fcatalan

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by fcatalan 24d ago
Me too: ages 8-15: lots of great 8-bit computer fun. ages 15-20: girls, booze, motorcycles. 20 onwards: get a PC, back to computers, realize how much I've been missing. To be honest, judging by my own kids and their friends, late teens
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by fcatalan 29d ago
That's how they getcha, and then go full midsommar...
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by fcatalan 1mo ago
I now read that German police will stop and check families with kids in airports the days immediately before and after public holidays. Chilling "Ihre papiere bitte" vibes there. Not doing a great job at avoiding stereotypes, you
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
All that tough talk stems from fear. That fear is fed with dog whistles like "fighting age men" and ample misinformation. Ceuta is guarded by a 10 meter tall fence equipped with thermal cameras and noise detectors. This people did
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
In 2014 there was an attempt to swim over in the same exact place by just 300 people. Spanish police used rubber bullets to repel them and 14 died in the water. More than 60 have died this time, even unoppossed. Deaths could have been easil
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
Stop sealioning, this is simply Morocco once again using its desperate young population as pawns in their underhanded "diplomacy". Those people had no way to stay in Ceuta or travel onwards in any way, so this was just a deadly fl
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
We are not in the business of mass massacres. Maybe the US should come and study how to deport 60k people in 24h whithout having to shoot anyone.
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
In Spain, if you drive 1 h 20 minutes southwest of Madrid you get to Talavera de la Reina, which is a town all about ceramic and pottery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talavera_de_la_Reina
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
Practicality and utility to the student must be the reason I started getting junior software engineers that are computer illiterates out of whatever Java IDE they were taught in.
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
Off topic, but I'm kinda sad there's only one Cosma Shalizi in the world. That dude is a treasure, I've been a fan for decades now.
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
"Aluminium carpentry" is a thing around here: people that build and install window frames, metal gazebos, conference stalls, custom sheds and so on. These huge data centers probably aren't using the quaint standard data cente
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
For me it feels a lot like generated images or video. I've made lots of things now, but those that are 100% LLM written "work" but are uncanny, weird and the details are wrong everywhere you care to look in detail.
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by fcatalan 2mo ago
I spent a few weeks there back in the day. After the ordeal of surviving the spawn I remember it as a haunting and melancholic experience: you kept finding decayed places, huge projects long abandoned, vandalized monuments, vague traces of
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
The made up cases are so many that they deflect each other and the few real ones. The real scandal is the state of our judicial power.
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
My therapist asked me to track my binge eating episodes, empty log after a week...
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
My grandfather was a smith in deep rural Spain. He made and fixed many roman ploughs, well into the 70s. They were called that because they were pretty much the same tool the Romans used.
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
This is not mere learning, must have some kind of pre-wired special mechanism because it's very quick and very strong.
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
Are your kids teenagers already? Telling them in front of their friends is 10x better.
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
Exaggerating a bit, I felt like my old self was dead and I just happened to somehow have inherited his memories. But a more concrete thing: While before I might have been saddened about bad things happening to kids, like any normal person w
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
I signed up for one of the first MOOCs ever, about self driving cars by Sebastian Thrun, and of course PID was part of the curriculum. I think that PID hits a certain sweet spot between cleverness, ease of implementation and practical utili
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
71050, not bad for a non native speaker I guess. I missed 9/100. But to be honest many that might catch out a native speaker are just the Spanish/French/Latin word, so it was too easy in a way.
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
Thank you for this recommendation. This last week I have read this, and then also Meditations for Mortals, and they felt illuminating and like written specifically for me. And without really changing anything about what I am actually doing,
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
I don't dream or care about things I definitely can't do. But there are still so many I can actually do that the opportunity cost of choosing any single one of them is infinite, and that leads to paralysis at worst and diluting yo
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
Managers can barely direct me without shitting their pants. What saves them most of the time is my ability to say "No". Until LLMs can do that, which seems quite hard to do so far, good luck replacing me.
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by fcatalan 3mo ago
Skipping airplane maintenance is business-optimal for an airline. For a few months.
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by fcatalan 5mo ago
I always see these threads and think I'm not working on anything, but I just realised it's a lie, I'm exploring a couple of things right now, both heavily AI supported: Simracing trainer. I love simracing, I'm moderately
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by fcatalan 5mo ago
Sure fire away maybe this time something clicks for someone :)
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by fcatalan 5mo ago
For me it has been just saying "yes" when I was offered a job and when that one was getting a bit annoying someone happened to offer me another and I said "yes" too. I have ended up a bit underemployed and underpaid, but
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by fcatalan 5mo ago
100% true. I ran a top 10 most visited Spanish language site on a Pentium III server. I have the technical chops to do all the articles says. But 10k MRR sounds to me like travelling to Mars. I have 0 ideas and 0 initiative to push them ahe
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by fcatalan 6mo ago
Making complete coherent products is as hard as ever, or even harder if you intend to trade robustness for max agentic velocity. What I do very successfully is low stakes stuff for work (easy automations, small QoL improvements for our tool

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