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It's not even 8.30 am and I already had ChatGPT translate a python module into a pure JavaScript one. Then have my buddy refactor the awful implementation he had to translate (how do people get along with that shit will always beat me...) with a couple tips from my side and there I have: the functions I needed, in JavaScript, with a decent implementation.

Peak decline of a civilization.

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In media diverse centinaia di euro al mese, senza contare le rinunce che soprattutto le madri affrontano in termini di carriera

I realised immediately that frameworks like Langchain or LLaMa-index are at best useless, and dangerous in the medium to long term. Seen this happen before many times in software.

Redesign the "mobile app" experience to be Generative AI first.

The past two nights I saw two movies (which is incredibly rare this past few years for me) La belle verte (1996) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) In both movies, someone from a more advanced civilization comes to earth - from another planet - to witness some nonsense and craziness of earthlings. In both movies the visitor uses some hard "money", like gold or diamonds and is surprised that on earth they do not anymore. ...

The distraction in the media is propaganda.

There's been the printing press, the Internet and almost anybody can read. But for some reason, most (educated?) people today, if prompted, will tell that in the "past" it was easier to spread superstition because people were ignorant.

The adoption of electricity was not without its negative effects. One of the most notable was the rapid expansion of urbanization. As factories sprung up around cities to take advantage of the benefits of electricity, people flocked to urban areas in search of employment opportunities. This led to overcrowding, pollution, and increased rates of disease and illness. Moreover, the rapid industrialization that accompanied electricity adoption led to environmental degradation, with widespread deforestation and water pollution occurring across many parts of the world. #Bitcoin fixes this. https://iris.to/note1xh2ldtalcrvjyv3laap88xh60vgjdsl4sh4y7xswy0qagfc8j2jqgghufk

"However, the full adoption of the term 'Imperium Romanum' to describe the Roman government and its territory was definitively established only in the 3rd century AD, when the Empire had become an absolute monarchy and Latin was the official language of administration."

Reshaping their trades, payment infrastructure and their whole international economies around their national currencies to get rid of the USD dominance is probably doom to fail. They can only succeed if early enough in this process they start using Bitcoin for international settlements.

Most people think the right level of technology for humankind is the one they experienced until they hit around 20/25. Anything new after that is something between useless, immoral or dangerous for humanity.