anovikov

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811.
by anovikov 2y ago
Isn't it an obvious way to grab and keep more attention? I think any outlet that depends on people's attention - which is, anything on the internet - is doomed unless they do the same, because they all compete.
812.
by anovikov 2y ago
Also, i think we have arrived to the point where publishing open source code becomes hard to sustain even from a moral perspective. Because it is immediately mined by AI giants, it does little but enforces and perpetuates the power of monop
813.
by anovikov 2y ago
I can't see why it's a bitter prediction. It's an observation from all my life that boring, mind-numbing but high impact work makes the best money. Now smart people go into coding because it's a thrill, they enjoy doing
814.
by anovikov 2y ago
Because products almost always fail regardless of whether they were tried by devs or non-devs. I think in reality, a lot more devs tried it than those who'd admit it - i tried too, and failed - several times. But more importantly, i di
815.
by anovikov 2y ago
I think we should get over the fact that any pretense of obeying the law and morality have now evaporated and everyone trying to stay in those bounds will inevitably lose because not doing so gives such an enormous advantage. People will no
816.
by anovikov 2y ago
Why can't people see that people themselves are the problem? It's not just some bunch of Nazis. Trump was elected by an actual majority. And that majority has increased their support to him since he took office - that is, they act
817.
by anovikov 2y ago
I mean, that generation is already born and is being born now. Number of those people is already known and it won't increase magically.
818.
by anovikov 2y ago
Is there a need to make things up here? They won because they can deliver reliably and cheaply and do it every other day if not more frequently. Everyone else in the entire world are also-ran at best.
819.
by anovikov 2y ago
I think it will just take more time than people anticipate. Like 2-3 generations. But it will come back even if only because China's days are limited due to demography. Tariffs or not, but in 50 years it will be very difficult to make
820.
by anovikov 2y ago
If it was an actual commercial strategy, private investors would pay. If the question is even put this way, this is bullshit and deserves to end nowhere.
821.
by anovikov 2y ago
I've been in contract development business for 25 years and been through more than 100 client relationships. None of them ever had profit, and only a handful ever had revenue. So people should see this advice with a huge grain of salt.
822.
by anovikov 2y ago
Just spent a day coding in C using intrinsics with the help of ChatGPT - trying to get it to produce results - purely as an experiment, and i can say someone who'd copy-paste from it without understanding things, will never pass an int
823.
by anovikov 2y ago
It is because you give someone who can do work, access to the client - they will instantly forget that they "came from collectivist culture" and flip out to work directly. So those who can work, don't get access to client. Th
824.
by anovikov 2y ago
Brilliant Pebbles-like system will be absurdly easy to build now (it was borderline technically feasible 40 years ago already) and unlike in the 1980s, there is a ready way to put it into orbit - in much bigger quantities than Reagan could
825.
by anovikov 2y ago
A lot of people i know, including myself, keep a lot of cash just as cash. There was little to invest into that made any sense in the last year or so. We have a rather sad situation where the best thing one can do is to just sit and wait -
826.
by anovikov 2y ago
So you think that pre-AI (say early 2022), there was no startup bubble? And valuations we had back then, were sane?
827.
by anovikov 2y ago
Why? Their lives seem to be also a lot more useless than those of previous generations. Why care about them and not allow oneself little pleasures? As if some great achievements were waiting for them with only booze getting in the way. Is i
828.
by anovikov 2y ago
Not sure why anyone should be concerned. Russia has no industrial or technological capacity to replicate ASML devices anyway, nor does it have money to poach their engineers. It is China that should be a concern, but with that one, little c
829.
by anovikov 2y ago
Indeed, in Europe it's totally normal to drink during the day, or well, near constantly. Probably a lot more so than in the US.
830.
by anovikov 2y ago
My bet is it that's due to people's obsession with brands. They just see "noname" thing as inherently less valuable than a branded one, so family-owned places stay invisible, looked down upon.
831.
by anovikov 2y ago
It will give enormous power to the monopolies. Because you'll no longer be able to advertise your product, but search on marketplaces will still be legal right? That means, Amazon, Alibaba etc. will have an absolute chokehold on everyo
832.
by anovikov 2y ago
So we are talking about cheap chains, not middle class places. These are just slightly glorified fast food. In Europe, apart from TGI Fridays, they were never a thing. And they were seen as just simply fast food. If they vanished, few peopl
833.
by anovikov 2y ago
No difference really, just google who Bill Gates' mom was and how he got the IBM DOS deal... It wasn't BASIC that made MS big, it was DOS.
834.
by anovikov 2y ago
Oh yes that could be!
835.
by anovikov 2y ago
And on top of it, a major source of mortality - smoking - is widely present in Europe and nearly absent in America. Drug addiction is also not a thing for the rich. The rich have no healthcare issues - in America if you can pay, healthcare
836.
by anovikov 2y ago
That's right, in a small city you can do it. Think Brno. But those small cities don't get to be truly dystopian in car-centric societies, either. And no one is going to build public transport in them in US now - people all flock t
837.
by anovikov 2y ago
It's yes and no. Living without cars means housing poverty. There is no way for most families to afford a spacious residence unless they drive everywhere. In Paris, people live extremely dense and housing poverty is the norm of existen
838.
by anovikov 2y ago
Are those even legal to drive in any developed countries? Or perhaps, it's classified as a quadricycle. I can't see how it can possibly match any safety standards. Looks like something more fit for India (and not the real India, b
839.
by anovikov 2y ago
Well, nice story, sadly it is a lie. Hungary enjoyed good GDP growth rates recently. It stumbled in the last two years because it's energy dependence on Russia used to be higher than that of other EU countries - so gaining bigger benef
840.
by anovikov 2y ago
So hallucinating LLM is not enough, now the "programmer" who uses it for "coding" has to hallucinate, too.

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