There are people who think like this:
People who do one thing a certain way, do all things that certain way.
While this might prove to be true more often than not, I don’t think it’s a universal rule.
It’s much more likely there are shades of gray, rather than a black-and-white world.
I liked Where the Crawdads Sing (2022).
Emotional, nice, beautiful.
Wonderful discovery.
The script was so great!
Acting – so and so, but overall – a nice movie.
Nice watch.
It was one of the nicest movies I saw recently.
I heard about this thing, I think, on the blog of a writer I follow.
„Not knowing how to keep a woman near you” – I think this is such a powerful sentence.
I was recently told I’m afraid.
The thing is the difference between doing something stupid and doing something brave is very small.
Each time you do something despite bad consequences you are either being stupid or being brave.
I prefer not to do stupid things.
„Open it in Adobe then Print it and choose “Microsoft Print to PDF” and save that new version wherever you like.”
(via: Unknown Error Occurred when uploading PDF – ChatGPT / Bugs – OpenAI Developer Forum)
It worked! :)
Aferwards, I used this software for better OCR:
I used to think that the only differentiator between Mega Image and other super/hyper-markets is the price (higher) and not being crowded.
I think there’s something else – they select the products to be of top quality.
If you go to pretty much any other supermarket, there’s a lottery – you buy something, you don’t know if it’s a good brand or not.
With Mega Image it’s different – you know it’s a top quality offering.
I like that. :)
Sometimes, I see people asking for things.
Some common mistakes:
Also, sometimes, I put a resource online. People ask me about it. It seems that it’s my job now to give details on the matter. It’s now my responsibility.
According to Nicolae Steinhardt and Andrei Pleșu, the answer to „Who is my neighbor?” is – „You make your own neighbor”. You take steps, it’s your work to make someone your neighbor, to help them.
If you want to find excuses for not helping someone, most likely, that person will give you plenty of excuses.
PS: Of course, if you give someone asking you for help the link to this article, they will likely be offended. „Who, me???”.
Sometimes, I find things annoying.
For example, there are service provides who do something wrong.
Yet, I keep insisting, I continue to ask for their services.
And, as time passes by, they improve, they become better and better at what they do.
When Apple launched the first iPhone it was far from perfect, but as time passed, they made it better.
The first processors, cars, CD players, could be improved.
And so they did.
Over the past four weeks, marked by a tense political context due to the presidential and parliamentary elections and the cancellation of the first round of presidential elections, online stores operating on the MerchantPro SaaS platform have maintained an upward sales trend. The performance during the period from November 18 to December 15, surrounding the elections and the cancellation decision, indicates an 11% increase in transaction value and an 8% growth in the number of transactions compared to the same weeks in 2023.
“This growth can be attributed to the seasonal nature and gift-giving period, which naturally stimulates consumption, as well as consumers’ tendency to compensate for a perceived lack of control through current purchases. The majority of transactions involved products with an average basket value of approximately €55, while purchases of higher value were postponed until a perceived stabilization of the general context”, notes Arthur Rădulescu, CEO of MerchantPro.
The only days where a significant decline in value was observed were November 24 (-5%), the day of the first round of presidential elections, and November 25 (-10%), the day the final results of the first round were announced. The surprising ranking of candidates impacted purchasing intent and shifted public attention toward political news on those days.
In my opinion, there’s a reason why TED events focus on conferences, not panels.
Also, it’s quite common in the press to see „Here’s something that has been said at X conference.” It’s quite rare to hear, „In that specific Y panel, it has been said that …”
I wouldn’t say I like conference panels, and, instead, I prefer conferences. They are hard to follow from the audience (going from person A to person B is not easy), they are hard to understand (no slides, no focus, no coherence from the speeches), and sometimes they are ill-prepared („I’ll just go to the conference and do my best to answer live, no matter the quality of what I said”).
Differences between a panel discussion and a single speech – Blog de Olivian Breda.