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by fzeindl 10mo ago
Agreed, it was just important to me to point it out, since staying within such a massive budget on such a long timeline is a rare achievement.
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by fzeindl 10mo ago
It is mostly within budget, estimated in 2005 were 5.5 billion €, total cost as of today are 5.9 billion €, the difference being largely attributed to the pandemic and later addition of sections.
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Koralm Railway(infrastruktur.oebb.at)
317 points by fzeindl 10mo ago|197 comments
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by fzeindl 10mo ago
Bruce Schneier put it well: "Willison’s insight was that this isn’t just a filtering problem; it’s architectural. There is no privilege separation, and there is no separation between the data and control paths. The very mechanism that
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by fzeindl 1y ago
> If you plot the line it's probably still curving up and I'm not clear at which point (if ever) it would start bending the other way. I suspect when Moore‘s law ends and we cannot build substantially faster machines anymore.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
What is the benefit over Elixir?
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by fzeindl 1y ago
In german the usual saying in meetings is, literally translated „I can‘t say anything about that (optional: at the present moment)“. That sentence is widely accepted as a substitute for „I don‘t know“, but at the same time doesn‘t hold the
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by fzeindl 1y ago
ISO8601 durations should be used, like PT3M.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
Apart from the reasons for this block: Why do these decisions always have to be black and white. I believe it would benefit mental health if Facebook was blocked one day per week so people are forced to live a day without it. Same with comb
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by fzeindl 1y ago
> I see this kind of cynicism often on this site and I frankly find it inexplicable. It doesn't seem warranted. The vast majority of therapists clearly care about their patients. I find the the view cynic as well, that's why I
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by fzeindl 1y ago
Exactly. That might be something interesting to think about. Humans make mistakes. LLMs make mistakes. Yet for humans we have built a society which prevents these mistakes except in edge cases. Would humans make these mistakes as often as L
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by fzeindl 1y ago
> There is no comparison to therapists. Because a therapist would NEVER do that unless wanting to cause harm. Some therapists ultimately might. It occurs that therapists were stripped of their licenses for leading abusive sects: https:&
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by fzeindl 1y ago
> An AI Model designed to match my tone and be sycophantic to my every whim. It would have killed me. Matching tones and being sycophantic to every whims. Just like many really bad therapists. Only they are legally responsible if they c
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I find Stallmans views are best summed up by this quote from him: “I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide peo
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Ask HN: What is wrong with modern software development
6 points by fzeindl 1y ago|9 comments
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I think before we can fix all that we need to revert the renting of software via subscriptions and go back to one-time-payment. But people are too greedy for that.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
Have that here in Austria from time to time as well. Funniest case I visited was a Chinese restaurant where the waitress always wore a winter jacket, because they couldn’t be bothered heating the place.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
Agreed, but my point is that an abstraction should provide discernible gain of value, not merely roll a handful of operations of the same level into one.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I can read about 50% of the words.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
http://www.gnovies.com exists since 2002. (Other media: http://www.gnod.com )
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by fzeindl 1y ago
> I love the idea of an on-device model that I can say something like "who's going to the baseball game this weekend" and it'll intelligently check my calendar and see who's listed. The question is whether you ar
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by fzeindl 1y ago
Some developers love to implement Rube-Goldberg-machines as tooling. Whenever they need to make two or three manual steps or configurations, they rather develop an abstraction layer where you just have to press one button to perform them. U
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by fzeindl 1y ago
This. I‘m always amazed on how LLMs are praised for being able to churn out the large amount of code we apparently all need. I keep wondering why. All projects I ever saw need lines of code, nuts and bolts removed instead of added. My best
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by fzeindl 1y ago
1. how does this add value over mermaid? I like how it looks and works, but is there any real reason to switch over. 2. in my opinion, what all these tools are missing is the ability to add a manual „corrective“ layer, meaning to be able to
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by fzeindl 1y ago
> The sad fact is that the software industry as a whole relies heavily on mainstream languages, and not on educating your engineers to leverage the strengths of your specialty language. That is an excellent remark.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I agree, but the main feature isn’t the language, but the BEAM VM. As far as I know there‘s no other language which focussed from the get-go on parallel, distributed deployment, has processes as first class primitives, supports hot code swa
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by fzeindl 1y ago
It won‘t but I don‘t get why. The thesis is genius, it even starts with an philosophy and an attempt to formalize software architecture. Erlang was invented at Ericsson, used for certain phone switches, it was tremendously successful at wha
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by fzeindl 1y ago
From the comment it seems there are people interested. If the LLMs output is written in a way where I would edit at most 5% to be satisfied (which I did by the way), why shouldn’t I use it?
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Ask HN: Why don't LLMs replace bosses instead of engineers?
18 points by fzeindl 1y ago|19 comments
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I can’t say about Python, but I am pretty sure react is being “configured” explicitly because the state of the frontend ecosystem is such a mess compared to other areas. (Which, in my opinion has two reasons: 1. That you can fix and redeplo

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