Pooge

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by Pooge 4mo ago
Most people I know do not travel Tokyo - Nara and back. They enjoy taking more time in a place while keeping the door open to day trips of course. If you spend more than 1 night in each place and want to do small distances (think Fukuoka to
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by Pooge 4mo ago
I don't have any metrics in mimd but with GraalVM it's probably a much closer race. It's made by Oracle though...
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by Pooge 4mo ago
Software engineering is an important skill to recruit for. Too many times I see "Java Developer"... Like, do they only know Java and are absolutely incompetent when it comes to something else? I don't even want to recruit or
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by Pooge 4mo ago
Yes, but that doesn't determine the technical stack. It only narrows it down. You could just as well use C, C++, Rust or even Go depending on the device the program needs to run on. The device may have constraints as well but those are
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by Pooge 4mo ago
Specs are business requirements. Choosing a programming language is not a business requirement; it's a technical one.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
From what I calculated, you need to use the Shinkansen every day and for long distances which is not how many tourists spend time in Japan IME. This is not a blanket statement as my first sentence is recommending people to make calculations
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by Pooge 4mo ago
I disagree. Engineers choose the technical stack based on the specs. With LLMs, it's faster to ship even in a more verbose language like Go or Rust.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
From what I see[1], that is an umbrella term that encompasses a few passes, including the Wide Pass. Maybe some do include attractions; I didn't know that! I also looked up Tohoku JR passes for an upcoming trip and it wasn't affor
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by Pooge 4mo ago
The Kansai Wide area pass that I'm talking about doesn't include access to museums. But some of the smaller passes (like the one of Osaka that you mentioned) do. Those passes don't include Shinkansen, though.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
Yes, I was talking about tourists. Regional passes are available for locals as well but are more expensive.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
I just realized I interpreted your comment the opposite way you intended... Apologies
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by Pooge 4mo ago
Trains can use renewable energy.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
For those of you planning to go to Japan, please make sure you actually calculate how much JR train trips would cost you. They upped the price a few years ago and, since then, it's basically impossible for the JR Pass to be more afford
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by Pooge 4mo ago
> The rules were changed in the mid-90s because of a significant amount of big IPOs which did not have a reasonable path to profitability. Could you give me a link to read up on that? > Both OpenAI and Anthropic are clearly solid busi
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by Pooge 4mo ago
I'm sorry but you're very naive. The rules were changed because it was advantageous to SpaceX and the richest man on Earth. Those rules were implemented to protect the index from being skewed when an IPO happens because the IPO is
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by Pooge 4mo ago
I suggest trying out AMD. Not an evangelist by any means but on Linux there's really no choice. I have one myself since I moved from Nvidia and don't regret it.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
What? Absolutely not. They are doing what the President is telling them to do. The customers of indexes are providers of funds (Vanguard, BlackRock, ...). In turn, people like you and me are clients of those providers. Indexes are changing
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by Pooge 4mo ago
Pension funds use (you guessed it) index funds like your average passive investor. Sure we can hate pension funds but fuck the management of those indexes.
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by Pooge 4mo ago
I really don't understand the complaints about Wayland. When the switch was made I wouldn't even have noticed it if I didn't read the blog. Are you using an Nvidia GPU?
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by Pooge 5mo ago
> Windows is much more polished This is absolutely not true anymore.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
If by "thousands of virus" you mean software shipped by default in Windows, then I agree with you. Everything feels so sluggish on Windows 11 compared to any Linux distribution even if you run it on an HDD... it's ridiculous.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
Apple doesn't care about gaming.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
In good faith, you can't really say "[x] is shit" if you don't have an usual setup; X11 is no longer the default on most distros. Even when I was also using it, it never crashed. I don't know whether your GPU is old
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by Pooge 5mo ago
> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free. Lol, what? One of the biggest company on Earth is being pictured as a victim for creating services that siphon data out of half t
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by Pooge 5mo ago
That's noble until an innocent person gets jailed.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
Fair enough, you're right.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
In Switzerland there are a lot of cases where the bank will actually refund you if it was a fraudulent payment.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
> buyer protection, chargeback and a way to handle fraudulent transaction There is; it's called a bank.
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by Pooge 5mo ago
> We have? SCT inst has been rolled out almost everywhere That is true; I should have said "EEA" or "countries supporting IBAN". > We definitely are. Transfers in EUR from/to CH IBANs use SEPA rails. CHF accou
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by Pooge 5mo ago
> your IBAN number, which at least in Germany can be used to take money from your account What the f#*k?!

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