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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Why is this flagged, and why can’t I vouch for it? You know why it's flagged. Israel wants to continue doing its highly automated genocide silently without people questioning it an their cloud providers.
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They generally don't and won't stop until there are real repercussions for that, like losing your political career/being canceled in society over voting for it.
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> And like plastic, a fantastic material for many jobs Yes, by the same logic arsenic has many pros (and some cons, admittedly) in paint production, thorium is a not bad material for toothpaste (google it), and asbestos is just dandy for
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> The true value return of spending way more time and effort to improve code quality often simply isn’t worth it from a holistic perspective. Sure, if you want to do with 100 developers what 10 can do better, cheaper and faster, don&#x27
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Unfortunately Europe has stagnant growth and facing population collapse. Unfortunately our US counterparts think "growth" means getting obese and dying younger than us: - https://www.worldometers.info/demograp
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> devs had hardly any experience with using AI tools. I love it, here come the "you are using it wrong" arguments! I thought these tools are so great, so awesome, that even without much experience they will help you? Or are the
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by ath3nd 1y ago
There are always gonna be those business that claim that LLMs/Scrum/NFTs/Crypto/web3 is the next coming of Jesus, and that's normal, their survival depends on that. There are also gonna be developers swearing by XYZ
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> LLM for a complex piece of software far beyond what you have time for, you see the benefits. Are LLMs the new Agile/Scrum? "Once you really learn Scrum, it will solve all world problems and clean your house? Your experience
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Very insightful. You are not alone: https://rgoldfinger.com/blog/2025-07-26-claude-code-is-a-slo... > Are we at the point of doing rain dances for these models and describing the moves as "counterintuitive and
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And the nation is currently ruled by somebody who orders rewriting past papers on climate science: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-rewrite-national-climate.html So why are we taking at face value that study from nber whi
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Just so we are clear, are you denying that air pollution plays a role in developing dementia?
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> “Yay!…wait now I have no wages. Why didn’t this work like you said?” It did. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/california-minimum... "Though in the same month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show
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by ath3nd 1y ago
These 18,000 are most likely employed somewhere else at 20-25% wage increase. Note that a different study didn't see a rise in unemployment: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/california-minimum... which me
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> Also, now those people affected have no wages. Nah, most of them are most likely already employed somewhere else at a 25% wage increase. Note that the unemployment actually didn't spike up according to a different study: https:&#
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> Aside from really terrible home experiences for a tiny minority, a part time job for a 15 year old doesn’t need a “livable wage” Said who? The same people who don't pay internships. > but we also don’t need to make it near imp
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Nah, they didn't lose them, they got employed elsewhere for what they are worth, so if we do random calculations, it was probably something like 25% increase for many of them. The unemployment statistics were not influenced by raising
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> However, the theory always said that a minimum wage rise reduces the number of jobs so it is a strong chance that around 20,000 people were put out of work by this policy. 20,000 people were put out of jobs by employers who didn't
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That's definitely the actions of a company that knows what it's doing. Flailing in the dark, trying random things and then rolling them back is a survival strategy that has worked for cockroaches for millennia, no reason to think
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by ath3nd 1y ago
He is trolling to provoke reactions. Mods don't do anything to anyone who spews pro-capitalist and Zionist propaganda, so better not engage.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> And even in this conflict where you're defending the agressors: > https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo Bad for that lady, never good to keep people in captivity. If you are so sympathetic fo
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Because they were already burned by them in the past. What's your point? Genocide now is genocide now, you are either on the right side of history or not. You can what-about all day, Palestine did this, Palestine did that, the fa
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> and I feel like AI quality is typically at the junior level. When it comes to authorship, either I'm prompting it wrong, or the emperor just isn't wearing clothes. How can I become a believer? The emperor is stark naked , b
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> His whole work, a pamphlet discussing massacring the bourgeoisie It's not cool to make stuff up just to win an argument. It makes you lose the argument. > In fact it was a part of Marx's work in much the same way as you ar
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> but just have a look what countries around Israel are doing about Gaza. Nothing. It's hard to help Palestinians when Israel is actively bombing you them as well, like they did with Iran. And like they did with Lebanon. > Looki
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Yes, it has the familiar hints of oak that us chat lovers so enjoy but even a non initiated pleb like definitely feels it's less refined than the cytrus notes of o4.
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> I like how you clearly used AI to create this comparison. Probably used ChatGPT for it Great catch! You should consider a career as a detective! I hope this sentence from the beginning of my post didn't make it too easy on your im
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Yeah if 'worlds apart in style' means 'kinda similar'. There was this joke in this thread that there are the ChatGPT sommeliers that are discussing the subtle difference between the different models nowadays. It's f
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They are all..kinda the same?
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And maybe an improved study mode?
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> The React demos were mindblowing. How are they mindblowing? This was all possible on Claude 6 months ago. > Major progress on multiple fronts You mean marginal, tiny fraction of % progress on a couple of fronts? Cause it sounds like

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