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I was on the fence whether to keep my subscription, given there are many alternatives and really I'm not using it that much anymore. Now, given how easily they just decide they would call the police on me if they don't like someth
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You forgot the fire. We are definitely not ready for the fire. We should go back to just using mud and spit for everything.
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It's only abusing if work is measured by hours spent in front of the screen. For most tech workers this is a very wrong way to measure it.
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If it's trivial to build images yourself, then just build it and be thankful for all the utility you earned by deferring doing the task till later - time is money, very literally, the whole point of credit is time-shifting money. You w
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So, you're saying in 2025 businesses are expected to actually make money? What a novel concept. Will the wonders ever cease? I mean, you could expect that thing where you borrow incessantly to "gain traction" and "produc
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Reminds me of a joke, where there was a beggar sitting on a street next to a certain office, and one man has been giving him a coin every time he went to work or was going home. That continued for a while, until one day the man says to the
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Tried Waymo in SF and LA, and the service was great. The only problem I noticed is that sometimes it tells you they'd pick you up in 5 minutes, and then when it's almost over they tell you "sorry, it's actually going to
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Next thing they'd invent a special syntax to put explanations for agents in the code, which is exactly the same as comments, but with attached AI hype so maybe people would actually do it.
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When I read up to "One can use the Rubocop configuration file to specify the path to an extension Ruby file" my immediate thought was "oh no, they didn't allow a user-extendable tool to run in their prod environment...&q
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The word "now" here is kinda worrying tbh. How was it a good idea to release and sell this product before it has been the case?
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Well, they are not entirely wrong: Tolkien was a big fan of "old England", as he saw it, with its primarily agricultural focus, and held rather dim view on industrialization and modernism. While Soviets of course were fanatics of
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Gas and cars are already heavily taxed. In California, for example, it's 61c per gallon now. I am not sure what's the situation in Switzerland, but last time I have been in Europe gas prices there was very significantly higher tha
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For Microsoft it probably makes a lot of sense. For me as a Github user, I don't need "generative coding space" from github at all. That's not what I have been using it for for many years, and that's not what I want
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I wonder how long before Microsoft starts pushing people using Github into MS ecosystem - MS logins, showing MS AI down user's throats, pushing actions towards "works on Azure, don't care about the rest", etc. ?
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I mean if I were promised a "never-have-to-work-ever-again" amount of money in exchange for doing what I'd love to do anyway, and which I think is a working thing, and tolerating the CEO publicly proclaiming some exaggerated
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> provide "space" between work and home. This is part of the company culture. If the company respects the boundary between work and personal life, and it's a cultural value, then it shouldn't be a problem for you es
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A lot of people confuse access to information with being smart. Because for humans it correlates well - usually the smart people are those that know a lot of facts and can easily manipulate them on demand, and the dumb people are those that
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What is fascinating here is the power of ironclad conviction. I mean if it were something more complex, which I wouldn't be able to easily verify, I might even be convinced the LLM has actually demonstrated its case and has conclusivel
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A substantial portion of modern Russian slang is borrowed from hilariously badly translated western movies or games or songs, and then the terms just stayed around, because there wasn't any better alternative.
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> banking was non-existing in practice There was a consumer bank (Sberbank) where you could store your money. Besides the risk of the state just keeping it (which also was real - the Soviet state never played fair) the problem was gettin
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I am actually paying right now to an organization that has humans reviewing things. I will stop paying the moment I learn humans are no longer the determining factor, and will switch my business to the place where they still are. I don&#x27
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So we're moving from "it never happened, it's crazy!" to "of course it's happened before, but it's different this time, so I just falsely pretended the time before didn't happen"? Of course each
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> It's honestly wild that a sitting US president is calling out specific company CEOs This truly never happened before. Oh wait: https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/gm-ceo-resigns-at-oba...
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It's sad that people read the headlines and immediately start screaming "racism!". I don't know if Lip-Bu Tan has done anything wrong or not, but at least there's enough evidence to suggest a massive conflict of int
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Google is not a fancy restaurant. Five-guys private consultancy is a fancy restaurant. Google is the McDonalds of all McDonaldses, it makes software that is used by everybody, whether they want it or not, and you can't turn a corner wi
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True but surprisingly grinding leetcode puzzles also doesn't mean you're a good programmer. In fact, in my decades-long now programming career, I've had to take many more decisions of the homebrew kind (e.g. how the thing is
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I use Brave and never seen those popups. Only read about them. I didn't configure anything special, as far as I remember.
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Tons of books, of course. But if a person reads a good book on, say, Bitcoin chain foundations, I am pretty sure they'd understand how it works. If you read 20 financial books, I am not sure you'd understand how something like US
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Hawala is the same principle and existed pretty much since the same times, maybe earlier (nobody really knows when it started). Still exists and causes major headaches to people like FATF.
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> When you "transfer money" from your bank account to another, your bank has to physically move the associated cash from it's vault to the other banks vault, by hiring secure trucks, people, and so on That's several c

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