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Posts by João Santos

Caros compatriotas, a democracia não se faz de previsões ou intenções, mas sim de atos concretos de soberania popular. Por isso apelo-vos, ignorem as sondagens e assumam o vosso papel no futuro da República. Não brexitem esta merda.

#Presidenciais2026 #Portugal #Politica

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

And they didn't need to spoon feed the viewers with yet another bare bones origin story. Just a quick 1980s style text introduction and then it drops the entire Silver Age lore on the audience while managing to not overwhelm everyone.

8 months ago 5 0 0 0

Another fun fact in one of the surveys is that, ironically, people who identify as readers read less on average than people than don't.

9 months ago 1 0 1 0

The articles I could find state that reading habits correlate negatively with age and that gen-z is using libraries more than previous generations. Demographics and increased library usage can explain the decrease in sales.

9 months ago 3 0 1 0

Isn't Gen Z (and to a point Millenials) reading more than previous generations? Maybe it's time to restart the discussion about the Western Canon.

9 months ago 1 0 1 0

Paradoxically, if you are a clear favourite, it's usually a good idea to downplay it a bit to avoid overconfident supporters not showing up to vote.

9 months ago 1 0 0 0

That is a common perception in political circles, too - the common wisdom is that looking like the most popular candidate attracts undecided voters and motivates supporters.

9 months ago 1 0 1 0

Not all messaging apps should try to be everything apps.

There are already social media platforms and RSS/Atom for that use case.

9 months ago 23 0 1 0
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Good fictional villains need to be believable, which usually limits how evil they can be.

9 months ago 7 0 0 0
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Government health spending as a share of GDP This metric captures spending on government funded health care systems and social health insurance, as well as compulsory health insurance.

Repeat after me: Countries with universal healthcare spend **less** government money on healthcare than the US. (source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/publ...)

Universal healthcare doesn't need more taxes.

10 months ago 0 0 1 0

Depending on which Link is in the movie Elliot Page might pull it off.

10 months ago 1 0 1 0

My former landlord decided to repaint mostly of my former flat for free after their representative saw what I did on my own - I went in fully expecting to lose part of the deposit.
In my case it mostly involved me getting too distracted to allow for any kind of consistency.

10 months ago 4 0 1 0

That's usually well covered in enterprise contracts. It's possible that whoever is actually running the model ignores this, but I would be very surprised if Rakuten would take this as stealing their "proprietary" info.

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

Anyone wants to bet there was an #LLM involved?

10 months ago 2 0 0 0

People that care about evil only when evil things happen to them, don't care about evil. They care only about themselves.

10 months ago 3 0 0 0

"We are lending the credibility of our print edition to unreviewed slop, and the unreviewed slop is eventually going to tank the credibility of our print edition, but in short term we have both lots of content and profitability".

Seems like a recipe for success. /s

10 months ago 5 0 0 0

CISOs, repeat after me, “Encryption at rest is not a defensive control for a running database.” Production DBs aren't resting, they are very much running. If someone has logical (DB username/creds, app-level, endpoint service) or physical (sysadmin, root, VM admin) access, they can see ALL the data.

10 months ago 152 30 11 3

It's the NYT, they have being doing this since literal Hitler.

10 months ago 2 0 0 0
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By the example given in the article, these 3 could only make it more explicit and transparent if they tattooed a swastika in their forehead.

10 months ago 2 0 0 0

UK is becoming more and more a little piece of Russia in Western Europe.

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

I'm starting to suspect the labour party is not a social democratic party as it claims, but it might be a reactionary conservative party instead. /s

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

It's very charitable of you to count Dima's term as really being president of Russia.

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

The thing is, I read at my speed, no more, no less. I watch videos at 2x, backtrack 5 minutes, watch at 1x, rewatch the previous 30 seconds twice, figure out I dozed off at some point and rewatch the entire thing, and end up looking for a text version.

11 months ago 0 0 0 0

Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.

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With (well-structured) text you can easily skim back if you missed something important, you can easily cross reference with other sources, you control the reading speed, you can take notes, etc. [2/2]

11 months ago 1 0 0 0
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The thing with real oral communication is that it's interactive.
Video demands full attention, you have no control over the speed of communication, it demands context switching for cross referencing and annotation, and even on well structured videos it's cumbersome to find something specific. [1/2]

11 months ago 0 0 2 0

"The main learning is that most actionable way to solution this opportunity is to ideate and operationalize the onboarding of a SHISaS* provider. This is to be subjected to the bandwidth of the planning".

*Stick-Head-In-the-Sand-as-a-Service

11 months ago 2 0 0 0

I gather you never had to deal with people that use "opportunity" instead of "problem" or "issue".

Corporate newspeak is a new language at this point.

11 months ago 3 0 0 0
Someone used "learnings" to mean "lessons".

Someone used "learnings" to mean "lessons".

I hate the use of "learning" to mean "lesson".

1 year ago 105 8 20 2
Cravo Vermelho

Cravo Vermelho

25 de Abril Sempre, "Deus Pátria Família" Nunca Mais!

#25Abril #Portugal #Laicidade #Democracia

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