BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 6d ago
Mathematically speaking, because compilation is a surjective function. Context, organizational, as well as personal knowledge - that information simply is lost in the process of compilation. It can be restored to some extent by making educa
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by BjoernKW 8d ago
I have used Simon Martinelli's AI Unified Process quite extensively and successfully: https://unifiedprocess.ai The accompanying tooling allows you to generate requirements for existing projects (brownfield, legacy) as a fo
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by BjoernKW 22d ago
Anyone who has watched Interstellar should know this.
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by BjoernKW 1mo ago
Well, there are very few things you truly _need_ an app for, but quite a few where an app comes in handy.
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by BjoernKW 1mo ago
> “I have to now use an app to operate my washing machine. Why?!” Frankly, that's asinine. However, I'd very much like my washing machine or tumble dryer to notify me when they're done (with those appliances sitting in the
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by BjoernKW 2mo ago
> The end of interest-based 3rd places Whatever happened to pubs and the shared interest of drinking beer (and getting drunk in the process ...)? ;-)
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
> the process being too convoluted and risky turns off some corporations from storing data entirely (maybe it's not complicated enough yet in that regard) This is a common misconception by people who never had to deal with GDPR in a
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
> GDPR has done wonders to prevent careless personal data leaks that are so common in the US, and other kinds of abuse. Has it? I still have to see evidence of that. What GDPR definitely has achieved, though, is people engaging in pointl
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
I don't subscribe to ideological categories such as "hypercapitalists". So, no, I don't see that.
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
> We can debate the details and implementation but EU legislature is, at least in spirit, trying to protect human rights That's an unfounded assertion. Of course, politicians will claim this to be the case. I don't see how patr
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
Engineers are prone to overcomplicating matters. Pieter Levels famously runs Nomad List as vanilla PHP application on a single Linux server, while people keeps insisting you need a fault-tolerant, multi-region cloud setup and the modern sta
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
Still, EU member countries even fail at cooperating where it'd absolutely make sense to do so (see FCAS, for instance).
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
Yet they keep yapping on about the EU being about tighter integration between its member states. If not in the area of defence, where else? So far, this has been an abject failure (recently, see: FCAS).
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
Care to elaborate?
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
While advancements in drone technology in Ukraine certainly have been accelerated by the war, the country was by no means unprepared. They have been preparing for a large-scale war ever since the Russian occupation of Crimea (and the dismal
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
> Stop honoring US copyright. I suppose some people just want to see the world burn. I'm by no means a supporter of copyright and copyright laws, but unilaterally terminating such agreements is a recipe for disaster. How do you thin
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
Linux is no EU project, but very much global. It just happens that its originator (who, quite tellingly, has been living and working in the US since the mid-90s) is Finnish.
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
It's way to late for baby steps. The EU is bound to become either a US or a Chinese protectorate in all but name in just a few years time now. How isolationism and open source are supposed to stem that tide, is beyond me.
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
> and develop domestic alternatives. Therein lies the rub for the EU. They think they can just regulate such alternatives into existence, yet have time and time again failed to provide such alternatives.
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
It never ceases to amaze me how people scramble to defend the EU's failed policies over the last three decades. The EU managed to regulate itself out of all relevant markets and it only has itself to blame.
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
> I think the right move for Europe and other countries would be to effectively ban US tech and follow the Chinese response to Nvidia (delivered personally to Trump: we want to build our own AI chips). How would the EU replace US tech? T
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by BjoernKW 3mo ago
I can't tell anymore if this satire or not, because there are more than few people who actually believe isolationism and red tape such as the AI Act or GDPR is beneficial to the EU's economic welfare.
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by BjoernKW 5mo ago
Exactly this. A few years ago, I saw a talk that made a point about how prosthetics that mimic original human body parts are often designed from an able-bodied point of view. They look inoffensive and are designed for the wearer to blend in
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by BjoernKW 5mo ago
Data is proving otherwise. While locally shortages do happen, in general there more resources available than ever: http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/04/50-ways-the-world-is...
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by BjoernKW 6mo ago
> Frankly, I'm not sure anymore what the name of the interactive terminal software was Might've been either NComm or Term. Another piece the puzzle I just remembered was compression utilities such as LHA (and later LZW).
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by BjoernKW 6mo ago
1) Having been an avid Amiga user, for the most part I used an A1200 to log into BBS. Frankly, I'm not sure anymore what the name of the interactive terminal software was, but for point protocol connections (basically, downloading any
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by BjoernKW 9mo ago
What are on about? That article contains no em dashes. Besides, it's from 2016. Unfortunately, I don't own a time machine.
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by BjoernKW 9mo ago
As indicated by the title, I wrote this post almost ten years ago: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/ While minor aspects have improved since then, the overall problem indeed remains.
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by BjoernKW 9mo ago
Because that particular article is biased in framing the pager attacks as a "terrorist attack" while, actually, those attacks were precisely targeted at Hezbollah personnel. Those weren't devices for personal - or civilian -

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