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by fvdessen 2y ago
This looks super useful, but from what i've heard, if you try to do this at any meaningful scale your scrapers will be blocked by Cloudflare and the likes
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by fvdessen 2y ago
This documentary on the drug trade in Belgium has a segment on the uberisation of drug dealing and shows the usage of telegram for that purpose: https://youtu.be/9-DwggVrt2c?t=2613&si=SBct_5WUZCoJmcgA
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by fvdessen 2y ago
It’s worse than that, the ‘find people nearby’ feature is a public drug and prostitution advertising billboard with zero moderation and has been for years. They’re in a closer position to silkroad than lavabit
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by fvdessen 2y ago
If I open telegram and go to ‘find people nearby’ I am presented with a long list of drug dealers and prostitutes advertising their services. So they not only help with communication, they help with advertising, and since this is all public
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I just opened telegram, went to ‘find people nearby’ and was immediately presented with a long list of drug dealers and prostitutes advertising their services. I’m pretty sure that’s not legal
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I was looking this morning at migrating our software from poetry to uv at my company, due to poetry's slowness. And so far i've been reading a lot of doc and not getting a lot things done. I did the previous migration to poetry as
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by fvdessen 2y ago
And mac that means pimp ^^
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by fvdessen 2y ago
As a native french speaker I am quite surprised by those reactions. 'Bit', means 'dick'/'cock' in french, and it's never really been a big issue at university.
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I think western designs work actually very well in developing countries, such as south america and south east asia. Where they fail is in non-developing countries such as central africa, where the problems of war, crime, drugs, and corrupti
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I wonder as well how the performance correlates with the candidate's peers prediction of how they would fare, as this is also a big component of how managers are usually picked, and might or might not be a good indicator
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The EU is at the end of the day still 27 countries with their different laws and regulations each trying to protect their own little market. The way the ‘single market’ is constructed is by slapping a bunch of eu wide regulations on top of
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Business / Analysts / POs. Programmers as well, although it matters less.
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I think it's more that people lose the ability to read and write as they stop doing it when they finish school.
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I am bewildered by the low literacy ability of a significant amount of the people I hired. People with advanced degrees; can't take notes, can't really read either. Not idiots, but illiterate. How did they end-up there ? Do we now
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by fvdessen 2y ago
It's B2B, mostly small businesses
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by fvdessen 2y ago
The company I work for has a large, competent and expensive support team. Every single customer state it's their #1 reason they're with us. Yet nobody in the business, investors, or dev teams want to believe it and there's a
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by fvdessen 2y ago
At least they chose a fun codename; 'SALTO' meaning 'backflip' in French :)
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by fvdessen 2y ago
This is an interesting experiment in economic protectionism. Depending how far is the US drone industry in a few year we'll see this measure repeated
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I completely disagree, the EU is an imperfect project, but it is also a work in progress. If european nations want to compete with the rest of the world they have to pool their ressources and act as a block, and the EU is the only shot we h
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I put my phone in airplane mode last weekend and friends thought I died & called the cops. Said I should have notified them before I did this …
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by fvdessen 2y ago
The unfortunate reality is that If you don't do this you'll hire people who can't program
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The standup and the sprint goal only make sense if the team is working towards a common objective, like 'this week we make the auth system of this new api'. That means everybody working together. If the sprint is a bunch of unrela
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by fvdessen 2y ago
If you talk about the EU as an entity, the only power it has is to regulate. It’s the only thing it can do. If you talk about the EU countries, the reason they’re not good at tech is because they’re too small to provide a market big enough
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by fvdessen 2y ago
Not entirely unrelated, but FPV drones are now the main weapon of the Ukraine war. They started using them against tanks, then groups of soldiers, but have now found that they are cost effective enough to go against individual soldiers. The
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by fvdessen 2y ago
“engin de recherche” could have worked as well, but “engin” also has a taken negative connotation of something that doesn’t work well
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You can have a system that produces decent, honorable people, and systems that do the exact opposite
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There's a general obsession on GDP and salary numbers that is a bit myopic. Let's say in country A people drop their kids by car at school, while country B the kids go by themselves at school by foot. All other things being equal,
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by fvdessen 2y ago
I’m not extremely familiar with the issue but it seems the independentists are a de-facto minority, which may also be the actual reason for the boycott of the last referendum, which was already heavily biased in their factor by excluding 20
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I guess I feel like I’ll get to keep my job a while longer and this is strangely disappointing… A real time translator would be a killer app indeed, and it seems not so far away, but note how you have to prompt the interaction with ‘Hey Cha
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I’d much rather have it be slower, more expensive, but smarter

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