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by FpUser 4mo ago
I think unless they have some alternative to Github (Codeberg yes) but with comparable number of repo's this strategy does not yet look very encouraging. Difference between number of open repos is huge, about 100 times
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by FpUser 4mo ago
What engine beats the other by some 10% does not matter al that much I think. With every increasing use and reasonable quality the price and availability is all that matters
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by FpUser 4mo ago
>"by deliberately writing in low level C and assembly for a few years" Ha. kid's stuff. I started with punching machine codes straight into memory
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by FpUser 4mo ago
>"If we take the top billionaires in western liberal democracies today, they do not extract wealth from the average worker (there’s no duress, for instance)" Yeah, right. Soviet level propaganda
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by FpUser 4mo ago
I self host on old HP Z-840 with 2x3.6 GHz Xeons 24 total cores, and 512 GB RAM. Cost me peanuts used and works like a charm for many years already
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by FpUser 4mo ago
>"Today’s administration is formalizing Soviet-style political reviews of science." He who kills the dragon becomes one.
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by FpUser 4mo ago
I once had to write software that would go through whole bunch of PHP code (more than 5000 files), parse / discover certain patterns and write report with proposed fixes or same but with the fixes applied. For whatever reasons I had to
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by FpUser 4mo ago
Soylent Green?
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by FpUser 4mo ago
So homeless might be refused ID? They're no longer a person?
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by FpUser 4mo ago
>"The UI of that page is so nice" Most part screen is taken by picture. Contrast ratio is really low. Hard to read Should they remove that useless banner, current status which is the most interesting part coud've been made
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by FpUser 4mo ago
I see no point in React at all. Modern JS with HTML components is all I need. I use my own state management component (basically implementation of state machine with async reentrant publish subscribe). JS dynamically loads strictly on on-ne
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by FpUser 5mo ago
As long as they feel growth of productivity results to increase in their standard of living then why not?
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"You work hard, and get those rewards." For a relatively short period it was true. Now majority works hard, lives from paycheck to paycheck and can not even own a house. Most results of what they produce goes to feed ever grow
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"Again no complaints here but I think it’s important to acknowledge both which can be true at the same time." and this acknowledgement will pay your bills
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"IP theft" Can we stop this crying baby already. Every country has stolen from the other. Did you really expect countries to settle on sewing closes and ship all profits to foreign companies for eternity? The IP is just an art
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by FpUser 5mo ago
Very recently I've submitted architecture of one of my backends to Claude for review. The architecture is highly unconventional but not unique in very high performance backend segment. Claude was actually good that it literally grilled
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by FpUser 5mo ago
You mean there are still people left who do not want to rewrite everything in Rust?
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by FpUser 5mo ago
First - the tool in question had not been replaced. Second -discussion based on merits is one thing. Holy war is something totally different. Personally I do not consider Rust to be a better tool but it does not matter. Each one is free to
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"Why does any mention of C++ nowadays turn into a Rust debate?" Because for most developers language is a religion rather than just a tool.
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"where does te average developer go to learn CPP " ain't nothing better than books and doing some real project
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"lower-value human capital" - this is really something.
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"So you'd prefer for all this project management drama and power struggle to be invisible?" Well project managers can have their dramas. Just do not involve developers. Or what is even better - get the fuck out and leave
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"Why would someone in their right mind think working on the Voyager project could damage their careers" Assembly? Understanding how things actually work? No Agile? No K8s? No Rust, No React? - death knell for someone's re
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by FpUser 5mo ago
My monolith C++ backend passed SOC2 Type 2 without any real efforts from me as a programmer since I was very security cautious when writing code. Nevertheless this whole business is a racket and unless you commit to spending small fortune y
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"Scaleway's compute is more like Amazon EC2" - meaning they give less and charge more. Thanks but I'll pass. Hardware I rend from Hetzner is usually 16 core AMD with 128GB RAM and couple of nvme's. Never had sin
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by FpUser 5mo ago
It very often being used for thread management inside single process etc. Very convenient. Nobody says it has to be default.
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by FpUser 5mo ago
I am from Canada and when renting from Hetzner was never asked about personal ID. Maybe because I started few years ago. Never knew about Scaleway. Looked at their website - prices for bare metal seem to be higher than in Hetzner
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"So, what's the European thinking on Hungary as a partner within the EU in the future?" Does that really matter? They can not un-member it. And if current economic situation persists you will find more with the Orban like
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"Ukraine can never trust the EU again after this. There can always be another Orban." Well, EU and the rest of the world owes nothing to Ukraine, yet they have provided much help. Blind trust is stupid anyways. Especially betw
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by FpUser 5mo ago
Depending on who is my software for I host either on my own premises or Hetzner / OVH. Do it for many years already and no cloudy headaches

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