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by ponector 7mo ago
That's not true, you can get a cheap new EV, pricing for electric Dacia without subsidy starts from €16k. And used Zoe or i3 are really cheap.
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by ponector 7mo ago
Right, you need to hire a scapegoat. Usually tester has that role: little impact but huge responsibility for quality.
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by ponector 7mo ago
While there was a rat race in the city, typical farmlife was more brutal: work from early childhood and then from dawn to dusk. City dwellers had at least one day off per week, while working with animals is a job without holidays.
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by ponector 7mo ago
Developers do that as well. Especially now with llm-assisted coding. Accept half-baked solution and go to the next ticket. I've had recently a case at work, while filling a contact form to add a new party there were 300+ calls to the v
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by ponector 7mo ago
996 is already a thing outside of China.
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by ponector 7mo ago
If you are paid hourly and not per task than what is the point in finishing your task faster?
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by ponector 7mo ago
>> Energy independence is extremely valuable. Not if your top politicians are on putin's payrol like Orban and Merkel.
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by ponector 7mo ago
Got recently a new surface laptop at work - windows 11 gives me the same feeling I had from Vista. Hilarious how modern computers are more powerful than ever, but windows 11 now feels worse than windows 7 ten years ago.
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by ponector 7mo ago
The other side of the coin: if it's hard to fire employee, company will not hire extra people and it's hard to get a permanent position in such circumstances.
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by ponector 7mo ago
In many EU countries it's common to have 3-6-month notice period and contacts with unlimited term. And somehow people are moving between companies. If you are not willing to wait 6 months for a new employee - just get a contractor.
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by ponector 7mo ago
Do you think they would like to consider $60k annual salary there?
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by ponector 7mo ago
Same for vacancies: half are fake, almost all are filled with ai slop.
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by ponector 7mo ago
Or even try to educate people. It was common to have learning programs but nowadays managers only complain you cannot find cheap experts.
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by ponector 7mo ago
Contrary to not banning images of violence. It's ok to show extremely violent murder but not a sex with step mother (especially with happy ending)!
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by ponector 7mo ago
Is it better to be screwed without contract violation?
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by ponector 7mo ago
There was a story a year or two ago about exit where company was sold for $350m but all employees for nothing, even the founders.
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by ponector 7mo ago
The real disgrace is the russian invasion. Can't blame Baltics states for trying to defend themselves. And don't forget, russians are completely fine with usage of all kind of mines as well as targeting civil critical infrastructu
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by ponector 7mo ago
Funny how Iran is America's problem so much but Ukraine is not, despite signed security assurance to the Ukrainian people.
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by ponector 7mo ago
This does not look like a smart one. A bit smarter would be to strike a month ago to support street protests.
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by ponector 8mo ago
Are you really forced to buy super heavy suv? Why can't you buy a Corolla? Or even a Mini Cooper?
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by ponector 8mo ago
It mattered to pass through the interview, but not for the job itself. With all leetcode geniuses in Microsoft why Teams and Windows are so shitty?
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by ponector 8mo ago
It is solved in his org. He never promised quality software, though. You get a buggy electron app and they get billions in valuation. Clearly no one values quality anymore. 1000% yolo
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by ponector 8mo ago
Why couldn't they prompt Claude code to fix all the issues?
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by ponector 8mo ago
EVs are as old as ICE vehicles, people should compare both on the same scale.
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by ponector 8mo ago
Also amazing what could be wasted when you can plan 5 years in the wrong direction. Remember USSR computers? They also been planned years in advance.
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by ponector 8mo ago
>> when they say that almost all their new code is written by LLM. Kepping in mind they are trying hard to sell their code assistant what else they can say? Goal is simple: just lie your way forward to the next VC funding round.
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by ponector 8mo ago
>> that gives us total control over what our devices do Like rooted Android phone, which is useless for regular folks because many critical apps doesn't work (like banking).
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by ponector 8mo ago
I see no harm if China use my data. But US companies are actually using my data against me.
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by ponector 8mo ago
But non-chinese game listening and siphoning all your data is ok.
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by ponector 8mo ago
I imagine to get more robust code your agent can replace for loop with long lines of if-then statements. Later manager can brag about how many lines of code they created!

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