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niepiekmon Live map of public transport in Belgium

See https://zbiorkom.live/cities for a live public transport in several cities in Poland.

niepiekmon Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults

'The Christian worldview' is actually evidence-based, it's not based on childish stories of "ghosts" and "angels". Please, read the book first before judging by the cover.

As another reference, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877709 (https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...)

niepiekmon Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults

Full quote is this: "The questions posed by AI are open to all of us. And they demand answers. A book that is written to challenge all readers, no matter your worldview, 2084 shows how the Christian worldview, properly understood, can provide evidence–based, credible answers that will bring you real hope for the future of humanity."

Does 'the Christian worldview' invalidate any conclusions the authors may present?

niepiekmon Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults

Yeap, it's started... https://www.johnlennox.org/shop/24/2084-artificial-intellige...

niepiekmon Bash++: Bash with Classes

Not exactly the same, but not a new idea either: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-summer-1994-technic...

niepiekmon They have not been trained for this

Newag is also after the Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Team for Combating Transport Exclusion, MP Paulina Matysiak and filed for revoking her immunity. She's been looking into the matter since the news broke last year.

https://transinfo-pl.translate.goog/inforail/jest-wniosek-o-...

niepiekmon My $500M Mars rover mistake

Thanks for sharing your experience. It reminded me of another one I'd read a while back by Andrew Latham: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-from-my-bigges...

niepiekmon The tragic birth of FM radio (2006)

This article reminded me about current changes related to EU's Unified Patent Court (UPC), discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33630823.

JUVE Patent website presents comments from UPC on the subject: https://www.juve-patent.com/news-and-stories/people-and-busi...

Edit: fixed the second link attribution to JUVE Patent, and removed speculation regarding trivialization of the issue by UPC.

niepiekmon Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?

Although I have not seen the source code, I was mind blown when first heard of and saw the demo of the Sketchpad, a program created by Ivan Sutherland in 1963.

http://scihi.org/ivan-sutherland-computer-graphics/

Ph.D. thesis: - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14979 (1963 original), - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.{html,pd... (2003 electronic edition)

niepiekmon Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

I second that. Smalltalk-80 classes source code is an excellent reference to learning pure OOP style. https://github.com/dbanay/Smalltalk/blob/master/files/Smallt...

niepiekmon An Experience with Modafinil

Caffeine, cocaine, amphetamine... it all boils down to dopamine: https://podcastnotes.org/huberman-lab/episode-39-controlling...

Highly recommended podcast! https://hubermanlab.com/controlling-your-dopamine-for-motiva...