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by lucianbr 2y ago
I learned to drive before in-car GPS was widely available, at least where I lived. Going to some new place meant getting a map, looking at it, making a plan, following the plan, keeping track on the map, that sort of thing. Then I traveled
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Presumably what is possible for a person with 6 months of experience is rather limited. The idea as I understand it is that he achieved apps that he would not be able to write by himself, with the help of AI. That means that it is possible
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Majority control of the legislature is what I'm talking about. In Germany and France that's how a party comes to power, not through presidential elections. There is no such thing in Germany, though in France it is naturally more c
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Point 7 buried in the license document of the github repository is very much not https://www.keycloak.org/ Not a single word in this comment refers to "software like this (one of the most important components of y
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I suspect the coming administration would find a way to do the same thing even if it was in Germany or France. I suspect if the extreme right parties there ever win, they will find a way to achieve this too. Best to be aware of this, not de
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> The bureaucracy is a tool and tools don't have a will. As if it's not made of humans. This view is in grave error. Nobody is perfectly rational, nobody is beyond bias or subjectivty, nobody is beyond human emotions.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Yeah, I get it's different. Not saying it's the same. Just don't give me the absolute "civil servants are untouchable by politicians". It would be bad if they really were untouchable.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I have no clue what your point is. Reductio ad absurdum is a useful argument, not a logical fallacy. > And before you say “constitution,” I have zero idea why I would say "constitution" or anything really. My entire point is th
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Seems like a pretty good system. Or who knows. But since the law is written by elected representatives, to say that the representatives have no power in this case seems wrong, to me. That's all. If the voters will vote for the "fi
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by lucianbr 2y ago
You really feel that anything that is not directly on the home page does not matter? A link to a separate document explicitly named as containing the conditions of license, warranty and such should not count? Seems like an absurd view to me
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> You become a public worker through exam, and the representative usually have no power over your nomination, raises, etc. Who else would have power over "nomination, raises etc" of anyone, if not elected representatives? Other
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Imagine how impossible it is to actually build those services, with all their logic, if just this added logic is impossible :)
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> "however, this component in Billing is 100x more difficult than that!" Simply claiming this does not make it true. Anyway, the original claim was simply that it is not trivial. This is what is known as moving the goalposts, l
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Do you think that this is trivial at AWS scale? What a ridiculous point. AWS achieves non-trivial things at scale all the time, and brag about it too. So many smart engineers with high salaries and they can't figure out a solution
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The legislative institutions are not isolated from the people. The opposite in fact, in democracy they must respond to the will of the people. So if enough people are irrational and wish to assign blame somewhere else after they assumed a c
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by lucianbr 2y ago
But is there a law forbidding strawberry futures? The wiki page mentions only onions and box office returns. How can other perishable futures "ban themselves" while onions need to be banned?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The number of "hackers" who think it's better for devices to be locked down by Apple because that keeps them secure (and freedom to install unvetted software is dangerous), and who think AI will replace us because we are all
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> The fact that futures markets are so heavily regulated, precisely because of the market failures described above, should aid in understanding why markets do not "predict", they "determine". Have you ever wondered wh
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by lucianbr 2y ago
That's so strange. What makes other commodities amenable to having futures, but not onions? Or are they going to ban each thing in turn the first time someone corners the market and causes trouble? Apparently it's onions and box o
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The person being treated, or their family, might change their mind after the treatment fails, and cry bloody murder. And get sympathy. So the only defense is to deny treatment. In hindsight, with the bad consequences fixed, they will claim
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Well, given recent events... maybe some people vote for "no free lunch out of my tax money", even though they themselves may end up needing the "free lunch" (the federal funded dialisys). Are you sure it's not ethic
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by lucianbr 2y ago
When something bad happens, the person it happened to or their family will often be (understandably) irrational, and make the maximum amount of fuss and ask for the maximum damages and penalties. Even if the risk was reasonable and ethical.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> In the old days, developers had to really know their stuff. Coding wasn’t just a checklist—it was a craft, and every line was written with care. There's a name for seeing the past through rose-colored glasses, isn't there? &q
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> After watching tons of Mentour Pilot videos (who, by the way, covered [0] this incident) I am convinced that this feature shouldn't exist at all. There is some selection bias at play here. We don't know how many situations ha
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by lucianbr 2y ago
What would you say if most of a population think that most of the population is stupid, themselves excluded? Which seems to actually be the case quite often.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Maybe there is little trust left? I don't know about NYT in particular, but the news regularly suggests employees trusting businesses are nothing but suckers.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Yes, a business would use all their advantages at the maximum, with disregard for any other consideration than money, and tell you "it's just business". Or "it's fiduciary duty ". Now that the shoe is on the o
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by lucianbr 2y ago
That's really nice if that is the case. My understanding from the comments was that this prevents people who don't do their job from being fired, as long as they don't set fire to the servers or something. If I misunderstood,
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by lucianbr 2y ago
As if only low-performing coworkers would be terminated. The total freedom of the company to terminate anyone any time for any reason or no reason is extreme, and now we are pivoting to the other extreme. Funny how that happens.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Facebook uses its own fork of Python that is heavily optimized. So likely the 5000% improvement is no longer possible because they already did multiple 10% improvements? I don't know how this counters the original point. All clues

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