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>they will be linked to the World Data Network. Thus everyone will be able to enjoy the equivalent of an Einstein in their own homes. Personal isolation will then be banished forev…

some association... the Japanese studied their temples that withstood hundreds of years and thousands of earthquakes.. and found that there's one common pattern: there are two skel…

they should have been betting on that. Poly-market style. With high-enough bets.. improbability may suddenly reduce..

ha-ha. good one. check this one from 1968: https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/animations-1/variatio...

github etc hold source code -> scraped -> so AI may generate any of that. And the specs become the new source (code). fast forward.. Atlassian etc hold source specs -> scraped -> s…

That's how my group got through "Computer Memories" subject. The guy handed us xerox-copy of some Motorola book, and assigned each one a chapter to translate from english to bulgar…

i read the other day this: https://jacobin.com/2026/03/work-deskilling-labor-capitalism... brushing the socialism aside (been there seen that), it talks about the deskilling as ine…

Bulgaria.. today.. 95 gasoline , on nearest OMV station = ~~ 1.42E/liter (more prices at [0] : 1.26-2.15E) https://fuelo.net/cheap/where?lang=bg&order=cheap&fuel_type=... come here…

i have been looking on this for an year+.. Here some current (online-shops) prices in Bulgaria.. say shop.chepakov.com / kameasolar.com - panel 490Wp 2sq.m chinese = ~80E - battery…

it's easier than that. Take small cabbage heads (also works if cut into pieces, salad style). Put in some container - plastic tank, wooden barrel, glass jar, whatever - 2-or-20-or-…

probably. see this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494074

> produced something more useful: a map of the fault lines where current practices are breaking and new ones are forming. Here some story. Long time ago, i wrote a (software) accou…

Well, depends on what "translation", and "optimization", means. If even shuffling a few things around counts as translation, then yes.. But then (near?) every change is translation…

when i moved to this apartment, the wooden wardrobe i had in previous one (built on the spot) could eventually move through that door and corners but absolutely could not move thro…

to curb the doomscrolling (laptop is as bad as phone) , i gave my father a big old Lego box - a Volkswagen beetle (which stayed for years, assembled by my kids.. which don't play t…

digital Farthings, here they come

i don't think optimization comes after translation.. it is a very small subset of translation and hence can be done easier, even per particular spot (or aspect), keeping more level…

it used to be that coding was veeery tough and tedious thing, so specifications had to be really well pre-chewed, down to the bone. Think 60ies and 70'ies . Each decade after that,…

> conspires to replace scary feedback > lot of people don't grok what feedback loops are or they grok it very well, esp. the scary part.. Very few people want/enjoy negative feedba…

this new "understanding" priority reminds me of : "... This means the speed of the project is proportional to the speed at which information moves between people's heads. Every obs…

i wonder, is the divide something like Pirsig's classical vs romantic ? First see mostly-functionality / facts, want to understand to the bones, latter see .. appearance / utility …

it depends which part of the PM trio+ dominates.. * product part - functionality, overlaps with BA / business-analyst * project part - people AND resources, follow timing/deadlines…

maybe Apple is "subsidizing" this ? nudge/"help" people to join the party? trying to ride something around the windows-bullshitization , recent memory-prices etc..

here some comparison chart, 2nd image in the article below: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/th... https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index…