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by piva00 1y ago
You've perfectly described why most corporations get low-engagement employees producing whatever is asked without much questioning because they simply don't care. You pay me, I produce what you asked, no matter how shit it is sinc
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by piva00 1y ago
Yes, they do. When 70+ years old grandparents in Sweden are aware of the bad image the brand brings, it's dead. When I personally know two cases of that, 70 years old disconnected from internet vitriol, I assume it's absolutely de
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by piva00 1y ago
This comparison doesn't make sense, the USD 200B/year was to invent the capabilities, do trailblazing work on something that needed to be proven even feasible as a concept, to do fundamental/foundational work, not to producti
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by piva00 1y ago
> And, given their unusual needs and scale, there will probably be some kind of bespoke abstraction, whether it's an SDK, or a document, that says this is the subset of things you should be using, and how to use them, so that we can
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by piva00 1y ago
While also avoiding having to re-run cases to get new introspection when you forgot to add a print statement. I tend to do both, print statements when I don't feel I want to be stepping through some cumbersome interplay of calls but di
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by piva00 1y ago
I understood that, I interpreted the comment I replied to as: "why would you bike 2h40m after a shift?", I might have misunderstood that one though.
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by piva00 1y ago
40km is more like a 1h20m-1h40m ride on a slightly above average pace (25km/h-30km/h), it shouldn't take 2h40m to ride 40km even on a very slow pace (15km/h).
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by piva00 1y ago
People stopped working because of Covid, not because of the safety nets, you should remember that a lot of businesses closed down which usually means not being able to afford staff. It's not clear at all from the pandemic what UBI woul
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't see how having a decent public transportation network is any different. I live in a suburb of Stockholm, 15km away from the city centre but it takes me only some 35 min to get to the central station on the metro, I have the opt
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by piva00 1y ago
The mind is necessarily a function, it's performing its function over a vast array of inputs (memories, senses, etc.) and making sense of it as it goes, and it doesn't exist without energy expenditure to keep computing itself. To
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by piva00 1y ago
It's unfortunate it is your employer's IP, this shim on top of SAP would be extremely valuable if you sold as another product to enable internal teams in SAP-world corporations to develop without the knowledge of SAP arcana.
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by piva00 1y ago
I pay for both because YT Music sucks, a lot.
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by piva00 1y ago
> Obviously I would expect Spotify to pay podcasters. Are you willing to pay more for your subscription so that Spotify can also pay podcasters? Because that's what you are asking, it won't ever be able to dilute even more the
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by piva00 1y ago
I paid for WhatsApp, USD 1 for year for a few years. They dropped the fee back in 2016. If WhatsApp wasn't part of Meta they would have found a way, even more it was a very small team before the acquisition already supporting hundreds
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by piva00 1y ago
Why would they create a bespoke abstraction layer instead of just relying on k8s? There is only pain on the path of recreating it, it will end up almost as complex as k8s and it will be hell to hire and train for. Best to just use something
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by piva00 1y ago
You should keep reading and check the data, not just the source. If the data is real then it doesn't matter the bias, what a stupid brainless take...
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by piva00 1y ago
If Google spent Moon-landing level of money in their quality/deployment infrastructure I expect a much better coverage checker than "100% unit tested", they are famous for having a whole fuzzing infrastructure, coverage analy
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't agree that in this specific case (reading potential null data from a source) it's the kind of failure of null handling that every skill level would do, after you're experienced enough and you are reading values from s
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by piva00 1y ago
Perhaps there are more structural elements to be tackled where cuts won't be enough to balance the budget. Starting with Medicaid/Medicare since it's a huge expenditure: why even bother running a system that has worse outcome
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by piva00 1y ago
> EDIT: I don't support the tax cuts in the BBB, I think that's counteracting all the efforts to drop spending. But in talking about cuts in general, I think we do need to make painful cuts across the board. NASA's budget
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by piva00 1y ago
> You're not supposed to take the Democratic talking points about Trump being a "wannabe dictator" seriously. It's just political mudslinging. I think you should go up this comment thread and read this[0], it's n
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by piva00 1y ago
ADS-B at that airport seems very inaccurate, if you look at previous departures there are a bunch of planes misplaced.
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't know anything else apart from finding communities and mobilising with similar-minded people, there's power in numbers. At the same time it feels pretty hopeless, even more when I noticed downvotes coming to my comment righ
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by piva00 1y ago
To anyone who watched or lived through the ascension of Orbán and Erdogan in the 2000s it was very eerie how similar the playbook was for Trump. The same steps, in the same direction, the competitive authoritarian[0] playbook was clearly in
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by piva00 1y ago
First search result in Google for me is " https://esta.visasyst.com/ ", second one is " https://evisa.us/application/esta ", third one is " https://www.usimmigrationsuppo
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by piva00 1y ago
It's quite different if it happens in 2-3 years time or spread across 10-20. You don't want a sizeable percentage of your workforce to lose jobs in a short span, there's no capacity for retraining so many people for them to b
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by piva00 1y ago
The USA would get SpaceX but also have to deal with businesses getting spooked that the government can now nationalise private assets on a whim. When that happened in Iran 1953 the CIA fostered a coup; Cuba is under embargo since the 60s tr
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by piva00 1y ago
> For those who are obese, in 99% of cases, they are the problem, not genetics. A lack of discipline is attributable to the individual, rarely external factors alone. If the environment doesn't nudge the individual to be more discip
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by piva00 1y ago
Got it, thanks for clarifying! I'm in complete agreement with you, I first got scared with the potential for profiling individuals through data collection over time some 15 years ago. I was working on a very small project from a startu
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by piva00 1y ago
> Consider the implications of AI knowing everything about you, even down to your biometric behavior. Think about the threat of disinformation campaigns targeting democracies. I know my stance may seem weak in terms of ideals, and I feel

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