Bootstrapping a non-profit library. Using AI to design a house without previous architecture experience. What could go wrong? š¤£
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Every month, publishers ask Google to remove my website from its search results. Every month, I have to fight back by filing counter notices. Itās an endless game of cat and mouse.
Itās shameful that publishers try to block access to public domain literature. These works belong to everyone.
Creating ads shouldnāt feel like itās still 2001. With ChatGPT, Iād expect to simply say:
āHelp my nonprofit, Public Domain Library .org, increase ebook downloads and donations. Your ad budget is 10% of the donations you generate.ā
Behind the scenes, ChatGPT identifies relevant pages, creates ad variations for each, runs A/B tests, and shifts spending toward what works. It keeps testing new ideas and improving results, all within the budget.
Let me know if you need help.
@vijayeraji @thsottiaux
The Seasons Within Us:
ā Winter, from 0 to 15
š± Spring, from 16 to 35
āļø Summer, from 36 to 55
š Fall, from 56 onward
They say fall is the most beautiful season.
Use Black Friday discounts to do a blood test.
Do a blood test at least once a year. Two reasons:
* Early detection: Detecting a serious disease early could save your life.
* Better quality of life: detect treatable deficiencies, for example, you could spend years with low magnesium affecting your mood and sleep, simply accepting it as normal.
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As a Dutch person let me tell you it's way worse than it seems.
The AVERAGE stress related absence is 250+ days. The AVERAGE burnout related absence is 300+ days.
While on sick-leave, you can return to work for just 4 weeks and the 2 year period **resets**.
Your employer is forced to assist you in this. They have to pay for doctors, experts, and so on. If they don't, you get an extra year's wages.
While on sick-leave, you can work a second job. As long as this is outside business hours of the first job, or the work is different, your first employer still pays you 70%.
Here's another cool one: you can go on holiday during sick-leave. The employer can force you to use your vacation days for that, but then they have to pay you 100% of your wages rather than 70% during that period.
Simple solution: you just work with contractors right? No, because a contractor can just claim employee status after getting sick. Many such cases.
All of this is obviously broken. If you say this you're met with half-baked "worker's rights" arguments, as you can see in this comment section.
European hiring rules are genuinely insane.
For example - if you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees gets sick, you are required to pay at least 70% of their wages for up to 2 years.
If they can't go back to work after 2 years and you haven't done enough for their reintegration, you pay their wages for 1 more year. And you can't fire them until after that extra year!
Portuguese cuisine's heritage and influence is just insane. People have of no idea the impact this tiny country had on world cuisine, a few examples: Japan - Tempura, India - Vindaloo, Africa - Piri-Piri, Brazil - Feijoada, East Asia - Egg Tarts, Britain - Tea Culture. @levelsio youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ifTTEqā¦
A strange historical irony: Chernobyl deepened Europeās fear of nuclear power. By 2021, Russia supplied 45% of EU gas imports. How much did turning away from nuclear strengthen dependence on Russian fossil fuels?
āCome to Brazil!ā Yet another person who agrees that Brazil has some of the best steak, Japanese food outside Japan, and fruit in the world.
@theannalux @WorksInProgMag
For most of history, cities were demographic sinks. More people died in them than were born, so they needed constant replenishment by migrants from the countryside.
worksinprogress.co/issue/theā¦
Hey @GoogleAds @AdsLiaison @MetaforDevs: please add supported APIs to close ad accounts. We can pause campaigns, but account offboarding still requires manual steps. Developers need the full account lifecycle, including an exit. Is this on your roadmap?
This is what happens when urban planning and architecture are mistaken for graphic design. @WorksInProgMag
The fact that 70% of the worldās disposable lighters come from a single city is mind-blowing. And China repeats this pattern across industries: entire cities specialising in socks, batteries, and more. @WorksInProgMag
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Codebases are going to start looking like optimized topology 3d prints
When AI is better at math than humans it also becomes better at algorithm & codebase design
At that point the system and delivering quality software doesnāt require human understanding to exist in the actual code layer.
Only needs to be understood by humans at the high level of passing testing, verification, vibe checks and being understandable when queried via AI in the rare case one need to dive deeper.
