> Asking once every 15+ years seems fine, the population changes and opinions change.
But nobody asked, there hasn't been a third referendum.
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But nobody asked, there hasn't been a third referendum.
Democracy is just lovely.
Have your citizens answer to a straightforward question on a topic twice, have them reject it, both times.
And the government will still go its way.
I'm not against nuclear per se, I'm just baffled at the "democratic" process.
In the most recent years I feel the same about our lefts.
But imho left/right don't make any sense any more and have very little connection to their historical roots.
Look at how the conservative party went into ballooning the debt and spending, something they have been historically very against. Or how European rights are more financially supportive of the poorest parts of the society than the lefts.
Policies and trends are changing.
Yet we're stuck in this nonsense bipolarism when every other adult has many thoughts on many topics that don't really overlap with either of the two poles.
The 20 euros GPT plan with GPT 6 Luna (and Astra for doing the tough stuff) and OpenCode Go (8 euros) offer me both way more intelligence and tokens than spending 400 euros just at the beginning of the this summer did.
Today I worked two hours with GPT 6 Luna, have been very productive tackling some hard stuff and...my weekly usage went from 57% to 56%?
You really don't need to use the strongest model for everything. And even chinese open models are effectively few months old sota. You can use mimo 2.6 or DS 4.1 flash on 8 $/months OpenCode and barely ever have to worry about consumption.
People that produce slop have to be fired asap, they're just human relays anyway.
There's only 12 countries that do on the planet, the most "relevant" of them being Guatemala and Haiti.
As or the LLM topic: you can download weights of chinese models and remove any censorship and bias. Can you do so with american closed ones?
The reason why he and is peers are calling for it to be implemented by somebody else (a legal framework), is for their own financial benefit and to keep competitors out.
Edit: dug in it, no, because cache isn't addressable and it's directly managed by the cpu.
Bogus nonsense.
1. Manufacturing output in West/America is higher than it ever was in history.
2. What has reduced over time is the number of people employed in manufacturing, not manufacturing output. And that's an effect of automation, same as it happened over centuries in agriculture.
3. West/America did not decide anything, the realities of capitalism did.
You're either a capitalist and embrace efficiency of producing where it makes sense (for many different reasons) or you're fine with inefficient third-tier industries.
The tax payer may help a handful of sectors that would otherwise die survive if they are truly critical for national security, but just a handful, not all of them.
0 churn, nobody has ever left our team, because the amount of money you need to compensate working in such a healthy environment is massive.
We're fully remote, have an average or 2 hours of meetings per week, enjoy lots of freedom and we aren't bound to work any specific amount of time.
Linear is essentially a small subset of Jira.
It's liked and works because it's simpler and covers most of the needs of teams without huge need of defining their own processes.
But be in business long enough and you find out that appealing to small teams and small orgs that don't require flexible and custom process definition doesn't make enough money and doesn't grow you forever.
So they will keep eventually growing in features and flexibility till they cover the reason Jira is so successful: it is more powerful and adaptable.
I'm no fan of Jira, but I've tried and seen enough of these tools to understand why it has the success that it has.
This is even more clear when you go beyond software development and need processes for teams like sales, HR, legal, etc. Jira can fit all of them.
Linear? It's a joke.
It's a practice, it's not the best practice. It depends on the team/org/codebase/feature/etc. It always costs time and money and effort. Lots of it from multiple people.
You can get much better output by shifting that cost into hiring much better professionals, not better developers, but overall professionals.
The kind of people you can blindly trust that the software they are writing will be good, you don't need to get involved.
Of course there are exceptions. The author may actually want a review. Or the piece of code might be touching something extremely critical to the business but also easy to get hard.
But besides that? PRs are just productivity porn, or "we do engineering right because we follow Twitter" porn.
The best performing teams I had you hired individuals that removed work and responsibilities off your shoulders without you ever having to regret it. Never added it.
I laugh off engineers that "no you have to review, because it spreads information, enhances quality" and yada yada yada, while in the real world way more critical decisions are made by a single individual without requiring somebody reviewing their work.
Which is why while HN is sleeping and thinking Google and MS are done in the space, Copilot and Gemini are winning most of the non-tech: it's just an extension of their current teams/cloud offerings that companies were already using.
I have asked most of my non-tech friends: chemicals, banking, insurance, consultancy. They are all on Gemini or Copilot.
There's a very american winners and losers, black and white, narrative spreading in every single field from decades.
We Europeans used to be more nuanced, but are slowly falling for it too.
The two models are in completely different price tiers. Astra costs 5 times as much.
It seems like all you can judge about cars would be their maximum speed on an oval.
I don't like when I press play and an advertisement starts for some other freshly released content on the same platform.
You're confusing a personal preference for a fact.
I was talking with my 60+ and 80+ family and they were like "yes, this is bad, but it's needed to fight pedos or terrorists", but that's obviously nonsense because anybody who doesn't want to get caught can still run its own encryption trivially.
So no, any pedo or terror or crime ring nowadays knows how to encrypt their comms.
This only really ends up hurting the general public safety.
It's the lingua franca of software development.
Zig is appealing to the "I'd like to work in a C-like system programming language but I'm not a C veteran" crowd.
Not a small crowd by any means, but will always be a niche.
It's actually a nicer-C that fixes most of the issues from C.
That's the point.
Rust is philosophically different and goes well beyond the "just be a better C".
It does not help that we keep electing extremely selfish strong appearing individuals in winner-takes-all democracies.
I don't think this is the solution.
We have a huge number of people willing to press a button and cause pain. And it's escalating. I don't want more of those.
Instead, we should isolate countries that tend to be the aggressors. The Iranians, the Israelis, the Americans, the Russians. Because we have long pretended to not see or found excuses for those aggressions.
Needless to say, we also need to get rid of systems that concentrate too much executive power in a single person. Authoritarian governments are the first, but presidential and semi presidential republics come second.
Up until recently I had a gemini flash 2.0 api deployed that did summarization and translation of news articles/corporate statements fast and cheap and had no reason to update it.
If it works fine, this chase of the latest LLM is bit pointless.