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by piokoch 2y ago
Currently I would not invest in any solution that enforces usage of a single LLM model provider, as the scene is really dynamic with the best player changing every month. Now Gemini 2.5 looks really great, but Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek an
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by piokoch 2y ago
It came a few years to early. I remember my shock when I get [1] my OS/2 copy and it was on 10 (yes, ten!) 3.5 inch Floppy Disk, while Windows needed two (one for main OS, one for some utilities). [1] This was 1987 still communistic Po
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by piokoch 2y ago
Let's compare UK and USA electricity prices. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price... It seems that something is not working that great in the UK...
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by piokoch 2y ago
I am surprised that String Theory is still alive, as it is a complicated mathematical structure (even quite elegant), but it is not clear how to verify it experimentally. For long year Particle Physics is hunted by the search of the "n
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by piokoch 2y ago
We should say thank you to greedy BitKeeper VCS owners, who wanted Linus Torvalds to pay them money for keeping Linux source in their system. They managed to piss of Linus sufficiently, so he sat down and created Git.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Voyagers are the greatest technical achievement of human kind. Keeping in the space a piece of hardware run by a computer with power of today's car keys, in the hostile environment, outside freaking solar system is something that is th
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by piokoch 2y ago
Typical "femme fatale", she destroyed The Beatles, she turned Lennon into "working class hero", who had servants and used air condition to lower temperature in his home, so he and Yoko could wear furs inside. The only wo
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by piokoch 2y ago
So, after long years of accepting cancel culture, kicking off people from universities since they happened to write a twitter comment that was not aligned with the current "right" way of thinking, universities suddenly are protect
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by piokoch 2y ago
Maybe after all the whole story is not that fascinating? Bill was coming from the wealthy family, his mum was IBM VP and gave his son a contract to sell operating system, even though there were better alternatives on the market. Ye good ol&
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by piokoch 2y ago
Nope. It's true that free trade WAS hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole. Now free trade is hurting USA economy and that's why USA play against the rules they were promoting for so long.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Interesting that people are downvoting heavily those information. If reality does not match our view of the World, well, let's ignore reality. The truth is that EU kept higher tariffs on US goods than the other way, Trump is changing t
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by piokoch 2y ago
Exactly. Robodog that costs 5K USD, which is probably less than one month of cost of the infantry soldier, and can be sent to fight in the trenches is something generals would dream of. Ukraine, that is experiencing soldiers shortage will g
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by piokoch 2y ago
Now it is 1.4 mln, in future this could be 1000 more, if this will help with overcoming tariffs. Check what happened with Germany export to Kazakhstan in 2022.
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by piokoch 2y ago
This is recurring topic indeed. I remember it was hot topic at least two times, when ALM tools were introduced (e.g. Borland ALM suite - https://www.qast.com/eng/product/develop/borland/index.htm ), next
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by piokoch 2y ago
Do you know how many taxes on many goods European Union has introduced? Was that "empire hubris" as well?
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by piokoch 2y ago
Yes... and no. Having own currency as a global reserve currency has its disadvantages too. For instance it keeps value of the currency high, what makes whole USA production noncompetitive. USA exports two things: internet services (all thos
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by piokoch 2y ago
I am not sure what is so fascinating about Framework laptops. They are pretty expensive and are, in fact, one more Chinese OEM production - they are produced by Taiwanese Compal Electronics, which has factory in Kunshan (China). It is hard
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by piokoch 2y ago
Tell me this is some kind of parody. "Putting in 12 to 15-hour days, the engineering team has traveled to +10 cities in the past half-year for product launches." "Solve deep product problems like how to collect more money wit
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by piokoch 2y ago
Every time I watch timeless "Top Secret!" I can spot a gag I haven't noticed before, combined geniuses of Zucker bros, Jim Abrahams, Val Kilmer and the rest of the cast.
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by piokoch 2y ago
"As far as I can tell F# is one of those things where every single user is extremely happy" Isn't it because language has rather small community of passionate people, who are devoted to their language of choice? F# popularity
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by piokoch 2y ago
I don't think GC has anything to do here, doing manual memory allocation we might hit the same problem.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Wikipedia: "The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users." Seriously? What for? People invest their time to provide free content and as a reward they are gett
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by piokoch 2y ago
Funny note about Cursor. Commercial project, rather expensive, cannot figure out that it would be good to use, say, version control not to break somebody's work. That's why I prefer Aider (free), which is simply committing whateve
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by piokoch 2y ago
Who on earth would like to install that? I can understand installing Win 95, sentiments, blah, blah, first "real" windows MS system (Win 3.X was still some kind of windows manager on top of DOS). But 98? Maybe let's go hardco
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by piokoch 2y ago
It uses graphics and movie snippets from Ghibli Studio movies, I wondering if this does not stretch fair use rules.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Google Search is now "the new Lycos", dated, spammed, more and more useless web search engine, used only because there wasn't anything better. AI chats will probably sank Google search quickly, although it seems it is evolvin
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by piokoch 2y ago
That's a bit of exaggeration, IntelliJ DB tool is okeish, but there is nothing special about it. Even rather dated SQL Squirell is equally good, or even better in some places (like keeping run sqls history, better configurability of un
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by piokoch 2y ago
Obviously you can sell house for $1 to a family member, this will not help to avoid taxes though, as tax office for taxing purposes evaluates value of the house independently.
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by piokoch 2y ago
I would say that "nuclear proliferation" is about not letting North Korea or Israel getting nuclear weapons [1], not chasing random guy who tried to purchase infinitesimal amount of plutonium. [1] As we know, both efforts failed.
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by piokoch 2y ago
Horrible idea, but I am not surprised someone decided to do this. In Germany employees have guarantee that they can speak German at work, does not matter the company is international, on the meetings, emails are people from USA, India, Ukra

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