Viewing profile — MichaelRo

>> Just don’t think about all the suffering you or I could ease with the money we spend on a “good time.” Look man. I am not responsible for any random person or creature that suff…

>> But a restaurant where clients don’t get of food poisoning 98% of time is getting people sick on a monthly (or even weekly) basis. Objectively, I think it's impossible to work i…

>> But sugar maybe? Interesting observation back at you! :) Never thought of this but recently I started being a bit more careful with my sugar and carbs intake, after a blood test…

Didn't know there's a "car sickness" strictly related to reading the phone while in transit, I knew there's those people that can barely survive riding a car but that was it. I do …

Don't have an online presence yet, will let you know when I add that.

> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free. This argument would have flown 30 years ago with Yahoo. Since then we had Ube…

Nothing new under the sun. When clocks and precision mechanics started in the 17th century, there was a tendency to view humans as "machines". Computers came, suddenly human brains…

I had my phone fell from my pocket while in a dancing club at night. Someone found it, took it to the bartender and I got it back (saw the location on my computer using Google's fi…

>> Friends whose family also worked for the company were sort of privileged as a result. Well to tell the full story, my father was an employee of the Agricultural Production Coope…

My first phone in the early 80s was a hand-cranked magneto phone like this: https://images.okr.ro/serve/product/572e8fdd848db2d3b02d36d2... Connected by 12Km of telephone wire to a…

>> I have a hard time spending, to the point where I would often procrastinate on buying things that I know I’ll need in the future. Well, what I noticed is that I go to great effo…

>> With AI, we‘re cargo-culting understanding We're cargo culting "the manager view". Like the critic you can read on Bret Devereaux's blog about Game Of Thrones having been writte…

My wife gave birth by C-section. That would have killed her up until very modern times. She may theoretically birth another child but there's a substantial risk. There are "physica…

I don't understand the "knowingly stunting the growth of your child" attack. What makes you conclude I'm stunting the growth of my child? He's not chained to a tree. He goes to pri…

>> But ok, you do you. Thanks for the insults jerk. ROFL. Didn't you notice he's Dutch? And old (add insult to injury). Expect extreme absence of delicacy from the Dutch, they simp…

>> But there are no other kids out there. I'm sending him out into streets empty of kids. This. It's a number's "game". My father, born in rural Romania, had 8 siblings, one of the…

[flagged]

>> Software engineering is looking more and more like it needs a professional body in each country, and accreditation and standards. Doesn't help much, accounting needs accreditati…

>> We live in a world where someone has to clean the sewers, unblock toilets, maintain electricity lines in snow storms, weld deep underwater, clean, wipe the butts of old people, …

Well, Alt+Tab in Windows is supposed to switch windows. That's unless you're in Microsoft Edge where obviously, it switches tabs. Inconsistent and annoying.

While I agree with the sentiment that sending manned missions to the Moon is kinda useless, unfortunately diverting those money to "noble purposes" is an utopia because that's not …

Question is weather the guy who got his account banned and lost access to all his data, was paying Google for cloud / hosting services or not. If it was on the free plan then all b…

Kids today probably won't get what's the big idea with "just" some TV, no DVD playing capability, no computer games. But in the early 90s I would have sold a kidney for one of thes…

>> then the software industry will enter into a self-serving productivity craze building all sorts of software tooling, frameworks >> Smart organizations will not just deliver bett…

>> It just sounds like a giant scheme to burn through tokens and give money to the AI corps, and tech directors are falling for it immediately. Exactly this: "Jensen Huang says he …