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mbroncano··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
N/a
mbroncano··on Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages
I just tried in Portuguese, and it introduces itself as ChatGPT. I was going to ask what can this do that ChatGPT can’t, but no need to answer now I guess.
mbroncano··on The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms
On a side note, some languages still refer to computers as ‘sorting machines’ or just ‘sorters’
mbroncano··on European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
It also traditionally heavily anti Europe, for reasons
mbroncano··on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
That’s blatantly not true, before or recently. As it is obvious you never relocated to Europe, at least provide a reference to refute.
mbroncano··on Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching
(2023)
mbroncano··on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_legend

Probably more to do with the fact that the first train in Spain was build in Cuba

mbroncano··on Can solar costs keep shrinking?
Law Enforcement Officer
mbroncano··on Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)
(2020)
mbroncano··on FastDoom – Performance Gains on Slow 386 and 486 CPUs
Repo link:

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

mbroncano··on Which Electric Cars Have Bidirectional Charging (V2L, V2G, V2H)
A family with small kids?
mbroncano··on MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
Any reference or link to those policies? I have never seen such a thing.
mbroncano··on A US productivity boom may explain how inflation slowed amid a strong economy
Nobody mentioned remote work? To be that’s the biggest change by far
mbroncano··on French ministers to ditch WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram over security fears
Does anybody know anything about the back story of Olvid?
mbroncano··on Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
That’s awfully inaccurate
mbroncano··on How did the chess pieces get their names?
At least for Spanish, a majority of the maps are utterly wrong.
mbroncano··on Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (2018)
Amazing place, I was just there a few days ago while visiting Rio. The orchid collection is one of a kind.
mbroncano··on Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
I got I working nicely on my M1 iPad
mbroncano··on I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
Really nice
mbroncano··on AITemplate, a revolutionary new inference engine by Meta AI
It mentions it is in the works
mbroncano··on ISO 8601
https://xkcd.com/927/
mbroncano··on The strange detention of EU diplomats returning from Tehran
TIL Fráncfort is the correct spelling in Spanish.

[0] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A1ncfort_del_Meno

mbroncano··on Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'
At least in NL you can apply for a passport

> Stateless people, when officially registered as 'stateless', can apply for naturalisation after three years' legal stay, which is reduced from the standard five years. They are also exempt from providing a passport, but they do need to provide a birth certificate.

https://index.statelessness.eu/country/netherlands

mbroncano··on UK government plans publicity blitz against encrypted communications
Does anybody know how (or even if) these kind of campaigns are run in the US?
mbroncano··on Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules
I suspect that is more a feature than a bug, from the regulator POV: instead of chasing and potentially failing to quickly remove some economic actor from the market, it takes at most two phone calls.

Pretending that the public interest if behind any of these actions an important part of the system, but certainly not the initiator.

mbroncano··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
I had a similar experience a few years ago. Although I soon realized what the deal was, and what the expectations of the screener were (so I could adjust and ‘pass’), it discouraged me from moving forward.

It seems nowadays the process is much more reasonable, but Google is still far behind other FAANG companies in regard to their interviewing process, in my opinion.

mbroncano··on Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)
Maybe you might want to read this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
mbroncano··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
Same for me, most probably this account is about 10 years old or so, but I’ve been lurking for even longer.
mbroncano··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
* given enough time
mbroncano··on Turkey has unveiled a stealth carrier-based unmanned aircraft program
Nukes, or their lack thereof, is the elephant in the room here.
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