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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 instru…

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 hig…

That seems similar to the "God give me patience, but I need it RIGHT NOW" prayer.

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 l…

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 clo…

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 sta…

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 instanc…

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 caree…

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 b…

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 …

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 frustr…

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 …

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 num…

They don't believe in consciousness... at all? I guess they don't recognize consciousness for some definition of it that includes agency.

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 incopat…

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 …

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 c…

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…

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…

Why junior bloggers fail to make me read their articles

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 g…

In Spanish "consultar con la almohada" (consult with the pillow)

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 l…

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 …

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…