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by zwnow 11mo ago
I was wondering about that as well, copy and paste has been a thing for a lot longer than LLMs...
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Are you trying to excuse politicians for being corrupt due to being vulnerable?
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by zwnow 11mo ago
So you are blind to the current economies, gotcha
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by zwnow 11mo ago
At what point will it get worse, a planned economy or a free economy based on greed? Life is getting more unaffordable with each passing day. Corporations need to be put in their place given that politicians dont even have backbones anymore
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by zwnow 11mo ago
This also applies to webdev. I develop a lot with the chrome devtools but once stuff is in mobile it doesn't quite work out due to people using different browsers. The browser bar sometimes being on top or on the bottom hiding controls
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Gotta agree, I used to draw portraits before I started programming a few years ago... For reference, my last ever portrait: https://imgur.com/a/sEQiLu4 I also know plenty of programmers who are great musicians. Program
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Because companies are going to base salaries on collective agreements with the union which are usually lower compared to the salary high paying jobs have. At least that's how unions work in my country. Unions are powerful because they
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Doesn't seem like tech jobs are in demand given the current job market.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
In Europe you can make a lot of money in consulting given you also work a ton. With a regular 40h/w job it usually comes over time or with leadership roles. But entry level jobs are often well above median already. Not 6 digit silicon
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Hmm most people I know earn well above median and whenever I look at my regions statistics it confirms that... Joining an union would mean cuts to these people. I am a fan of unions for low pay jobs but not in tech.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Tech salaries are too high for people to do that. At least in Europe. Having an union will fuck with peoples salaries.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
I can manage to save 500-1000€ per month. For me the biggest issue is just the general pricing. Maybe its emotional too, but I have fond memories of my family house when I was a kid and I dont want to buy comparatively a bungalow for quadru
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Wasn't that put on hold?
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by zwnow 11mo ago
A flat is barely worth it given you still have to bother with neighbors. Those are also 6 digit numbers up here. Not happening. I want a home like my parents used to have. Regular old German refugee home with a nice garden, 3-4 rooms, 2 lev
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Ill fly to Japan next year. First foreign country vacation in 14 years. Estimated costs 3-4k. I go to concerts every few months so I spend a few hundred bucks there. Other than that most of my money goes into rent and food. I have some some
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Ill just live for rent and let landlords leech my hard earned money. Gives me freedom to leave whenever I feel like it... I am already 30, wont have a good start capital at 40 and I for sure wont buy a house that late in life.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Meaningful community relationships are good faith relationships. The community is not entitled to anything unless willing to compensate the amount of work a new _thing_ requires. If something is open source, they are also capable of creatin
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by zwnow 11mo ago
"Your weekly token limit has been reached, click here to buy more tokens" type of app... I also hate the "gift idea" example. Gifts are supposed to be personal and not AI slop ideas, turn on your brains ffs.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
I live in the middle of nowhere in Northern Germany. A house where you wont have to tear down the whole place starts at 400k. And that's a basic small sub 100m^2 house with no garden. Sorry but I wont get myself into 40 year debt for a
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Yea because the average Joe totally has a university title. However in Germany a lot of poor people have many children while a lot of academics have less [0]. It's "doable" also doesn't mean its pleasant. I have checked
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by zwnow 11mo ago
You pretty much pay taxes on everything in the EU. In Germany there are ways you can reduce the total tax you have to pay and as far as I know you wont have to pay social security contributions on that. It'll still be 6 digit tax amoun
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by zwnow 11mo ago
All life requires a degree of self defense, sure. But self defense does not mean running around the world screaming "me, me, me!". Bees only thrive because they work together. Their hive-self-defense even kills some of their own t
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by zwnow 11mo ago
First lesson of life should be to show empathy towards other living beings. If the first lesson in life is "you work to buy your bread" and "nobody will ever give you something for free" you'll end up in a world fil
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by zwnow 11mo ago
Social media established a hustle culture in young men, cost of living forces people to work without taking vacation. The modern trend is 72 hour weeks in Silicon Valley corporations. Houses are speculation objects rather than affordable ho
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by zwnow 11mo ago
So this is why all the leading AI companies normalize 72 hour weeks.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
> 2. Even if it were AI generated, that does not automatically make it worthless. It does make it automatically worthless if the author claims it's hand made. How am I supposed to trust this author if they just lie about things upfr
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by zwnow 11mo ago
I'd argue more people use Elixir over Erlang at this point. Sure its just an abstraction on top of Erlang, but people learn through Elixir nowadays, not through Erlang.
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by zwnow 11mo ago
I'd recommend asking the Elixir community about this as I didn't even understand your question. I am by no means a professional with Erlang/Elixir. I threw it out there because these language force you to think differently co
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by zwnow 11mo ago
I wasn't even alive in 1991, why would I think about 34 year old phrasing?
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by zwnow 11mo ago
I value human work and I do NOT value work that has been done with heavy AI usage. Most AI things I've seen are slop, I instantly recognize AI songs for example. I just dont want anything to do with it. The uniqueness of creative work

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