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by pllbnk 6mo ago
I think there will be a lot of damage control done by the US after he is gone and a lot of things start unraveling. At least I hope so.
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
As an European I think Americans and Europeans at large are still on the same page and will be because of the shared cultural ties. Recent economic upheaval (2020-ongoing) just shook the foundations and eroded the trust in the large voter b
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
It's naive to think that huge geopolitical shifts could happen in otherwise stable democracies in a couple years, short of some cataclysmic event. So far no such event happened and everybody understands that the USA hasn't fallen,
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
This looks like a false advertising and in this case they can't blame it on the "human error".
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
Seems so, unless we manage to pivot to open weight models. Hopefully, Chinese will lead the way along with their consumer hardware. Hard for me to say this because I have always been pro-Western and suddenly it seems like the world has flip
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
It's been a common wisdom now for decades that open source is more secure. Security is just a scapegoat here.
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
Youtube's front page is terrible: - Of the topmost 4 videos I would consider watching one because I am already subscribed to the channel and even have the particular video in Watch Later (so what's the point?) - Shorts appearing a
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
It feels (nobody can prove it) that all user-facing applications are fully vibe-coded and no internal developers have any idea how they work, so they just keep redirecting user questions to Claude to answer on behalf of them. That's wh
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
I am not talking specifically about him but when you reach a certain level in society and large enough umber of people start reading or listening what you are saying your every sentence must be extremely thoughtful because it might have uni
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
It is changing slowly, but the dynamics is so complex that it might as well reverse its course. In the mean time they are still dominating and will probably continue to do so over the coming decades (so for a generation or two more).
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
Most of the time for bureaucratic legalese you would need a local specialist either way, even if the documents were written in English because you need to know local laws (or where to look them up) also. Going back to the Netherlands exampl
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
I agree that competition between peoples is counterproductive. But this is the world we live in. I also think that in large part international competition is pushed by the US as part of their culture and because they are the leading world p
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
Well, let's take the Netherlands or Scandinavian countries as example. Their languages are alive and well, yet temporary work immigrants can live fully functional lives with speaking only English. Europe will be held back economically
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
They have this new Mythos model. I am sure it can fix all the bugs and reliability issues since it's nearly AGI. /s
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
Same works the other way. English is a de facto lingua franca. Migrating between different countries within Europe comes with challenges because many countries still stubbornly implicitly require immigrants to know the native language. With
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
I was lucky at one point to work professionally with Clojure for several years and it has made a huge impact how I think and write code in other languages as well. Also, those other languages now seem needlessly verbose and annoying compare
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
There's not enough computer literacy among population and this 'gatekeeper' role is made up. I also have a Google account which was my main and only one for a very long time (starting from when the Gmail accounts were invite-
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
How else will we be able to write these HN comments if data centers are not there to help us? By typing on our keyboards character by character? [1] [1]: https://x.com/sama/status/2033935276079510011
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
The entire ticket was most likely created by Claude Code's analysis, i.e. hallucinated. Absurd.
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
All they (all big tech companies) have been doing for the past decades has been mining data for ads. Yet, they still are pretty much stuck on the same level: - I search for and buy something, they keep showing me ads for the thing I don&#x2
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
There's barely anything worth watching on Netflix anymore but somehow their stock is rising and they manage to increase subscription prices. I had been subscribing on and off for the past few years but recently almost never because any
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
So far the only company that is really outspoken about the scale of their vibe coding has been Anthropic. However their uptime and bug count is atrocious.
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
I don't know how and if people really manage to run many tasks in parallel and also not check the output. Very recently I had two items that for a reasonably intelligent engineer wouldn't be very complex, but would take time to im
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
> Here's an example [1] of him fumbling on simple arithmetic. If you read just the _next_ paragraph after what this Timothy B. Lee conveniently screenshoted, you will find Ed Zitron saying this: --- The exact quote from the affidavi
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
Honestly, what's the purpose of things like this when anyone can open Claude Code and ask it to create a cheat sheet of itself and even present it in any way you deem best for them?
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
Recently Runbox had a couple significant outages which made me rethink hosting my email with them. I and my family have used them for many years and I liked what they offered (didn't like bad web UI) but will probably be migrating to F
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
> Not everybody is tech savvy and a fair bit of people are too easy to trick into installing things. Almost nobody is tech savvy to understand how LLMs work and how subtly and convincingly they present incorrect facts, yet they are free
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
WFH kind of solves that. Instead of taking coffee breaks or going to lunch with the colleagues presumably one of the working spouses can spend those breaks with the family. Now, I am looking at this problem from the European perspective whe
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
I commented specifically regarding your wording about what's easier. I support the view that daycare is something you have to do reluctantly, not that it's the easy way out. Over the years I had seen too many of my colleagues who
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by pllbnk 7mo ago
I live in Europe. Each country is different but every large city is more or less the same. Sure you can’t compare London with Copenhagen for example but even in the latter case suburban life is much calmer.

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