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  • Fast-paced and exciting environment

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  • Here is translation from HR speak to English:

    "fast-paced" - requirements change multiple times during each sprint

    "exciting" - your manager will be an idiot

  • Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models

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  • Honestly it's fine. LSPs are nice but you don't need them per se. A combination of vim, tmux, entr, a fast incremental compiler, grep, and proper documentation can get you a long way there.

    A lot of critically important code that's running the servers we're using to communicate was written this way. And, if capitalist decline continues long enough, we will all eventually be begging for vim while writing code with ed.

    Personally I use helix with an LSP, because it helps speed up development quite a bit. I even have a local LLM for writing repetitive boilerplate bullshit. But I also understand that those are ultimately just tools that speed the process up, they do not fundamentally change what I'm doing.

  • Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models

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  • It's nicer to develop anything on a beefy machine, I was rocking a 7950X until recently. The compile times are a huge boon, and for some modern bloated bullshit (looking at you, Android) you definitely need a beefy machine to build it in a realistic timeframe.

    However, we can totally solve a lot of real-world problems with old cheap crappy hardware, we just never wanted to because it was "cheaper" for some poor soul in China to build a new PC every year than for a developer to spend an extra week thinking about efficiency. That appears to be changing now, especially if your code will be running on consumer hardware.

    My dad used to "write" software for basic aerodynamic modelling on punchcards, on a mainframe that has about us much computing power as some modern microcontrollers. You wouldn't even consider it a potato by today's standards. I'm sure if we use our wit and combine it with arcane knowledge of efficient algorithms, we can optimize our stacks to compile code on a friggin 3.5GHz 10-core CPU (which are 10 year old now).

  • Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models

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  • You can write code just fine on 20 or even 30 year old hardware. Basically if it runs Linux, chances are it can also run vim and compile code. If you spring for 10-15 year old hardware, you can even get an LSP + coc or helix, for error highlighting and goto definition and code actions. And you definitely don't need a beefy GPU for it (unless you're doing something GPU-specific of course).

    Editing 720p videos (which, if you encode with a high enough bitrate, still looks alright) can be done on 10-15 year old hardware.

    Research is where it gets complicated. It does indeed often require a lot of computing power to do modern computational research. But for some simpler stuff - especially outside STEM - you can sometimes get away with a LibreOffice spreadsheet on an old Dell or something.

    From the looks of it we will have to get used to doing more with less when it comes to computers. And TBH I'm all for it. I just hope that either my job won't require compiling a lot more stuff, or they provide me with a modern machine at their expense.

  • PSA

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  • It's funny you should say that, if you look at the living standards & human development before and after, it's pretty clear that the revolution was overall a really good thing.

  • Reverse traffic pyramid

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  • But we can't really discount the energy source. An intercity bus service running fully on renewables is not feasible neither now nor for the foreseeable future. What we should do is have more efficient rail service between city, with more slower and cheaper options for when you don't mind the extra hour on your train.

  • Reverse traffic pyramid

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  • an intercity bus is usually greener than a high-speed train, even discounting energy source - mainly because speed carries a major efficiency penalty

    Are you sure? Where I live all high-speed trains are running on 100% renewable electricity, while intercity buses run on diesel. Also multiple carriages at the same time, traveling on rails, should be significantly more efficient than a single bus traveling on asphalt. I agree that there will be an increase in energy expenditure depending on speed, but it shouldn't be as significant as the combination of the other two.

    air travel is an unmitigated disaster on the level of personal carbon footprints - there’s basically no way to make it sustainable

    We would have to make it sustainable eventually, since it's the only practical way for passengers to travel between americas/australia/afroeurasia. I guess something hydrogen-based is the most likely candidate for reducing the carbon impact.

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • UK is clearly "shoes on" on the map though, it's marked is green.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • Well, yeah, the dev environment was compromised but the author restored everything and checked that it all works.

    Personally I use Pipepipe and Outertube on my android phone, and just watch through a browser with adblock on my Linux phone. Although I don't watch youtube too often, especially on my phone (maybe twice a month or so), I didn't notice any issues with either of those methods, and never got any ads either.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • BTW you can/should install an alternative YT frontend on smart TVs, if you want to watch YT and are forced to use a smart TV. Even something semi-suitable like Pipepipe will do, but there are also frontends more suited for TV use, e.g. SmartTube

  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • There are jurisdictions where a price tag in the store is almost always assumed to be an offer (a.k.a "public offer") and the company is legally required to honor it. In some circumstances the employees who screwed up and put the incorrect price tag will bear most the financial responsibility which sucks. That's why you shouldn't do it if you get the chance - it's not a legal loophole to stick it to a corpo, you're just ruining the life of some poor overworked retail employee who misplaced the price tag.

    And yeah, the good faith part is also really important. If the person has asked a couple of questions to a chatbot, got recommended some products, asked if there's a discount available and then got an 80% discount out of the blue, got excited and made the deposit, it would probably be enforceable. If the customer knowingly "tricked" an LLM into giving out a bogus discount code, it would be very dubious at best.

  • 😔😔😔

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  • That last one could get him killed if the tribe knew who he is (inshallah)

  • 😔😔😔

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  • In context of his conversations with Epstein which came to light recently, it seems like by "happiness" he means "raping children"?

    Like, even with all his money he couldn't get invited to those disgusting pedo "parties".

  • I wrote an article about Luddism and Linux.

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  • To expand on the other comment, Luddites were not necessarily against technological progress. Rather they used destruction of certain types of machinery as a political tool: to temporarily extend their power as skilled laborers, and to intimidate the factory owners into recognizing their unions or getting certain laws passed.

  • this is not a spiral

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  • I actually saw them as concentric circles first, and the spiral effect is subtle but I can get it if I stare at the very center of the image. My vision is really bad on one eye, so I guess that might have something to do with it.

  • What a French class of students thinks of the UK/Canada/USA/Ireland/Australia

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  • English countries

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    Bait and switch, Tovarich

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  • Conflating jews and israelis is antisemitism pushed by zionists.

    It doesn't matter much who was behind Epstein's operation, it was primarily funded and sustained by US billionaire elite themselves, stop shifting blame away from a bunch of rapist oligarchs.

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    Rent is theft

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  • If you're paying a mortgage, you get to live there for the duration of it, and then you get to own the place at the end.

    If you're paying rent, you get to live there for the duration of it, and at the end you own nothing.

    If we're going to compare it with food, it's like cooking your own food vs. going out to eat. If you cook on your own, you'll need to pay a bit more upfront for the equipment, but you own that equipment until it breaks and can make food for much cheaper from then on. If you go out to eat every day, at the end you're left with nothing.

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    Rent is theft

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  • The problem is that in your original comment, you are presenting a false trichotomy: people need to pay rent, or own a house, or be homeless. There is indeed a fourth option of providing social housing, free at the point of use.

    Not many people are calling for the end of homeownership.

    It depends on what precisely is meant by "ownership", but maybe I am.

    Personally I'm in favor of some modified version of the chinese system where almost everyone "owns" a home, but their children can't inherit it. I think technically the state owns all the housing, and provides people with a cheap/free lifetime lease of some kind. There should also be a limit on how many properties a single person can own, and renting those places out should be banned.

    And then as a compliment there should also be some excess state-owned social housing. There are edge-cases where for one reason or another you can't/don't want to own.

    So yeah in general I think we need to abolish the concept of homeownership as it exists in the west.

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