obruchez

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by obruchez 7d ago
My iPhone 13 Pro will be 5 years old next month. Battery capacity at 82%. Does that count as lasting 5+ years?
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by obruchez 29d ago
What is the problem with time descending blogs?
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by obruchez 1mo ago
> we survived That shouldn't be the bar for most of what we do daily. We can also "survive" without doing any physical exercise. The question is: yes, we'll survive, but in which condition? i.e. is that healthy or not
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by obruchez 2mo ago
Yes, they're terrible. That's why relaxing the rules for fixed AC is the way to go.
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by obruchez 2mo ago
Trees that disappear in huge fires more and more often, unfortunately.
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by obruchez 2mo ago
"Switzerland outright not allowing residential ACs": That's not completely true, though. First, mobile/portable ACs are allowed pretty much everywhere in Switzerland, I think. Then, for fixed ACs, it depends in which can
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by obruchez 6mo ago
> It's a shame though that this is gonna kill so many sites and projects. Sure we have ChatGPT, but also with things like Google AI summary getting so much better traffic to sites is going to plummet. Without people visiting I think
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by obruchez 8mo ago
I've finished IMDb's top 250 a few years ago. I'm now using this list ("a list of greatest films of all time") as a reference: https://www.phi-phenomenon.org/ It's merging dozens of "great
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by obruchez 8mo ago
> Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves? I don't buy that. I understand that it's not the main point in your comment (you're try
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by obruchez 8mo ago
Do you know this from personal experience or after watching a "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" episode or a similar documentary?
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by obruchez 9mo ago
It's difficult to know what people really believe, especially after only a few minutes of discussion, but I would say most people I talk to don't believe AGI is even possible. And they probably think their life won't be c
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by obruchez 10mo ago
Isn't that an argument in favor of taking care of wild animals instead of continuing factory farming, though?
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by obruchez 10mo ago
I read Ecclesiastes back in 2019. It's probably one of the more interesting books in the Bible. I wasn't particularly impressed with it, but it's a short read, so I still think it's a good suggestion, especially if you&#
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by obruchez 11mo ago
I have the opposite anecdote. I left a lot of leaves on our lawn last winter (by pure laziness) and it definitely damaged the lawn. Edit: it was a rather young lawn, I guess (less than 2 years).
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by obruchez 1y ago
The only time I had to hire somebody, the university I was working for in Switzerland made it mandatory for the candidates to send their application via mail, not email. That was back in 2014. I found this odd at the time, but I'm pret
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by obruchez 1y ago
I know people who still love to receive ads in the (physical) mail.
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by obruchez 2y ago
My latest LTS upgrade ended up completely breaking my RAID partitions. I had to completely reinstall everything. It took me days. This was not a smooth experience.
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by obruchez 2y ago
I guess it worked in the sense that most people listen to music using legal services, instead of still using eMule, BitTorrent, etc.
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by obruchez 2y ago
Isn't it perfectly normal/healthy to keep some of your private feelings totally private? Your best friends/spouses shouldn't necessarily be your psychotherapists.
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by obruchez 2y ago
Having kept a diary/journal since 1993 and reading old entries daily, I'm struck by how we often see the past through rose-tinted glasses. The opposite is also true: I tend to forget happy moments from long ago.
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by obruchez 2y ago
Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near" was published in 2005 and at the time he placed the technological singularity in 2045, so 40 years in the future. He said it was "near", because most people thought at the t
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by obruchez 2y ago
What's ASI?
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by obruchez 2y ago
TIL: in French, "nightmare" is "cauchemar" and has the same etymology (the second part, at least).
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by obruchez 2y ago
I've been suffering of anxiety for decades. Nothing really serious. I stopped caffeine for one month in 2022, cold turkey. No coffee. No tea. No chocolate. I stopped alcohol as well (I don't drink much, so it wasn't really ha
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by obruchez 2y ago
You mean Shopify?
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by obruchez 2y ago
In Europe at least, where most (?) transmissions are still manual, you will still get way more noise from an ICE vehicle than an electric vehicle at low speed. This is my experience everywhere here in cities, on small roads, etc. This is la
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by obruchez 2y ago
Motorcycles are absolutely the worst. Even when they drive as slow as possible, to make less noise, they're still noisier than some cars. This is insane. And what's frustrating is that this is considered a feature, not a bug. I do
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by obruchez 2y ago
That's how I ordered my first CDs online: via a Telnet interface. It sounds crazy 30 years later.
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by obruchez 2y ago
He's working on the Blue Brain Project, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project
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by obruchez 2y ago
Speaking French, I've asked it to create some songs in French. The first two examples I got use the voices of Edith Piaf and Julien Clerc (who is still alive and professionally active). I hope they're doing this with the required

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