danmaz74

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by danmaz74 7mo ago
Except, they're not. And by the way, they are two completely different conflicts. With Ukraine, if Russia had been able to establish total air dominance early on, they wouldn't have been stopped in their tracks the way they were.
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by danmaz74 7mo ago
As a Spotify user, I often wonder how much they're constrained in their choices by their contracts with music publishers. As an example, the fact that you don't have an option to downvote a song - ie, signaling that you don't
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by danmaz74 7mo ago
> Lobbies also moved Germany out of solar panel production, batteries Was it lobbies, or costs which aren't competitive with China?
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by danmaz74 7mo ago
The current article says that the Commission already accepted the request.
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by danmaz74 8mo ago
> vibecoded without reading any of the code Isn't this the actual definition of vibe coding?
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by danmaz74 8mo ago
This vision doesn't come from those great engineers, but from Elon, the guy who promised Hyperloop, FSD in 2 years 10 years ago, and lots of other BS
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
Just two quick answers before we agree to disagree :) * Life on Earth will survive any human-made change, even a full nuclear war. It's our society which won't survive if changes are too quick. * Publicly ran healthcare systems in
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
Have you ever tried Rails? I think that Django's approach on those is an adaptation from it.
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
I completely understand why, but on the other hand democracy relies on citizens being informed about what's happening. The risk is that one day, you wake up and there is no democracy any more.
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
Sure, we're going to emit a lot of carbon dioxide for a long time, but we're talking about planet-level changes here, and changing the trend/trajectory has HUGE impact. At least if you care about future generations (I've
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
I considered that question just an example. Anyway, considering that China alone installed about 60% of the new renewable capacity in the whole world in 2024–2025, and that about 90% of new capacity is based on renewables both there and in
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
When learning basic math, you shouldn't use a calculator, because otherwise you aren't really understanding how it works. Later, when learning advanced math, you can use calculators, because you're focusing on a different abs
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
There is no such thing as "genuine views of the masses" which aren't shaped by anybody. "The masses" are made of people, all of which shape each other both at a micro and at a macro level, but the latter is dispropo
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
In a liberal democracy the "will of the masses" is applied indirectly, through the election of representatives, making laws, and then applying those laws and governing in accordance to those laws. To get elected, politicians and a
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
While "liberal democracy" has a very clear meaning, "populism" has very different definitions. I'm pretty sure that the definition you have in mind is pretty different from the ones I know, if you say that democracy
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
The "liberal" in "liberal democracy" has nothing to do with the current common meaning of "liberal" - ie, left-wing - in the USA, as it comes from classical liberalism. In short, liberal democracy means a democ
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
I'm using devcontainers for this, and I'm finding that a very good solution (coupled with VSCode).
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
Nobody serious is advocating to avoid US tech altogether, at least unless Trump starts a hot war, but reducing dependency would be a very smart move.
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
By the way, the emergence of LLM coding tools could make it even easier than before to reduce that dependence, as the cost of reproducing many of the mature technologies is going to cost less than it would have before. Ironically, doing tha
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
It's solar generation which doesn't work in winter in Ukraine, not the heat pumps. And as Russia is targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure as their main tactic, with the goal of getting the population to accept Putin'
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
The issue is that works perfectly well when solar is a small % of the grid, but when that number grows, then you need grid scale solutions and coordination for things to continue working well. And that requires both technical skill and poli
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
Taking Greenland by force against a NATO (supposed?) ally would be the end of "the West" as a largely aligned block since WWII. The effects would be felt by everybody, including technologists.
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
When I compared OpenCode and Claude Code head to head a couple of months ago, Claude Code worked much better for me. I don't know if they closed the gap in the meantime, but for sure Claude Code has improved since then.
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
> More importantly, Anthropic should have open sourced their Claude Code CLI a year ago. (They can and should just open source it now.) "Should have" for what reason? I would be happy if they open sourced Claude Code, but the r
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by danmaz74 9mo ago
Honestly, as someone who firmly opposes what Putin did, there were better "historical justifications" for Russia to annex Crimea than for the USA to colonize Greenland, a territory that has never been part of the USA. The idea of
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by danmaz74 10mo ago
When writing non-vibe-coded software I use CC a lot to write tests, but I have a skill to tell it not to create redundant tests, which otherwise it tends to do, and I have to check them anyway to ensure that they cover what needs to be cove
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by danmaz74 10mo ago
> adopted Sorbet and it is nothing but an impediment to progress How so? I never really missed types in Ruby, even if I like them a lot in typescript, but right now I'm doing some "vibe coding" on a personal project and I
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by danmaz74 10mo ago
I use only one MCP, but I use it a lot: it's chrome devtools. I get Claude Code to test in the browser, which makes a huge difference when I want it to fix a bug I found in the browser - or if I just want it to do a real world test on
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by danmaz74 10mo ago
> How is that? Are we taking stuff at the point of a gun? No, but the USA is getting a lot of stuff in exchange for $$ which it can print for basically free. Consumers in the USA have benefitted a lot from this, which partly compensated
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by danmaz74 10mo ago
At least, they're not reactivating a coal power plant.

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