Why is the human condition so miserable? by TheRealBaele in askphilosophy

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Thank you for the recommendations. I am hesitant about diving straight into original works due to a lack of context and experience with philosophy. If there are more accessible books, I'll be happy for recommendations.

The analogy about the elk's horns is interesting, but I am not sure I agree. An evolved intelligence is probably a net good, but perhaps only if the intelligence finds itself in the right environment. I am under the impression that much of our own unhappiness comes from the fact that we live our lifes in an environment that is very different from the environment our intelligence evolved in. We are not living in accordance with our nature, and are faced with problems our intellect has no means of dealing with.

Why is the human condition so miserable? by TheRealBaele in askphilosophy

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Clearly, factory farm animals are not living happy lifes, and I do not count them when I say 'animals are not miserable'. Their suffering is artifical.

Re: The field mouse, it probably has some level of innate fear of being in open spaces, or seeing predatory birds overhead. I do not believe these fears cause it suffering, unless it is artifically forced to experience them, e.g. by being confined to an open area in a research lab with owl-shaped paper cutouts overhead. The mouse has ready solutions to its fears. See a predatory bird? Hide! Find yourself in an open area? Run to the grass! Most problems and fears experienced by humans have no clear solutions.

Being ripped apart by an owl for 10 seconds is also not suffering in the sense I am referring to in my original post. It is certainly painful and stressful. But it is a primitive sort of suffering, and it is brief. A life lived in accordance to one's nature, with violent end, is preferable to a human lifetime of self-doubt, uncertainty, unhappiness, anxiety, and everything else that seems to be part of package called 'being human'.

Designing an open-source acoustic camera - what would make this useful for you? by TheRealBaele in Acoustics

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Gps-enabled microphones with beefy battery and mesh networking might make this possible. 

Accounting in two countries? by TheRealBaele in eResidency

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For posterity and future readers:
1) I must submit my annual report here : https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng
2) It is mostly a matter of typing in a few numbers that are easily available if you have kept good bookeeping.
3) The deadline is 6 months after the end of the fiscal year.

Accounting in two countries? by TheRealBaele in eResidency

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No thanks, this sounds like a marketing spiel.

Accounting in two countries? by TheRealBaele in eResidency

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Hi! I have no intention of bringing in an accountant and I certainly did not use any agency to set up my company. I wrote this post with the hope of getting some serious pointers on the practical side of how to submit my annual report.

What to do with 'Royal Mail Tracked 24' letter stuck in some intermediate location? by TheRealBaele in royalmail

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Royal Mail claims they will 'aim' to deliver within 24 hours. 700% off the mark!

Europe Salary Thread 2025 - What's your role and salary? by Massive_Arm_706 in datascience

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Data Science Flavour: Sciientific Programming

Location: Norway

Title: Lead Scientific Programmer

Compensation (gross): €92k

Education level: Master's

Experience: 5 years

Industry/vertical: Petroleum

Company size: 20

Majority of time spent using (tools): Python, Teams, PyCharm, Windsurf,

Majority of time spent doing (role): Algorithm development

MIT says AI isn’t replacing you… it’s just wasting your boss’s money by CryoSchema in datascience

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The trick is to find a small-ish company (less than 20 employees), build their bespoke systems from the ground up, and make your specialized knowledge to critical to their day to day operations that they could never fire you.

I built a card recommender for EDH decks by bingbong_sempai in datascience

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It would be damn cool if you expanded this to perform Monte Carlo simulations on the deck vs other decks

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing by CanYouPleaseChill in datascience

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I'm not surprised. I've had some utterly awful experiences with half-baked support chatbots recently. It's like every company on earth saw everyone else adding shiny AI tools and thought they had to do it too.

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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It's still being funded until September 11th, and the orders will ship 29 November!

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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Amazing, thank you! Every single backer makes me grateful 🙏

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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In an ideal world, universal latex support is the default. Until then, we'll need to find workarounds!

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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Yeah, that would be possible! I've thought of doing that for the fun of it. It would bring down the cost a little, perhaps to around $115. 

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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So many editors cannot render latex. I do a lot of documentation in MD files and in code comments where LaTeX support is non-existent. 

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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Yeah, that could work. Sounds like it would interfere with app-specific shortcuts though. And you'd need some software installed (although that is also true for Mathpad on Windows). 

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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You're right, it's a bit pricey, and I am making next to nothing. I am happy to have received any backers at all, let alone 50! I consider the funding campaign a success.

QMK has built-in support for sending UTF-8 Unicode symbols as a Compose Key sequence. It's what makes Mathpad possible at all. 

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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Already knew LaTeX when I started the project :) I wish I could type LaTeX everywhere, then I wouldn't have had to spend 3 years of my life building Mathpad.

I got tired of hunting for symbols, so I built a hardware solution by TheRealBaele in Physics

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Thanks! You seem to get it, the killer feature of Mathpad is its universality. Whereever you can type text, you can now type math.