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Gud
2mo ago
Let’s be real, it’s an important topic.
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2mo ago
> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? high demand, low supply.
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2mo ago
It is a gigantic problem, we are literally destroying the planet.
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2mo ago
LLMs are only useful if they are affordable. I’m paying OpenAI pennies on the dollar for the value I receive.
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2mo ago
Because engineers and investment bankers are wired differently.
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2mo ago
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it, is that this relatively small amount of money the USA was spending on US AID did amazing things to stabilize the world, which also benefits Americans.
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2mo ago
I got very much into biology when I started growing weed at 24. Now I can’t not have a little garden(currently growing chilli’s and a citrus tree, from seeds)
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2mo ago
You live in a world entirely controlled by the rich. Few places has a functional democracy(Switzerland, where else?). Most of your life is spent performing a business function; the value of your labor is rapidly declining, and the little fr
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2mo ago
Silicon Valley was originally funded by the military industrial complex. Today it’s dominated by the military industrial complex and advertisers like Google and Meta. The hippies were never in charge, only for a brief period were they well
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2mo ago
This is very different from Afghanistan. The USA and its allies could sustain the Afghanistan occupation indefinitely, but chose not to(prematurely, in my opinion). In Afghanistan, the west chose to lose, but victory was possible. We were(w
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2mo ago
Indeed. We are sleepwalking into WW III and no one seems to care.
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2mo ago
It also helps that Switzerland has a decentralized and direct democratic system of governance. The rest is just noise.
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2mo ago
Only in some libertarian fever dream. Functional societies has central functions to ensure that safety of its people.
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2mo ago
You don’t like computers? Because these corporations are pushing up computer prices, for the rich and poor alike.
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2mo ago
Yes, currently. But you have made no argument for why that must continue, only presented that is the status quo. China is huge and I am simply wondering, why does it need to export? Except for oil, it has pretty much any resource needed to
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2mo ago
Sweden as well.
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2mo ago
Wealth is made.
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2mo ago
Why must the consumption be exported? Why can't they build for themselves?
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2mo ago
I moved from Sweden to Switzerland, and I don't know what that guy was talking about. Switzerland is an extremely well run country.
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2mo ago
Already happening.
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2mo ago
Let’s not overstate Tesla’s lead. BYD were breathing down their neck after a few years.
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2mo ago
There are many great apps? Come on, let’s not pretend it all sucks. As a counter example, Fairtiq.
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2mo ago
“Still doesn’t”, is a weird way of saying “OpenBSD removed support for Bluetooth because Bluetooth is not secure”.
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2mo ago
Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about. You should read up on it. ZFS is great.
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2mo ago
I do my “serious” stuff with FreeBSD and my gaming on Linux.
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2mo ago
I wouldn’t even drive. I would put up the car for sale, and would never drive a BMW again. I’d go by bus until my new car arrives.
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2mo ago
Me? I tell it what to write, establish the general picture, then we write together. Obviously I make software, not prose(not yet anyway). I would say, I contribute 95% of the “original thought”.
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2mo ago
The problem is that there is a LOT of missing stuff in the Arch repos. I use FresBSD, where I rarely run in to this problem, that something is missing from ports. However, it is a common occurrence in Arch. Which is a shame, because it’s ot
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2mo ago
That worker is also Chinese, but in Milano.
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2mo ago
Have you worked construction? I'd rather have a guy with a crane than a grizzly.
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