dukeyukey

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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
What damage do you have in mind? I live next to a big cluster of data centers, second biggest in Europe, and I haven't seen anything like "damage" from them.
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
Directly, sure. Indirectly, they have created many millions of jobs. Tens of millions at the very lowest. There are nearly 30 million web developers alone.
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
I realise it's a politically hard sell, but it's just a lie that data centers produce few jobs. Few direct jobs, sure, but the internet and cloud existing has created many, many millions of jobs.
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
The services provided by a data center do provide jobs. My job for one, and I'm guessing a majority of posters here too.
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by dukeyukey 4mo ago
1. The EU spends enormous sums subsidising farmers. 2. Italy != Europe. Countries can and will do things differently to other countries.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
I'm not trying to lose weight, and I've never knowingly bought a specialty orange. Sugar is in basically every plant food, and saying "give up all sugar" means going carnivore plus eggs and a select few dairy products.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
Added sugar? I really don't think giving up all fruits and vegetables is a good idea.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
> and didn't play a major role until a decade ago Sergey Brin? Paul Graham? Elon Musk?
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
Moscow, Belgrade, the Vatican, and yes, London, are all part of Europe. They just aren't part of the EU.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
Then people should say "continental Europe" instead of saying "Europe".
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
Europe is not a monolith and I don't know why people think it is. 2 years stints are not unusual at all in London.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
Europe is not a monolith. Lots of short stints is not unusual in London.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
The JVM takes tens of milliseconds to boot up, not a second and a half.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
This is just Kotlin. Strongly typed, more concise than Java or Go (and probably Typescript), less likely to blow up at runtime than Typescript, epic tooling, plenty of public code, and a library for basically anything because JVM.
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by dukeyukey 5mo ago
At the same time though, out of 6 developers, my team in London has two Brits (including me), two Eastern Europeans (Hungarian and Romanian), and two South Asians (Indian and Pakistani). My last team had two Poles and two Scandinavians (Swe
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by dukeyukey 6mo ago
But given the amount of astroturfing and star-buying out there, relying on star counts may well select for deceptive founders.
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by dukeyukey 6mo ago
Honestly I don't know if that's true. Picking up on vibes might be better than something like GitHub stats.
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by dukeyukey 6mo ago
How did they get colleagues in the first place without cold-applying?
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by dukeyukey 6mo ago
Even in startups, lots of places are on Spring Boot (albeit more often using Kotlin over Java).
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by dukeyukey 6mo ago
Alternatively, I think of Java and Spring Boots as being incredibly valuable by letting companies that don't really have software as a core competency to make reasonably performant and structured applications. Mediocrity will never not
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by dukeyukey 7mo ago
The 1st Amendment is old, but the way it's applied today is quite radical compared to how it was applied for most of American history. The US being so free speech isn't much older than the median American is.
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by dukeyukey 7mo ago
Worth pointing out the modern American conception of freedom of speech is super recent. It only really became a thing in the 1970s. Before then, restrictions on porn, film, even written materials on controversial subjects like abortion coul
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by dukeyukey 7mo ago
Worth pointing out the US has similar restrictions already. Why is the UK catching flak for discussing this?
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by dukeyukey 7mo ago
Why? I run a few.
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by dukeyukey 7mo ago
They didn't put it very well but they're right that being the 6th largest economy, and likely to become the 5th or 4th quite soon puts a hole in the "economically irrelevant" accusation.
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by dukeyukey 7mo ago
Surely there's a massive overlap, in that a country that has been trustworthy in the past derives a certain level of power from that? Like, Trump randomly declaring tariffs means a deal is not worth making, which erodes American econom
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by dukeyukey 8mo ago
I've been a professional programmer for 8+ years now. I've stomached that life. I've made things people used and paid for. If I can do that typing one line at a time, I can do it _way_ faster with AI.
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by dukeyukey 8mo ago
"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".
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by dukeyukey 8mo ago
And also, IG Group is a British company, HQ'd in London, traded on the London Stock Exchange. "British stock trading company acquired by British stock trading company" is a pretty boring event.
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by dukeyukey 8mo ago
I don't think so. Like sure, if you're a Bangladeshi living in Tower Hamlets you could probably get away with a limited life speaking only Bengali, but you could say the same about Spanish in swathes of the US. Realistically, yo

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