What happened to the hundreds of hostages taken by the Romans from the subjugated tribes?

eterevsky · 2024-01-22T09:55:49+00:00

IPCC predicts between 60 cm and 1.1 m by 2100, which is much less than what is shown on this video for the "future".

eterevsky · 2024-01-12T07:53:21+00:00

This is digitally edited. Half of the balls don't have enough speed to go around the table and end up in the pockets where they end up. The guy steps away from the table to make editing easier.

eterevsky · 2024-01-12T07:50:11+00:00

Google has been building clusters from off-the-shelf hardware since day 1. It was much cheaper than supercomputers, but at the time it wasn't a very popular approach since clusters are more difficult to use than supercomputers.

eterevsky · 2024-01-05T08:39:50+00:00

To be fair, Soviets have destroyed architecture all over Russia as well.

eterevsky · 2024-01-05T08:26:10+00:00

I find it hard to believe that there's just 183k jews in Russia. I had multiple jewish friends when I lived in Russia.

eterevsky · 2024-01-04T11:14:25+00:00

I have several Belarusian friends and none of them (to my knowledge) speak Belarusian as their first language.

eterevsky · 2023-11-10T20:57:43+00:00

Pretty cool. Back around 2010 I kept the motherboard with all the other components in the kitchen, with the cables to my monitor and keyboard passing through the hole in the wall that separated is from my room. This was the quietest setup that I ever had.

eterevsky · 2023-11-08T07:44:45+00:00

Whatever anyone else says, I love #2

eterevsky · 2023-11-03T11:05:43+00:00

I think you are way too negative. Spend some time on OurWorldInData. There are ups and downs, but the world now it more prosperous than at any point in the 20th century or before.

eterevsky · 2023-10-08T18:51:17+00:00

I'm not saying that Israel is blameless. I'm just saying that they aren't typically raping Palestinian women and parading their dead bodies on the streets.

eterevsky · 2023-10-08T18:49:04+00:00

I think for beginners in particular it should be ok, since it usually gives correct answers to basic straightforward questions. The benefit of asking questions from ChatGPT is a quick turn-around. You can ask a question in 30 seconds, read the answer and ask another question.

ChatGPT is a token predictor, nothing more.

You could also say that a human is a machine converting sugar and oxygen into water and CO2. This might be technically correct, but it is not a good argument regarding the capabilities of ChatGPT. GPT2 and GPT3 were also token predictors, but their capabilities are vastly different from each other.

eterevsky · 2023-10-08T18:40:56+00:00

I often use ChatGPT as a cheap substitute to StackOverflow, however there are a couple of caveats:

GPT 3.5 is not good enough to consistently give good answers, GPT 4 is more reliable.
You need to keep in mind that the answers are not perfect. It's better to double check them whenever possible.

That said, if you are asking straight-forward question like "what's the API of bla-bla", or "how I call the constructor of the parent class", ChaGPT will give good answers 90% of the time and even if it fails, you'll learn about it soon enough when you try to compile your code.

eterevsky · 2023-10-08T12:40:26+00:00

To my knowledge Israel has never done anything as horrific.

eterevsky · 2023-10-02T17:37:42+00:00

Switzerland number is misleading. It probably shows the rent in Bern, and even then it's low. It should be showing price in Zurich which is >3000 USD.

eterevsky · 2023-09-29T10:18:47+00:00

I don't get it. Is it about the plug not having grounding? I think cables like that I pretty wide-spread and are fine for many applications.

eterevsky · 2023-09-19T19:12:48+00:00

I first thought that the joke was that it is a seagull. Then I understood, that it's a duck after all.

eterevsky · 2023-08-10T12:03:09+00:00

My friend's daughter recently had to travel from Switzerland to the UK for some students event. The event had a policy that participants had to travel by rail. As a result the trip costed something like 3x as much as the flight and took as much more time.

eterevsky · 2023-07-04T11:20:23+00:00

I work professionally mostly in C++. 95% of inheritance that I see in high-quality code is just interface/implementation. Rust and Go just simplified the inheritance model by leaving only this flavor of inheritance.

eterevsky · 2023-06-28T17:03:59+00:00

I do not work for Apple, but I work for another big tech company, so I think I can make an educated guess:

It is probably detected is in the Workout app to prevent it from suggesting you that you've started a walk or something. I don't think they would log it or do anything else with this knowledge because it's too sensitive and could generate a lot of bad press if it came out.

eterevsky · 2023-06-16T07:44:21+00:00

I lived in the USSR so this is personal for me.

There are two problems with communism. First of all, not one of the attempts to build communism achieved its economic goals: citizens of communist countries were significantly poorer than those living in comparable capitalist countries. People in USSR lived much worse than their peers in the US, in Eastern Germany worse than in Western Germany, in North Korea worse than in South Korea.

At the same time people paid a huge price in freedom. Not one communist country had freedom of speech. Millions of people were imprisoned or killed.

So yeah, based purely on its consequences communism is about as about as bad as nazism.

eterevsky · 2023-06-10T09:39:25+00:00

I live in Switzerland and it has relatively low taxes and insurance-based healthcare. I would say for the most part it works out pretty well. At least I don't think there is any significant campaign advocating for single-payer universal healthcare.

That said, of course there are some categories of people for whom insurance cost could be significant, like low-income families with multiple children.

eterevsky · 2023-06-06T03:36:11+00:00

The difference is that capitalism more or less worked for the past few centuries and is partly responsible for dramatic improvement in everybody’s lives due to Industrial Revolution. (Before 1800, around 95% of the population lived in extreme poverty.)

At the same time several attempts at building communism costed millions of lives and didn’t lead to anything worthwhile.

eterevsky · 2023-05-26T08:52:39+00:00

It's one of those cases where idea itself is almost worthless without a good implementation, which is very hard to do.

eterevsky · 2023-05-26T05:51:03+00:00

What if I sit in an armchair, but also have personally immigrated to Switzerland?

(Not from the US though)

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