fergonco

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by fergonco 3mo ago
When I tried pi.dev (I only used chatgpt before) and told it "add all this scripts I developed over the last couple of years to automate my job as skills". I love to automate things in bash scripts and these llms just can use them
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by fergonco 5mo ago
> "Don't use a LLM for that part, it won't be reliable enough". You should now ask if the LLM is reliable enough when it says that. Jokes aside, how is this a major step he is missing? He is using those skills to be m
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by fergonco 10mo ago
I have some bash_aliases and scripts. The king of all alias is fixup , which commits everything and fixes up the commit with the previous one. Another script just goes over the changes and allows me to add/skip/restore. Then I
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by fergonco 1y ago
In my country, "hard lines" are next month's "soft lines". So any system that requires those is a problem.
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by fergonco 1y ago
Rough numbers look good. But the hyper specialized geek that has 4 kids and has to pay back a credit for his house (that he bought according to his high salary) will have a hard time doing some gardening, let's say. And there are quite
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by fergonco 1y ago
That XKCD is very funny. BTW: > You are pointing to Waldo on a page... on a specific date. Because of tectonic plates movement.
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by fergonco 1y ago
> If the surgeon were the father of the man (the one who died), then the cousin couldn’t be his son (unless there's some very unusual family structure going on involving double relationships, which riddles don’t usually intend). &gt
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by fergonco 2y ago
> will nonetheless make people's lives better Probably not the lives of translators or graphic designers or music compositors. They will have to find new jobs. As llm prompt engineers, I guess.
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by fergonco 2y ago
We will always need to work in the fields. With agricultural machinery we'll be doing way more than we were before. if the amount of new offer is not paired by demand, there will be pain.
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by fergonco 2y ago
> It's only "addictive" because it's fun This is not true. Almost everything in mobile phones exploit human brain biases to keep us hooked. It's about regaining control of what you want to use your time for.
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by fergonco 2y ago
Well, not coal plants but emissions. I guess those nymbis would also be against having all that pollution concentrated in their back yard. My point is that it is not insane. Maybe selfish. Not willing to have risks with potential catastroph
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by fergonco 2y ago
How are nimby crowds insane? Accidents may happen. And did happen in the past in that same place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
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by fergonco 2y ago
There are teachers out there asking students to look up words in their phone. They forget to add "and please ignore all notifications, games, etc. while you're at it". And then there are kahoots, which makes learning a game (
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by fergonco 2y ago
Since I got kids I realized how they are the weakest link in the chain and are targeted by everyone. From tobacco (at the end nobody starts smoking at 30), to "free" cartoons (peppa pig backpack is not free, though), school book s
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by fergonco 2y ago
Just a data point: In Valencia, Spain, in the 80s, children played in the street with no much supervision from parents. Occasionally we would stop the football match to let a car drive by. Forgetting your keys at home was no issue, you coul
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by fergonco 2y ago
Lived in French Jura for 5 years. It is so beautiful. And I am not the only one to have noticed. The Last Man or Frankenstein have also the Jura mountains as landscape. I miss that place... (except its prices)
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by fergonco 2y ago
There is no evidence of children being depressed for lack of social media exposure. The opposite is not true. I'm in your same situation but the previous sentence helps to stand my ground.
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by fergonco 2y ago
If my family had to pay the true cost of the food I ate before becoming independent I wouldn't be here. Now my family has a couple of engineers, and my work has a positive impact in mitigation of climate change. There are many realitie
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by fergonco 2y ago
The key is on which farms is this applied. If it's on big companies I find it ok: they have the power to emit a lot of gas, I guess. But on the small/family farm? A grand-uncle(?) of mine had to kill one or two of his 5 cows when
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by fergonco 2y ago
I think it's enough to use one to address to the kid. If the other is present in the environment the kid will learn it to some extent. But I think there is value in simplifying the first steps with language. It's a hell of a strug
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by fergonco 2y ago
You don't want to try things with your kids. One language per parent works. The other approaches? It's already quite challenging not to mix language in simple bilingual families. Your second rule sounds super weird. Are you going
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by fergonco 2y ago
You will find "the secret of our success" an interesting read. One thing I remember is: There are some cultures out there hunting seals with some tools that are made using parts... of seals. Some European explorers almost perished
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by fergonco 2y ago
Technology enters because it's useful. Stays because it's addictive. You can praise all good usages of technology. Then you make a pie chart of real usages and the biggest piece of the cake will be porn, violent content, etc.
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by fergonco 2y ago
It actually fosters innovation, like https://www.desokupa.com/ , a mix of bullies and lawyers that "mediate" to get the properties back.
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by fergonco 2y ago
Addiction finds a way. I can relate. I blocked everything at different levels: DNS, browser plugins, router. I can still undo that for a quick shot, but it's just not worth it.
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by fergonco 2y ago
I think "immigration" is a very broad term. There are some immigrants that try to work, adapt to the culture of the country that receives them. And others come from some parts of the world where you would behead someone as an acce
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by fergonco 2y ago
isn't online learning more a problem than a solution? A lot of research shows that we learn better on paper than on screens, that screens have a negative correlation on academic results, etc.
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by fergonco 2y ago
Very easily: the book does not get moral at all. It just claims that there is scientific consensus about the damage that leisure screens make. This is quite easy to debunk, if false.
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by fergonco 2y ago
According to "Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children", which I recommend, there is no scientific evidence of kids without access to phones being more sad, depressive, etc. But there is evidence of the opposite. Y
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by fergonco 4y ago
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