As far as traveling being a "minimalist" is about making choices and removing things you don't care as much about. Some people care about having a pair of running shoes at hand more than a laptop, so they don't bring the later. Photographers like to take their camera and lens, even though to most people a phone would be more "minimalist". This person enjoys electronics...
> I'm unsure if "no descenders" provides increased clarity.
Of course not: if it did we would be doing it that way everywhere. Typeface design has thousands of years of history, there's only a few major variations in latin types and we've tried them all. Descenders exist for a reason.
This type is pretty cool for what it is meant for, the retro aesthetics. Old school digital displays (like alarm clocks) don't have descenders so it fits pretty well.
It doesn’t really count as “no descenders” if you’re only using letters which don’t have any to begin with. And all caps is harder to read fluidly, so that also doesn’t support the point.
Deciding “my typeface won’t have any lowercase letters” is not the same as “my typeface won’t have descenders”. Technically none of them has descenders, but the former compromises by reducing the amount of characters—which keeps every remaining letterform distinct at the expense of reading fluidity—while the latter compromises by distorting a good chunk of letters—making them ambiguous and harder to read.
I very much doubt architects decided “let’s write everything in all caps because that avoids descenders”.
And again, while looking it up I see no end of examples of technical writing with lowercase letters, and they all have descenders.
Listen brother, some guy said "because this is how it is, obviously that's because it's better". All I did is say idk about that, and gave a simple counter example.
And we're talking about a monospaced font for your terminal. To me, that's more akin to technical drawing than publishing a book.
Unfortunately the number of different financial scams is the highest in the world in these countries. US and EU the banks wouldn’t have the capabilities either, it’s simply too much to deal with. You can’t flag everything as fraud.
It’s also a different kind of enemy. The biggest crime organization in Brazil has switched their primary focus from drug running to financial scams. They invest millions and set up legitimate companies with hundreds of employees to facilitate these schemes.
> US and EU the banks wouldn’t have the capabilities either, it’s simply too much to deal with. You can’t flag everything as fraud.
They can certainly try. I’ve had a handful of legit fraud instances on my accounts, banks detecting before I do has been close to a coin flip. On the other hand, I’ve had at least an order of magnitude more false positive detections of fraud.
I've seen bank defending people before with my own eyes. I was at a local branch doing some business and there was an old lady wanting to withdraw something like $50k to "pay a mortgage" or something, it was obvious she was scammed, the bank blocked her transaction and the teller was explaining to her she was scammed, and the old lady was shouting at the teller saying it was her money and they had no right to stop her. That's the thing, a lot of scam victims really don't believe they're scam victims until it's too late, and "it's their money, the bank has no right to stop them".
It's actually one of the hardest forms of crime for state like Singapore to stop - you can police everyone inside the borders of the country extremely effectively, but there's not much you can do against scammers operating out of mainland China apart from trying to stop people falling for it
By the way, people might think this has to do with communism but it’s cultural and way before the 20th century. Red is associated with happiness and celebration.
The (blood-)red flag as an anti-monarchist symbol originates in the French Revolution, was adopted by the Bolshevik faction (“the Reds”) in the Russian Civil War, and spread from there.
And ironically the news networks in 2000 chose red to show Bush’s electoral votes vs Gore, and thus we retain the notion of Red States and Blue States, even though it’s backwards.
It's backwards? Republicans are actively trying to install a single party authoritarian government modelled after the Chinese system, they're as red as it gets in America.
You’re underselling the power and importance of other parties to democracy. To compare it to a two party system because some parties are stronger at times is incorrect.
Like you said, PSDB is a dead party today. PT has had only 20 years of presidential power, interrupted by a far right party. PL seems likely to split up in the next few years due to Bolsonaro.
There's no such thing as 60 years of two parties having mostly the same views and locked in one against the other, in every region of the country, like the US. That is incredibly harmful to democracy.
I’m old enough to have seen changes in our political system. The center parties, while mostly not center and corrupt, give our system a sort of chaotic nature where compromises and alliances are necessary. That in itself has value in a democracy.
Lobbying is just corruption legalized. The only reason they use suit-cases and underwear filled with money in Brazil is because the corruption hasn’t developed the same veneer of legality yet.
The ideal amount of corruption is not 0, but equating lobbying to suit-cases is disingenuous. Suite-cases are far more damaging and cheaper way to get congress votes and only brings the most unscrupulous people who want to plunder the most out of government intervention.
I have over 17 years experience building distributed and highly scaled systems. Most recently I was a Principal Engineer at a Brazilian startup, where I helped steer a 40+ person dev team changing the dev culture, mentoring developers, moving us from a monolith to microservices, designing a bunch of client-facing and internal APIs, and putting out plenty of production fires.
I'm a polyglot programmer and love working across multiple stacks. Most of my career has ben with Ruby, JavaScript and Go, though I've worked in projects with Python, Java, Kotlin, Haskell, and more. I enjoy solving problems, no matter the stack and I'm always eager to learn new tech.
Months? Scraping wasn’t a hard problem then. Classifying information is a different and more complex thing, which is what these models are very good at. Then again we had other means of classification before LLMs without having to go through chat bots.
I think classical ML should still be compared when you use an LLM as a classifier. some problems are so well defined you can just drop an SVM on it and be done with it. the biggest benefit of LLMs I think is you can get results that are ok quite fast. no need to split or clean data, compare metrics etc. etc.
Just record yourself doing it and post online. If the projects are indeed complex and you’ve found a way to be 20x more productive people will learn from it.
The problem is not having any evidence or basis on which to compare claims. Alchemists claimed for centuries to synthesize gold, if they only had video we could’ve ruled that out fast.
