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31.
by tdiff 11mo ago
For the last decades being born in the western world has been an advantage. There is an irony in it beeing gradually reversed.
32.
by tdiff 1y ago
> Here is a secret: most people want to help you succeed. Most people dont care.
33.
by tdiff 1y ago
That strange feeling of the world getting cleaner for a while without all these dependant services.
34.
by tdiff 1y ago
Beginning with > “Even if we attached panels to all suitable balconies across the country, we’d still only manage to meet 1 percent or less of our overall energy needs,” the article concludes that the most prominent effect of balcony pan
35.
by tdiff 1y ago
One should aim to be in the food chain at a level, where there is no bossware above you.
36.
by tdiff 1y ago
I have a theory that everything that happens in regards of governmental control in China and Russia will eventually be copied in some form in western countries.
37.
by tdiff 1y ago
Unfortunately, most devs are not working on “high-leverage, strategic, needle-moving, synergistic core” things not because they don't have time to.
38.
by tdiff 1y ago
I am still waiting for cases of ms locking people out of their windows accounts (which are now required to use windows, you know) for violation of some policy.
39.
by tdiff 1y ago
I agree, but I also see how even a regular employee in, say, space travel corp (or in pharma and so on) can consider their work to be more impactful than running a local community (even in reallity their impact is minimal).
40.
by tdiff 1y ago
> For dreams and craft, I have my side projects. In very infrequent cases can you achieve any noticeable (for society) results without being part of a large org.
41.
by tdiff 1y ago
Really looks like an ai-generated overview.
42.
by tdiff 1y ago
Cool but it includes UI to review puzzle candidates. How can >100k problems be reviewed in a reasonable time?
43.
by tdiff 1y ago
> on actually difficult things Can't help but note that in 99% cases this "difficult things" trope makes little sense. In most jobs, the freed time is either spent on other stupid tasks or is lost due to org inefficiencies
44.
by tdiff 1y ago
But nevertheless, productivity objectively exists. Some people/teams are more productive as others. I suppose it would be simpler to compare productivity for people working on standard, "normalized" tasks, but often every oth
45.
by tdiff 1y ago
I wonder where were those 100k puzzles sourced from?
46.
by tdiff 1y ago
> It’s almost never going to be the best choice these days, but it’s definitely viable. Could someone please explain what the better options are?
47.
by tdiff 1y ago
Its relatively easy to generate "startup ideas", but even with a perfectly reasonable idea at hand the hardest thing is to bring it into life, overcoming every possible obstacle.
48.
by tdiff 1y ago
Code itself is not very valuable as well. What has value is the combination of all those things and application of them to some real problem in a form of complete solution.
49.
by tdiff 1y ago
Perhaps another reminder that ideas per se are not very valuable.
50.
by tdiff 1y ago
Unless abortion is considered a crime by itself?
51.
by tdiff 1y ago
And it does not help that major tls implementation is called openssl with its own versioning
52.
by tdiff 1y ago
What I don't get: - How come Yandex was doing it for years without being noticed. - Facebook must have known about this technique for years as well, why did they only enable it last year.
53.
by tdiff 1y ago
Use telegram
54.
by tdiff 1y ago
Its well known that whatsapp is also available in Russia
55.
by tdiff 1y ago
злорадство in Russian
56.
by tdiff 1y ago
> The chatbot still handles two-thirds of all customer inquiries I wonder what happens with the remaining third.
57.
by tdiff 1y ago
Works for numerous projects which "run the world". Everyone know the system is brittle, but somehow manage to handle it.
58.
by tdiff 1y ago
Because cpp is not meant for "rapid prototyping" involving importing half of github with single command. And the reality is that it works.
59.
by tdiff 1y ago
If we end up with less american culture spread around the world, would it be net positive for everyone else?
60.
by tdiff 1y ago
Tbh it always wondered me why baseball or american football are so popular in Germany. Looks like a cultural colonisation, but the country seems to be ok with it.

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