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by oytis 1y ago
No, I don't feel qualified. But it looks to me that there were times when challenging authorities and questioning general opinion was cool, and these times ended before social media kicked in. Maybe urbanization and generally people no
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by oytis 1y ago
Well, yes, and the argument is that it's bad, because people become less connected, can't freely speak their minds etc. My point is there are other, maybe more powerful reasons why people become less connected and might hesitate s
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by oytis 1y ago
I wouldn't blame the culture of conformity solely on social media really.
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by oytis 1y ago
I thought Apple already voluntary implemented it on their devices?
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by oytis 1y ago
They could stop the current stage of the war, sure. They couldn't achieve peace though - basically stopping the operation would mean reverting to pre Oct. 2023 state with Israel trying to improve their security (aka "blockade&quot
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by oytis 1y ago
Settler violence in the West Bank sure sucks, but in my opinion less than Hamas regime and war in Gaza, both for Israelis and Palestinians. Valid point for the safety of Hamas members though, would be hard to come up with an arrangement tha
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by oytis 1y ago
I can kind of accept South Africa as a success story, but Rhodesia?
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by oytis 1y ago
They are not Western, but they are a democracy for sure. The extremist minority got into the government by democratic mechanisms - happens in Western democracies too from time to time
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by oytis 1y ago
Do you think Israel is able to destroy Hamas' power in Gaza, but prefers to starve babies instead?
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by oytis 1y ago
Like, not at all? They tried to withdraw from Gaza, and preferred to educate their population on living under daily rocket attacks just to avoid waging a war in Gaza. It all dragged on with no hope for a permanent peace and culminated in th
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by oytis 1y ago
I mean, it moves the situation closer to not living in war and famine? Also the idea of amnesty to all Hamas members looks pretty generous to me - Nazis didn't enjoy the same privilege
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by oytis 1y ago
Cause they are islamists and have nothing against turning all of Gaza's population into "martyrs"?
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by oytis 1y ago
Unmoderated platforms are pretty much useless. Having said that, I'd prefer governments to stay away from either moderating or forcing platforms to moderate content
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by oytis 1y ago
Have you got good results with LLMs for low-level development? For embedded I've found them mostly useless.
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by oytis 1y ago
Yes, they are components in a machine, and if machine is generating N dollars per second, it doesn't mean that they are generating it. It's also perfectly reasonable to try to find components as cheaply as you can, and don'
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by oytis 1y ago
They didn't run ads in the early days, they didn't make any money either
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by oytis 1y ago
Yeah, I've seen really strong engineers being laid off. My point is that viewing software engineers as magic money cows is wrong, they don't make money by themselves - and those who do start their own companies and stop being soft
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by oytis 1y ago
Yeah, I mean, my comment can be read by billion people. But I don't think I deserve three figures for commenting, at least not until the comment has actually been read by billion people.
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by oytis 1y ago
Big Tech companies make money by extracting value from other parts of economy. Not only developers are normally not the ones creating that value, they are also not the only part of the mechanism that extracts it - sales, marketing and legal
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by oytis 1y ago
Can they? Lots of well-paid devs were laid off in the recent years, where are the products with billions users they have made?
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by oytis 1y ago
It's not that there was some conspiracy to get more people into software. Software is fun, pays well and is accessible - no wonder more people wanted (and still want) to get into it.
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by oytis 1y ago
A transcription would be useful though. A rare case for AI gizmos to be useful, and noone cared to integrate it.
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by oytis 1y ago
What's the problem with Indian visas? At least on a cursory glance looks straightforward
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by oytis 1y ago
Absolutely, US software industry wouldn't be nearly as large as well-paying without (allegedly useless) US domination over the world
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by oytis 1y ago
It's truly amazing how little you need to intrude into the privileges of an already extremely privileged group as US software developers are, to make them go full "immigrats are taking our jobs".
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by oytis 1y ago
Even if it was a good idea - how would you draw a boundary between AI and the rest of computing? In the end you'd have to go full Butlerian Jihad and prohibit computation in general, or at least limit allowed computing power.
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by oytis 1y ago
It's not like hardware and low-level jobs were booming either. If anything, universities have been adjusting to requirements of the market whether it's right or wrong.
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by oytis 1y ago
I think it's not about individual, but rather collective idiocy. It's much more convenient to believe false impressions that big tech is trying to instill rather than listening to nerds reminding you that cloud is just other peopl
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by oytis 1y ago
It's literally how ads were done before the era of social media. Then someone came up with idea that people are annoyed with ads because they are not personalised enough
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by oytis 1y ago
20 a month for a commercial model is price dumping financed by investors. For ollama it's hopefully a sustainable price.

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