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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
I'd say you're auditioning to be my new mom anyway.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
True. It's bad that these books are usually read by only young people. I remember reading Steppenwolf for the first time since teens and only then I realized how funny it was all around. Dostoevsky's The Devils is hilarious too, b
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
It meant an upper middle class urban citizen, while "Kleinbürger" was their lower middle class counterpart. Buddenbrooks was all about Bürgers, their history and lifestyle. Mann was a member of that class or even of its upper crus
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
In every organization mature enough busywork will surpass real work for two reasons. First: it cannot fail an so is not a career risk to anyone involved. Secondly: because it doesn't produce anything meaningful it is trivially easy to
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
We are all waiting for plot twist that these actually work better than human made ads and the weirder they get the worse humans can compete with them.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
By always talking only about non specified "problems" and getting people not to expect any further information it is easier to hide when it's a suicide.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
See them discuss about how much someone of them gets paid or taxed, if he has medical help if needed or if he can afford to live where he's living now.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
He referred to the Thirty Years War where instead of doomscrolling the peasant especially living in southwestern Germany would get his war news by getting killed or starved and his home burned down.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
All of this is very easy to filter out while browsing the internet. Not when you are speaking with actual persons. Believe or not, there are still people who watch television and believe in old media. Television teaches them that the proper
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Probably there not enough content. Just the same repackaged in human or machine produced slop. People are addicted to YouTube but I think the key to the healthy watching habits would be restricting the screen time. Someone knowing about thi
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Generating stuff is very cheap compared to building and training the model. When you have your model done you're incentivized to use it as much as possible. Maybe even considering the sunken costs.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Dostoevsky's Memoirs from the House of Dead is a good companion to Gulag Archipelago to show how things got worse into the full medieval sadism in less than a hundred years. Besides the gulag is a blueprint to basically all the forms o
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
You should always read only books you enjoy. Even if you think they're shallow you will realize the deeper stuff in that made you be interested in them you later. Your subconscious knows better.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
A couple of says ago there was an excellent comment here on Hacker News about that you shouldn't read only in bed but allocate proper not tired time for reading. Otherwise you learn to associate reading with sleeping and drowse off aft
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
The sudden all encompassing popularity of smoking is one of the most astonishing things in modern history. I can think nothing that would show better the power of advertising. Everyone knew from the start smoking is unhealthy, or at least n
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
And when everything is a text file you have (optimally) a human readable single source of truth on things... Very important when things get complicated and layered. In GUI stuff your only option is often to start anew, make the same movemen
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
And machine readable. You can parse csv file more or less easily but try the same with some forgotten software specific binary.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
The most important thing is not to have a purpose. Machines will always outdo you in optimizing for a goal function. Don't follow rules and if you really need to, make your own and never tell them to anyone. Keep people guessing and ch
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Your command and understanding of the grammar of your native language puts a hard limit to how well you can learn other languages. This has not been stressed enough and schools have all but given up trying to teach children grammar because
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
How many pages of search engine results you need to reach the correct definition of "c"? I mean the "blue wobbly thing with mermaids in it".
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
- AI, find me a monastery to buy! - OK, I suppose you want one in US. How many monks do you want? - Well, ten would do. - I found this one. It looks good but has only five monks. - I like it. Are the monks righteous enough? - My AI brain di
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
I've never understood what is so special about Starbucks. Visited once, the one near the Canary Wharf underground station. I saw it as pretty much an ordinary cafeteria. Maybe it is the baristas. I sent my girlfriend to order - I usual
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
I don't like naming things after other things. Names should be self explanatory or random codes.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
The solutions requiring constant internet connection are pushed by states and companies because they help cutting costs and gathering information. However, the users are often more vulnerable to the risks if the technology fails but have re
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
One more reason to resist the fragile lifestyle that requires constant internet access. Even if you don't live in a totalitarian country where shutting down the net would be easy and probable. Some time ago someone posted in Twitter a
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Maybe the German, French, and Russian classics from around 1830-1950. The material that was considered the backbone of modern literature. At least War and Peace was mentioned in the list. They might be a bit heavy reading but pretty much un
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
People who cannot learn hard things don't have time, or they think they don't have time. Actually they try to fake their way through because they believe it is impossible or at least too late to sort things out properly. The so ca
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
And on the other hand you need nature relative near where the life can move back to the burned ecosystem. If you only have a one plot of original nature as a kind of museum and that burns then it is goodbye.
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Never seen any of Avatars but I see nothing that would interest me. I've understood they're stories about some imaginary creatures. Why should I care? The best in YouTube are probably classical music master classes that give you a
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by ffuxlpff 9mo ago
Now nobody willing to keep his job could afford flirting with hot supervisor and admitting mistakes. If they even spoke a common language, I mean.

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