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by mstaoru 1mo ago
> Within EU we already pay ~€3 for packages from China Yes, the point is, pay +€1 for packages from EU to EU to finance all this PPWR circus.
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by mstaoru 1mo ago
This really hits home. As a person with IBS I basically cannot peacefully go outside in EU. I lived for many years in China and Thailand, and toilets are free, clean, and plentiful there, and you can easily ask any place to use their toilet
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by mstaoru 1mo ago
Exactly. I don't see how EU can enforce it against China, when most of the goods are imported from China. Or any other non-EU country, for that matter.
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by mstaoru 1mo ago
I think this directive was from Feb 2025? Is 1 year enough for everyone to register in 25 different packaging regulation bodies, appoint representatives, etc etc?.. I also fail to see how this will stop Chinese companies from shipping to Eu
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by mstaoru 1mo ago
I don't know if this EU regulation will work or not (most likely not), but I can share how it is done in China (where package volume is orders of magnitude higher). China identifies "choke points" most packages pass: large pl
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I mostly strongly identify with this. Been coding for ~35 years, if you count toy programs on a Spectrum. My world is being completely destroyed. And it's probably normal. I also don't understand TikTok, new Avengers, or queueing
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
We have a 4-home-1-office policy ("office day" on Tuesdays), I think it captures the best of both worlds for software teams. I go to office to "work" as well but it's different work: building relationships, having c
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFtXk3Fm4s8
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Have you seen how they watch movies in China? Collectively, with hundreds of real-time comments flying over the screen.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I'm with you here, the same slack-jawed knuckle-dragging Luddite. I'm not happy about the state of the world, but it is what it is. I am working on it alone and don't have access or extra money to pay an actual engineer. If I
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Ask HN: How do you correct spatial reasoning of LLMs?
5 points by mstaoru 2mo ago|7 comments
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Germany will be the first country to accept LLM-based humanoid robot citizens. Grep RULES.md, if not in the rules, `return 0`.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
My rather simplistic take: Everybody have access to the same LLMs. Eventually if everybody is a "Nx engineer" (see PS below), then nobody is. Just a new baseline. Once you are at this point, you can either invest further in LLMs,
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Heads up, you forgot a link to your substack in this comment.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 2/3 phones and smart watches are not Apple, and 7/8 consumer PCs are not Apple. 100% servers and industrial PCs are not Apple. 100% network equipment is not Apple. Apple doesn't have its own
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I'm very happy with Onyx Boox, always getting a new one when visiting family for CNY. It's a pretty much stock Android, you have adb, a choice of readers, can do whatever Syncthing/Dropbox you like, read DRM PDFs, watch Youtu
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Opus 5 hates ChatGPT. My favorite pastime lately is to have Opus 5 compose some deep research on complicated topics, export it as PDF, start a new chat, attach a PDF and write something like "my intern gave me this ChatGPT slop, it&#x2
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Perhaps you're right and we will naturally segment into people who embrace anthropomorphic LLMs, and people who prefer tables and checklists and charts. It's ok, we already split into many groups e.g. people who prefer to read pap
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I'll just never feel the same about "insights, advice and support" coming from a LLM vs. a real person. I know that perhaps in a blind A/B testing via text channels I probably won't be able to tell the difference, a
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
It's more of a resignation I think? An overwhelming majority of people (on Earth, I don't mean the highly skewed US/EU citizens) are one accident away from total ruin. I don't stress about it but I also recognize how bro
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
> I’m 38 years old and I just had to ask my mom if I could borrow money [...] potentially spending the next 50 years without stable income Without stable income it might be more like 20 years. (I wish you personally a long and bountiful
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
You can run with --no-migrations ( https://pytest-django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/database.html... ) and default the test DB to be in memory (works at least for PG and SQLite) to make it quite a bit faster.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Or just env PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG=1.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
You may :) One one side, like you mentioned, I come from the "sacred food" household where everything surrounding cooking and communal meal consumption was revered. On the other side, there's a body of research that basically
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Browsing is absolutely intolerable these days, with almost every website having a block screen, "we're checking your browser...", stuff like that. Lately I just close these websites immediately.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I'm sorry to be the one to make an obligatory comment: This is a terrible habit. Break it.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Then it just becomes a new baseline (everyone have access to the same LLMs), and recruiting moves up the philosophical ladder where human can add more value. What will it be? I don't know, I'm not a recruiter.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I wish. No, I just do it with my wife. We move a lot and we're not very social, so it is what it is. We just spread it over weeks or sometimes months (like with wines, we drink maybe a bottle per 2 weeks).
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Don't know if it qualifies as a hobby, but I "pursue flavor", not in chef sense but more in ready made products. Every now and then I buy 20-30: cartons of milk, volcanic wines, obviously cheeses, 100% chocolate, specialty co
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
I lived in China for a while, and my wife is from China. We moved out almost 5 years ago, and she still was a bit freaked out about a picture of Xi Jinping's book next to Winnie Pooh book I took at a Book Expo here in Germany. Once you

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