rpadovani

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Comment · 24 days ago
> AI helps organize what has already been written by humans and was technically self-evident from our work.

I am not 100% sure about the "self-evident" part here.

To your point: yes, AI doesn't come up with new axioms. But then we enter the topic of "math is invented or discovered?". Each of the discoveries are logical consequences of the axioms, but that doesn't mean they were "self-evident", especially for humans.

If everything was already self-evident, AI would just be a useless tautological machine. However, I think it is more than just that

Comment · 1 month ago
As everything, there are compromises and prices to pay.

In case of fil-c, it is about 1.5-4x slower performance, and a memory overhead.

So, let's not present it as a panacea to all problems: there could good reasons to use it, but it isn't a magic trick.

Comment · 1 month ago
Eh, Italian has it tho.

"(Lui) è un dottore", "(Io) sono un dottore".

"Un" is the indefinite article.

Subject is usually dropped, thus the brackets

Comment · 3 months ago
My company pays for taxi from my door to the airport and I still take the train, unless I am leaving before dawn.

There is both a rational environment choice in that, and a nice feeling of being part of a humming crowd

Comment · 3 months ago
> Nobody in EU is saying the EU should clean up others' mess around the world

That's literally what the top poster said.

Your points make sense, "EU should reopen Hormuz" is laughable

Comment · 1 year ago
> "None of the database guides I followed had warned me about the dangers of exposing a docker containerized database to the internet."

This prompts a reflection about, as an industry, we should make a better job in providing solid foundations.

When I check tutorials on how to drill in the wall, there is (almost) no warning about how I could lose a finger doing so. It is expected that I know I should be careful around power tools.

How do we make some information part of the common sense? "Minimize the surface of exposure on the Internet" should be drilled in everyone, but we are clearly not there yet

Comment · 2 years ago
Because English is not the mother tongue for the majority of the people, and correctors fix typos, but not swapped words, unless you use something like Grammarly.

Pointing out mistakes is fine, being emphatic while doing it would be great

Comment · 3 years ago
They still do switches, what remotes are you referring to?
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe you paid 70 euros. I just wanted to highlight that, beginning 2013, that's not a problem anymore thanks to the semesterticket.
Comment · 3 years ago
Beginning 2013, there is the semester tickets for students, which is twenty euros per month.

Before that, 70 euros? Where were you living, Freising?

Two external rings were around 50 euros at the time, and many students rent inside the (old) 4 inner rings, or the first external one if you study in Garching

Comment · 3 years ago
Ah, but then your first comment is highly misleading, because when you talk number, readers assume cost per year.

You are basically saying that living in Europe in a university city cost anything between 6000 and 20000 euros each year.

Maybe a bit high, but I think I can agree.

But living is a cost all around the world, and universities in Europe add a very low overhead on top of it, while universities in US can easily triple your cost of living, so I still don't see your point

Comment · 3 years ago
Uhm, what?

If you live with your parents, and the university is free, where does that number come from?

And if you don't live with your parents, you live with others students, spending 600-1000 euro month for living, how do you reach that numbers?

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
You know that you _choose_ to be a policeman, right? Is not that you are born a policeman.

I can definitely say all killers are rotten inside, and it's a blanket statement.

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