dr__mario

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by dr__mario 5mo ago
"Violence" does not only include "physical violence". It also includes "structural violence". And precisely, temperature is going up because people is sick of structural violence.
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by dr__mario 1y ago
Straight from "A Clockwork Orange".
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by dr__mario 1y ago
I'd love to love them but I don't: I can't seem to justify moving away from Python to use this. What advantages does JS offer for this use case? I' ve never felt that I couldn't do any visualization with Python (but
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by dr__mario 1y ago
> I am not taking the risk of getting locked up in ICE jail any time soon, no matter how unlikely it is. I've turned down a 7-day-all paid-trip my company was offering me to San Francisco for this (and I had in the past a bad experi
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by dr__mario 1y ago
Super amused that something so "deep Spain" (specifically from my region) arises in other places too: https://es-euronews-com.translate.goog/2022/07/12/salir-al-f...
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by dr__mario 2y ago
> When was the last time you felt your smartphone really couldn’t cope? A couple of weeks ago using Obsidian in an iPhone SE (3rd gen). And I've switched to an iPhone 16 and it's definitely way more fluid (even for browsing). T
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by dr__mario 2y ago
I didn't have much success with Kagi for Spanish/local searches. Has this improved?
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by dr__mario 2y ago
I would love to know what happens with e-ink devices then. I feel this test is doing many things at once and the conclusion may not carry to e-ink (it's easier in the eyes, you can scribble...)
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by dr__mario 2y ago
Can you define that "middle-class", please? If you live purely from housing, you are not middle-class.
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by dr__mario 2y ago
I agree that it may not be 100% accurate, but probably correlated with the truth and directionally accurate. If you discard it, what do you have? Anecdotes? The media narratives?
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by dr__mario 2y ago
BTW, I'd love to recommend a book that explains all this much better than I would do. Unfortunately, I think it's only in Spanish: "La España de las piscinas" (The Spain of Swimming Pools).
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by dr__mario 2y ago
Ok, but first: is it financially risky right now to own properties? No, based on the data we have. Second: can renters be hurt even more? Are landlords the most vulnerable people right now? The situation is pretty awful right now, while at
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by dr__mario 2y ago
But again, you talk about usurpation or trespassing? And even in that case, the data is the data: the rest is speculation.
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by dr__mario 2y ago
"The rise of okupation"... but they make no references to data. Here is the data (in Spanish) [1]. The difference between trespassing (that somebody enters in the house you live) and usurpation (the house is yours but is not where
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by dr__mario 3y ago
I'd love to feel excited by all these advancements and somehow I feel numb. I get part of the feeling (worry about inequalities it may generate), but I sense something more. It's like I see it as a toy... I'm unable to dream
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by dr__mario 3y ago
I'd love to see the correlation with popularity (followers, tweet views...), and with the number of tweets, and then some measure to try to to remove those effects to really get the most toxic accounts (i.e., community notes per total
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by dr__mario 4y ago
Spain. Data Eng. manager. I switched jobs a week ago. Although there are some startups with a freeze (because of failed investment rounds), the hiring market looks healthy: same salary ranges, recruiter spam with same frequency.
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by dr__mario 4y ago
Not sure if I'm missing something but if the authors claim: 1. That chatbots don't understand what they are producing -> a search engine doesn't either. 2. The benefit of search is that you engage in sense-making -> you
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by dr__mario 5y ago
If it's personal stuff, I can see the point in trying to do something without Googling at first and how that can be fun for many and interesting for learning, but still, I don't think that learning is "complete" without
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by dr__mario 5y ago
Hi HN! I'm one of the HN lurkers: I read you a lot but haven't had the courage to join the conversations (which is something I want to start doing). I'm submitting my article here with the hope of starting a healthy debate ar
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Refusing to Stand on the Shoulders of Giants(drmario.substack.com)
2 points by dr__mario 5y ago|3 comments