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ponector
1y ago
Would average American citizen like to pay x3 for made in America goods instead of Chinese? Why they don't do it now? One could easily replace 90% of consumed good with US made.
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Imagine how much can China get from cancelling USAID and replacing it with Chinese version!
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1y ago
How it doesn't work if it actually is? However there is a lack of law enforcement and lack of integration programs for immigrants.
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1y ago
However, from my experience, the quality of code produced by developers in project we are working for the last 3+ years gone south. Amount of bugs now literally tripled year on year. I bet the reason is extensive use of AI tools, as the dev
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1y ago
Only in the ideal world, where developers test results of their work on their machines. Test for real, with real db, not with empty or mocks.
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1y ago
Isn't it a future we are moving to? To hire poor (cheap) developers to do LLM-driven development.
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1y ago
Not only here. Everyone wants to use a quality products, but no almost one is committed to deliver quality products/services. No one is working on quality, everyone works on new features. There is usually no incentive to increase quali
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1y ago
I had Asus ROG zephyrus M16 2021 and it's a hot piece of shit considering €2500 sticker price.
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1y ago
>> I basically cannot come up with a situation where popups are actually an unavoidable and proper good choice How about pop-up with 2fa request? Better to have pop-up for push notification than to look for auth app by yourself.
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1y ago
What I'm talking about is a citizen usually cannot come without months of waiting in a queue for a scheduled appointment with a reference from a family doctor unless into the emergency care.
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1y ago
>>I worry the next decade will bring an influx of undertrained engineers. How can it be the other way? No one is investing into education of their developers, also trying to save some money on them. Get cheap fresh grads and make them
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1y ago
>> Ten years ago you could buy a brand new small car for well under €10k. Sure, it didn't have all the bells and whistles but I have no need for those anyway. Nowadays, you're looking at €30k+ for a new, small car If you ar
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1y ago
>> Ukraine is relying on the US instead of Europe for defense. Is it? Especially in 2025. It is embarrassing how little of (very old) heavy equipment USA provided to Ukraine. North Macedonia provided same amount of main battle tanks a
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1y ago
Aren't there more gay liberals than ever? /s
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1y ago
>>And nobody is eating vaccines. Wrong. There are oral vaccines, like polio. However the taste of it is disgusting.
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1y ago
>>lived roughly 10 years longer than average I'm curious how affects lifespan having a private chef at home and a private driver.
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1y ago
>> There are public hospitals which are open to all. No way they are open for all. Maybe emergency room is, but not whole hospital. If you have an unknown disease which is not an emergency (like some STD) - I highly doubt you can go s
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1y ago
Does it mean any difference who is the payer if it is deducted from the employer's budget for salaries?
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1y ago
A team of 9 created or vibe-coded a product?
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1y ago
The best usage is to ask LLM to explain existing code, to search in the legacy codebase.
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1y ago
>> It's entirely possible that offloading that task to an LLM gives agents _more_ breathing room In theory, yes. But there is no way they are going to save millions by giving more breathing room to agents.
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1y ago
>> I've never once said "I would like AI in [some product] But that is exactly what we got. AI washing machine! AI espresso machine! And many more AI tools.
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1y ago
Imagine how AI changed the call center's work: 1. Some agents have been laid off. 2. Survivors got stripped off 5-minutes summarizing breaks between calls and assigned new higher targets of how many calls should they take per hour/
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1y ago
Your company saved millions means they fired many agents and hiked amount of cases per agent?
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1y ago
Nft did work untill they didn't. Supersonic passenger flights did work until they didn't. And many more innovations which are not viable.
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1y ago
>> criticizing a minister But using memes with real Nazi for this, in Germany, is too much. And they got a fine, not a prison term. Fair enough.
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1y ago
>> 99% seems like a pulled-out-of-your-butt number I don't agree. AI support is as useless as real customer support. But it is more polite, calm, with clear voice, etc. Much better, isn't it?
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1y ago
But why? Locks are working. They perfectly fulfill requirements for the lock. Open/close with a key, stay closed if tried to be opened without a key. There is no such thing as secure lock. Any lock could be open without original key. T
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1y ago
Such car will not comply with legislation. Or are you talking about car with all sort of tracking systems and driver's assists but no infotainment? Anyway, that is not what majority want to buy. Even more, a car is not what majority wa
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1y ago
There is nothing faulty in the hardware, why they should replace it? Following the same logic: old phones, even iphones can be hacked. Should manufacturers replace the hardware?
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