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by omnimus 8mo ago
The metaphor doesn't work because all of the things mentioned have to be individually fabricated. But software doesn't. Copies are free. Thats the magic of software, you don't need much of it - you just need to be correct&#x2
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by omnimus 9mo ago
This is very US centric way of looking at it. This whole hero story about Tesla might be required to push US market but would it matter to EU or China? It's very likely market would transition to EVs because of environment/economi
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by omnimus 9mo ago
The whole story of Skoda is interesting because they were bought by Volkswagen as "budget" brand but kept their own development department. They get consistently pushed down as the cars shouldn't compete with VW but they do.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Good luck finding DDR5 for better $$$ than Valve.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
It's not at all hard to grasp for me. I think it's great actually.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Also their software projects are quite amazing. It has to be someone living just on the edge of sanity. Schizo rollercoaster life of being at the same time smartest person in the room while completely missing forrest for the trees. How can
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by omnimus 9mo ago
So France is raiding offices of US military contractor?
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by omnimus 9mo ago
The problem is not if the LLM writes secure code. The problem is if you can know and understand that the code is reasonably secure. And that requires pretty deep understanding of the program and that understanding is (for most people) built
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Exactly. AWS proposition was much more alluring where compute was more expensive and it required yearly estimations and updates. In times when one physical server can have 32, 64 or even 96 cores... you pack your own little datacenter right
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by omnimus 9mo ago
I have seen transitions from MS suite at universities and I don't think what you are saying is true. First assumption is that there are no alternatives so you can't replace Excel as a software. Obvious ones for Excel - LibreOffice
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Like it would matter for any of the revelations. And like he would have other choices to not go to prison. Look at how it worked out for Assange.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Let's not forget url of this site is Ycombinator. As far as i know that is very far from “friendly selfless genius inventor engineer”. It's more like “ambitious finance move fast and break things programmer”.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Oh I agree. China is clearly outplaying everyone. But EU surely doesn't want to replace one leash (US tech stack) with different leash (Chinese tech stack). I keep wondering though. Is insane amount of compute really that crucial? Aren
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by omnimus 9mo ago
The problem is that european politicians don't want to kill the tech $$$. They just want to bring the revenue home. They don't understand that they will never make EU big tech and that their only feasible path forward to get rid o
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by omnimus 9mo ago
It's network effects / lock-in. There is a reason why people still use Microsoft Office and that is that surprising amount of industries have everything build around it. In my country anything law related is submitted in Microsoft
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by omnimus 9mo ago
My bet would be that "the standard" will be Heinlein Groups (company behind mailbox.org) OpenTalk (already better than Jitsy) and now they are doing OpenCloud as scaleable NextCloud alternative. The company behind the projects nee
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by omnimus 9mo ago
It doesn't matter. Office suites are a commodity. Google suite is knockoff of MS Office at certain point in time. That's just the nature of digital - information want's to be free.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
They are fine. Cloud is a commodity. Hetzner and Bunny are pretty great and i am sure there are many more. The problem is when US decides to ban sales of compute hardware to EU (like they do to China). Then it will be clear who's reall
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Sorry don't take this personally but isn't this made with LLMs? Isn't the "incident with Tailwind" the problem that devs no longer support the project because they use it through LLMs often without knowing? I mean i
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by omnimus 9mo ago
There are many powerful native pdf tools but they are usually paid and you have to install them. Preview is ok but its only on mac. Preview also has only some of the features. These online converters are immensely popular for a reason. They
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Actually the european car comes to the show floor with VAT already paid by the store selling the car. VAT is end user tax, it's paid by last one in the chain. So it's only after the shop sells the car when they get the VAT back fr
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Denmark is US ally. But would you say Denmark is Trumps ally? Doesn't look like it.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
That's the same thing what am i saying. But what do you think Farage would do if he was already in power? Contradict his ally? They would cook up some angle so both of them would get something out of it. Farage is already busy downplay
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by omnimus 9mo ago
I wish you were right and western europe will get involved with actual troops. Hopefully the situation is changing… but “reality” is that germany sent like 20 tanks. Ukraine has over 1200 in their disposal. Poland send almost 400… i mean ev
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Most of the western europe would have carved up Ukraine already to get “peace”. But baltics/nordics/poland won't budge. Western europe is scared to send weapons let alone send any actual military help. When crowdfunding is ri
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Farage whos been campaigning for Trump in US multiple times? Meloni who is Elon Musks bestie going on dates together? Their disapproval of Trump is simply calculation. They would have been hurt too much otherwise. Once most of europe will g
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by omnimus 9mo ago
I think you are underestimating how entrenched and strong US lobby is. European governments are filled to the roof with US boosters whos whole wealth is tied to what US wants. Even people like Macron have been bribed by US companies for dec
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by omnimus 9mo ago
It's totally comments of people using Telegram.
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by omnimus 9mo ago
Maybe you are out of touch. I bet even many people here think it's mainly virtue signaling. I mean… do any of the commercial services in US use pickup trucks? It seems to all be vans? Why not to get a van then as a contractor?
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by omnimus 9mo ago
We are one renaming cycle away from renaming Department of War to Department of Love.

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