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Comment · 1 month ago
I guess global warming will be solved through lots of different actions and changes, even though none of them will make a measurable difference on its own.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Will AI replace developers? The Stanford data shows a tilt toward seniority rather than mass displacement: entry for 22 to 25 year olds is suffering, older workers are growing. WEF expects a net gain of 78 million jobs by 2030.

As a 42 years old web developper, this situation gives me headaches. I feel both with new superpowers and dangerously threatened. I feel we will need much less developpers and yet I can imagine some years where a developper will be able to handle much larger projects.

Comment · 2 months ago
"No one actually cares about the politics as long as the model codes well."

> I totally care about politics, especially when it comes to not giving my money to people like musk.

Comment · 3 months ago
I second that question
Comment · 7 months ago
We might be in a kind of uncanny valley. Models may become good and "independant" enough to compare to a colleague.

I feel the solution is either reduce drastically time between each interaction with the agent OR increase it by a lot (every 2 or 3 hours).

Maybe we do not have the right workflow yet. Maybe the work with an agent should be more async.

I guess we will figure out.

Comment · 11 months ago
Father of three here. I also enjoy very much this moment of the day, the calm before the storm. It was a real motivation to wake up a bit earlier.

One day, I decided to stop coffee for some weeks. My motivation to wake up before my kids vanished in a few days. I was quite surprised since it used to be a real pleasure. I guess the ritual part was much less important than the coffee chemical role.

I got back to coffe quite rapidly.

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Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks. It's great to read those feedbacks
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Comment · 1 year ago
Well, we have some connections with the community and we are discussing how to incorporate our buildings IDs in OSM. The other way around (OSM to national registry) seems more complicated for license reasons.

Last summer we tested the open approch by doing a "RNB Summer game". Basically, anyone could come on the map and send some error reporting, we had a score per player, per territory and a shared global score. The OSM community absolutely rolled ont the game :)

Comment · 1 year ago
As an illustration of it: I have been working for two years on a new national project for the french state. Le Référentiel National des Bâtiments (for National Buildings Registry) which aim at creating and distributing a id key to every building in the country.

The goal is to make databases about buildings much more interoperable.

One key aspect is to have a precise list of all buildings includings recent constructions and demolition. It gets interesting because we recognize nobody in the country has the perfect list of buildings so we radically open the data to let governement agencies, cities, companies, citizens write directly in the registry. Think OSM or Wikipédia but for an official dataset.

This approach is very experimental for the french state and we are encouraged to test it and disseminate our learnings in other state branches.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have no clue about space technology but many comments point the difficulty to cool anything in space. If Starcloud had an innovative solution to this problem, why on Earth (sic) focus on data centers when they could help the entire space industry? It does not smell good.
Comment · 1 year ago
Make something hard harder, just because
Comment · 1 year ago
Strong brands and marketers disagree with your perception of brands. People buy brands, they buy stories, they want to support what they like.

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