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by bojan 7mo ago
In a yaml file? I don't think so.
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by bojan 7mo ago
There is also that contrast about it being genuinely useful for work/programming and the fact that, for now, it changes the rest of my life in a negative way - by making PC hardware unavailable, by hearing every day I'll be out of
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by bojan 7mo ago
The practical value is there, if they managed to keep the price at the current levels or lower. But if they don't and if I have to think twice about how much every request's going to cost, the cost-benefit analysis will look diffe
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by bojan 7mo ago
Maybe you're lucky. I had Opus 4.6 hallucinate a non-existing configuration key in a well known framework literally a few hours ago. Granted, it fixed the problem in the very next prompt.
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by bojan 7mo ago
> Clean water to swim in? Build a pool. Where do you find clean water to fill the pool with? > You need industry to have a middle class. Your average industrial assembly-line worker is _not_ middle class. They are horrible jobs no-one
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by bojan 8mo ago
It's different per country, and even per city within the country. As a rule of thumb, big cities don't have buttons/cords, smaller ones do.
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by bojan 8mo ago
Correct. Where I work we are only "allowed" to use AI since December 2025. But obviously people were copy/pasting content to ChatGPT and Claude long before that.
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by bojan 8mo ago
This is very interesting, but WestEurKey would have been a more suitable name, as there is no support for Slavic languages.
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by bojan 8mo ago
The bigger problem is that he felt the need to work while ill in bed, with very little sleep and sick with fever. Makes me wonder about Ars Technica's company culture.
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by bojan 8mo ago
For Discord the regulation is just an excuse to gather as much personal information as possible: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-...
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by bojan 8mo ago
The EU and the UK took over aiding Ukraine almost completely in 2025 [1]. So not as unthinkable as you'd think. > That's why euro leaders have been kowtowing to Trump despite him being a deranged lunatic. Less to do with econom
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by bojan 8mo ago
There are a lot of people in this thread that sound certain there will be a meaningful next administration. Yet history teaches us that the sort of people this administration consists of never relinquish power without a fight.
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by bojan 8mo ago
While there is some truth in while you saying, I have to say that from my European perspective all the big American companies feel enormously bloated. For example, I've recently learned thats Atlassian has 13000 employees, and I have t
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by bojan 8mo ago
Automation normally implies deterministic outcomes. Developers all over the world are under pressure to use these improbability machines.
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by bojan 8mo ago
Be aware that you are discussing with a 48-days old account that is almost exclusively posting doubious takes like this.
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by bojan 8mo ago
I agree with you, and share the experience. Something changed recently for me as well, where I found the mode to actually get value from these things. I find it refreshing that I don't have to write boilerplate myself or think about th
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by bojan 8mo ago
As someone who started with Borland DOS-era IDEs I can tell you that IDEs did get a lot better over the years. I'm still fascinated every day by JetBrains IDEs.
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by bojan 8mo ago
> ‘Yes’ means ‘yes, sir’ only in the army. Not really, if you get a "yes" in the Netherlands, Nordics, Germany or Poland it does mean, simply, yes. The consequence of which is that actually getting a "yes" takes a lot
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by bojan 8mo ago
The home is the largest asset, but the one you're living in. I personally agree with the other guy, I'd happily support a housing market crash, artificially induced if needed. However, it's more nuanced. I can support risking
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by bojan 8mo ago
I'd blame the ever decreasing ratio between salaries and the cost of living. And the fact that salaries don't really grow for years now, while the productivity, and so the generated wealth, does.
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by bojan 8mo ago
Labour laws, for starters. The conditions the average Chinese works in are abysmal, even from the American point of view.
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by bojan 8mo ago
While I _theoretically_ agree with you, what you are saying is not realistic given the current constraints. > What should be done about it is to provide full, unconditional support for Ukraine; even better, close the skies and send an ex
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by bojan 8mo ago
> In the same way that driving and working on an old car feels kind of pure I can understand working on it feeling pure, but driving it certainly isn't, considering how lower the emissions now, even for ICE cars. One of the worst dr
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by bojan 8mo ago
> freelance translation As someone who has to switch between three languages every day, fixing the text is one of my favourite usages of LLMs. I write some text in L2 or L3 as best as I can, and then prompt an LLM to fix the grammar but
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by bojan 9mo ago
> while Europe is many different countries that are completely different. I've always found this a weird take. European (EU) countries are more similar to each other than any country outside of Europe is to any European country. In
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by bojan 9mo ago
If offshoring were that easy, American and European companies would have been doing it already, as it's a great deal on paper, why wouldn't the companies jump at the opportunity to get engineers for 30% of the cost? However, the
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by bojan 9mo ago
Europe has to import both, and the sellers tend to abuse Europe's dependency on it. Europe has what is becoming a survival interest to replace oil and gas as soon as possible.
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by bojan 9mo ago
> Solar hardware is so affordable now that it's booming even in poorer countries. Even in Gaza Strip you'll see sometimes solar panels next to the refugee camps, and broken ones on top of the ruins.
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by bojan 9mo ago
There's no reason this should not be possible in other IDEs, except for the vendor lock-in.
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by bojan 9mo ago
Often you can't let them now. Recent experience of me canceling yet another American service due to the latest war mongering showed me that. I did get offered a discount in the cancelation flow, but nowhere could I have given a custom

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