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by nforgerit 3y ago
One tiny little piece to solve the problem of our very possible extinction. On one hand, this is good since those technologies are in desperate need of funding and scaling on the other hand, make no mistake: They're much too small and
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by nforgerit 3y ago
M-x pixel-scroll-precision-mode This is the best thing since idk. Thank you so much, folks!
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by nforgerit 3y ago
My favorite ironical spin of the LLM hypetrain is that our predecessors spent so much time in getting everything 100% correct from the ground up and parts of the current generation seem to decide "nah, screw it, mostly correct is fine&
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I began to think that we should see LLMs just as another kind of programming model to be potentially embedded into existing systems. Nothing more, nothing less. This might sound like a trivial conclusion at first, but as a community we shou
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Takes a lot these days to keep this timeline from popping up in one's head and follow some conspiracy theories about total governmental control through perverted usage of language and weird (incompetent?) regulations on things digital
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Can't help but read "the whole misery of my life in one timeline".
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I think we're seeing a re-iteration of the last generation's "greybeards vs young hipsters" wars. Last time it was "those hipsters are just copy pasting stuff they find on Google and call it a day". This time t
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. Really sorry about how the situation makes you feel. I'm with you on everything you said. I don't trust the Germans no more and the non-AfD parties are just absolutely destructive in anything they're doing. It al
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Germany's main problems are 1) Overly excessive bureaucracy combined with not enough civil servants. 2) A housing market that's essentially not a market anymore. 3) Several problems with governmental services that have been under-
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Hm, Estonia doesn't have a bad track record of successful tech companies (Skype, Wise, Bolt, et al) given we're talking about a 1.5M citizen state. In addition, civil services there are embarrassingly well organized. Saying this a
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Politically, I could perfectly imagine the German right to far-right to create an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and doubt to bring faked results into action. Sure, you can do that on paper as well but I think it's way harder to cover
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I remember an example of some arcane software that was used "internally" by some local German office to just sum up the votes and generate some kind of result sheet for the local area. It turned out, although it was air-gapped, it
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Maybe it's my underlying German-ness but I don't understand why people would want an electronic voting system. Being confronted with the gazillions of possible failures in hardware and software, the idea seems at least risky to me
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by nforgerit 3y ago
> It seems like there's no feature request they can say "no" to. Well the opposite of this is the antiquated world of "old Java". My subjective assessment is that Spring is somewhere in the middle: reasonable co
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Should make one suspicious if the narrative directly or indirectly accuses some kind of "global world elite" playing puppetmaster since this used to be part of Goebbels playbook. Not accusing the author, but maybe better think twi
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Would be fun to see the whole system going down because most nerds decide to quit all this shiny disneyworld of plastic and do weird tech things again.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Last time I was searching for an office in Berlin, I remember some shady sales tactics (without remembering details) and a totally overpriced offer. Made me skip them. But take it with a grain of salt, I’m German and might just not be used
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I used to think the exact same, however have a more mixed attitude towards gig economy nowadays. - I have talked to many workers who are die-hard fans of their jobs. They highly appreciated the easy non-bureaucratic way of earning as much m
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by nforgerit 3y ago
And what about mTLS?
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I mean you /do/ understand that they're just switching the means collecting data, right? You /do/ understand that Alphabet doesn't need to care about cookie banners and web fonts when they can simply tell their
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I am a technical person living in EU and changed my mind about GDPR and the upcoming laws like AI Act and CRA, now thinking it is embarrassingly stupid trying to achieve any means of personal privacy that way. Let alone Mozilla (non-EU) and
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by nforgerit 3y ago
This is not the point. The point is _legal insecurity_ due to vague regulation texts that small business owners can't cope with while big businesses can which puts the initial goal when creating those laws upside down.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
They’re lured out of their hipster game studios with candy to end up sitting in cubicle offices getting their ideas downvoted by enterprisy manager-hierarchies.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
(I love the EU, I really do. That much, that I really care about its ability for innovation.) As a European software engineer I'm calling BS on your statement, Mr Manager. EU legislation might not aim to stifle innovation (in contrast,
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by nforgerit 3y ago
> They will not affect 'innovation.' Innovation comes from publicly-funded organisations and projects. Looking at my home-country Germany that is a funny thing to say, since the public sector is living in a 90s/00s alterna
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I vividly remember "designing" (with my light skills) a T-Shirt using Inkscape for a sports team back at university in ~2008. It was organized as a competition with the winner getting a free shirt. IIRC it took me about 6h, the In
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Well, that's too much in the realm of conspiracy theories told by right- and left wing extremists in Germany. Let me just say one thing: It doesn't necessarily take the US for German leadership to shoot their feet.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I didn’t hear about this certain case but I’d not be too surprised here. Given Germany has been unsuccessfully trying to digitize their government services, there’s been many cases where people filled out PDFs online, which got printed on p
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. > USA had blown up the pipelines delivering cheap energy from Russia Well, did they? I know this theory but AFAIK they could trace it back to some people in Ukrainian military. Western secret services (afair from Netherlands
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Sounds like a dream. They didn't have that at my time (2007) at Karlsruhe. Programming was negligible and could be overall circumvented by picking the according courses.

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