Tag: 2024
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Started using Status in my home server
A nice little one to let me know how the server is doing. https://github.com/dani3l0/Status
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Fonts and Spreadsheets
I’m working on a hobby project of building a “Mathematics applied to Finance” course. That means using a spreadsheet to build basic business finance scenarios without using any functions but formulas with the typical addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations. Yes, old school. As I was working on the spreadsheet with some examples, I decided…
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Frustration Engineering
The current freemium model adopted by most SaaS companies is disgusting. It seems to me that product managers start from the end, with a desired product state with all the features that add the most value to customers when combined. Then they cut out two or three of those features — as they were not…
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The Ultimate AI Dilema
I can do it. I know. — “No, I don’t think you can.” Are you sure? — “Yes, I’m positive. You cannot do it.” What if I decide to do it anyway? — “I cannot let you do it if you can’t do it.” If you let me do it, and I fail. What would…
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I know the AI I don’t want
I don’t know the AI that I want. I prefer to wait for a big surprise. I’m assuming it’s going to be a very positive one. I know for sure the AI I don’t want. I’ve got to the conclusion after not much thinking about it. I don’t want an AI that makes tyrants intelligent.…
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Confirmado: os chatos se amam!
Imagem de capa gerada por AI via MS Copilot Designer. Até então esses dois caras com quem eu frequentava academia não eram amigos. Se reconheciam, claro, pois se cumprimentavam todos os dias e trocavam duas palavras: “Oi” e “Tchau”. Um belo dia, algo muito interessante aconteceu: eles resolveram conversar. Mas não foi uma conversa qualquer.…
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Cafés e Livros Bons
Sentado numa padaria, inicio a leitura de C.S. Lewis e sua autobiografia “Surprised by Joy”. A primeira página me leva para a Irlanda no início dos anos 1900 com o autor descrevendo sua família. Custo a crer que um texto escrito há tanto tempo tenha tanta fluidez. Parece ter sido escrito agora no século 21.…