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I wish there were more sites like this, devoted to particular topics that proved to be valuable enough to be presented in a public talk. I currently use YouTube for this a lot (like most people, I guess). But sadly, count(views) is not always correlated to quality.
You don't need authentication: you accept terms of use, and you are good to go. Also, there is a cap in the amount of data that you can use each day (based on MAC, I guess), but it is generous enough to allow me to stream for youtube from one hour at the gym, or to work for two hours when I'm in the mood of doing it from the garden near the swimming pool.
A friend of mine told me that the EU is paying the local administration for the equipment and installation, but there is an explicit condition in the contract that blocks any kind of personal tracking.
So I would say this is a neat project. And 120M€ for an entity of this size doesn't look like an extraordinary amount of money.
BlackRock is indeed problematic and housing is a significant issue. However, I don't believe that house renting impacts the GDP. Construction does.
The current Spanish administration can hardly be considered neoliberal. Although the main party in the coalition is positioned in the center (progressive in all aspects except the economy), they share the government with a strongly left-leaning party, by European standards, I mean.
I'm not certain about the exact reasons, but I suspect it's related to the relatively low energy prices [2] (compared to the rest of the continent, except Portugal), and a social shield that helped protect families' income during the pandemic. This shield enabled them to continue consuming goods, even amidst higher inflation.
[1] https://www.cnmc.es/prensa/informe-mayorista-gas-europa-2023...
[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20220326/8155123/excep...
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I would appreciate any suggestions for works by other Chinese science fiction authors, as I understand that it's not fair to judge such a vast culture based on a single data point.
Honestly, I'm regularly surprised by how nice and patient people from everywhere are, paying attention to my words even if my English is not, even today, as good as I would like it to be. Including French people. Including British people.
The problem appeared when people like I started basing our workflow on it ^_^. There are a few good books[1] and tutorials[2] out there, but I totally agree that the official documentation is only useful as a technical reference.
[1] Mastering Git, https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-git/9781783553754 [2] Atlassian Git tutorials, https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials
And, yes: it is good to learn the underlying fundamentals of the technology we are using. But, on the other hand, it denotes a rather poor abstraction from the UX point of view, imho.
Now, when I deliver git training, I start by explaining the DAG and how there is no magic, only git. By the way, the notes and exercises of the course are in my GitHub account[1], feel free to check it out if you think it can be useful.
[1] https://github.com/ciberado/git-workshop (https://ciberado.github.io/git-workshop/)
Let me know if you are interested, and maybe we can find time to work on it together :).
[0] https://github.com/ciberado/stable-diffusion-webui-terraform...
It is true that we were much more familiar with application layer technologies, but the lack of expertise can also be considered a restriction, I think.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/OXENDURE-Webcam-Stand/dp/B07RNHZYGW (look for a cheaper vendor) [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam...
And who knows, maybe after some months the remaining data can be considered cold enough to just archive it.
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Probably their value in the advertisment production chain is going to become close to zero in a few years, and they will try to stop or at least slow it down.
But once we have open source models released to the public I cannot see how a local legislation can have any impact at all.