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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Withdrawing 5k troops that are probably just rotational troops that ... go home without replenishment is different from actually shutting down bases. Unless Germany denies the US Ramstein airbase and spying operations, you can safely bet th
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
What's every day? Exactly, lots of different things. When I alt-tab I care about latency. When I ssh I care about latency. When I download a 25GB game I care about throughput for the download to a certain extent that is probably mainly
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Maybe I'll have to try something new at some point. Fair. It's been a while. I just googled this and what I found was this for example: The Sony WH-1000XM3 is much better at canceling noise above 100Hz than the Bose is. Howe
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Which is now out the window. And yes I definitely remember Colbert quite some time ago quipping about exactly that (paraphrased from memory): US no longer reliable NATO partner and nuclear deterrent. So Europe needs to step up. Let's h
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
This. And on top of that, headphones at office suck, at least for me. They don't drown out enough even with large, well insulated cups. So you add noise cancelling. Which drowns out more but not everything. In fact it keeps some very a
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Meh. YMMV as always. We tried that on the team when Covid hit and we all went remote. Lasted like a week and we were sick of it. Never reintroduced.
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
The US did not keep bases in all of West Germany though. There were different sectors. The US had essentially the South. There were also the British sector and French. The Soviets were the fourth sector but we all know how that one was quit
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
See, you are probably right about that new hire. But the way you say things here, you do come across (at least to me) as "that guy". You know? "That guy" that says "we've always done it this way and that is why
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Hehehe, definitely been there and dealt with that guy that I definitely didn't let pass his probation period. I see we do understand each other. And I might not silent quit right away and try to actually improve things and see how it g
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
See, I would probably have been the guy that ignores the dest part. On purpose. Just to see whether this pile of poo shits itself and how much. I would also recognize what happened when I see the error messages though and then silent quit u
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
They do which is fine. Where's my Matrox? Matrox Mystique was a combination 2D/3D consumer card, which at the time, was still something that mattered. Sure a Voodoo addon card mattered more, very soon, but then quickly things shif
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Haven't done it in a while, but I've done some tasks with both Codex and Claude to compare. In all cases I asked both to put their analysis and plans for implementation into a .md file. Then I asked the other agent to analyze said
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by tharkun__ 6mo ago
Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the sma
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
"sammeln" can have multiple translations. "Collect" would be more like "einsammeln". In the context of "Pilze sammeln", you'd use "forage". You forage for food.
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
Not quite the scenario from my parent. They said "high cost weapons taking out air defenses". Whatever the US equivalent of an Iskander would be (I used a Tomahawk as an example), the S-400 (i.e. Patriot "equivalent") wo
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
namely your high cost weapons take out air defense capability, so you can stop using them and use cheaper more numerous systems to hit the now undefended targets. That makes no sense to me. Why would I spend millions times, dunno
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
This so much. As a user, especially a private user, I want my apps I can install and run locally, no internet connection, nobody forces updates on me for an app that does exactly what I need and I'm used to it. As a developer, SaaS all
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
The big "test" there for Steam will be when "Gabe goes away". It's gonna happen sooner or later.
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
That was literally the first thing I thought reading from OP comment down to your parent. Then I thought: Sure but management made the devs promise these things. We don't do it of our own volition (exceptions prove the rule - some pe
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
I would argue that we are seeing a new emerging group of coders come into the realm of programming and we are judging them at their worst and comparing them to our best Nyes. I think what we're doing is that these new guys ar
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
Oh so much this, in a sense. Look, as a software dev myself, I really like that my company lets us use our computers the way we see fit. Pre- or post-AI with no restrictive lockdown. Been there, hated that. But I totally get the freaking ou
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
I use Claude. I use Codex. I've never heard of or used Meta AI. Nor do I have a Facebook account. Never have, never will. I am also a software developer. So while the numbers of "people" that use one AI or another may be high
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
No offense, but can you tell me how my 4.5 kW generator is gonna generate that kind of power surge?
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
Haha, I hear you. But yes, it really is transformers blowing up sometimes. Sometimes it really is just branches blowing up the line, sure. A branch hitting a wire, happenes all the time here too. Lots of trees in this community. The video o
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
This. Same timeframe and I've lived through both lots of lightning storms and in areas with lots of power failures. Some of them intermittent and essentially caused by transformers blowing up. Like earlier this winter, we had multiple
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
See that would definitely get you not hired ;) Not because you use 2 spaces. You can argue 2 spaces and the pros and cons and how horizontal scrolling is an issue. One question back would be for example if that means you have huge run-on fi
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
Yes, that's why I said, we have you explain what you "vibe coded" and then also do an actual live coding part where you have to make further changes. Via screen sharing. The amount of people that can't even navigate &q
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
You're over-selling the minimum level of intelligence in homo sapiens. What you're stating is your wishful thinking. Don't get me wrong. I'd also like what you say to be true. It very much is not. Quite the opposite, whi
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
I do think we have to distinguish two things though. It's not really bad to ask someone to do a design session with them and "build their product with them from scratch" isn't inherently bad. That's actually pretty
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
Using AI for what and is it bad or good? At this point, we think using AI and being able to use AI effectively is a skill in and of itself. When you're hired, you'll have access to AI. You'd be expected to be able to use said

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