demosito666

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by demosito666 3mo ago
Lightning is just better overall.
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by demosito666 6mo ago
Yes, in principle, this (limited ground invasion to protect the straight) can be done. The cost - both in lives, money and political capital - will be enormous. One comment though. > The small dones can't get very far and the US is
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by demosito666 6mo ago
In other words, betting on wind (or sun) where there is little wind (and sun) is not an optimal choice. But folks on HN were telling otherwise. Who might’ve known…
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by demosito666 6mo ago
IRGC is also 10x more advanced than whatever forces were in Afganistan.
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by demosito666 6mo ago
This is all fine and well, but misses one little detail: drones. In the past conflicts US troops were more or less unreachable for the enemy unless they were advancing on the ground in a challenging terrain like dense jungles or mountains,
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by demosito666 6mo ago
And it is more than likely. US and Iran probably can’t defeat each other militarily (us obviously can, but it requires full scale ground invasion which is not even contemplated at the moment). And both can’t back out of the conflict. So the
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by demosito666 7mo ago
> Which is fine by me The issue with car industry at least in Europe is not price. This is the last branch that is more or less alive, employs a lot of people and generates added value domestically. If it’s ceded to China, that means tha
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by demosito666 7mo ago
EV cars is not a mature industry.
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by demosito666 7mo ago
Really? Cost of extraction in Russia is about $30/barrel, sanctions introduced discount of about $20/barrel in 2025 which means 70% profit drop at market price of $60. Sounds pretty game changing to me.
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by demosito666 7mo ago
> Even if everyone has been 10x’ed, the math still strongly favours not making mistakes in the first place The math depends on importance of the software. A mistake in a typical CRUD enterprise app with 100 users has zero impact on anyth
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by demosito666 7mo ago
Oh yeah. Bug 12309 was reported now what, 20 years ago? It’s fair to say that at this point arrival of GNU Mach will happen sooner than Linux will be able to properly work under memory pressure.
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by demosito666 7mo ago
Or not living in US?
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by demosito666 8mo ago
In countries with functional democracy it actually is happening. In Sweden anti-immigration sentiments allowed for right party to gain significant share in the parliament and now immigration rules are changing and immigration rates are lowe
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by demosito666 8mo ago
V 1.02: Everybody knows you didn't win, and everybody knows the sentiment is universal... But everyone maintains the same outward facade that you won, because they believe that the others believe that you have enough power to crush the
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by demosito666 8mo ago
Robot vacuum with a mop, washing machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher reduce housework to like an hour per week, ie 30 min/person/week. This can be higher if you live in a big house, but if your marriage can’t tolerate 30 mins of
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by demosito666 9mo ago
Euro?
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by demosito666 9mo ago
And yet the battery in your Linux laptop dies 2x faster...
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by demosito666 9mo ago
> Does my uncle having an argument with his doctor over needing more painkillers, combine with an anecdote about my sister disagreeing with a midwife over how big her baby would be, combined with my friend outliving their stage 4 cancer
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by demosito666 9mo ago
> Best path forward is to let in competition To compete with China in the ”open market” now, Canada will need: - 25 years of investments in infrastructure and education in STEM and manufacturing - Targeted state subsidies of chosen branc
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by demosito666 1y ago
> But politicians are - in general - neither evil, nor do they have any real incentive to ”control citizens’ thoughts”. As someone coming from authoritarian state, this is such an alien line of reasoning to me. By definition, those in po
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by demosito666 1y ago
> The only valid argument Really? The only one?
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by demosito666 1y ago
What exactly did those people taste that it got them upset so much and who exactly those "people" are? Last time I checked these laws are pushed through as covertly and sneaky as possible and no "people" asked for them.
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by demosito666 1y ago
Can someone explain me this: the article is basically about the dedicated employees who now feel betrayed by the company. But why would anyone be emotionally involved with a for-profit private company that appropriates user-generated data?
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by demosito666 1y ago
This is not "hot" take, this is correct take in itself. The problem is the execution: how do you ensure that development is of enough quality and efficiency? How do you ensure that the funds are not stolen? How do you make sure th
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by demosito666 1y ago
> The issue in the real world is that's not how the software industry actually works, 99% of the time. What would be a more appropriate model from accounting perspective?
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by demosito666 1y ago
Which is trivial to ensure when people effectively can’t deposit cash to their bank accounts and businesses don’t accept cash - nobody wants the headache. Which is exactly what happened here.
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by demosito666 1y ago
Aesthetics is objective as long as we’re talking from casual perspective, which is always the case for infrastructure and buildings unless we’re at architecture summit. 90% of people would agree that Amsterdam or Paris city center is more b
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by demosito666 1y ago
It is enforceable, it’s just that not all countries are there yet. It’s practically impossible to buy anything worth more than 1000 eur with cash in Scandinavia, ironically with the exception of drugs. Humanity is on a steady track to a wor
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by demosito666 1y ago
We’re talking about about 3-4x difference in net income here. No amount of accounting for public transport, heathcare, clean air, smiling faces, lqbtq rights and nice architecture will offset this difference unless we assume that those thin
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by demosito666 1y ago
The word “engineering” in SWE is just plain wrong. Present day software development has nothing to do with engineering outside of some very niche markets (aviation, mission-critical systems, embedded controllers). The term vibe coding came

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