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- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 week ago:
I haven’t worked in the industry before, but I have always assumed the “best developer” reviews code and architects the project, thus they write a minimal amount of code pre-AI anyway…
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 1 week ago:
Does this have anything to do with the Helix text editor?
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 2 weeks ago:
In a free country, you can tell the government to go fuck itself without a mask
Political infrastructure works well until it is not. U.S. used to have okay political infrastructure in protecting democracy, then patriot’s act happened and many of its loophole identified, now president can just kidnap a foreign president as “law enforcement”.
I would love a system where people don’t have any need to be anynomized, it would make many things much simpler, but that seems hard to imagine for me. And I am not from the U.S. and I have lived in both U.S., U.K., and outside of the west, so it is likely not caused by “U.S. brainwashing”.
I am not entirely sure what is the “EU secret sauce” to prevent Politician in utilizing these loopholes or strong centiment to gradually regulate speech. People in U.S. protested, they shot protester, and no one can protest forever, unfortunately. I am curious what would prevent EU to replay what US have now, except with much much more targeted data at the government’s disposal.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
I thought Knuth is the developer of TeX, not LaTeX… That being said, I am not overly fond of the things coming out of Stanford in that generation, like lisp, TeX, and LaTeX.
(because of anonymity, I am gonna say some bold things) These tools feels very much to me a product of west-coast PL, they feel hacky, way too flexible and end up doing nothing well, and definitely born out of the whole “hacker culture”.
Maybe Scheme and Racket is better, but I never spend the time to look into them.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
Dude, LaTeX sucks.
- Comment on LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux. 3 weeks ago:
If you want to use a simple setup: single screen, older hardware, and don’t mind minor performance drop in game, the mint is great.
If you want to use a more fancy setup, multiple high DPI screen, or cutting edge hardware, I would try bazzite first.
- Comment on I just realized there is not really a for "cuddling" in Chinese Languages... probably a reflection of the lack of Public Display of Affection in Chinese Culture... 3 weeks ago:
抱抱 is more “cuddle” than “hug”.
- Comment on It was as if it was taunting me 4 weeks ago:
Is it you, Louis XVI?
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 4 weeks ago:
Sounds pretty ideal. I am not political scientist, nor do I think political scientist can have solid prediction about success of a macro political system at this level of a abstraction – it is simply too complex of a system.
I feel from the past experiment regarding socialism, there seems to be a conflict between large state and large state serving the will of the people. Power corrupt: for a social democracy to be functional, I believe needs to have (at least the following) two characteristic:
- Most people should not have to feel the worry for the lack of resources. Thus, wealth display will naturally be unnesscary, if not frowned upon. Eliminating the culture of admiring people with excessive assets.
- A strong democratic system that discourages the consolidation of power under a couple oligarchs.
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 4 weeks ago:
Socialism only states the public ownership of means of production (sometimes called capital), but there is no requirement in the removal of market.
One of the way socialism can develop is when the cost of capital is way below cost of labour, making worker owning their own capital trivial.
However, there is really no requirement on the side of removal of market, universal healthcare, or universal educations etc; these are often consequence of a strong public sector and (at least attempts at) efficient allocation of resource. In most places people usually equate socialism with big government, that really is Marx-Leninism.
Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism
Either with market or not, in a socialist society, worker are still compensated for their labor and expertise, often more than a capitalist society, since labor is the more valuable resource given the low value of capital.
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 4 weeks ago:
China never even advertize themselves as a communist country, the official speak is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristic”
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 5 weeks ago:
Okay maybe human shouldn’t make candys look like this.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 5 weeks ago:
comes with built in water cooling
not if I am around.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 month ago:
Question: will AI eventually hurt computer chips? Like memory companies, the TSMC also only have finite production capacity.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 1 month ago:
IIRC blocking doesn’t stop them from seeing, voting on, and commenting on your post. It is better to pick a server that have de-federated from .ml
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 1 month ago:
I stopped realizing it, but MACA is quite literally the slogan of Xi: 中华民族的伟大复兴 often translated to “Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”, in official English version. However, I feel a more accurate translation might be “the great resummit as the Chinese race.”
Basically the xenophobia of MAGA with a sprinkle of racial pride on top.
- Comment on YSK that one of the world's largest open source meeting will happen next month in Brussels 1 month ago:
I think it is open source software development conference, not a computer science conference, right?
I really enjoy the conference and the talks in there.
- Comment on well now I don't know what to think 2 months ago:
It is a scam, the address clearly say Wellington
- Comment on Fun Otter Fact 2 months ago:
I mean, you know why you need all these security to go into a Fab? To hide the fact that all of our chips are secretly built by otters, who are all in a cult managed by the deep state and Joe Biden.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 months ago:
The continent of America is called 美洲, as in “the beautiful continent”
- Comment on Amazing 2 months ago:
It is the first time in human history for christmas to fall on Dec 25, AD 2025. It will never happen again.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 3 months ago:
Left 3 Dead
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I googled her name. She seems to believe that the medicine proscribed killed her husband, and they should be using horse dewormer instead.
- Comment on Creative and Inspiring building design 5 months ago:
(no Twist), Lick, and Dunk.
- Comment on Finally found where they store all the excess 5 months ago:
#NoNutNovemberGoneWild
- Comment on Bruh 5 months ago:
Years of training, finally becoming useful.
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 6 months ago:
Comprehension is functional programming too, they arise from list monad www.schoolofhaskell.com/…/13-the-list-monad And Haskell do notation indeed reads top-down, unlike Python, but I find both quite readable.
- Comment on What Does Palantir Actually Do? 6 months ago:
Engineers can laterally move to more prestigious or challenging projects if they prove worthy based on their skills and connections. One former staffer tells WIRED that this made the company feel like a meritocracy where the best people, and the best ideas, naturally rise to the top.
I am very interested in the culture and psychology of these supposed “meritocratic” companies.
Usually I find these policies, instead of encourages good ideas, just enables a hyper-competitive environment.
These kind of environments usually do not support solid well-thought-out good ideas, but only allows the quick implementation of mediocre ideas. A hyper-competitive environment can also discourage collaboration, which often can be crucial to “solve the hard problems”.
And the article mentions that this environment boosts employee retention, which I find extremely interesting. I wonder if the constant competition can keeps triggering a sense of “winning” and “accomplishment” in a perhaps seemingly mundane job.
- Comment on Hi Larry! 6 months ago:
This as excited as a cat can get.
- Comment on No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 6 months ago:
It seems like they have replied and said they won’t repel the act.