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by jgilias 2y ago
Man, that’s rough. I hope you’re doing well! Totally agree with you on the line-item point. My point there was that if a 50% RIF is in the works, the people who haven’t figured out how to become more efficient using AI would be more likely
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by jgilias 2y ago
There was no OpenAPI spec. And it wasn’t all it made faster to do.
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by jgilias 2y ago
After all these years 10x devs have become a reality.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I feel exactly the same. On the other hand, the “speed up my work a lot” part is important, and shouldn’t be overlooked. Like, if someone reads this article and figures they don’t need to learn to use AI for their coding job, that’s the wro
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by jgilias 2y ago
Advocate or not, it’s here to stay. And if you’re not adjusting to it, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Last week I did the amount of work that would’ve taken me give or take a month. A significant part of it was writing an API client fo
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by jgilias 2y ago
But what else could they say? “Yeah, we’re fucked now that the US is turning into a dictatorship and a Russian ally!”? That’s a fast track to those kill switches being deployed on hardware delivery.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Right. So Canada needs a nuclear deterrent in order to _not_ become the 51st state.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Yes! Exactly this. Many years ago I got this epiphany that “it’s just another kind of interface”. Specifically to me as a system. In this day and age I’m not even convinced anymore that I’m not actually just some kind of an elaborate fine-t
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by jgilias 2y ago
Please no. It's good that tech conversations are global. I wish there were more Chinese and Russians on here, not less. And this comes from someone who's very critical of the current US admin, and lives in the Baltics. Also, pleas
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by jgilias 2y ago
Technology-wise this is a solved problem. Uses open-source software too. All the EU needs to do is say 'self-custody is fine, please use a EUR-based stable coin for payments EU-wide'. The market will do the rest (the stable-coin,
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by jgilias 2y ago
What kind of “peace” though? The kind of peace that Bucha got when it was under occupation? Murder of civilians, torture chambers, rapes? Do you even have the slightest idea of the humanitarian catastrophe that this “peace” would be for Ukr
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by jgilias 2y ago
Have you said thank you once!?!? /s
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by jgilias 2y ago
With the current pace of how things are developing, we might not be able to squeak by four years.
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by jgilias 2y ago
It’s not. Here in Europe we’re all very frustrated with the situation. It’s just crazy that our most trusted ally has gone bat-shit crazy.
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by jgilias 2y ago
This is just crazy. The speed at which the US reputation gets burned is simply mind blowing. Americans might think that nobody pays attention, but everyone does. The Finns are already evaluating how to do without weapons systems that the US
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by jgilias 2y ago
I’d be happy if the US policies these days were based on _at least_ an HN comment. A typical HN comment does a much better job of considering at least some of the caveats and trade-offs than a POTUS Truth Social post. EDIT: Thinking about i
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by jgilias 2y ago
I don’t know. But I don’t think that matters to the discussion. The world is a much different place these days. A lot more connected. Also, most of that emigration was more like “famine-drain”.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Exactly. And that would be a good thing in a world where super-powers aren’t imperialist, and don’t try to one up each other. Alas.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I wouldn’t worry about this too much. Brain drain, despite the name, is not really a zero-sum game. The people who move rarely lose all contact with the host country. They gain invaluable experience, know-how, and contacts that some of them
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by jgilias 2y ago
Bless you. Living 200km from the Russian border, I worry that 10 years is far too long. If Putin “reads the room”, he knows his best bet is to push things forward before the midterms. In case Tramp doesn’t manage to rig the elections. So mi
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by jgilias 2y ago
I’m not doing it intentionally, and I do see your point! Thanks for calling it out, gives me some food for thought.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Guess what. It’s also a common misconception that NATO article 5th means immediate military action by rest of the alliance. It actually says that an armed attack against one shall be considered an attack against all, but crucially, the assi
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by jgilias 2y ago
Totally agree. It’s like, I get the hard core MAGA voters. The smart ones knew exactly what they are voting for, and they’re now super elated. The not so smart ones just voted for the movement, and their leader, unlikely to be disappointed
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by jgilias 2y ago
How could they fall for it. I mean, even during the first time it was obvious that he actually meant it, as he did try to enact all the crazy bullshit. The only saving grace was adults in the room around him. Now all the adults are gone.
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by jgilias 2y ago
That’s what the successful decades long Russian psyop would want you to believe. I’m not talking primarily about agent Krasnov allegation from a top Kazakh ex-spook (though that is an actual possibility), but about the well known Russian in
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by jgilias 2y ago
1,5 months feels like 2 years these days. Besides, that rests on the assumption that the US is going to have a “free and fair” election in 2 and 4 years. Trump said loud and clear on the campaign trail that you need to come out and vote for
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by jgilias 2y ago
They did yeah. There was this whole hashtag-like thing on Telegram where people who had a regime uniform in their wardrobe would stuff it in the trash. It was mostly demobilised conscripts, policemen, and such. There was also one high ranki
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by jgilias 2y ago
Agree! I’m not saying CIA (or whichever other three letter agency) were not involved in any way. But the way I see this, if I was out in the streets trying to get rid of a pro-Russian stooge making my country an autocratic puppet regime, I
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by jgilias 2y ago
What I meant was that they wouldn’t need to suppress much. They’d just AML the leaders of the independence movement to poverty.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I was following the events very closely. The most obvious foreign interference I saw was Russian spetznaz being brought in as reinforcements to try and suppress tbe protests for longer.

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