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Comment · 6 days ago
At the time all the kids were on BBM and the businesses had moved to iOS.
Comment · 6 days ago
“liberticide”

Parfait.

Comment · 8 days ago
If you would pay to remove ads you are more valuable, so they can charge more, in a never ending spiral.
Comment · 8 days ago
> Dutch intel then recruited a spy from GRU that handed over the data.

Dutch intel can think that happened, or not. It is independent from if that is true. The whole thing equally sounds like a setup using the Dutch to launder the story.

Which is also entirely independent from any stories of this sort in the media being true one way or another.

Comment · 9 days ago
Automation wins, every single time.
Comment · 9 days ago
I think you missed why they’d be doing it in the first place.
Comment · 9 days ago
This is how we spot someone that has never done transaction processing in a consumer facing business. You are focused on completely the wrong dimensions.

Postgres fanboys are insufferable.

Comment · 9 days ago
Real loads are too spiky for that.
Comment · 9 days ago
Still some industries where you cable colocated servers in a shared DC together where neither server has internet access.
Comment · 9 days ago
Yes. A project I am working on now the code quality it is producing I would put at less than ten people I have ever met could do, and they would struggle with the OCD tedium induced.

There is clearly a trick to coaxing these results, and a major factor is to treat the model like it is something you fully expect to get it right because it knows how to do it, not you micromanaging it into compliance.

Comment · 9 days ago
You’re holding it wrong.

Treat it like it’s got an inspired brilliant side, talk to it as if it has, and it will show it. If you talk to these things like they’re idiots they act like them - this is one of the most unfortunate aspects of the whole development.

I am seriously seeing it churn out well structured clean code solving problems that saying 95% of devs couldn’t do is being generous, to the humans.

Comment · 9 days ago
You can absolutely spot people that aren’t using the latest models personally because they succeed in clinging to notions that doing so would dispel in three seconds.

Opus 5.5 produces code far better than 95% of professional devs, and it only stands to get “worse” from here on out.

Quite where this leaves any of the people in these information processing jobs is anyone’s guess.

Comment · 10 days ago
Bioware have not been very successful for a very long time.

Even in the good times their ability to create (and hide) black holes was prodigious.

Comment · 12 days ago
A major strand in american conservatism is to believe, strongly, in laws being made as close to the people they apply to as possible. This is why there is such an undercurrent from that side of reducing the scope of the federal gov while allowing private entities to have their own rules on their areas.

The level to which German society proscribes behavior top down with the law simply wouldn’t be tolerated across the spectrum for the simple reason no one would agree what the rules should be, even if they share the European idea that everyone else should follow the rules they personally support.

Comment · 12 days ago
Same function as the laws about when you can mow in Germany, simply at a sub municipal level.

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