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on_the_train··on Resisting Cognitive Surrender
Might be an art for a few. It's mostly a commercial problem to be solved.
on_the_train··on Resisting Cognitive Surrender
Music is already mostly a solved problem unfortunately. Try giving opus a few midi files of your favorite song. It'll write something new in that style with a competence humans would need several years of experience for.
on_the_train··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
In Germany, a lot of things related to these themes are illegal to say.
on_the_train··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
This submission is against the guidelines. And several comments are illegal. But no one cares of course.
on_the_train··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
There is no evidence supporting this statement and a lot of evidence directly countering it.
on_the_train··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
We've had a bunch of these acts of terrorism in Germany in the recent years. Mostly power, but also train and industrial targets. They all came from the same source, which is very much not Russian.
on_the_train··on Coding Is Over. Get over It
I guess should low-key be happy that even expenses of 50 dollars per month for AI are being seen at ludicrous. Combined with our Microsoft only policy (i.e. ghcp), there's still hardly any serious ai use going on. Ah yes EU high tech companies...
on_the_train··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
I'm confused. Google has done this for several years already. I have a Firefox extension installed that reverts it - it's several years old.
on_the_train··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
I found it to be less annoying in that regard then sol. Might just be that it better listens to what I instruct though.

But yeah, it's really expensive, at least in relative terms.

on_the_train··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Most would applaud that as Sol has quite a reputation for over engineering. Not every software needs to go to the moon.
on_the_train··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Yes.
on_the_train··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Ah yes the old "I have it but you don't"
on_the_train··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
I'm a European citizen. I hate the EU.
on_the_train··on GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
What's the deal with anthropic? Their models aren't better. They're just multiple times more expensive. We're about to disable all anthropic models because of the colleagues who waste 15$ on a opus call to write a markdown file.
on_the_train··on Save GPT-5.5
> No AI helped in the writing of this message

Yeah maybe it should have. Because this is super incoherent and all over the place. Hard to parse what this is even about

on_the_train··on Codex Resets
Here it's only Microsoft (ghcp) allowed, and 39$ per month is considered ludicrous with no way to increase. Ah Europe
on_the_train··on In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you
Even more fun: if you say the title of this post in Germany, that's illegal. Because all comparisons with Nazis are.
on_the_train··on C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax
What a strange example, as c++ did get Pythons enumerate, but in c++23
on_the_train··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
People who call in sick by phone aren't sick
on_the_train··on Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
Interesting. I've been gifted that book at just the right time in my life as a teenager. It captured me. I read it the to end many times. Not understanding everything or course. But it created a spark which laid the groundwork for my entire career.

I've never seen cosmos.

on_the_train··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
I knew instantly that it's him. No one is even remotely as hungry for attention as him.
on_the_train··on Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
They do, literally and explicitly so. Yes, really.
on_the_train··on Modern C++ Programming: Busato
Nothing did more damage to c++ code bases than people not understanding this. People hear "smart pointers are good" and use them for everything. Not understanding that it's just the lesser evil and still extremely rarely needed (vs just stack memory or variants)
on_the_train··on Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example
And one of my favorite examples how fancy names impact popularity. Also see Mersenne Twister.
on_the_train··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Bingo. Ghcp is the only allowed llm solution at our big well known semiconductor corp. It'll take years to get approval for anything else. We're stuck with it and will pay whatever price we have to.
on_the_train··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Because Copilot is the only thing allowed at our corp
on_the_train··on Introduction to Obsidian
But I don't want to change vaults, I want to work in both. I want to search for something and get results from all vaults. Or rather: I want to select which folders to sync - that would effectively be the same for me.
on_the_train··on Introduction to Obsidian
I'm just so bummed that multiple vaults are pretty much unusable. I can't sync my sensitive work notes. But I want to sync general programming notes between work and other PCs. But multiple vaults hardly work. The just open in a new window.

Other than that, I love so many things about the program. Just linking and graphs are weird and strangely overrated. Search and tags still rules over everything imo

on_the_train··on Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill
Because it's a clickbait title
on_the_train··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
No they don't? You keep working for 2-10 months until you can leave whatever your contact says
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