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by vanviegen 4mo ago
> At the point they ask you to leave for whatever reason and you don't comply, then it becomes trespass and the police can be asked to remove you. According to the journalists' account, they were never asked to leave. Though I
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Right. So regulation isn't actually all that different than it is in Europe, except that some especially hot parts of the US mandate airco for rental housing, which is something I don't think is being done in Europe yet.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
You could argue that. But you'd be wrong. :-)
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
> and defer overly to expert opinion That... doesn't sound so bad?
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
That's only accounting for the energy the airco unit consumes. What the airco unit does is remove heat from the inside of the house, and dump it outside. That effect is about 4 times larger.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Well yeah, it takes time to adjust to new circumstances. Especially since weather events don't come with any documentation saying things like "this will happen every two years now".
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Are renters in the US specifically permitted by law to install airco units that require permanent modification to the property? Or are landlords mandated to install airco units on a renters request? Or..?
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
No, they do specify token counts, as they let you pay for them. They just don't tell you what these thinking tokens actually are.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
> For me, the decision is clear: when I'm not able to make my own decisions turn everything off and let me die. And what if you might be able to make decisions again tomorrow. Or the day after? Or in two weeks time.. ? These things
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
I think much of that is because European customers (both private and business) tended to prefer American suppliers over suppliers from European countries that were not their own. That may have something to do with most people in IT being qu
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
> Demand is higher than supply. Only when the product is being given away for free or sold way below cost. It's still unclear how large the actual market is.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
I've been working on my vision for a better web app development ecosystem. https://wildloop.dev/ It currently exists of 12 libraries/tool, most of which are pretty stable by now, though some are still very much in
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
He seems to have gone out of his way too alienate just about any demographic likely to buy an EV...
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
I think GP was saying that in QNX the spawning process was responsible for dynamically linking it's child process before running it. With Linux, I think it's the spawned process taking care of it's own dynamic linking.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
I'm sure Stripe EU is subject to EU regulations, just like Adyen. But unlike Adyen, they are also subject to some US regulations due to being a subsidiary. And, highly likely, they run software systems build by their US counterpart,
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Really? Must be a recent thing then..? I've used them for all sorts of small (and not so small) things.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Mollie (also Dutch) existed even before Adyen (and way before Stripe). They have no problem dealing with small customers, and have always offered a trivially easy to use API.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Sure there are. Both Mollie and Adyen are API-first. Mollie developer experience has always been on par with Stripe in my experience. And they existed 6 years earlier.
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
> But the simple fact is there's massive evidence that in skilled hands 10x or 100x engineers are possible. We're seeing evidence of it across major open source project as well. And definitely behind closed doors across compani
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by vanviegen 4mo ago
Yes, but one wouldn't quote these as if they were trusted sources either.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Where are you seeing such a narrow pay band? I don't have a great view on the market, but that strikes me as really odd.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
I agree with most of what you're saying. But was Google the best search engine when they got popular? Most definitely! Chrome the best browser? According to most, yes! When MySQL got popular, that was also due to it being the best free
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Well, at least the combination of code, marketing and luck wasn't good enough.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Kotlin is a terrible language for learning, as it has a lot syntactic shortcuts that are easy to mistake for magic. I think it's actually easier to learn some Java first, as it's simpler and teaches you the semantics both language
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
> So, assuming we can all make "good enough" code Your entire argument hinges on "good enough". Problem is: you can never know if something is "good enough", except in hindsight for those products that succe
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
I think in your StableDiffusion example, a lot more than $600k will have been spend on electricity alone for inference (on those personal computers you mention). So inference is more expensive then training.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
> Sanctioning people is basically risk-free and more importantly dollar-free. In the long term, I think this was actually really expensive. People talk and worry about this, and as a result of this (and similar developments) general cons
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Who knows what other offers they may have had? Perhaps the company is just worth more to a non-EU company because of the leverage controlling vital infrastructure would give them.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
I think a large part of the reason is that government hiring is rather permanent. It's often prohibitively expensive/hard to get rid of underperforming or superfluous employees. Contracting is a way around that. That allows hiring
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
> Its decidedly less so if you want to be a white collar/gold collar worker. If you want to earn big money, you're better of in the US, for sure. Quality of life though, as a white collar worker? That does probably have its e

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