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by screye 11mo ago
I would treat these rankings with suspicion. I checked them for a few nations where I had solid on-the-ground knowledge, and the ranks and full-profile descriptions are straight up false. Usually propaganda involves lying by omission or hyp
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by screye 11mo ago
There no middle-eastern countries among the top 5 muslim countries by population. It goes: Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh & Nigeria, in that order.
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by screye 11mo ago
Gemini being terrible in Cursor is a well known problem. Unfortunately, for all its engineers, Google seems the most incompetent at product work.
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by screye 11mo ago
It goes deeper. The problem lies at the source. > people pushing ideology University Education programs and as a result teaching bodies have been taken over by ideology. I believe it is in part because all the teaching low hanging fruit
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by screye 11mo ago
Thanks for the link. I'll give it a read.
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by screye 11mo ago
Not sure why you make that assumption. In fact, I live in NYC and that's exactly where I see the abundance vs dem-soc tensions. This includes friends who were early canvassers for Zohran. It includes Zohran's loudest public suppor
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by screye 11mo ago
No, Europeans will recognize NYC's policies as normal, Zohran or not. Afterall, It's one of America's only European-ish cities. NYC has subsidized world-class transit, rent-stabilization, high taxes and free-childcare. Pretty
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by screye 1y ago
On the contrary. Increasing density within the core allows people to switch to walking, cycling and transit. It reduces road traffic and those who want to commute from the burbs gain a faster commute. New housing isn't zero sum. Increa
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by screye 1y ago
Yep, Dense urban neighborhoods and aggressively increasing net-new-housing production would solve some of these issues. The housing theory of everything really is a theory of everything.
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by screye 1y ago
Should've clarified. I meant for the 5 working days. 10/16 hours.
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by screye 1y ago
I have changed my opinion on professional warmth. In demanding industries, people spend 2/3rds of their waking hours around their coworkers. That's practically their whole life. It's cruel to encourage coldness in such an env
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by screye 1y ago
> as an excuse to justify layoffs and other activities that transfer wealth and power from employees to management and shareholders Video game employees (programmers) are famously overworked, layoff prone and have little say in executive
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by screye 1y ago
Think of it this way. There are 2 groups. Group 1 has has avoided typecheckers because they're a PITA and group 2 has configured mypy/pyright despite the devx pain. Group 1 is a lot bigger than group 2. Group 2 is more lucrative p
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by screye 1y ago
If ruff & uv have proved anything, it's that a tool that's effortless, a net-positive and fast will get adopted. New typecheckers don't need to be perfect. They need to be good enough, easy to integrate and have low false
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by screye 1y ago
It's not just gambling. Influencer and VC culture incentivize this same 'hit it big or die trying' ethos. I have seen '5 million is too little to retire on' type of messaging on HN too. The only way to save more tha
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by screye 1y ago
China's population boom has ended. The 70s boom can't be recreated without sufficient youth to move into the newly urbanized locations.
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by screye 1y ago
Graph RAG is great, but misunderstood. As a human user, consider file-system navigation or code search. You navigate to a seed file, and then hop through the children and dependencies until you find what you're looking for. The value i
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by screye 1y ago
Very impressive. The economic angle is a bit confusing. Wonder why China thought this was a worthy investment. Guizhou is a poor part of China, without much international tourism or trade. Wikipedia indicates it is meant to increase tourism
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by screye 1y ago
I read the article. It piled about 5 different assumptions on top of each other. It takes the upper bound for the deaths in the first 9 months. Then extrapolates it linearly to the last 2.5 years. Then multiplies it by 4, because it estimat
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by screye 1y ago
I haven't seen any numbers exceeding 100k. Where did you get 600k from ? the article is taking projections and applying multiple extrapolations to them. It is a bad estimate. The current estimates are between 53000 - 66000. About 10x l
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by screye 1y ago
Wonder how PE intends to transform a company that was already trying every slimy PE trick. [x] - Employees are overworked and underpaid [x] - IP treated as infinite cash cows loaded with micro-transactions [x] - Games turned soulless in pur
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by screye 1y ago
AI tab-complete & fast LSP implementations made typing easy. The tools changed, and people changed their minds. JSON's interaction with types is still annoying. A deserialized JSON could be any type. I wish there was a standard pyt
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by screye 1y ago
There is viable public transit from SFO to the city. Both Caltrain and Bart have decent connections to the airport. Practically, travelers with heavy check-in bags prefer taxis. Public transit can't be the answer for everything. Withou
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by screye 1y ago
It's called the global south because it is poor. These terms (3rd world, developing world) are associated with poverty because they are a cluster of poor nations. The countries are poor because they're badly run. Their institution
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by screye 1y ago
I've found it to be the other war around. Protests succeed, and they crown (usually conservative) authoritarians as the new king. Arab spring & Bangladesh are the 2 recent examples.
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by screye 1y ago
Nepal is an interesting nation. Compared to nearby poor nations, Nepal is safe and its people are perceived to be welcoming. It's the only serious candidate for being a ski-nation in all of mainland Asia. If Nepal wanted, it could tran
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by screye 1y ago
I bet this is a computer use agents play. It's an acquisition of Perplexity Comet's main competitor. Atlassian is in the 'productivity' business. The natural next step is to allow agents to do the productivity tasks for
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by screye 1y ago
Amazon and Apple have never had fundamental research groups. Even before LLMs, the top big-tech fundamental labs were FAIR, Google Research and MSR. It has never been in Amazon or Apple's DNA to chase a product that doesn't have c
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by screye 1y ago
It's great advice for an individual or a work item. It's great advice for teams where untamed programmers run rampant. It's good advice when teams are sane. But, it's terrible for 2025's median software team. I know
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by screye 1y ago
This is especially relevant now that docker has made it easy to maintain local builds of the entire app (fe+be). Factor in local AI flows and the RAM requirements explode. I have a whisper transcription module running at all times on my Mac

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