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by epolanski 2mo ago
If one would have to do the best of its ability then one should adapt very quickly its consumption patterns (stop buying so many things, get minimalist), food patterns (food is likely the per-capita biggest environmental destroyer, eating f
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I personally write lots of code manually and use AI to review it. Sounds like a good compromise, if not even positive from many points of view.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Because that's what the maintainer likes. And that's the point: it's fine to have a product with a vision and an opinion.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I'm quite positive to be honest. It's a linux distribution focused on a specific type of user (a software developer) that drops the Linux-typical approach to UX of "doesn't matter, all linux users and devs are hackers th
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by epolanski 2mo ago
But it is not true financially, it really depends. Plenty of blue collar workers make more than white collar ones, and have a huge debt free head start in life. A plumber or electrician will make significantly more than the average bank emp
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Is going to university really that good of advice nowadays? Everybody goes to college nowadays and the average white collar has lots of debt and relatively minor financial benefits over a skilled trade worker. edit: woah, so many people ins
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> seek advice from unsuccessful people? That seems worse :) Not sure why would you think so. Inverse reasoning is very powerful, and unsuccessful people can give you plenty of "don't do this mistake", which the survivors w
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by epolanski 2mo ago
+1, I have a friend, math PhD that's been working on ML research 5+ years in London yet he has not been able to find any position. The only jobs that he found he was highly over qualified or paid very little. In any case, it doesn&#x27
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by epolanski 2mo ago
In the real enterprise world companies are running their processes writing Gemini "gems" or using copilot because they were already google/Microsoft customers. Am I the only one that knows people in industries like insurance,
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Both Claude and codex are unappealing, crap, generic agents that you have 0 control over. Don't understand what people see in them.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Manufacturing has never really declined in US, not in absolute terms. It's simply facing the same fate of agriculture: automation. Politicians want to sell to people they can bring back manufacturing jobs, but it's not like in chi
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Wait, how is he not right? /s It's absolutely fair to count how much lumber and oil and cars you're importing-exporting while ignoring how much services in technology, IT, space, software, cloud, finance, etc, you're exp
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You must have been living under a rock if you didn't notice how much did the US has thrived in the globalist world, and how much did it thrive more than the rest of its allies.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Americans absolutely love winner-takes-all narratives. They love it and they dread our "beta" democracies that cannot achieve anything. They'd rather fall into Russian models of government where a single person can promise yo
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Winner-takes-all democracies do tend to have only 2 parties.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> If that's the case, then why do we see increased cargo-culting, jumping on to hype trains, and less understanding on computer fundamentals in general that favours more and more abstraction in this field? Because leading the pack y
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by epolanski 2mo ago
No, why would that be? That's the reality of most mature democracies from UK to Germany to Italy. If anything, that makes change slower and based on coalition consensus, not a single winner-take-all individual mood. Which means that th
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by epolanski 2mo ago
The problem is more long lasting. The world cannot accommodate 180 degree turns every 4 years in Washington. So anybody that will follow, regardless of the person's policies won't matter fully, as that person itself will be replac
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by epolanski 2mo ago
This administration has a thing for being really vicious with the closest allies. It really feels strange, odd, yet unsurprising that the US is going from a globalist leadership to selfish nationalism.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
"unreasonable" does a lot of heavy lifting here. And unreasonable is open to interpretation.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
As some respectable C developer I know says: the issue with the C "killers" is that the people that already know C, have years, decades and experiences they are unwilling to let go. They can jump across any major systems programmi
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There's plenty of alternatives out there, the downfall you see is imaginary. Nice ragebait tentative though.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
This is true globally, not just in the US, and that's why global debt keeps spiralling. But I still find the argument "it doesn't matter if you're going 200 or 300 or 500 mph" completely asinine. It does, and it mak
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Nonsense. Credit worthiness is a must and you're talking about the savings and liquidity of all the world, us citizens, banks and institutions included. There's a reason Germany and Italy can borrow lots of money at relatively low
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by epolanski 2mo ago
The difference is that this administration is running at double the rate of the previous ones, and George Bush oversaw both two wars and the global financial crisis in 2007. Your argument "since you're already over the speed limit
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Trump, 1st term, added 24% of GDP worth of debt. That's more or less the same number of Obama and Bush, but they served two terms each. In his second term, he's already added 11% in a record 19 months.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
It's literally impossible to default as you can simply emit new money and buy back the debt or pay the interest with the minted money. Of course this comes with its own set of gigantic issues, likely triple digit inflation and hardship
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Subappaltatore means subcontractor. When a contractor hires a second contractor to do part of, or all, the work. But appaltatore isn't strictly a contractor in the generic term either, its mostly related to win a "gara d'appa
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I love how instead of comparing a Ferrari (fast and expensive) to some average car (not fast, not expensive) to make your point..you went for public transport where your comparison cracks from multiple angles.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Hyper scalers like Google or Microsoft, which are the big spenders, have all the incentives in the world to get more out of their gargantuan spending. In fact both of them, actually Amazon too, invest in their own inference hardware and own

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