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by achenet 1y ago
Do things you love with people you love. If you have kids, go be with them. Travel, see the world. Philanthropy. Start another business if you feel the urge. Meet people. Get into the arts (the founder of my present company, OVH, used his f
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I started life in a family where money was often an issue, and it did give me some issues with it, which my chill dev job has actually helped me get over (I feel rich, so I'm generous). So sometimes it's the opposite, you start ou
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> The spend prices most of the developing world out -- an programmer earning $10k per year can't pay for a $200/month Claude Max subscription.. No, but a computer earning $10k per year can probably afford a $200 used ThinkPad,
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Did you read the original article? LLM code still needs to be reviewed by actual thinking humans.
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That's okay, they'll be fine With or Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayyES2vO8Q <3
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> And declining literacy makes Powerpoint unfortunately indispensable. I'd argue the opposite: Powerpoint makes literacy decline. "PowerPoint makes us stupid." – General James N. Mattis, USMC [source: https://pa
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> You remember that the american economy existed BEFORE money was minted by the government right? You read history right? So how the heck does your argument fit in the world of common sense? Like your incredible logic is Government makes
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Yes it does. Read Graeber's Debt before making false statements please.
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time for another case against Microsoft? They got off against monopoly charges, how will they handle the ol' "ads in the Start Menu is a crime against humanity on par with genocide"? Probably like the time Meta handled a geno
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no it's capitalism at it's finest. We get less violent because AI research pays more than murder, so more people focus on being good AI researchers than good killers, and the world is happier for it.
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downsize Facebook back to like a couple thousand people max, use the resulting savings to retire and start your own AI instead of doing the whole shadow artist "I'll hire John Carmack/top AI researcher to work for me because
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> Now take a look at academia. Where does all that money come from? Taxes. Where do Taxes come from? Business and profit. Academic progress comes from business. Where does the common education system and legal system system underpins the
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by achenet 1y ago
> Plan A: Miraculously get rich To be fair - this first plan is actually very doable if you're a reasonably skilled programmer in the 21st century. Like you know that Tim Bray article about Bitcoin where he's like "and t
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Personally I use FIXME: something broken that needs fixing TODO: potential features/improvements WARN: noting complex edge cases/weird behaviors
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much like members of the original affluent societies, hunter-gatherers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society#The_... here is also a link to a video interview of Jeff Bezos explaining that he prioritiz
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Correlation is not causation. The US had more TVs per capita than Congo, and a higher life expectancy. Sending more TVs to Congo probably won't do much for their life expectancy though. Similarly, I suspect the increase in violent vide
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by achenet 1y ago
a corporation large enough to have a team of experienced SREs that know which details to obsess over will also have enough promotion-hungry POs and middle managers to tell them devs to add 50MB of ads and trackers in the web page. Maybe ano
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YouTube was acquired in 2006. I do think since then things like video quality and length have improved, although you can argue the ads everwhere are bad UX.
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s/PMs/bad managers/
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I second this. Donovan and Kernighan's The Go Programming Language taught me enough about the language to get my first job in it in less than a month. Four and half years later, I'm still employed as a professional Go programmer.
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"write drunk, proofread sober" - Ernest Hemingway
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possibly a stupid answer (and if so, someone please invoke Cunningham's law and correct me) but - Isn't Rust ML/functional inspired? The original compiler was in Ocaml, if I'm not mistaken. Isn't Rust at least some
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by achenet 1y ago
I work at OVH, we're European, we're actually good. I use our product, it's better than GCP for my use cases. We've got Hetzner in Germany doing the same thing we are.
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I find agents useful for showing me how to do something I don't already know how to do, but I could see how for tasks I'm an expert on, I'd be faster without an extra thing to have to worry about (the AI).
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I'm a dev (and also a client) at OVH, just wanted to thank you for using our product <3 <3 <3
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SEEKING WORK Location: Lyon, France Remote: Yes Email: achenet@fastmail.com I'm an experienced backend developer currently working for a large web hosting company, looking for a nights and weekends gig to learn new things and make a bi
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by achenet 1y ago
Location: Lyon, France Remote: Yes. I prefer this way of working. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Go, Postgres and MySQL, Linux, and some BSD (OpenBSD and FreeBSD) system administration, Rust, JavaScript and HTML. I've dabbled a
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I think GP already covered that: > squirming, slithering things that should not be given access to the light. ;)
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> they do it in tendentious disquisitions that take thousands of wasted words to get.. to.. the.. everloving.. point. Right, and "actual philosophers" like Sartre and Heidegger _never_ did that. Ever. "Being and Nothingnes
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https://archive.ph/6dyjb

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