinkled on. Otherwise how the feeling of content on christmas eve with family is more true self than suicidal anxiety of existantial dredd You feel day
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> I've never heard of a "professional bench warmer" in software development. I think this is real. My friend who is serial Project Manager (he works for big corps here in Poland and changes job almost every year for la
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by v-erne 4y ago
I used to read quite a lot when I was in my early teens and this is one od two books that I vividly remember (other being Around the world in 80 days). I sincerly believe that this idea of rebuilding civilization from grounds up was respons
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by v-erne 4y ago
That's a great paradox that can be really hard to understand for some but it's quite obvious when it finally clicks. You just needs proper reference or rather point of view that makes You understand that Monty selection and player
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by v-erne 4y ago
Imagine cofee shop where You just sit at first empty table, says few words to and hologram and than the food and cofee materializes (let's just ignore the technoloy side of this thought experiment). And after You are finisheed the tabl
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by v-erne 4y ago
I will generalize Your observation a bit - proper spiecies are probably the secret that will unlock healthy food for me someday. I have not found those yet - hot pepper based sauses are the closest, but unfortunately despite my mind loving
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by v-erne 4y ago
>>> eat your favorite foods, eat healthy Conflicting orders, cannot comply.. (All jokes aside - I believe if only I would know how to make healthy food enjoyable I would become billionair)
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by v-erne 4y ago
Could this just be incompenence? I have seen this kind of code many years ago when external company was brought to sell us their implementation of CMS on some (even then) outdated Java/js-on-server-before-node-era platform. I was asked
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by v-erne 4y ago
As otheres have said - just sit down and write. But sometimes if you do not feel like writing - try to do at least some light drawing exercises (like drawing small straight line thousend times over, or small circles or other geometrical sha
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by v-erne 4y ago
Thank you [see what I did here :)] for pointing this out - I'm not native and on top of that used to learn german (never went anywhere with it, but the capitalization of every noun somehow stayed with me longer than necessary). Add eng
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by v-erne 4y ago
>>It turns out that append-only databases are well-suited for HR records It may seem so, bu then You find out what are Your governments limit's for storing workers data, and Your company lawyers forces You to make it possible to
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by v-erne 4y ago
I am astonished by lack of PR impact proportionality intuition of this comment :) (its not like we are talking here about black swan events - and one is more than enough for profits go down the drain)
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by v-erne 4y ago
I'm guessing outsourcing? With enough Bangalore interns You can get even more impressive numbers ...
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Yeah, sure. Because society and culture does not change and evolve. It's standing still like its 1905 when predatory capitalism was all the rage and people was still angry for loosing all their literal slaves. At this scale those are n
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by v-erne 4y ago
What was that saying? "It takes a village" ? I think our individualistic culture is getting in way - somehow now everyone behaves like the new motto is "Your children, Your problem" (including me, but I personally am not
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by v-erne 4y ago
That's great observation - after 10 years with children this stings extra hard. I also think that while having children I somehow lost the ability and will to make new friends. And this is especially tough because my old group shrank t
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by v-erne 4y ago
Either their day somehow magically has more than 24 hours (maybe they live on venus?) or they are .. how to say this .. lying? I can assure You they are making a lot of compromises. Add a little bit of compounding around skills and resource
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by v-erne 4y ago
>>I like to think of Moby Dick kind of like the Bible. Every chapter has something to say about the human condition, and was written earnestly by someone who cared to translate their experience. That's intresting take, I will giv
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by v-erne 4y ago
It would be hard to read it slower for me - as I said I use it for touch typing practice and I'm not the fastest typer in the west. I transcribed 10% of this book at this point and start to wonder if should switch to something more int
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by v-erne 4y ago
Could You explain in few simple words why Moby Dick is worth reading ? I've got through first few chapters recently (I use it for touch typing practice so I go through it quite slowly) and found it to be extensively dragged out. Its al

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