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by giva 5d ago
I find quite useful to write down my understanding/opinion and ask an LLM to find errors and write objections to it.
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by giva 6d ago
In italian "Import tariff" is "Dazio".
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by giva 6d ago
It could be explained by the herd mentality. An angry man alone would probably not throw stones in the street with his face uncovered; But he would probably do so in a riot. Now, in social networks, is quite easy to simulate persons and hav
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by giva 1mo ago
I don't get it 12B KWh = 12M MWh = 12,000 TWh?
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by giva 3mo ago
What is the point? As long as your camera has a decent clock, you just need to record a gpx during your shooting session with an external device and you can add geolocation after you download your pictures. IIRC Darktable can do that.
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by giva 3mo ago
This can be solved by implementing RfC 3514.
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by giva 5mo ago
Freon bans?
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by giva 5mo ago
Well, you still need to track down the <filename> part and knowing what you want to search, so you need to examine the schema anyway. However, if your all application state can be represented in a single json file of less than a dozen
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by giva 5mo ago
> Dealing with even sqlite is a pain in the ass when you just need to tweak or read something, especially if you're not the dev. How? With SQL is super easy to search, compare, and update data. That's what it’s built for.
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by giva 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by giva 6mo ago
> I forget how to type braces or back ticks. US layout and compose key on AltGr. You'll never look back.
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by giva 6mo ago
I feel like today an engineer with a modern framework and AI con produce in an afternoon a product that deliver real value, something that 25 years ago would have required a full hour by a high schooler with MS Access.
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by giva 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisals_against_commentators...
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by giva 9mo ago
Meet the "Hague Invasion Act": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
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by giva 10mo ago
Actually, I sense a mounting "AI fatigue". Angry comments under AI contents. Social media accounts that proclaim to be "AI Free". I was thinking today that the killer app for AI could be a filter that automatically exclu
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by giva 10mo ago
Much like "the Cloud" solved a lot of problems in IT, and replaced them with more, different, harder problems.
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by giva 10mo ago
But the point is, that's the same happening right now without religion. At least, with organized religion, you have someone accountable. Again, this come from someone without a religious affiliation.
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by giva 10mo ago
> You get certainty in an uncertain world. You get a community that will defend you. You get a simple heuristic for navigating complex issues. This is what faith used to provide. I say this as a not religious person: Maybe societies real
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by giva 10mo ago
This is the real point. Just measuring the amount of water involved makes no sense. Taking 100 liters of water from a river to cool a plant and dumping them back in a river a few degrees warmer is different from taking 100 liters from a fos
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by giva 11mo ago
"X-ray light" sound a bit like beer soda.
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by giva 11mo ago
I can relate. May ask you how your relation with AI tools is? I tend to find myself translating my mental model into natural language, to have a machine convert it into code, then reading that code back to mental model. It's unnerving
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by giva 1y ago
> When all processes for deriving synthetic gasoline require more input energy than available energy from the output, you're not describing processes that "potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.&qu
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by giva 1y ago
Sane people don't want to invest time learning a new UI just because it's prettier.
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by giva 1y ago
It's quite common for tunnels. Like the Eurotunnel or the Simplon tunnel.
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by giva 2y ago
It's all written here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
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by giva 2y ago
There is a little issue: If 9 countries want peace and one wants war, you will have a war.
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by giva 2y ago
The point, I guess, is that we had and still have mass organized protests against what happened in Iraq and Gaza. Some leaders paid a political price for that.
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by giva 2y ago
I think higher cars simply need harder suspension to counteract rolling and rocking forces.
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by giva 2y ago
As long as it supports Android auto/car play and has physical control for important stuff, I (and most people I know) don't care about software. It will be obsolete in a few years anyway.
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by giva 2y ago
New York is from 1624

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