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by teiferer 1mo ago
Without immigrants your happiness would deterioate pretty quickly, I guarantee you that.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> import millions of people with few employable skills That's denying reality to a level that's not even funny. For an above-average group like HN folks I'd even assume a bad faith perspective. The average immigrant is the
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> I very vividly remember double clicking some executable, and then immediately hearing the HDD start to spin, Are you sure about that? At that time, hard drives were constantly spinning. Getting them to suspend was a rare feat. > pro
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Exactly this. It's the design and architecture where the bloat is. Not the need for some microoptimization..
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by teiferer 1mo ago
It's maybe a combination of incentives. Give the devs the latest shiniest model, give them a list of barely manageable feature requests , and nobody will spend the time to consider performance issues that you'd get on hardware fro
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Yeah tell that to the chrome instance that takes 3.5 seconds to open an new tab. Because it needs to suspend one of the other tabs that are taking 5 GB of ram each.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> I assume this is a combination of hardware and how fast SSD->RAM is due to the SOC, but software will certinaly play a big part too. That is exactly what I'm talking about. Sorry, you are completely off. My machine 20 years ago
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Elected representatives decide who is in charge. For example, in many countries they elect the government. To which the secretary of housing belongs which decides how housing policy is executed which is implemented by the bureaucrats in tha
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> What is the solution to your demand for infinite growth on a planet of finite resources? Um I wrote "lots of problems", not "all problems". Nor did I require infinite growth, not sure where you read that. Though on
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Does anybody know how much AI was used to build this? The release cadence that Apple has with its CPUs is impressive.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> a little sluggish > surprised by how quick it felt Aren't these properties of the (G)UI rather than of the processor? I've been using systems 20 years ago that were super snappy. The same software would still be snappy tod
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by teiferer 1mo ago
You think without EU there would be no regulations and everything would be free for all? You must be young or don't remember pre-EU times. In CS terms, the EU turned an O(n^2) problem, bilateral agreements, into an O(n) problem, everyb
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Last time I checked, regulators are part of governments which tend to be confirmed in one way or another in democracies. Different story on non-democratic forms of government. There the hate is justified. But just complaining about regulato
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by teiferer 1mo ago
It should be a separate topic , yes. But calling it a "problem" is already the framing that pits locals against immigrants, distracting from what's really keeping people down. In fact, immigration is a solution to lots of ac
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by teiferer 1mo ago
If you look at what I responded to then you see that it was about every country having their own rules. "More EU" would mean harmonizing them in the sense that they are all the same and you'd have a single regulatory body. I
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by teiferer 1mo ago
I don't think it does. Of course they are culpable, that's the whole point. Them being in that position of power is not god given though, nor set in stone. Replacing them is a single election away. Still, people keep voting for th
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by teiferer 1mo ago
It's a success of the upper class to pit the middle class against the lower class and the immigrants. As long as people on one "side" complain that there is too much foreign culture and they'll all be replaced and/r
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by teiferer 1mo ago
You need lobbyists to pull on one side and the general population to be too uninformed or too non-caring to not pull enough in the other direction.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Indeed, and that's why we need more EU, not less of it.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> All small businesses and solo enterpreneurs that I know who are hit by this are not "in this field". Their field is making jewelry or knitted toys or something similar. Are they shipping within EU? Then they literally are in
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> eu expanded too much and grew too large to actually have a coherent purpose. Anybody seriously thinking that seems completely oblivious to how central EU is to the economies and every day lives of member states. There is a lot to criti
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Interesting, I'd like to read that study. Though it's not the question I asked. Would the second group fair somewhere close to the first if it only had listened once? (I don't buy the argument that this would not be fair sinc
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Those two teachers will rarely say the same words. Chances are, teacher 2 chooses their words more carefully, and gives you then space to absorb that higher information density. In the end, both may communicate the same amount of informatio
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Indeed, well put. It is a spectrum. If you give your mind some space, it will start churning through the key ideas, fill in gaps, turn things upside down, ask questions. That starts during the explanations and their pauses. And ideally you
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> When I’m understimulated by a teacher, my mind wanders. A good solution to this is to train focus. By giving in to the dopanine craving you are depriving your mind of the space it needs to process.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> other wasteful things (doc writing) I wish people would create more and better docs. Pour as much time into a meticulously written doc details as they discuss indentation and variable naming style. But instead, just like with your atti
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by teiferer 1mo ago
I came here to say exactly this. Thank you. The people in my workplace that I respect the most and that are the most competent are the ones least interested in career politics and promotions. Heck they even often reject management respons
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by teiferer 2mo ago
Ironically, spaced repetition is the key to successful learning. Obviously one can overdo it. And there is variance in what people require. But not giving things time, instead giving in to the dopamine-craving, that's killing your lear
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by teiferer 2mo ago
I very much agree and it saddens me often when I see folks dial it up to 1.5x or 2x "because it is boring otherwise". They might think they just get as much, only in half the time, but I'd hypothesize that they retain less
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by teiferer 2mo ago
Indeed. Fighting against that is to be considered by anybody with enough technical competence to understand the consequences. In other words, the HN crowd.

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