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by vanviegen 5mo ago
European politicians are usually not backed by anything even close to a majority, so they need to talk and compromise.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
The "faster growing economy" is basically 100% AI speculation now. If that gamble pays of the US is still in trouble (as is the rest of the world), as there doesn't appear to be even a hint of a plan of what a post-AI society
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Another way to look at it is that things just move slowly in government land. The tax office moving towards Microsoft has probably been in preparation for half a decade... And do you really believe the government is technically capable of s
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Cold awful truth is fine, but people do need some perspective .
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
/rant? :-) 1. sounds nice though! But how do they verify that it's actually you? Just matching the photo manually? People are terrible at that. Or do they scan a fingerprint?
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Indeed, it's terrible for fraud, as fraudsters are more likely to land behind bars.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
That has nothing to do with Wero, that's just your bank (ING) being stupid.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
> At any rate, I don't see EuroPA or Wero break the 'hegemony' of Visa/MC the way this article claims. You're right, it does not. But it's a significant step towards that goal. In-store payments are next on
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
At least up til now, this doesn't seem to be a significant problem with iDeal. Any iDeal receiver will need to have at least a Dutch bank account, which requires the bank to be very sure of the identity of the person/people (UBOs)
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
That seems unlikely. There are many providers for open models on openrouter. It seems unlikely that they are throwing money away for each token they sell. Also, there a good technical reasons for inference being much more efficient at scale
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
While some* of that is true, does that matter to the argument being made by the author? And yes, that author also opposed fascist forces in the Netherlands. : Former prime minister Schoof was was not* a fascist, but basically just an inde
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Not GP, but I think that's exactly the kind of bias that needs exposing. People are prone to holding a few experts/artists/objects/products in high regarding, defending/denying any flaws, while pushing down on those
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Suicide is not an attractive option if you believe that you'll be eternally punished for it in the after life.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Starlink?
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Digital sovereignty has only become a serious political topic in the EU over the past year. It may take a decade to see the effects of this in laws and policies.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Sure, it's different than gaining professional experience. It's more theorical, more foundational, broader. But that doesn't mean you're learning less, let alone 4 times less on a yearly basis. I've been a CS teac
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
> If you’re still in school, here’s a fact: you will learn as much or more every year of your professional life than you learned during an entire university degree—assuming you have a real engineering job. This rubs me the wrong way. It&
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
I like writing parsers, and nowadays just use handwritten recursive descent functions, using a couple of simple utility functions. It is easy to reason about and flexible. I do start each parsing function with a comment stating the inform
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
None, as far as I can tell.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
The public ballots are what makes the bribery possible. It also prevents representatives from voting for what they believe is right, due to internal pressure from their party or from broader society. Just look at US congress: it's hard
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
I think XHTML failed because it didn't give web devs any new capabilities, so most didn't feel the need to learn it and do the extra work of getting their tags correct. Then html5 came along, providing all kinds of shiny goodies a
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
Many vulnerabities seem to be in code paths for rarely used features. They can often be disabled.
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by vanviegen 5mo ago
We wouldn't want bots throwing money at us!
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
That is not an evidenced claim though. It's an anecdote.
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
I once solved a particularly nasty bug, causing a c++ server to segfault in production about once a week, in a dream! The eureka adrenaline woke me up, and I rushed to my laptop to find the insight was real. I had been trying to comprehend
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
> It's the same reason you don't want to lead a debugging session by saying "I think the problem is in this file": you've biased the investigation before it started. Unless you're evaluating the agent/p
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
Prison sentence? For writing sloppy code? Now that's an interesting idea...
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
Extrapolating current trends, I expect API prices to drop significantly for a given measure of 'intelligence'.
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
> They also show headline prices for the cheapest provider of whatever model, but then need to hit different backends some of which may be more expensive. For now they absorb those costs, [..] They do?? I was under the impression I was j
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by vanviegen 6mo ago
On GitHub copilot you pay per prompt. More powerful models can do a lot more work (consuming a lot more tokens) per prompt. Also, they tend to use more thinking tokens.

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