Timon3

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by Timon3 3mo ago
It's fine if that's your takeaway as long as you're aware of the full context. I'm just tired of people misrepresenting the situation as "the German Greens made Germany demolish their nuclear plants"! Large eno
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by Timon3 3mo ago
That sounds very interesting, do you have any links or references on how you set it up?
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Yeah, it's crazy how successful that particular piece of propaganda is. The conservative CDU is responsible for the decommissioning of nuclear plants, while the Greens extended the lifetime of the remaining plants . It's literall
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by Timon3 3mo ago
I live in Germany, and you are completely wrong, friend. The Greens sure as hell didn't start deindustrializing anyone, and the idea that after almost 20 years of centrist governments, the thing that would save us would be the next cen
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Why are you thoughtlessly spamming climate denier talking points? Nobody said anything about all life being killed.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Could you explain why I "should" be celebrating that? There's no logical sequence leading from "caring about people & animals dying" to "one should think that previous mass extinctions were good".
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by Timon3 3mo ago
"Winning the popular vote" doesn't mean "being elected by the majority". If Trump had received >50% of votes he'd have the majority of votes.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Isn't this objection itself completely meaningless? I'll assume GP wasn't referring to AI having conscious thoughts and deciding to "be here" for a specific purpose, but as technology introduced to achieve an effect
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by Timon3 3mo ago
The current mass extinction was in no way inevitable, it is caused by humans. We can still have an unknowably large impact on the number of lives lost. I don't know why we should pretend otherwise.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Others are already forcing their beliefs on everyone else. The current state of laws isn't natural or god-given, it was constructed by humans. Leaving things as they are is not a neutral stance.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
I think the mere fact that they resulted in comments like yours proves they were objectively not good.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
And that makes it somehow okay? You just don't care about billions of deaths? Like, do you think I'd argue that any of the previous mass extinctions were good ?
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by Timon3 3mo ago
You know, it would be interesting to apply this to the whole company. Want to vertically integrate everything? Sure, but be ready for any infraction to bring everything to a halt.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Do you know that strongly triggering these regions at the same time/repeatedly/in various patterns doesn't have any effect on your mood, wants, needs and so on due to experience in the field? Or why are you just discounting
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by Timon3 3mo ago
It's a silly distinction. Unless we're wiped out by a virus or something similar, whatever ends us is likely to also take down a huge part of the biosphere as well - as is already happening. "Burning something down" does
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by Timon3 3mo ago
No, those positions aren't inherently contradictory. There are plenty of viewpoints that make them consistent.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
While I'm not sure I agree that the quote is applicable here, it is generally an incredibly useful way to analyze systems. Reality doesn't care what you're hoping to achieve with a system, the outcome won't change based
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by Timon3 3mo ago
> They are much faster to internalize the time but slower to convert to numbers. People keep saying that, but even after trying all my life, I still can't read analog clocks without mentally "decoding" the exact time. And
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by Timon3 3mo ago
You say that as if inexperienced devs would naturally drift towards doing data validation without TS, but that hasn't been my experience. Instead what I used to see were lots of unnecessary/repeated checks spread throughout most s
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by Timon3 3mo ago
How does TS make these situations worse? Seems to me that it helps a ton with identifying and fixing these issues. Either you can get away with just replacing the assertions with type guards, or you'll have to refactor some stuff (whic
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by Timon3 3mo ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect the TS team to hold back the release until the ecosystem has caught up.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
I've been really, really happy with oxlint. It has all the rules I usually need and the configs etc. tend to just work, whereas I don't know how much time I spent getting ESLint to work in slightly more complex repo setups.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
That entirely depends on the layout and shape/size/feeling of each button. If they're sufficiently different I'd guess 3-5 buttons is reasonable.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
> Considering that you can’t fire people in Germany for taking an excessive number of sick days (even if you have good reason to believe they are faking it that doesn’t seem unreasonable) This is not true, it is possible to fire people i
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by Timon3 3mo ago
The two year limit doesn't apply if the company has an objective reason for making the role temporary, e.g. external dependencies.
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Six months is the default probationary period in Germany, I can't remember ever seeing a job without that. Temporary contracts are also a thing here, but if there's no objective reason for the contract to be temporary it will end
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by Timon3 3mo ago
Apparently not piranhas, they seem to be omnivorous!
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by Timon3 3mo ago
According to current laws, using LLMs to plagiarize existing works is not illegal. There is no precedent because the technology hasn't existed before . There's tons upon tons of precedent for companies plagiarizing the works of s
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There is a fundamental difference between those technologies and generative AI. I ask again: what stops companies from creating literally dozens, hundreds or thousands of copies of any creative work you publish? Why shouldn't they crea
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by Timon3 3mo ago
And now discovery is becoming exponentially harder, because every niche can get flooded with AI slop by companies trying to extract profits from real people's creativity. Even if you use these tools to create something amazing, what ke

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