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Maybe it’s a silly question, but how much of those “EU Region” makeups that were seeing are enforceable in reality? In extreme cases the US DoJ can reach, let’s say the CEO/CTO arr…

That's one of the reasons why I opted for multiple citizenships. I was fortunate to have the option to rehash parts of my name, and I am using my birthplace country's passport as a…

I cannot take Gary seriously anymore since it's an article about deep learning hitting a wall [1]. [1] - https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/

Maybe marginally related, I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, especially when I had a severe issue in my eye and I couldn't read. I used to listen to nonfiction, lifestyle, heal…

As a Brazilian, the whole improbable (and beautiful) history of Portugal raised by the "Navegações" and how badly they bottled the whole imperium (especially after the Brazilian in…

> But everyone is out shopping, partying, drinking, eating out all the time. Onsens, arcades, karaokes, izakayas. Yes getting those services means someone has to work. Spot on. I r…

> For example, I can tell you that if you are an immigrant in the USA from one of the (now many) targeted countries, even one with legal residency, news about ICE's actions is very…

I used to related with what the OP says and if he’s under 35 makes sense to jump to another adventure. Anyways, a friend of mine told me the complete opposite than the OP after not…

The only potential aspect that might be bad at least for me is that, even with Udemy having a bigger variance in terms of general quality Coursera will impose it course aesthetics,…

It's some low-risk/consequence project/initiative that is designed to receive people that will be fired due to lack of compliance and/or collaboration with the new management. Once…

> My take away from this is that you can't change the culture I've seen the culture changing in some special circumstances a couple times in previous companies, and honestly all of…

I like the general idea, and I owe so much for the talks and bloposts. That said, I really miss the old deep boring technical talks with speakers with an attitude of "I do not care…

> It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries. This. I spend 6 months to export 100K notes from Evernote mostly because they intentionally throttl…

Last year after a thread around Obsidian and the downhill of Evernote I took almost 6 months to migrate more than 100K clippings and notes and it's so refreshing to have your own d…

Yes, it is. I've blogged since 2006, and after the content-oriented-to-SEO boom, I totally lost hope in writing online again. Part of me wants to write for the sake of sharing, but…

> There’s no point in whining about the impulses endowed to them by several hundred thousand years of evolution. Don’t hate the player; hate the game. And if you really hate the ga…

I understand the rationale and I am happy for the authors and I think the distribution will be way better. As a user I like to get out as soon as I click because I can trace back t…

I had some different sort of issue but in the same lines: when you have distinct goals between upstream team X and the downstream team Y. Most of my experience working in un-siloed…

It sounds like the same thing that Steve Yegge placed in his rant in 2011 [1] where teams should collaborate via interfaces. [1] - https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

> A lot of ML systems run on Python. A lot of ML systems are first implemented in Python. > That by being open source it doesn't deserve money? I think this is a flaw we probably n…

> No, don't use it to fix your grammar, or for translations, or for whatever else you think you are incapable of doing. Make the mistake. Feel embarrassed. Learn from it. Why? Beca…

In 2025 I think most of the PII is just a legal liability for 99% of the cases. I once saw a custom service where you could connect your data, like Mixpanel or some analytics, and …

> I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images. Every time I read something like this, I recall this post from Rich Hickey[…

Does someone know if there's some equivalent of those engineering/research blogs for Chinese companies? I used to follow the ones from Western companies, but honestly, after some p…