epolanski

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by epolanski 11d ago
You remind me of what my grandpa always said "we're not rich enough to buy crap, we can only afford quality".
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by epolanski 11d ago
> but no-one wants to pay more than necessary Why would you assume that to be true? It's definitely not true for me.
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by epolanski 11d ago
Double-checking in medicine is a practice that is usually used only for specific high-risk scenarios. Maybe yours was, albeit it sounds strange because hourly it doesn't even happen in intensive maternity-unity cares where there&#x27
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by epolanski 11d ago
Now you only need to figure which of the 3 you really are.
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by epolanski 11d ago
There's few things where the drop in quality is astronomical, one of them being clothing. Clothes used to last a life time till few decades ago. Right now you buy stuff that after the first wash already looks worn out, terrible or star
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by epolanski 12d ago
Unless you're detached from reality our industry is filled with billion (trillion) dollar companies shoving broken crap on prod written by MIT-bred leetcode Ninjas and it never mattered anyway because code has no value and has always b
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by epolanski 12d ago
I don't get the point of AI pr review. If the AI can review the pr, it can do so before the PR exists in the first place. It's a tool/skill/prompt. Just share it with the end user or encode it in the codebase in some fil
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by epolanski 12d ago
I'm glad I work in places where there's no such silly pointless rules like how many people need to review a PR. The PR author asks for feedback if it needs feedback, otherwise it merges it, period. I don't know why and when t
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by epolanski 12d ago
Suddenly everyone is putting them on cars. I went to test the new electric BMW iX3 and it had it. It was funny because it was July in Southern Europe so it was quite obvious why it was the worst idea in the world.
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by epolanski 12d ago
I have no idea, I'm not from there.
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by epolanski 12d ago
> like Hoka became acceptable for adults to wear. For running errands maybe.
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by epolanski 12d ago
Till they keep making the most comfortable shoes I buy, count me in as into sketchers.
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by epolanski 12d ago
I'm European, I see no difference here. Maybe asian cultures are different.
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by epolanski 12d ago
> We really need a change in mindset around what success means. How? Wealth and power is all that society obsesses about and there's an endless list of suckers for people that appear to be wealthy or powerful. Hell, even this board
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by epolanski 12d ago
Why would that be a good idea? Greed has been clearly very efficient at allocating resources and money is the first resource of any business endeavour. Politics and courts should frames and boundaries around that greed's reach, otherwi
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by epolanski 12d ago
Airbnb is insanely expensive and I have to do everything myself. The only reason to choose it is because it has some great venue that Booking is missing, but it's very rare.
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by epolanski 13d ago
Creativity doesn't win elections. Getting 50%+1 of the votes does. And you do that today with maths, algorithms and quick information analysis and response.
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by epolanski 13d ago
I think you're missing the forest for the tree. Data promised to improve lifes, it has done so in many aspects, but also has made countless things worse. From physical and digital products squeezing the last cent instead of improving u
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by epolanski 13d ago
Data laws in EU mandate that a company has to tell you every single entity it has shared your data with, regardless of the sector they operate in. What you're referring to is that a bank does not require to tell you whether your accoun
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by epolanski 13d ago
> The government did request the data. What's your source? That is not what the news says. Also, you know you can easily impersonate any email? That's a flaw of the email protocol.
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by epolanski 13d ago
It's fintech, it's all about growth, not customer care. That's "legacy old bank stuff they will disrupt along all the regulations".
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by epolanski 13d ago
1. Mythos wasn't released in February. Let's stick to only public-facing models. 2. For public-facing models, the differences are really minor with some occasional model (like Fable or Astra) showing some better performance in spe
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by epolanski 13d ago
Silly question. He's doing research, not product work now.
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by epolanski 13d ago
You're describing software developers, even better, coders, not really engineers.
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by epolanski 13d ago
I can achieve more with AI than without. What's the complain exactly? That AI still hasn't made my effort and thinking and directing and checking and ideas completely redundant and thus out of job? It's like you people see ev
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by epolanski 13d ago
It seemed a very informative piece of journalism, very well done to be honest into the topic of "how the breach happened and how did Israeli intelligence failed". I did not like the narrative of equating the pains of the two sides
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by epolanski 14d ago
PBS Frontline isn't a bad source of information, but too prone to making stories and narratives fit the 60 minutes mark even at the cost of heavy cherry picking and producing misrepresentations.
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by epolanski 14d ago
The never type seems very useful in various languages to either signal that a branch can never happen (the example of string -> bytestring never erroring) or to mark that a function will never return a value (and thus control) to the cal
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by epolanski 14d ago
China is already there, the differences are generally negligible.
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by epolanski 14d ago
And Israel too, yet October 7th happened. This all goes to show that either the budgets are overblown or inefficiently used, in any case who's in charge is responsible.

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