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by samiv 7mo ago
"The traffic light though is very simple. Yellow means “it was green and will turn red”. Red+yellow means “it was red and will turn green”." That was not the point, that's the standard way the lights will work. The point is t
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by samiv 7mo ago
I know how the traffic lights work, point was that there are just excessively many of different combinations in Germany rather than just a single standard green/yellow/red. "The end of a speed limit indication means the same
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by samiv 7mo ago
As a non German but someone who has lived there for 10 years my take is that its cultural part of being Germans. They always seem to gravitate towards making things just a little bit more difficult. Sthe keyboards are not QWERTY. They'
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by samiv 7mo ago
In many cases in Germany "digitalization" means there's a PDF which you can download, print, fill out sign and scan and send copy of.
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by samiv 7mo ago
You're actually not necessarily right. At this point here in the south of Germany not having DB would be an improvement. Now it exists and you might even try to take it just to be delayed and disappointed. You'll lose your money a
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by samiv 7mo ago
I expect that in the "post scarcity" world where the capital class doesn't need majority of human labor for anything most people will be priced out of everything. Including the basic necessities. But sure, lets just keep auto
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by samiv 7mo ago
That's a great idea the task bar could just shift to expose a link to sign up for azure/office/OneDrive/CoPilot subscription that the user misclicks on.
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by samiv 7mo ago
"Also - study the code of the likes of Carmack. Consider that he produced the likes of the quake engines in only a couple of years. Reflect long and hard on the raw simplicity of a lot of that code." Also says something about the
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by samiv 7mo ago
Don't know about "cool" but I always end up going back to opengameart.org While most of the stuff is one off assets that do not fit together there are also some nice sets by some creators such as Kenney or Emcee Flesher Also
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by samiv 7mo ago
You're right and I agree with you to an extent. Also as of now the tools aren't quite intelligent enough for one to produce software of that complexity without having someone competent at the helm. That being said what already exi
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by samiv 7mo ago
Software is just means to an end. Data and data transformation is what people want. Software has sellable dollar value only because creating the software to do the data transformation has had real associated cost. I.e anyone who wanted a pa
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by samiv 7mo ago
It's like the business of selling electric drills. People don't really want drills they want holes. But holes are difficult to sell so the selling the drills is a proxy for that. In software it's the same thing. People don&#x
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by samiv 7mo ago
Sad but true. You also forgot to elaborate on the later company life cycle where the MBAs take over and only serve themselves and the Wall Street. Product and product development is a cost center that is cut away to bare minimum skeleton cr
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by samiv 7mo ago
I did the same thing and cancelled my OpenAI plan today. Besides boycotting it for their latest grifting I also found it to not really produce much value in my use cases. Moving back to doing this archaic thing called using my own brain to
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by samiv 7mo ago
Technology doesn't do anything by itself. The result of it on the fabric of the society depends on how it is applied, whether the benefits are distributed to everyone (to some extent) or not. It's possible that taby technology is
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by samiv 7mo ago
That's because they're an additive tool. Everything boils down to "adding" more code. But in the long term its not about how much code you can add but how little you can get away with. But this is an impossible task for
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by samiv 7mo ago
This is a tremendous opportunity for the capitalists and industrialists to dodge their obligations towards normal employees. Essentially outsource their costs, healthcare, pension, unemployment etc employee protections to the working class
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by samiv 8mo ago
Let me get this straight so basically with the chatbots everyone is now running faster than ever. Every business thinks they can get an advantage by increasing their velocity relative to their competition. But the competitive is doing the s
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by samiv 8mo ago
The good news is as of now ladyboy doesn't have any competition. Rarely if ever is anything able to compete simply by being "better". As far as USPs go it's just not enough. I reckon for ladyboy the USP (if any) is going
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by samiv 8mo ago
This is the famous trap that Joel on Software talked about in a blog post long time ago. If you do a rewrite you essentially put everything else on halt while rewriting. If you keep doing feature dev on the old while another "tiger tea
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by samiv 8mo ago
I'm nearly 30 years into my career and I feel like the tools today are so broken that if I was going to "fix" them that's all I would ever be doing. I write a bunch of my code on Linux with Clio and for the last several
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by samiv 8mo ago
It's ok we'll just send a robot back in time to help destroy the chip that starts it.
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by samiv 8mo ago
The users with their account issues are such a DRAG! How can a poor trillion dollar company be expected to be able to manage this situation? Worst case scenario is they'd have to gasp hire humans to resolve issues. /s Same thing
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by samiv 8mo ago
Nah this isn't right. We also have access to a ton of information even regarding arcane things such as writing x86 boot sequence in real mode or writing boot loaders. More now than ever before. In fact today on GitHub alone you can fin
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by samiv 8mo ago
Indeed. Plus getting ourselves banned from the platform for harassment
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by samiv 8mo ago
That's the essence of the corporations behind these commercial products as well. Leech off of all the work of others and then sell a product that regurgitates that said work without attribution or any back contribution.
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by samiv 8mo ago
"China and India" this is the point exactly. BRICS is the largest economic union in the world. They don't need EU for anything therefore the sanctions are only self harming the Eurozone. This is the reality.
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by samiv 8mo ago
Same story for 4 years long. "Russian economy is at the brink of a collapse." Yet it Somehow just keeps ok going year after year. The truth is that the sanctions are only hurting the Eurozone more than Russia. Small minority (EU o
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by samiv 8mo ago
Case in point A Cuban fitness model engaged to a lowlife drug traffic currently in prison in Finland. She specifically traveled all the way to meet him after sexting with him on social media. https://www.is.fi/viihde/ar
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by samiv 8mo ago
Who's this yahoo?

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