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Agreed. People should just use JavaScript since it's the one with the largest training set.

I started self-hosting after noticing that my AWS bill increased from like $300 per month to $600 per month within a couple of years. When looking at my bill, 3/4 of the cost was '…

That floor plan is typical Albert Heijn. I remember from my time living in The Hague. Grocery stores in most other countries are usually a lot less complex.

Refactorings can be useful in certain cases if the core architecture of the system is sound, but for some very complex systems, the problems can run deeper and a refactoring can be…

> Agreed, it does not necessarily have to be open source. But my opinion is that if the taxpayer's money is used to pay for software, then that software should be open source. Yes.…

I was kind of retired, earning passive crypto income for several years after 2019 throughout COVID. Best time of my life. I was living on a Mediterranean island, splitting my time …

But that trust is often backed by nothing. Especially if you don't own assets; then from that perspective money is really working against you and is backed by pure coercion... But …

Yes LLMs aren't very good at architecture. I suspect because the average project online has pretty bad architecture. The training set is poisoned. It's kind of bittersweet for me b…

I think overall, the idea of money is messed up on many levels. What we call 'money' today doesn't even have an identity. It's the most important thing in the world, it's also the …

I keep having to repeat this. The problem is systemic. The legal concepts of 'Corporate personhood' and 'Limited liability' don't make sense. Just think about what those terms mean…

It's scary because OpenAI could do this if they wanted. They could show people different things. They could learn about people and manipulate them individually.

All of them. Nothing wrong with Postgres, I like Postgres. But the more alternatives the better. My favorite database is RethinkDB but officially, it's a dead project. Unofficially…

It's so weird how everyone nowadays is using Postgres. It's not like end users can see your database. It's disturbing how everyone is gravitating towards the same tools. This start…

Outsourcing manufacturing was very short-sighted in light of the automation which was taking place and accelerating. No doubt this short-sightedness was the result of our debt-base…

Still, the cost of production is not 0 and the problem space is huge with no silver bullets; especially once you factor in things like business, scalability, regulatory and efficie…

Thanks for posting this. I struggle to understand this as well. Something else I struggle to understand is why some people/companies will build their entire business on top of soft…

Yet my comment which you responded to, which was Gemini-generated, got more responses and engagement than my handwritten one! Yes, I actually did this as an experiment. From my per…

You're projecting your own thinking style onto others; you're incorrectly assuming that because your thinking maps neatly onto language that everyone else works like that. No so. F…

My previous setup with Kubuntu was quite developer friendly with workspaces but Omarchy takes it to the next level. I'm very happy with it. I actually like most of the default tool…

> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out I think this may be a form of d…

> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out I totally disagree with this po…

The last point is very astute. The software industry has always had more juniors than seniors so this issue of juniors calling the shots is not a new one but it does feel like it's…

I love the fact that there are different Linux distros optimized for every person. I started using Linux almost a decade ago; starting with Ubuntu, then I moved to Kubuntu and now …

It reminds me of something funny my grandma told me. She told me that she saw an ad on Facebook to double her money and asked her daughter if it was a legitimate opportunity. Her d…

Yes, agreed. producing reliable software is one of these things which sounds trivial but is actually extremely difficult. With my last side project, I became frustrated with my non…