FearNotDaniel

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Europe must build own AI, says ECB's Lagarde(theguardian.com)
4 points by FearNotDaniel 2d ago|3 comments
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by FearNotDaniel 2mo ago
I mean, technically it was built for "the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN". The fact that it also supports a whole bunch of peoples' passion projects as well as a multi-trillion do
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by FearNotDaniel 2mo ago
Or for Western Europe there is DCF77 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
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by FearNotDaniel 3mo ago
Sorry you're struggling. There are tons of resources out there from people who've been through the same pain and built up techniques to mitigate them. Matt Pocock's YouTube channel is one good starting place, there are many o
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by FearNotDaniel 3mo ago
Don’t they have Haftpflichtversicherung in Germany? Set up as a sole trader, get good-enough liability insurance, send invoices on Day 1, earn actual money while you wait for however long it takes to get that elusive company registration se
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by FearNotDaniel 3mo ago
As soon as you work in a team, it’s irrelevant whether the project actually needs it. There will be someone who convinces stakeholders that it is necessary and then you just have to fall in line and learn the skills knowing that it is mos
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by FearNotDaniel 3mo ago
I guess if you have a subscription with a token allowance that you are not going to use up this week, it’s better to let someone else use those tokens rather than throwing them away. So using the food analogy it’s more like a store giving a
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by FearNotDaniel 4mo ago
I’m pouring out a shot of Tres Comas for Claude right now
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by FearNotDaniel 4mo ago
Absolutely true - witness the enormous upheaval in the north of England’s coal mining communities when all the pits got closed in the 1980s. It wasn’t just individuals but families across generations and entire villages who had defined them
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by FearNotDaniel 4mo ago
Probably because (a) that’s not their name any more and (b) when it was, that’s not how you spell it
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by FearNotDaniel 4mo ago
Off topic but: the scroll mechanism on mobile is so horribly irritating and unpredictable that I just can’t be bothered fighting against it to read what sounds like at least a mildly interesting article.
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by FearNotDaniel 4mo ago
> Where so many see it as the key to a bright future, unlocking untold troves of wisdom, it simply regurgitates… This needs one of those Wikipedia style [Who?] tags in superscript. I don’t think anyone, at least here on HN, sees AI as an
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by FearNotDaniel 4mo ago
> baptismal parish is the official keeper of your sacramental records Interesting fact that I (as a Catholic) was not aware of, though I've observed it happening in practice when preparing to marry my wife, who did get all the relev
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by FearNotDaniel 5mo ago
But, ironically enough, MacOS _is_ Unix: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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by FearNotDaniel 5mo ago
Yes but Anglo-Catholic doesn’t mean an Anglo who is Catholic. It means an Anglican who is pretending to be Catholic but without acknowledging the pope’s authority.
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by FearNotDaniel 6mo ago
Also, Mrs Trump is Catholic and in the past they made a big deal out of being photographed with Pope Francis to appeal to Catholic voters.
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by FearNotDaniel 6mo ago
That was my initial thought too on seeing the title, having never heard the term before. So I decided to look it up and it turns out there is a whole separate genre called “ANSI art” based on a different tech stack and a naming mistake from
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by FearNotDaniel 6mo ago
Who creates value in the art market? Is it the artist who creates the work? Or the dealer who persuades the buyers that the work has value? As a builder I’m attracted to the fantasy that I can create value with my bare hands just by writing
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by FearNotDaniel 7mo ago
I find one possible answer to the question “How to make yourself actually do it” is to start by getting into the routine of keeping an engineering notebook - if you are already in the habit of jotting down stream-of-consciousness notes on w
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by FearNotDaniel 7mo ago
No it's not. It's because the meaning of the English word "prove" has changed. It used to mean "test", which could of course have a positive or negative outcome. The modern sense of "successfully demonstra
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by FearNotDaniel 7mo ago
While you’re at it call Netflix and tell them that marrying a European prince at Christmas isn’t a viable option for most big city career girls. Fiction must be realistic at all times with no idealism or escapism, got it.
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by FearNotDaniel 7mo ago
Flashback to the days when literally every MS product had “.NET” shoehorned into its name somewhere because they had to show they were hip to this newfangled information superhighway thing. The development platform that still has that nam
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by FearNotDaniel 8mo ago
> it's not ideal is it? Oh jeez, I've literally just typed out a message on Teams to describe a situation where someone deployed breaking DB changes without the accompanied app changes as "a less-than-ideal scenario".
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by FearNotDaniel 8mo ago
Reminds me of how often you hear Austrian Railways announcing that they apologize for the late running of a train "which was subject to delays in a neighbouring land". They never name which country but it's always Germany.
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by FearNotDaniel 8mo ago
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by FearNotDaniel 9mo ago
You’re absolutely right! It shows true wisdom and insight that you would recognise this common shortfall in LLM response tone of voice! That’s exactly the kind of thoughtful analytic approach which will go far in today’s competitive marketp
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by FearNotDaniel 10mo ago
> 80-ies eighty...ies? eightieies? why not just "80s"?
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by FearNotDaniel 10mo ago
Dude you’re not even trying, why buy muffins and eggs when you could grow wheat, grind flour, raise chickens and get eggs for free, slaughter your own pigs and cure the bacon yourself… because labour costs nothing and convenience has no val
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by FearNotDaniel 10mo ago
Austria resident checking in - since I moved here I noticed the quality of McD’s is way, way better than in the UK. And apart from the regular menu being a whole different experience, you’ve got great quality coffee and cakes. It’s a whole
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by FearNotDaniel 11mo ago
> buy a sausage roll at Greggs If that's the first thing he thinks of while transiting through a UK airport, he deserves a citizenship, no questions.

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