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FpUser
3mo ago
>"What good does it do to stick your head in the sand?" Get the fuck out. I do write for GPU as well. One does not replace the other.
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3mo ago
>"Dostoevsky and Tolstoy" I was born in USSR and was an still am avid reader. However never liked either of those two. Totally agree about Efremov. Great writer
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FpUser
3mo ago
Irrelevant for you does not mean irrelevant for others
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FpUser
3mo ago
They would still nail you after university. For 1.5 years instead of 2.
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FpUser
3mo ago
>" I still believe in Android as the (currently) best end-user facing operating system for mobile devices, with its balance between openness, flexibility, and security." I do not give a shit whether it is the best. If one can b
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FpUser
3mo ago
>"50 years of trial and error that is well kept under lock in key in the west." Bollocks. Russia does that as well, single crystal turbine blades in particular so the west is not the sole gatekeeper here. Given the circumstance
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FpUser
3mo ago
>"I have to admit, this is beautiful" Terse it is, beautiful it is not (well my version of beautiful that is - easy to read and understand). this is not to diminish the language.
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FpUser
4mo ago
I see those nearly daily. some of those are not that little. They've killed dogs and attacked humans. Government as usual does not give a flying fuck. Well I am pretty sure if one of them or their relative gets killed they would instan
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"The choice is yours." I think (probably except cases with regulatory restrictions) most will very much prefer to pay for "second rate" models from other suppliers, including China and help them to become premium cho
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"One should not exchange spies for the cost of increasing political assasinations. Same reason as why you shouldn't pay kidnappers." I strongly disagree for it to be used as a general approach for either spies or kidnappe
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"Work on being a positive influence in the world." Different groups have different "positives" / negatives. So unless trivial like don't eat babies who's the judge?
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"DX tarpits" This is my approach which I use for SMBs (my actual clients). Never failed in decades. I am on my own since year 2000 and few times before that. 1) Always start with building single vertically scalable monolith ru
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FpUser
4mo ago
Bullshit. Who says anything about punishment. They are being punished, then there MAY come a choice. If you are so hell bent on "deterrence" look after presidential pardons. And if you do not save your own spies given a chance, th
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FpUser
4mo ago
I think saving one of your own who suffers because of protecting your country should take way more priority over simple vengeance.
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"But the code quality is speed. And reach. You can not advance, unless you can read the code" I am not sure about "proper" definition of spaghetti code but speaking of long functions: if it is straight code that read
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FpUser
4mo ago
I call BS on that. I serve SMB clients and many are happy like a clams with monoliths deployed using those proverbial bash scripts that also does lots of other things. Understanding scripts in the age of AI is trivial for newcomers. I for e
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FpUser
4mo ago
Same company that registers my domain as well. But I have readable local copy of all my emails.
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4mo ago
>"are kind of losing out to Rust right now" On publicity side / propaganda / some specific areas you might have a point. Practically amount of C++ code being in active development (I wat to stress this particular poin
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FpUser
4mo ago
AWS does not give "bare metal" and the equivalent is still way more expensive. However Hetzner was much preferrable to let's say OVH who also "deals" bare metal but not anymore. So yes Hetzner has lost what I consid
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FpUser
4mo ago
The solution I think is to tell all of them starting with clouds to go fuck themselves (where possible of course) and start self hosting. I do this for years and am totally happy. I was also hosting on Hetzner and was thinking to do it agai
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FpUser
4mo ago
He was getting senile. What did you expect. There must be age limit for rulers
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FpUser
4mo ago
This sounds like a really strong argument
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made" Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.
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FpUser
4mo ago
On the other hand if I am interacting with the government persons I very much like it to be automatically recorded just in case. fuck never mind government, when I deal with the companies / services I may want to record the whole thing
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FpUser
4mo ago
>"but it seems they actively want to monopolize most of human progress in their enlightened hands, lest the mob does something undesirable with these powers" I think this is exactly what they want.
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FpUser
4mo ago
Never heard about it before and just watched it on youtube. I have found it absolutely beautiful.
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FpUser
4mo ago
Next thing is declare our rulers to be liable for doing things that fuck up people's lives. That'll really wake me up
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FpUser
4mo ago
In this particular case false AI identification was only small part of generic fuckup. Choosing guy from line-up done in completely racially biased way, prosecutor office refusing proof of crime has been committed by someone else, etc. etc.
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FpUser
4mo ago
There are laws in existence that no one even "law addicts" would follow unless brain damaged. On top of that sheer amount of laws makes on "following those" simply impossible. there are also conflicting laws. Some laws a
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4mo ago
>"Send them to prison" Dream of my life to see politicians to be personally responsible for fuckups they cause to people.
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