vjk800

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by vjk800 8d ago
> Besides, a lot of non-fiction just isn't that great. Many books should have been a blog post. These books are rarely a rewarding experience for me, unless it's from a rare combo of historian and good writer. Many non-fiction
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by vjk800 18d ago
I read a bunch of pop psychology books (by supposedly respectably authors who were academic researches on this stuff) on child development when my kids were in that age. Weirdly, the author of this leaves out a completely relevant variable
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by vjk800 1mo ago
Do you personally buy everything from the telemarketers? If not, how do you find the products you want to buy?
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by vjk800 1mo ago
There doesn't need to be any kind of technical solution. If a telemarketer wants to sell something, they must declare the name of their company. The company name can be reported to police (or whatever authorities are going to handle th
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by vjk800 2mo ago
Again and again nerds coming from maths/CS/etc to finance are surprised to find that financial time series are actually impossible to predict. After spending almost a decade in finance now with a similar background, the arrogance
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by vjk800 3mo ago
World is full of empty houses. It's just that people want to live in New York and not in some other place where housing is cheap or, occasionally, even free. And New York is already pretty full.
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by vjk800 3mo ago
That's how it was maybe 100 years ago. Now PhD is just another bit of school work. Sometimes people manage to do really great PhD work, but most of the time it's pretty mediocre or straight garbage. In some ways, people doing rese
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by vjk800 3mo ago
In other words, Meta (excepting maybe the bought departments) has become just like any other traditional mega-corporation. Ugly, inefficient and disorganized, but terribly good at doing the one thing that makes it money.
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by vjk800 4mo ago
> I know exactly when it happened: when people stopped buying software. Things are not, however, much better for software that people actually buy. That is, paid-for apps in Android and Apple app stores.
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by vjk800 4mo ago
I'm forced to use the Microsoft ecosystem at work and the sluggishness of it is a major source of procrastination. I find myself putting off small tasks forever, because waiting for word files to open, browsing folder structures in Tea
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by vjk800 4mo ago
I was wondering what the hell people here are talking about. Then I saw that my country (Finland) is number one on that list. Indeed, my children (3 and 5 year old) run freely around the half hectare communal yard of my housing company (whi
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by vjk800 4mo ago
> Academic integrity committees at prestigious schools are horribly lax. They want these types of issues to go away quietly. Yes, because the working model is that the students are there because they want to learn. And they are paying fo
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by vjk800 4mo ago
It's even worse when you live in a small country with high amount of immigration. Half of the new words are borrowed from other languages or internet memes and there's no way to decipher their meaning without looking it up.
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by vjk800 4mo ago
> So many people these days spend hours watching short-form videos spray endlessly from a screen while they stare dumbly at it. They aren't even picking which videos to watch, just letting the algorithm do it. This is how TV broadca
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by vjk800 4mo ago
I feel this more and more as I age. Especially after having children. I used to be a "tech guy" (like most people here probably) and was excited about new technology. Now my main feeling when something disruptive (like AI currentl
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by vjk800 4mo ago
The only reason to buy Nintendo hardware is so that you can play Nintendo's exclusive games. In the past, I felt that it was worth it. In the recent years, there haven't been many good Nintendo releases, definitely not enough to j
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by vjk800 4mo ago
It's just due to one person (GabeN) holding majority of the stock and choosing to run the company this way. Gabe will retire or die at some point and then anything might happen.
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by vjk800 5mo ago
I gave the same prompt to Gemini pro. It thought for maybe 3-5 minutes and gave the wrong answer (it claims the statement is not true) with some arguments that I can't understand well enough to disprove.
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by vjk800 5mo ago
> “Guys whose job it is to sell astroturfed viral marketing campaigns really love to tell people that their astroturfed viral marketing campaigns are extremely effective.” Here it is. I recall a story of a digital marketing team using Go
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by vjk800 5mo ago
"The Wire" TV show portrays these things well. In it, the powerful people often have the least clue about anything. They are just playing the game and often winning by sheer luck. They also often do fuck up, but because they are p
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by vjk800 6mo ago
There can also be an argument that laws are always only an approximation, and they should be broken in corner cases where they clearly don't work as intended. Civil disobedience can also be a useful societal force, and with perfect law
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by vjk800 6mo ago
We've had the AI tools for maybe two years, and they have only gotten really good in the past half a year or so. For fuck's sake, adopting electricity took like 50 years, why would you expect to see any kind of effect from the AI
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by vjk800 6mo ago
If Meta wins this, does it mean that pirating becomes legal again?
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by vjk800 7mo ago
Sympy is part of SageMath. SageMath is just a kind of user interface to Sympy and a bunch of other Python libraries. Mathics I haven't tried.
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by vjk800 7mo ago
I used to be a university researcher in theoretical physics and, in that field, everyone uses it, but I suppose that would count as "very specific math research" Any kind of complex integrals, systems of equations, etc. and Mathem
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by vjk800 7mo ago
I've had the same idea. Especially regarding anxiety. You start getting anxious and scared of everything, because your brain knows that your body is out of shape and incapable of dealing with stuff if anything happens. If you can'
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by vjk800 7mo ago
Every major technological invention nowadays quickly breeds open source clones that evolve to be on par with the commercial ones on some time scale. Why hasn't this happened to Wolfram Alpha/Mathematica? I know there's Sympy,
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by vjk800 7mo ago
Serious question for early adopters of Claws: what are you using them for? What things do you find them actually useful? Can you give examples of tasks where you actually save time and/or effort using them?
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by vjk800 7mo ago
To be fair, multiplayer via LAN is such a marginal feature nowadays that you can't really blame the companies for not supporting it. You don't really need "greedy corporate fucks" explanation for this; it's just tha
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by vjk800 7mo ago
I recently joined back to Facebook to follow some local groups. I barely see anyone I know posting on Facebook anymore. Even the local group seems kind of dead considering how many people live here. So where are people now? If I want to get

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