felix318

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by felix318 3y ago
Sure but why not give me file name matches first instead of random pictures, since I started the search from Finder itself? Why try to outsmart the user? I have no problem with searching pictures using keywords if it’s limited to the Photos
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by felix318 3y ago
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by felix318 3y ago
Taxi, bar, hotel, restaurant, are very common. Maybe because of tourism? I have no idea what “kaput” means…
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by felix318 3y ago
I find it interesting that people write Google queries in correct, often polite English as if there is something intelligent on the other side. When I try this query: "where mango grow washington" I seem to get decent results, but
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by felix318 3y ago
I don’t understand how it’s possible to make money in the stock market unless you have inside information. I deeply suspect the whole game is rigged and there are ways to do insider trading without getting caught, and the real secret to be
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by felix318 3y ago
Somewhat unrelated: shouldn’t it be pronounced “Dvorjak”? That is how the other famous Dvorak (Czech composer) is pronounced.
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by felix318 3y ago
Merits and criticisms aside, carbon offset has a striking semblance with the sale of indulgences practiced by the Catholic church in the middle ages. Some patterns of thought seem ingrained in us.
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by felix318 3y ago
I’m not in the least worried about the supposed dangers of AI; I don’t see it causing major unemployment, nuclear armageddon, or anything particularly scary. However, I think the real danger with those chatbots is how people are becoming em
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by felix318 3y ago
Tip for searching acronyms: put the word “acronym” in the query. Works for google and gpt.
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by felix318 3y ago
Such techno-utopianism... political power belongs to people who control the guns. There is no way around it.
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by felix318 4y ago
“ Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and thei
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by felix318 4y ago
Numbers also only exist in our minds but that doesn't make mathematics a branch of psychology. There is a rational side to economics because money can be measured and the measurements are reliable. The unpredictable side of economics i
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by felix318 4y ago
It’s not that clear-cut, in the richest states in the South the pattern is similar to what you see in the US, urban left, rural right. Also, this election is not typical. Left or centre-left has won 6 ou of the 7 past presidential elections
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by felix318 4y ago
I still have my HP 11C, the engineering equivalent, from my school days. It is still a joy to use, the build quality, the feel of the keys, the RPN system. The thing is almost 40 years old and it looks like new. Sure, it’s totally anachroni
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by felix318 4y ago
I would say if the words of Christ are not enough to convince someone, who else could possibly say it better? I’ve read lots of Chesterton and CS Lewis, and they didn’t change my perception of Christianity a single bit. What they did though
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by felix318 4y ago
“Santa” means “female saint” in Italian and Spanish. Perhaps the English “santa” came from another language but I always found the name “Santa Claus” just horrible.
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by felix318 4y ago
The Christian dilemma, almost a paradox really, is that the more you love humanity the harder it is to love humans.
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by felix318 4y ago
The other day I read something about how society must “prevent the oversexualization of children” and that got me thinking, who will protect the oversexualization of society itself? The answer was obvious to me.
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by felix318 4y ago
The numbers in bank accounts are not fake, if banks could materialize money out of thin air they would not need clients. The numbers mostly stay in the system but the balance betweeen banks needs to be settled everyday, and that can’t be do
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by felix318 4y ago
They may eventually find that Shakespeare’s plays were not written by him, but by someone else with the same name.
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by felix318 4y ago
Conversely people looking at current adverts 50 years from now will wonder “where did all the white people go?” (I’m not white and I don’t care, it’s just an observation)
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by felix318 4y ago
Technically any sequence of notes within the octave is a scale, including the chromatic scale (111111111111). The French composer Olivier Messiaen did some investigation into how many scales can be built, I think the number is a bit over 80
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by felix318 4y ago
I didn’t believe in talent until after I spent over ten years trying to learn music, and then seeing 5 year-olds on YouTube doing stuff I can only dream of. True, some, perhaps most of it is hard work, but talent makes the process a lot eas
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by felix318 5y ago
I seem to recall Steve Jobs saying the reason the menu is at the top of the screen is that it's easier to hit it with the mouse, you just push it all the way up. I think it's a valid point.
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by felix318 5y ago
A bit off-topic perhaps but as a non-native speaker I'm always baffled by English smalltalk. People who reach out to me on Teams usually start with "Hi, how are you" and I never know what is the proper reply because I know th
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by felix318 5y ago
I don't think it's a waste of time (I'm not OP by the way) but you would surely be missing data.
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by felix318 5y ago
There are altered states of consciousness that occur naturally and don't lead to a sense of euphoria. Sleep paralysis for example. It happened to me once and it made me see things differently, nothing religious or mystical, just an enh
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by felix318 5y ago
I think it was always the case that the development of instruments is a major influence on musical styles. Sacred music and the church organ, Baroque music and the harpsichord, Romantics and the piano, Jazz and sax, the list goes on and on.
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by felix318 5y ago
That was interesting. I listen mostly to classical and had no trouble whatsoever with the Mozart track, the difference was clear. The other tracks I was forced to guess and, strangely, got all wrong answers! Compressed classical music annoy
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by felix318 5y ago
All those public health decisions are taken behind closed doors, we are never told the full story. I suspect the point of the vaccine passports is really to protect the unvaccinated.

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