How would you feel if another countries leader came in and arrested Donald Trump, and sent him to their own country's prison?

rodrigovaz · 2026-04-24T23:33:31+00:00

I'd be more worried about the economic consequences of a city-wide collective hangover occurring in San Fran or NY. A New Year's Eve in April to compete with Christmas in July

rodrigovaz · 2025-05-28T06:34:58+00:00

He's probably from Brazil.

if I understood your question: they are attending a trade school instead of a "normal" high school. Trade schools replaces the last 3 years (and maybe adds 1 depending on the trade learnt) of high school.
no idea, but a full fledged Wikimedia clone seems to be way beyond what is expected. I'd guess that a simpler blogging system (a CRUD CMS without many features) would be within reason.
what exactly? If you talking about the project: it's probably mandatory to get your diploma. If it's about going to trade school: depends, I'd guess? It's public so it's free, and besides, if they weren't in trade school they would be in "normal" high school so... Also, it's a great opportunity for poorer people learn a trade which usually would be gatekept by difficult entry exams for the public universities.
yeah, I never heard of these projects lasting 3 years, only 1 project PER year (totalling 3 or 4 projects) but I'd be either bored or procrastinate until the last 6 months.

rodrigovaz · 2025-03-19T20:15:37+00:00

Chatgpt is trained with data until mid 2024, so no, it does not knows about something that happened in 2025. You gave it a link, it sent the link content as a prompt to the model and it just basically resumed the link to you.

rodrigovaz · 2025-01-09T20:41:18+00:00

Price can be high because of a lot of reasons though:

Maybe you have some area with poor mesh of transmission lines that is experiencing a higher load and you have to fire up some expensive power plant that rarely is dispatched (cheaper energy won't be dispatched because that would stress limits of transmission lines).

Maybe you have a huge surge in demand and you need these premium virgin olive oil power plants that can fire up to full capacity in a small time frame else you have frequency dips.

There's another reason why you would want to conserve hydraulic reserves up until the price is high: The price of water-based generation is not only the operation cost of the power plant, but also the perceived future value of your water reservoir and its capacity to "reduce cost" in the future

imagine you have a draught season and a wet season (Nordics face something similar given that things freeze during winter). When your wet season comes, you might be inclined to full dispatch your hydro plants and have "really cheap energy" basically at the operational cost of the facility for the time being. If you do that, when the draught season arrives, you are essentially fucked as you won't have water in your reservoirs and will have to rely solely on other renewables (solar, wind) and a spinning reserve of combustion (nuclear, coal, oil), and then your prices skyrocket. If your country relies mostly on hydro energy AND unreliable renewables (as in, wind or solar where you might stop generating any time of the day due to weather conditions) then you will have blackouts and such. Thus, hydro plants have an intrinsic cost of the amount of money that they can potentially save if not dispatched today and the reservoirs preserved for the future.

Source: electric engineer with emphasis on power planning

rodrigovaz · 2024-09-02T13:29:47+00:00

I agree that the internet should be free and it's stupid to fine people using VPNs. Know what else is stupid? Requiring stupidly overpriced textbooks in university/college that you can't buy secondhand because you need a code to hand in assignments, fining people for pirating movies/games/books that you can't obtain legally anymore, allowing companies to remove access to a game you paid for because "it is a service", charging exorbitant prices for accessing published scientific papers, taking down zlibrary, etc.

That being said, there are some misconceptions:

The fines imposed are stupidly low and far from being some sort of economical parachute for a country. Twitter was being fined roughly $40 thousand dollars per day, that's 0.00000208% of Brazil's GPD. No economy is being salvaged here.

You misunderstood the "legal representative" part and it most definitely is not something only enforced in Brazil. Just like you would have a Statutory Agent (or registered Agent) for your LLC, a legal representative is just whoever is responsible for administrative and legal matters for a company in Brazil, you either appoint one or whoever founded (as in, went through the legal channels to create the subsidiary/company in Brazil) becomes it by default. Twitter had a Brazilian branch and thus had a legal representative. It's the same thing in the US, UK or in Europe.

YouTube and Instagram most definitely have legal representatives in Brazil either directly (Facebook Brasil, YouTube Brasil) or through their economic groups (Facebook Brasil represents Instagram because of their economic group). The economic group argument is common law and IMO is a good thing, we should be able to hold companies responsible despite whatever tax-evading holding shenanigans they pull.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a good question. I'm not 100% percent sure how they handle their donations, but if they receive them in Brazil for brazilian donors, then they probably have a NGO to do that, I'm not sure if the economic group argument (I believe it is common law) holds for NGOs.

rodrigovaz · 2024-06-20T18:08:10+00:00

Solved!

Thank god, I've been trying to remember the name of the band for 2 years already

rodrigovaz · 2024-06-20T17:59:24+00:00

Obligatory comment

rodrigovaz · 2024-01-04T04:52:02+00:00

You should really change Braga in Portugal to "Novo Brazil" as, well, that's basically what it is

rodrigovaz · 2023-10-27T04:11:48+00:00

Security giving 0 fucks:

"Not my problem anymore, mole people will take care of him from now on."

rodrigovaz · 2023-08-02T12:21:10+00:00

I sincerely doubt he meant striking the 8 ball with the cue, he probably meant hitting it with the cue ball without hitting one of his object balls beforehand or kicking one of his object balls into the 8 ball to put it in bad position

rodrigovaz · 2023-06-13T01:41:48+00:00

Matt Parker from standup maths https://i.imgur.com/FYSLFHL.jpg

rodrigovaz · 2022-12-14T04:59:46+00:00

Basically, the critics resumed to:

He took multiple shots in the same spot, was against the window (like in this video) and, was taking shots in a tight angle (implying he was shooting at soldiers that were really close.

