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tiagod
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  1. I didn't write "nothing needs to be profitable".

    I live under a system where even very expensive treatments are covered by the state using taxpayer money, and I'm not starving. Sometimes you need to optimize for human dignity.

  2. Not everything needs to be profitable.
  3. Heroin consumption isn't legalized here, it is decriminalized.

    Also, it was MUCH worse when it was a crime.

  4. A few years ago a client of mine gave me a big-ish APC UPS. I recently got new batteries for it after the outage here in Portugal, and to turn on SSH I had to agree that I was not a terrorist organisation's nor in a country where encryption can not be exported to.
  5. It is compression, but it is lossy. Just like the digital counterparts like mp3 and jpeg, in some cases the final message can contain all the information you need.
  6. Sort of unrelated, but I've been thinking a lot of founding a non-profit that fund raises just to undercut the usual shitty consultancy companies that build government websites and apps just to build them properly.
  7. In Portugal we also have Soup and Salad :)
  8. Honestly, in a purely technical sense, I do find it beautiful how you can take matrix multiplication and a shit-ton of data, and get a program that can talk to you, solve problems, and generate believable speech and imagery.

    There are many complications arising from such a thing existing, and from what was needed to bring it into existence (and at the cost of whom), I'll never deny that. I just can't comprehend how someone can find the technical aspects repulsive in isolation.

    It feels a lot like trying to convince someone that nuclear weapons are bad by defending that splitting an atom is akin to banging a rock against a coconut to split it in two.

  9. Cool site, thanks! By the way, the "Before" and "After" buttons are swapped.
  10. Enormous child mortality, colonial war, persecution by the political police, hunger.
  11. As far as I am aware, USD is used for larger amounts in such countries. Smaller purchases are made in the local currency.
  12. My condolences, hope you will recover soon
  13. >I wonder why there doesn't seem to be any website with a map view of all of the planet's magnetometers. Looks like there should be more than enough data to make an interesting livemap.

    Another project for the queue...

  14. No IR sensor for dust removal?
  15. Although I don't deny it could've happened, Spain and Portugal were different kingdoms during the Iberian Union (Philip II of Spain was known as Philip I of Portugal.)
  16. Didn't the proposal involve automated scanning of all instant messages? How isn't that equivalent of having an automated system opening every letter and listening to every phone call looking for crimes?
  17. Hi! They're very different.

    The Raspberry Pi is a full-on computer, it has a Broadcom ARM GPU/CPU, memory, runs Linux etc.

    The RP2040 and RP2350 are micro-controllers, such as the ones used on the Arduino. Usually you don't run any operating system on these, everything is bare metal.

    I liked your article though! Cheers

  18. What's the difference from going to the website and downloading it, or doing it through the package manager?
  19. I'm not from the USA, and here in fact Paracetamol is the term people know (well, they actually mostly knew the Ben-u-ron brand, but with the rise of generics Paracetamol seems more used now.)

    However, from exposure to American culture in forums and whatnot, I was under the impression Acetaminophen was widely used over there.

  20. The article says the badge has a "full raspberry pi", but from reading the badge docs, it's just a RP2350B MCU.

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