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by braza 1mo ago
Maybe it’s a silly question, but how much of those “EU Region” makeups that were seeing are enforceable in reality? In extreme cases the US DoJ can reach, let’s say the CEO/CTO arrest them or pick up family members in case of some sort
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by braza 3mo ago
That's one of the reasons why I opted for multiple citizenships. I was fortunate to have the option to rehash parts of my name, and I am using my birthplace country's passport as a throwaway for everything, and my other citizenshi
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by braza 7mo ago
I cannot take Gary seriously anymore since it's an article about deep learning hitting a wall [1]. [1] - https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/
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by braza 7mo ago
Maybe marginally related, I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, especially when I had a severe issue in my eye and I couldn't read. I used to listen to nonfiction, lifestyle, health, tech and history (I do not follow politics in podca
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by braza 7mo ago
As a Brazilian, the whole improbable (and beautiful) history of Portugal raised by the "Navegações" and how badly they bottled the whole imperium (especially after the Brazilian independence, but one can argue that João VI opened
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by braza 7mo ago
> But everyone is out shopping, partying, drinking, eating out all the time. Onsens, arcades, karaokes, izakayas. Yes getting those services means someone has to work. Spot on. I really like Substack as media and I think has been a great
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by braza 9mo ago
> For example, I can tell you that if you are an immigrant in the USA from one of the (now many) targeted countries, even one with legal residency, news about ICE's actions is very relevant and very important to you. Exactly. There&
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by braza 9mo ago
I used to related with what the OP says and if he’s under 35 makes sense to jump to another adventure. Anyways, a friend of mine told me the complete opposite than the OP after not being selected to a promotion 2x: He stayed competitive eno
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by braza 9mo ago
The only potential aspect that might be bad at least for me is that, even with Udemy having a bigger variance in terms of general quality Coursera will impose it course aesthetics, rigidness in the syllabus, and bring a lot of people not in
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by braza 9mo ago
It's some low-risk/consequence project/initiative that is designed to receive people that will be fired due to lack of compliance and/or collaboration with the new management. Once we had a German colleague that was not
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by braza 9mo ago
> My take away from this is that you can't change the culture I've seen the culture changing in some special circumstances a couple times in previous companies, and honestly all of them were ugly: 1) Demographic replacement (ha
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by braza 9mo ago
I like the general idea, and I owe so much for the talks and bloposts. That said, I really miss the old deep boring technical talks with speakers with an attitude of "I do not care if you meet the tecnical (and probably cognitive in so
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by braza 10mo ago
> It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries. This. I spend 6 months to export 100K notes from Evernote mostly because they intentionally throttle the exports to a limit and you can extract it only
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by braza 10mo ago
Last year after a thread around Obsidian and the downhill of Evernote I took almost 6 months to migrate more than 100K clippings and notes and it's so refreshing to have your own data in sync in your terms and not be in any proprietary
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OpenAI's House of Cards(thefp.com)
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by braza 10mo ago
Yes, it is. I've blogged since 2006, and after the content-oriented-to-SEO boom, I totally lost hope in writing online again. Part of me wants to write for the sake of sharing, but the other part thinks being a free content farm for AI
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by braza 10mo ago
> There’s no point in whining about the impulses endowed to them by several hundred thousand years of evolution. Don’t hate the player; hate the game. And if you really hate the game, make a better one. I have contact with kids from 3 di
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by braza 11mo ago
I understand the rationale and I am happy for the authors and I think the distribution will be way better. As a user I like to get out as soon as I click because I can trace back the link and I can do clipping or bookmark in my browser.
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by braza 11mo ago
I had some different sort of issue but in the same lines: when you have distinct goals between upstream team X and the downstream team Y. Most of my experience working in un-siloed team Y communicating only via interfaces (e.g., APIs or dat
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by braza 11mo ago
It sounds like the same thing that Steve Yegge placed in his rant in 2011 [1] where teams should collaborate via interfaces. [1] - https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
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by braza 11mo ago
> A lot of ML systems run on Python. A lot of ML systems are first implemented in Python. > That by being open source it doesn't deserve money? I think this is a flaw we probably need to fix. Independent of how one feels about th
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by braza 11mo ago
> No, don't use it to fix your grammar, or for translations, or for whatever else you think you are incapable of doing. Make the mistake. Feel embarrassed. Learn from it. Why? Because that's what makes us human! For essays, hon
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by braza 11mo ago
In 2025 I think most of the PII is just a legal liability for 99% of the cases. I once saw a custom service where you could connect your data, like Mixpanel or some analytics, and the whole motto was that this service did not want any of yo
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by braza 11mo ago
> I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images. Every time I read something like this, I recall this post from Rich Hickey[1][2] on why no one is entitled to benefit from anot
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by braza 11mo ago
Does someone know if there's some equivalent of those engineering/research blogs for Chinese companies? I used to follow the ones from Western companies, but honestly, after some point in time, I would like to see some cases from
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by braza 11mo ago
DevRel has its values in several contexts, and I think as a role it proved that it is important, and we have companies that without it would not be so successful. That said, the problem for me was when the centi-billion-dollar corporations
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by braza 11mo ago
I'm totally in favor of assisted suicide, and I think it's a good mechanism for those suffering, if voluntarily chosen. That said, I think the same, and there are some non-obvious second-order effects around it being the menu, esp
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by braza 11mo ago
I bit of out-topic, but the best recommendation that I had here in HN was definitely the FreshRSS [1]. Yes, the design sounds _phpish_, but on Docker it's so reliable and fast, that I feel that I am in some sort of "final version
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by braza 11mo ago
As an enthusiast of traffic engineering, the most surprising thing in US is how hard is for the engineers to handle so distinct zoning laws according to it's county/city/state, and urbanistic planning in several big/medi
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by braza 1y ago
Despite all the shenanigans related to their corporate structure, does someone really trust in those services in terms of real privacy? It's hard to believe that for USD 10/month you can have a high-trust VPN so that your ISP will

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