narag

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by narag 4d ago
Public pool, city owned. August daily was less than 1€/day. Now I'm taking classes (my style... has room for improvement) not sure about the price for the winter months, but it's subsidized so not very high. TBH, gyms have lo
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by narag 4d ago
Looks promising. After a shitty year with terrible hips pain (doctors said it was about muscles pinching a nerve) daily swimming has made the pain completely disappear. Motorbike riding and now some kettlebells exercises are doing the same
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by narag 12d ago
"Create shareholder value at my current startup" obviously isn't going to scratch that itch in the same way. I would add a little nuance. One thing is your job isn't advancing Humanity Progress in a very direct and una
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by narag 16d ago
I've made a complete desk with three shelves under the top and a compartment for the desktop computer. Twice. Using standard 244x122 cm planches and some screws. Price depends on the quality of the wood you choose. Shops will cut it to
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by narag 2mo ago
Or you have the regrets when you needed to speak up and you didn't because you value your job security more than your duty: crooked or woefully incompetent boss. In the army instructors strongly warned about jumping chain of command. B
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by narag 2mo ago
These roles should all be result of direct vote. I disagree. That's an executive power position for an entity that lacks sovereignty. Giving it the legitimacy of direct vote is highly problematic. Start by giving more power to parlia
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by narag 2mo ago
That seems similar to the "God give me patience, but I need it RIGHT NOW" prayer.
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by narag 2mo ago
I work partly supporting users. It's been very frustrating and this interesting post has helped me to put the finger on the reason. It only works when you have a path to not only listen but also improve the situation. If 10% of calls o
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by narag 3mo ago
I just realized that I use more different kind of stores and transportation to shop than ever. I walk for groceries, ride the motorbike to malls for monthly or yearly buys like clothing or light electronics, take the metro to specialized st
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by narag 3mo ago
I think Windows 9x was peak Windows. I'd choose XP instead. People disputing the performance maybe should consider the hardware at that time. Real problem with 9x was low-level stability. Juggling with compatibility was difficult, fi
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by narag 3mo ago
I found a solution for what seems to be the same problem, in a different language: a particular type of lists, where the class metadata is stored once and the data for each instance is contiguously stored in a flat array. Not sure if it cov
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by narag 3mo ago
LOL, I'm a TV actor, a Real Madrid football player, a musician and a pro photographer. Fortunately, my real life namesake, a gay porn performer, didn't register though. Short career span I guess.
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by narag 4mo ago
I've found a curious variety of AI videos: releases of motorbikes that don't exist, brought by Youtube algorithm. I guess the point is just clicks or ads money. Some comments, by bots or gullible users. No longer seen recently, no
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by narag 4mo ago
I do that for a different reason: my self image. Fear of retribution and performance, not so much. Should I behave like a rude person to achieve a little better answers? Fuck that shit!
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by narag 4mo ago
I had a pretty weird interview with this crazy french guy that after a couple of minutes, started acting like a telepreacher and demanding passion or something. But the most frustrating one was with an attractive smiling girl that praised t
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by narag 4mo ago
I wonder if anyone has made a physical galactic orrery. Maybe it's harder than it seems. Does a definite galactic plane even exist? The ecliptic is defined by Earth's orbit, not a mean of all the planets. IIRC Sun's rotatio
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by narag 4mo ago
My pet realization: most of the power increase has been spent on graphics at an ever growing resolution, including in resolution not only the number of pixels, that's a squared number, but also color depth and FPS. Dealing with graphic
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by narag 4mo ago
They don't believe in consciousness... at all? I guess they don't recognize consciousness for some definition of it that includes agency.
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by narag 4mo ago
In case you don't get it: you don't get to set the discussion terms. You can argue all you want yourself, but my point is already made. If you want a list, search for "hard incopatibilism" or "hard determinism"
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by narag 4mo ago
That's backwards. People saying that there's no free will because determinism is implying that human consciousness is outside the physical world. Actually that's what TFA is about and makes a great job explaining it. My com
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by narag 4mo ago
I don't know anyone who supports both ideas at the same time. Are you saying that philosophers do? Every guy saying that free will doesn't exist is arguing exactly this. Physical causality considered an obstacle to freedom impli
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by narag 4mo ago
Still never unlocked the mysteries of those TSR programs though. I made a bunch of those, in TurboPascal. Just needed to save registers (including stack and heap segments) and hook some key combination. One of them was used commercially f
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by narag 4mo ago
What seems to me is the ads seem less staged and processed than current ones. They're wilder and not as softened as every media are now. As for people pointing at lifespans for the healthy part, how much of the change is systemic use o
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by narag 4mo ago
Why junior bloggers fail to make me read their articles
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by narag 5mo ago
In case you're still reading... standard watches alarms are useless to me. Even regular alarm clocks were not very effective for my kinda morning sleepwalking. Smartwatches are a godsend: I can set multiple alarms with chosen intervals
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by narag 5mo ago
In Spanish "consultar con la almohada" (consult with the pillow)
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by narag 5mo ago
That's the main reason. Also marine archeology is expensive. I once heard an archeologist saying that if the rests have passed centuries underwater, one more is less harmful than looters.
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by narag 5mo ago
Some applications that we use in smartphones are very useful, like the alarm clock. I have begrudgingly adapted to their quirks and privacy implications. I'd rather program my own versions, same for smartwatches.
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by narag 5mo ago
I glanced at this question at work, now reading it to find interesting ideas, but also want to share something: six months ago I bought a motorcycle. It was a no-brainer, commuting time is now half compared to the subway and after decades i
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by narag 5mo ago
lol, kind of expected someone would notice... it's my personal mail and I don't get much. In my experience, it's better for low volume. I just connect, download, delete it from the server and have it in an easily readable for

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