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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The term "vibe coding" gives me bad vibes, I feel that it is in some way an insult to my craft, the way a carpenter might feel about Ikea. But if only LLM's are going to read the code, the LoC aren't a big problem, incr
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Three points on that: 1. Secondary and tertiary education is not all there is to education. A self-learned software engineer might lack a capital-E education, but has still spent significant time and effort on learning. 2. Education is one
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
One of the unexpected tough parts during my CS studies was keeping track of the german translations of terms. I would sit in an exam and wonder what Halde (Heap) was again. 98% of interesting literature is in English, and even if the lectur
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I actually love delving into legacy systems, trying to understand Design decisions, figuring out the incongruencies etc. It gets considerably less fun if you are under time pressure or have any kind of expectation to make effective changes.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I think STACKIT is worth watching. They are owned by Schwarz Group, the largest european retailer, and seem to be on a significant growth path with major investment and commitment from the parent company.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I've heard that not having any social media or none with any activity, is a red flag that might get you denied entry as well.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
It might. But racism is a major more obvious and plausible explanation.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
This is the old way of doing it, and probably the way the US is going to go with, at the detriment of its own population. - I would posit that since we are talking about digital goods, there is a better way: Require open source / ope
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The Claude people seem to be quite chill.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
EU membership was never feasible. Russia is too large population-wise, it would have threatened franco-german leadership of the EU. The EU, as it was back then was hanging in a delicate balance, where France and Germany usually had to agree
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Cloud is going be far easier to transition for most companies compared to Office, Browsers, OS and Hardware. There are basically no non-american competitors, and so many companies deeply relying on the tech don't have the IT capacity t
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The carrot is that Russia will probably be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains in Ukraine. Some sanctions relief might be on the table as well. Dealing with a stupid, yet dangerous state like Russia, a carrot only works with a stick. All
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
At least the US isn't threatening to annex land of an EU member state, that would be a real scandal.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Trump's approach is probably going to work partially in the short term. - The US is very powerful, a lot of countries are reliant on them, so bullying can be used to extract benefits. They got their plane thingy with Colombia, Mexico d
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
We can afford it, but it is very difficult to do politically. The rise of far-right parties has everyone spooked, and in ageing societies pensioners cost more and more money, while holding most of the wealth, and constituting the majority o
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Why? The keywords that indicate brace opening are right there, and adding a whole line with almost no information gain seems a bit unnecessary.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Just yesterday I watched a video by a disgruntled former academic physicist about the state of modern physics research. [0] Not sure of its credence, I don't really understand physics. In the fields I do have a bit of understanding, th
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I'm generally trying to keep away from the whole political madness going on, but when I do follow a story, Iat least try to verify what I am seeing. This requires a fair bit of mental energy, intelligence and frustration tolerance, and
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I agree, but the core reason for this has nothing to do with either of the points you mention. There are few other sub-cultures that come anywhere close to the (avg.) level of passion and narrow focus than game dev. And you absolutely need
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Trump was never really accepted in high society. The mafioso-type real estate moguls don't mix well with blue blood elites. Truthfully, I only have an extremely patchy view of how these elites work. Looking at history, and how things w
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I should have phrased the two points less hyperbolical when including that next sentence. Regarding intelligence services: There's a very long history of CIA misconduct, including spying, abusing and murdering Americans.[0] As well as
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I would agree that the products coming out so far lack imagination, but hard disagree on the impact. LLMs have completely transformed multiple industries already. In SWE, I would estimate that junior positions shrank by 70-80%, but even tha
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Googling the firs claim leads to a website absolutely teeming with ads, one of many being this gem: > TRENDING! Trump’s Power Brew: The Coffee That Fuels His Peak Energy and Keeps Him Unstoppable! If You Want to Lose Weight and Have Maxi
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The "Deep State" as I got to learn about it in the earlier phase of online conspiratorial forums and sites referred to two pretty distinct things: 1) The CIA et al, official parts of the government that work secretely and control
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Sociopathy is a very strong word, but they do show a pattern of criminal and anti-social behavior. This is not too uncommon in teens, and many young problem kids reform into good members of society either by being shown consequences for the
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Agreed, but we are getting thrown in with the people who have an insta account, but say they don't so they don't get fact-checked on their relationship status.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
> The USA passport is far from a strong passport. Plenty of better alternatives elsewhere. Also, that implies getting citizenship, a 5 year ordeal. This depends on the metrics chosen to evaluate. My german passport offers significantly m
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
> FFS, the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" is based on a venture capitalist co-opting a rebellious term to convince a bunch of impressionable youths that they can have this alluring label and that the cool kids software clu
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Funny that no one yet mentioned the elephant in the room given that this is HN: Hacker and FOSS culture. Of course there are attempts to commercialize it, but people are naturally resistant.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Wind, solar, and gas are all significantly cheaper in Texas, and can be brought online much quicker. Of course it wouldn't hurt to also build in some redundancy with nuclear, but I believe it when I see it, so far there's been lot

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