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by mcv 10mo ago
World class? Then what am I? I frequently work with Copilot and Claude Sonnet, and it can be useful, but trusting it to write code for anything moderately complicated is a bad idea. I am impressed by its ability to generate and analyse code
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by mcv 10mo ago
Exactly. There are reasons for those many deleted comments. It's specific to this subreddit for very good reasons and not something you can use to disparage all of reddit. Many subreddits have their own rules and culture.
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by mcv 10mo ago
Outlawing this specific scenario sounds pretty hard. I can see only two reasonable options: * Ban all advertisements. (I'm all for it, at this point.) * Make sure smart-devices make extremely clear that they can be used to show ads, an
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by mcv 11mo ago
And the fact that there are other countries that should also be considered terrorists, doesn't mean we shouldn't boycott this one. It means we should boycott them all. But boycotting a few is still better than nothing.
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by mcv 11mo ago
Reliable anticheat is serverside. Clientside anticheat sounds like a fool's errand to me. You need to control the client, so that means the user cannot be in control of their own computer, which is contrary to the idea of Linux.
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by mcv 11mo ago
As a European, I'm also increasingly in favour of avoiding American companies. Especially the big corrupting near-monopolists. It's worth pointing out the flaws of all bad actors. The more info we have, the more effectively we can
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by mcv 11mo ago
You finding relevant information used to be the aim. Enshittification started when they let go of that aim.
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by mcv 11mo ago
That's the thing. The decision makers are not programmers who care about good dev tooling, but executives who care about good agenda management. So Microsoft's agenda management is great, and their dev tooling sucks. It really fee
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by mcv 11mo ago
Apparently not a misspelled Fairphone, as I originally thought. I wouldn't mind an article about that battery. No actually, it is a Fairphone after all.
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by mcv 11mo ago
Yes, but they're still not actually doing all that much. I mean, sure long term military investment, and some support for Poland, but it's too little, too divided, and they're standing at the sidelines while Trump proposes to
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by mcv 11mo ago
Not western Europe, no. Not yet at least. But Russia does threaten eastern Europe. The Baltics in particular are high on Putin's wish list. And if he invades there, and the EU and NATO is slow to respond, that could easily be the end o
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by mcv 11mo ago
I'm currently leading a team in a group of teams responsible for a terrible code base. It's riddled with tech debt, our DB is maintained by others and has absolutely atrocious performance, it often feels like I'm the only one
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by mcv 11mo ago
I encountered it on an open day on the university. The only thing I still remember is that functions were called HowTo, because they described how to do something.
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by mcv 11mo ago
Threat of invasion from Russia doesn't seem to be doing it. China is too far away. The US? Half of Europe might actually side with them.
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by mcv 11mo ago
The EU put together has the second largest military in the world. > And their leadership is so docile and complacent That is the real issue.
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by mcv 11mo ago
I work for a company that now uses everything from Microsoft. They used to have Jira, AWS and tons of other different products, but now everything is Microsoft, and it's terrible. Azure DevOps is particularly horrific. It's like J
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by mcv 11mo ago
I don't know. It's making the news, and if GrapheneOS is the only one protesting this, what are iPhone and Android already complying with? Perhaps I should also switch to GrapheneOS. And moving your servers out of jurisdictions th
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by mcv 11mo ago
These are corporate subsidies to an industry that really doesn't need any further help. They're subsidies for pollution. Care for the environment is also often considered a left-wing issue. The left is not in favour of market dist
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by mcv 11mo ago
Women have equal rights in Paris. Don't they have a female mayor at the moment? It couldn't be more different from Dubai if it tried.
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by mcv 11mo ago
I thought they didn't have long term memory and every conversation was a fresh start?
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by mcv 11mo ago
I'm not blaming Biden at all. I'm just pointing out that a very important issue didn't see significant improvement during his administration. GP argued that women's desire to emigrate peaked during Biden. I suspect Biden
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by mcv 11mo ago
It's not just American politics. This stuff is infecting other countries too. Dutch right-wing parties are also becoming increasingly detached from reality. A small one that just doubled in size has a history of embracing every hoax an
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by mcv 11mo ago
The latter is what my Copilot suggested when I addressed complaints about higher gas prices. But ending oil subsidies gets mentioned a lot on the left without that. Because ultimately it's also a subsidy for oil companies, and it adds
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by mcv 11mo ago
Ending oil subsidies and protecting democracy are both common positions among the left, and most frequently opposed by the right. Attacks on democracy, democratic institutions and the rule of law have in the US and Europe come primarily fro
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by mcv 11mo ago
This made me curious about the political leanings of our corporate Copilot Chat, so I declared it the ruler of Netherland with a mandate to decide the political direction of the country based on facts and a fair assessment of all relevant i
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by mcv 11mo ago
They want to serve the entire world. They protest when the EU does anything at all to put some restrictions on their operations in Europe.
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by mcv 11mo ago
It's that or MechaHitler. There's nothing in between anymore.
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by mcv 11mo ago
I don't see how it's possible to be both factual and unbiased between parties, in a political landscape revolving around lies. Push through, like you did, and it becomes blatantly obvious that one side shouldn't even be in th
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by mcv 11mo ago
Yeah, but doesn't Dubai have rampant misogyny? Weren't princesses trying to flee the country? There are far better options than Dubai. Paris is a solid choice, though.
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by mcv 11mo ago
Abortion rights didn't come back under Biden. I can imagine that and the general rising misogyny, are the main factors.

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