Floris Bob van Elzelingen
florisbob.bsky.social
Floris Bob van Elzelingen
@florisbob.bsky.social
He/Him
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This is the only thing you need to read about AI

The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Floris Bob van Elzelingen
I hear both transphobes and normal folk talking about Testosterone as a performance enhancing drug and Estrogen as performance decreasing drug, and that's dude centric and not true. T and E are both performance enhancing drugs for sports. They just enhance different aspects.

Let's talk powerlifting
August 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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We cordially invite all members of the C++ community to submit session proposals for the 13th annual C++Now Conference, to be held April 28th – May 2nd, 2025, in Aspen, Colorado.

For more information, please read our announcement at cppnow.org/announcement...
January 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Floris Bob van Elzelingen
Fascinating read
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
December 29, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Floris Bob van Elzelingen
This is complex stuff. We don't teach the Theory of General Relativity in grade school, Newtonian physics or at most Special Relativity (far simpler) is enough. Similary, "XX is female, XY is male" is good enough unless you do medicine or biology in college.
November 8, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Corentin has weighed in on the C++ safety situation :)

cor3ntin.github.io/posts/profil...
Legacy Safety: The Wrocław C++ Meeting | cor3ntin
cor3ntin.github.io
December 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM