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by fvdessen 1y ago
I believe the main purpose of tracking based advertising is to know your gender, politics and social class to show you the right kind of car and pet supply. This discrimination is quite important and before internet people would self discri
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I think we should use the airbus model and copy 1 to 1 the AWS platform. Exact same apis, same control panels, same everything, just copy. Start with the most important functions. At least it would be clear what the end goal is and only a m
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by fvdessen 1y ago
This 'courthouse' is not just any courthouse, it's the biggest courthouse in the world, it is so big that it was the biggest building in the world until NASA made the VAB to build Saturn V. Bigger than St-Peter's Cathedr
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by fvdessen 1y ago
> There might be some queries expressible in your GraphQL that would have severe performance problems or even bugs, sure, but if your frontend doesn't actually make queries like that, who cares? People with bad intentions can make t
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I recently rewrote a 40K lines application to 2K lines. Mostly by using newer tech and better design patterns. (Java to TS, Terraform to CDK, lambda soup to single app, etc.). It was a POC at work to show how things could be different. You&
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Yes, sorry, corrected
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Unfortunately research shows that nowadays we're actually getting dumber, literacy rates are plummeting in developed countries. [1] https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2024/12&#x2F
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by fvdessen 1y ago
The problem is who pays to maintain the system. There are systems that allow you to share your age anonymously (among other things) and they’re already widely used in Europe but the system knows what you’re using it for since the second par
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Well I can’t read a sentence since it’s paywalled
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I always hear about tariffs but isn’t part of the trade imbalance due to corporate taxes being usually much lower outside the USA, incentivizing American companies to outsource production and keep the money abroad ?
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Its not just women, maga men wear makeup too
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Shouldn't the manager of the 'bunch of workers' notice the guy is underperforming and understand why ? Maybe that manager is the one that shouldn't be doing that job
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I've a good track record of having my programs work without bugs, I don't think it's too hard. The way I work is to restrict myself to using building blocks that I know work well and produce correct results. For example: usin
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Those are incredible but unfortunately you need the right topology to build them. I don't know about the US but I doubt there's much more of those to be built in Europe.
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by fvdessen 2y ago
It's not economically optimal for one country to manufacture all the jewelry and its neighbour all the tanks, because this situation quickly becomes one country
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by fvdessen 2y ago
As the paper says: A true Italian grandmother or a skilled home chef from Rome would never need a scientific recipe for Cacio and pepe, relying instead on instinct and years of experience.
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I'm looking at the data and there is zero relationship between inflation, interest rates and personal savings in the USA. People save in time of crisis (2008, covid, etc.), and don't when the economy is good (1990 -> 2007)
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by fvdessen 2y ago
They don't save because they don't need to since there's always a job available as hiring is so easy. In Europe we need to save in case we want to quit, since then we lose all rights and protections and need to wait months be
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by fvdessen 2y ago
It was burned down twice, in 1914 and 1940
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by fvdessen 2y ago
The flemish nationalists supported the nazis long before they invaded. I don’t think Russia will invade the USA any time soon, but it can invade other countries and throw liberals out of windows over there, normalizing the practice and dimi
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by fvdessen 2y ago
My great grandfather was the vice rector of the university at the time, as an historian he took the initiative to covertly collect evidence of all the nazi crimes, evidence which was used in the nuremberg trials. But more interestingly, the
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by fvdessen 2y ago
There's no VC money in Europe, you have to be profitable early on
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I don’t think the manager needs a button to remember he’s responsible for the decisions, usually it’s the other way around, devs having to remember they’re not; I’ve been too many times the manager putting it on zero only to hear, “You can’
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by fvdessen 2y ago
It’s not just VW, there aren’t many companies and countries that are able to compete with China when it comes to manufacturing commodity products
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by fvdessen 2y ago
We’ll get farmer riots and extreme right governments who on top of being racist have extremely self destructive economic programs
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by fvdessen 2y ago
The latest batch of chinese EV looks really excellent, with exciting and practical vehicles at incredible prices. I’m afraid the whole European car industry is going to get nokiaed. Maybe not on our home market due to protectionism but abro
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I was recently in Rwanda where seemingly half the goods of this very hilly country are transported by bicycle, and those are single speed old english style bikes with steel frame reinforced with rebar. (they carry hundred of kgs on the rack
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Speed bumps and high curbs
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Do you rewrite your auth system to modern standards or migrate your infra to k8s ? Some projects take months to complete and don’t deliver value until fully done, so it is valuable to spend some time to do some upfront planning to weigh y
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by fvdessen 2y ago
IMHO the syntax & other nitpickable matters should be caught by the linter. The regressions should be caught by the tests. And the fact the code runs and works should be a given. The discussion should be around the architecture of the s

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