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For the last decades being born in the western world has been an advantage. There is an irony in it beeing gradually reversed.

> Here is a secret: most people want to help you succeed.

Most people dont care.

That strange feeling of the world getting cleaner for a while without all these dependant services.

Beginning with

> “Even if we attached panels to all suitable balconies across the country, we’d still only manage to meet 1 percent or less of our overall energy needs,”

the article concludes that the most prominent effect of balcony panels is of psychological nature.

At best it pays out in 5 years. Our landlord, for example, requires the panel to be installed by certified professionals, hence it will take even longer to break even, even assuming the device will not malfunction during the time, which I am sceptical about, especially when talking about the cheapest sets from amazon/kaufland.

One should aim to be in the food chain at a level, where there is no bossware above you.

I have a theory that everything that happens in regards of governmental control in China and Russia will eventually be copied in some form in western countries.

Unfortunately, most devs are not working on “high-leverage, strategic, needle-moving, synergistic core” things not because they don't have time to.

I am still waiting for cases of ms locking people out of their windows accounts (which are now required to use windows, you know) for violation of some policy.

I agree, but I also see how even a regular employee in, say, space travel corp (or in pharma and so on) can consider their work to be more impactful than running a local community (even in reallity their impact is minimal).

> For dreams and craft, I have my side projects.

In very infrequent cases can you achieve any noticeable (for society) results without being part of a large org.

Really looks like an ai-generated overview.

Cool but it includes UI to review puzzle candidates. How can >100k problems be reviewed in a reasonable time?

> on actually difficult things

Can't help but note that in 99% cases this "difficult things" trope makes little sense. In most jobs, the freed time is either spent on other stupid tasks or is lost due to org inefficiencies, or is just procrastinated.

But nevertheless, productivity objectively exists. Some people/teams are more productive as others.

I suppose it would be simpler to compare productivity for people working on standard, "normalized" tasks, but often every other task a programmer is assigned is something different to the previous one, and different developers get different tasks.

It's difficult to measure productivity based on real-world work, but we can create an artificial experiment: give N programmers the same M "normal", everyday tasks and observe whether those using AI tools complete them more quickly.

This is somewhat similar to athletic competitions — artificial in nature, yet widely accepted as a way to compare runners’ performance.

I wonder where were those 100k puzzles sourced from?

> It’s almost never going to be the best choice these days, but it’s definitely viable.

Could someone please explain what the better options are?

Its relatively easy to generate "startup ideas", but even with a perfectly reasonable idea at hand the hardest thing is to bring it into life, overcoming every possible obstacle.

Code itself is not very valuable as well. What has value is the combination of all those things and application of them to some real problem in a form of complete solution.

Perhaps another reminder that ideas per se are not very valuable.

Unless abortion is considered a crime by itself?

And it does not help that major tls implementation is called openssl with its own versioning

What I don't get:

- How come Yandex was doing it for years without being noticed.

- Facebook must have known about this technique for years as well, why did they only enable it last year.

Use telegram

Its well known that whatsapp is also available in Russia

злорадство in Russian

> The chatbot still handles two-thirds of all customer inquiries

I wonder what happens with the remaining third.

Works for numerous projects which "run the world".

Everyone know the system is brittle, but somehow manage to handle it.

Because cpp is not meant for "rapid prototyping" involving importing half of github with single command. And the reality is that it works.

If we end up with less american culture spread around the world, would it be net positive for everyone else?

Tbh it always wondered me why baseball or american football are so popular in Germany. Looks like a cultural colonisation, but the country seems to be ok with it.