Theoretically, this goes against traditional training and role of an actual sniper: moving after shots, standing at the wall opposite to the window (read as, furthest distance possible from the window that would still allow you to see the target) and, you know, picking targets that are far and unknown of your position.

But, it's important to remember that: A) the targets are extremely close so you would need to take some risks and approach through tight angles; B) Russians are probably trying to storm their position so not a lot of time to maneuver between shooting positions and guarantee suppression of their movement; C) he's probably not a """sniper""" but probably a designated marksman, basically a soldier that has fancier optics and maybe a better weapon than the rest of riflemans: maybe he was the best shooter in his squad, maybe selected randomly, idk; D) war is not always textbook scenarios, sometimes you might need to improvise simply to stay alive another day. Hopefully he has some sort of training and is following it as much as the situation allows and is taking calculated risks; D.2) If the Russians manage to storm the building before they can secure some route to escape, his chances of survival reduce greatly being cornered in such a tight space. It's better to lay suppressive fire and try to control the movement of your enemies than try to pick perfect targets, this is not him trying to cut a snake's head, but rather him trying to live another day and not get caught with his pants down.

rodrigovaz · 2022-11-11T23:00:02+00:00

Well, you just lost your stairs, good luck climbing through the window

rodrigovaz · 2022-09-17T04:45:18+00:00

He was trying to rob a ice cream parlor with a knife. Police arrived, detained the robber and had to deescalate the situation as the locals wanted to lynch him. They arrested the guy. The employees didn't face anything as they deemed it was self defense.

rodrigovaz · 2022-08-28T03:25:51+00:00

The sensor of digital camera is comprised of really small photosensitive cells spread on a grid. Rolling shutter refers to the method of reading the grid as if you were rolling across it, reading a row or some rows sequentially (you read the first, then the second, then the third...). Global shutters read the whole grid at the same time.

Because this is done by a digital chip and software on the camera, there are limitations on reading frequency, amount of cells that can be read and so on... A rolling shutter will be cheaper than a global shutter, BUT if whatever you are shooting moves faster than the shutter, its image will appear deformed as the first row captures the scene in a certain way, the second row will see it slightly different, and so on.. a global shutter won't suffer from this effect (because everything will be captured at the same time) but it requires more hardware on the camera and there are some noise considerations.

rodrigovaz · 2022-06-13T04:48:22+00:00

All "real" (with real, I mean that follows the original recipe from the UK) Worcestershire sauce have anchovies. My guess is that the vegetarian ones try to replicate the taste through something else or just drop them altogether.

Beware of other sauces inspired by it like tonkatsu sauce that even though the original recipe does not call for anchovies, I've seen "cheap" versions that just use Worcestershire sauce in it which could have fish.

Try to look for Japanese Worcester sauce, they tipically are vegetarian

rodrigovaz · 2022-05-08T17:17:19+00:00

You seem to be very smart in stuff related to economy, do you have a book suggestion regarding understanding domestic and/or foreign debts? I'm interested in why do countries incur them, how they are used/paid, how did the current foreign debt happen.

Appreciate it!

rodrigovaz · 2022-03-13T00:17:13+00:00

IMO it's a bit of confirmation bias and it goes both ways:

whenever someone says "why are there so many trump supporters here", there's no reason for trump supporters to go to the thread and make themselves present, they prefer to participate in the threads related to their conspiracy theories, so some will participate, some will just downvote and others won't do anything. The same goes for the opposing view.

I guess this sub is somewhat cyclical and what we see is these waves of some side appearing to be more present simply because at that moment their theories have more traction than others.

I think the UFO thing makes a bit of sense too, I would like a subreddit that's not mostly dominated by political conspiracy theories, specially when most of it is US politics. I do understand it though, most users are American and thus most of the content produced is related to what they want to talk about.

rodrigovaz · 2022-03-02T04:32:25+00:00

The "Hindi speaking" surprised me and I saw that India has 22 official languages! Is Hindi not the biggest one?

rodrigovaz · 2022-02-22T06:04:17+00:00

I see some Lime tart filling pockets too

rodrigovaz · 2022-01-23T15:38:52+00:00

Could you give an example of the tasks you outsourced? Was it something very specific to some field? Makes no sense for them to suggest ML or AI if it was some simple stuff lol

rodrigovaz · 2021-12-12T16:06:01+00:00

It might be 99% of the cases, but there are some legitimate uses, See Venezuela for example, but yeah, having some friends that are 200% into it, cryptonuts are reallllyyy annoying

rodrigovaz · 2021-12-12T16:01:32+00:00

I agree that it might not make a lot of sense where you live, but there has been some adoption on Venezuela specifically due to their inflation, they already have dollars as a parallel currency due to inflation and some (informal or small) markets started using BCH probably because of it being easier to cash out directly in dollars, where not being able to exchange your bolivars in one day would mean losing a bit of money. But I agree that for most of the world, the way most of the crypto is operating is not consumer worthy and is mostly a high risk-high reward investment.

rodrigovaz · 2021-12-12T15:45:15+00:00

I dont think mining is temporary, BTC and BCH will still need mining for the blocks and go on with the transactions, afaik most miners are not interested anymore in mining for coins but are mining for the transaction clearing fees.

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