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by biztos 10mo ago
Tech: 1. Rust, I quite like it but I still need AI assistance. 2. Desktop app dev, I'm making one in Tauri and love it, now I want to "go native." 3. Lower-level AI stuff, so far everything has been with APIs, and while that&
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by biztos 10mo ago
Great idea! Although I have "known" how to drive for a long time, I didn't get my formal license until much later in life than most people, for similar reasons to yours. Now that I have it, I kick myself for not doing this ea
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by biztos 10mo ago
There is/was a space invader about 50m from my door in Budapest when I lived there. It was pretty subtle and I’m sure most people walking by it didn’t even notice. I really liked it, especially the fact that it was impossible to know
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by biztos 10mo ago
Are they really a software business? Investopedia says[0] they make 60% of their profit from "Software" but how much of that is "providing cloud solutions" and similar software-adjacent consulting exercises? [0]: https:
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by biztos 11mo ago
> there is a German word Zeitgeistüberspannungsfreude
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by biztos 11mo ago
Aren’t “bad fuel efficiency” and “can’t park in town” already their own priced-in disadvantages? Fuel consumption itself is already taxed at the pump. And I think “too heavy” already means higher tax in NL. The weird thing is that the EU is
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by biztos 11mo ago
> as someone from western Europe I have more in common with people from Thailand As someone with experience in the US, Europe and Thailand, I feel qualified to say: nope, you most definitely do not, at least not on that basis. Actually,
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by biztos 11mo ago
> they pay an absolute pittance in tax What would be the appropriate tax for them to pay? I suppose it’s based on weight?
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by biztos 11mo ago
I would go further and say that even at software companies, even for dev that goes directly into the product, engineering is often seen as a cost center. The logic is simple, if unenlightened: "What if we had cheaper/fewer nerds,
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by biztos 11mo ago
I switch browsers a couple times a day for one reason: compatibility. That’s how often I find myself having to do something in a web app that only supports Chrome. Meet the new IE, same as the old IE…
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by biztos 11mo ago
How does it determine the order? Clearly it thinks you prefer Chinese to German. Was that correlated with the frequency of your requests on Google Translate? With your browsing history? With your shopping history?
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by biztos 11mo ago
Surely this is true, but if you’re a fingerprinting company aren’t you making so much money violating the privacy of the masses that it’s not worth your time going after the tiny set of Freedom Nerds trying to evade you?
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by biztos 11mo ago
I’m working on a couple apps using Typescript and for me (ex-JS hacker coming back to it after some years) it’s still an insane menu of bad choices and new “better” frameworks, some of which are abandoned before you get done reading the doc
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by biztos 11mo ago
Additional factors that come to mind: the slow realization that you could be writing for an audience of one (yourself) after a brief surge of "famous bloggers"; and the rise of other forms of writing (social media, etc) that at le
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by biztos 11mo ago
I went to a school of about 50 kids, and I often wished I’d been at a school of 500 or more kids, but looking back I’m very glad my family didn’t opt for the school of 5000 kids. At 50 kids, if you were social you definitely had friends (no
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by biztos 11mo ago
https://archive.is/7cwua
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by biztos 11mo ago
Do they look normal but just not work normally? Maybe reality is a world of broken clocks, and they only “work” in the simulation.
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by biztos 11mo ago
If you can’t crumple it up and throw it at someone, it’s not real money.
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by biztos 11mo ago
Are they different sizes so the blind can easily use them?
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KVzip: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Compression with Context Reconstruction(github.com)
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by biztos 11mo ago
> revert to human control within a reasonable amount of time “You have 15 seconds to comply.”
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by biztos 1y ago
Even Swabian, a dialect spoken mostly in Germany, is almost unintelligible to non-native speakers when spoken by the natives of a certain age.
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by biztos 1y ago
Once the ban on pointy cutlery is imposed and knife crime gives way to fork crime, you’ll be glad you only have to tap your phone at the pub instead of eating that Sunday Roast with a spoon.
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by biztos 1y ago
Leaving aside the question of whether it has to be a rogue state to be run by criminals, I think that operating a gambling syndicate is never in the interest of the citizenry, and that includes the Lottery, which is functionally a tax on th
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by biztos 1y ago
I was so used to my American bank not actively selling me snake oil that I stupidly bought a very expensive snake-oil subscription from my German bank when I was living there. Ended up with a warehouse full of snake oil (metaphorically spe
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by biztos 1y ago
That’s probably a good intuition and definitely smart about the bank — I was dropped by Commerzbank in Germany without explanation — but if I were so good at betting that I worried about a ban, I’d want to double check the actual rules.
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by biztos 1y ago
Not my world, but I respect this. Imagine how fun it would be to own, say, Disneyland and keep AI-enforced ban lists for your every whim. Glasshole 2.0? No Mickey for Meta!
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by biztos 1y ago
There are absolutely companies that “stack rank” their customers and cut the bottom N%, or even just keep the top N, period. I have always found this to be maddeningly counterintuitive, because surely at least some of these customers yield
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by biztos 1y ago
How does the house not have a data-mining advantage in card games? They would know whether you make bad choices on Tuesdays, how people of your nationality and consumer preferences react to seeing an Ace, they can deal the better card to th
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by biztos 1y ago
How do you know they would not also ban you if you were exceptionally “good” at betting? Is there some specific EU regulation guaranteeing the right to place bets even if the house is losing?

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