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> the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old lin…

> Don't reinvent a type system I'd like to add: stay away from using arrays and user defined types. They feel like a good idea at first, but will become a problem when using fetche…

> “you can’t do crimes on our servers”, “you can’t host malware on our servers” So most of the cryptocurrency projects.

> I'll spin up a "quality pass" agent that will make sure all tests/lint etc. pass Why would you need an agent more than one time to create a script then use one command to launch …

I'd like to add: pgbench? Why not HammerDB?

> The next one is likely to be a doozy The US, EU, China are teetering on the edge of a crisis. Russia is well on its way. I feel like 2008 was just a warmup to what may be coming.…

Personally: forums are mostly about one subject, have a community and you have to invest some time learning the lay of the land to get the most out of it, get some reputation. Redd…

> The CCP is darkside material. And which country has "Black Sites" peppered around the world to detain and interrogate people they don't like?

> What else can you do? Educate the parents maybe?

> we expected people we hire to know what they are doing I feel this is a generational thing. Many baby-boomer parents never took the time to teach their children any skill. They t…

It's fucking laughable to see people complain about what they did and still do. Using illicitly extracted data? That's all main LLM playbook. Onslaught of bots? Ask where the bots …

In 2001 France had Copains d'avant https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copains_d%27avant for school based networking. So not a new idea

> Then what would you use for seasonal storage? Like Germany: coal and the energy provided by the rest of the EU. So Nordic countries hydro and nuclear, and some French nuclear. Wh…

> I don't understand the online obsession with nuclear power in spite of all the evidence that it's simply not economical. Independence from China and the US. Once you have your re…

Just got my morning coffee and read "genai" like some elusive Japanese person's name. So, can Genai san do his job?

> Phase three (2015 to now): the tech industry as grift-adjacent. I'm gonna disagree on the timeline and maybe get some flak for it: phase 3 was 1995-2000ish. When the first advert…

That's because there is no Antimemetics Division.

Anecdotally: an endocrinologist diagnosed me a macroprolactinoma just by seeing me entering for a consult about another problem. "You're here for a prolactinoma?" "Nope" "I'd like …

Originally pensions were created so people who could not work would not be destitute. The fact it became an all-inclusive all-year-round vacation reward is an anomaly which is gett…

My theory is: when it started being a bad thing to have any cash reserve. With some reserve on the side, a company can survive bad times and not fire people. This is the kind of be…

Mistral is entering the "let's extract has much money from EU taxpayers as we can" phase of European tech company which did not get bought by a US one. They'll end like Dailymotion…

What's crazy is the glee when saying that. It's like "fuck those uppity low class people who managed to move up socially thanks to an in-demand job requiring some skill". Now we're…

> What's the defense? Prosecuting every one of those blackmailers. If this kind of crime starts going into the "you're gonna get caught and jailed 100%" category, less people will …

Reminds me how windows 98 allowed using a HTML page as background. Said HTML could include videos.

> Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now? Getting bought by the bigger companies as it is currently the goal of most start-up si…