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by oblio 3mo ago
How do you even imagine I can reply to your comment? In what universe was your comment a high quality comment? Especially for a place like HN.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Online zealotry is just blowing off steam. True political action happens in real life and most of it is just mobilizing people to do what they know deep down is right but real life or laziness stop them from doing And of course it can fail.
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by oblio 3mo ago
The existence of Telegram doesn't negate the fact that WhatsApp is the world's most popular instant messaging platform, and the others aren't even close. And Telegram is a lot more developed and has a much larger percentage o
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by oblio 3mo ago
Ah, you're a hobbit, I see? https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcqo6lloZ41qgzdhjo15_r1_2... "Keep your nose out of trouble and no trouble will come to you". I used to be a hobbit, too, when I was 19. It does
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by oblio 3mo ago
This is the worst approach to politics. I would use harsher words. Yes, people are corrupt. The world isn't binary. Some people are more corrupt than others. Otherwise Argentina would be Germany and Brazil the US. People matter and dif
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by oblio 3mo ago
The cost of surface level rewrites has crashed. Which will probably cover 80% of cases. Caveat emptor on which side your project falls.
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by oblio 3mo ago
Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
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by oblio 3mo ago
AI <<can>> do a lot of things, but does it actually do that without an exhaustive test suite (which legacy software generally doesn't have, and it can never be 100%, anyway)? Between context collapse and hallucinations, how
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by oblio 3mo ago
Why does every country in the world have to look like the US?
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by oblio 3mo ago
> That sounds like an extremely obnoxious judgement. Or just a cultural difference.
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by oblio 3mo ago
> I mean, how many CEOs of major German companies are non-German? A quick headcount says Mercedes, Adidas, Bayer,... https://www.consultancy.eu/news/1605/one-third-of-executives... It pays off to do the actual
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by oblio 3mo ago
It's worse than that. If Apple were banned, someone else would fill their spot.
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by oblio 3mo ago
The ones I'm talking about had the most active unions.
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by oblio 3mo ago
I highly recommend reading "The Box", about the history of the shipping container. Longshoremen literally retired early and were paid pensions out of corporate profits from container related productivity increases.
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by oblio 4mo ago
LOL. Go do more research if you have issues with their approach. HN really likes to assume that everyone except themselves are idiots.
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by oblio 4mo ago
In Europe it's done through EuroNCAP: https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-touchscreens... It has already started asking for physical buttons for key functions to give manufacturers the top safety rating, an
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by oblio 4mo ago
Ok... let's say the profession is destroyed. Who maintains all these ever increasing piles of code? Who figures out the requirements, who creates specifications? Who solves issues that are reported by users? LLMs/turtles all the w
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by oblio 4mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The steam engine was invented in 1765 (+/-) but employment crashed in the textile industry starting in 1815, 50 years later. LLMs were practically invented in 2017, 9 years ago. Of cour
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by oblio 4mo ago
The real test for your theory is what people do when they're not getting paid. I have never in my life heard of a large forum/subreddit/WhatsApp group for cleaning toilets. There are no toilet cleaning meetups. Some, actually
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by oblio 4mo ago
Keep in mind that a good chunk of people here are basically AI boosters: they work for AI companies, sell AI courses and training and certifications, own shares or otherwise benefit from AI companies doing well. Oh, also, lots and lots of m
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by oblio 4mo ago
> Maybe if I was single, but it’s just inefficient to go multiple times a week. You go with the kids and/or wife and you do it on the way to or back from work or to/from school drop off. You don't do dedicated grocery runs
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by oblio 4mo ago
> It's not replacement, it's democratization. At this point every statement that contains "democratization", coming from a tech person, is almost guaranteed to reduce our rights in the long run.
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by oblio 4mo ago
> These are marketers, founders, teachers, analysts, and product managers, and they are writing software, which in my book makes them developers. We've always had people developing, in many forms. Scientists of all kinds, usually wi
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by oblio 4mo ago
It's an infrastructure thing. With the right regular/cargo bike or even better, an ebike/cargo ebike, 30-40kg of groceries per run is super doable. > Nor can I go and buy a TV by just walking to the hardware store. Do you
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by oblio 4mo ago
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...
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by oblio 4mo ago
Yes, if we only look at absolute morals and first-order effects, yes. But if we think more deeply about this from the lens of human society, we ultimately end up with something like taxes. So we might as well just have taxes.
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by oblio 4mo ago
Why are you surprised? Europe has 700 million people. Think of the average construction worker you know, do you think they could read and correctly summarize any moderately complex article? Think an article about inflation or evolution or h
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by oblio 4mo ago
I know. Emperor's new clothes. Everyone knows, everyone lies.
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by oblio 4mo ago
I guess you mean that physics fact/joke that water isn't wet? It makes things wet.
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by oblio 4mo ago
LOL, it did work :-) Regarding LLMs, they are pushed too hard and too abusively by business people. Employees are being laid off and replaced with chatbots that don't do the job. Frustrating if support for McDonald's, risky if hea

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