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by V-2 6mo ago
This phenomenon (or a closely related one?) is recognized and known as Kotov Sydnrome in the context of chess. A summary, courtesy of chess dot com: > The name of this "syndrome" comes from GM Alexander Kotov, author of the cla
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by V-2 2y ago
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear : )
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The Three Loops of Human Consciousness(psychologytoday.com)
1 points by V-2 2y ago|1 comments
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by V-2 2y ago
Not exactly a true greybeard though, given that the author has "more than 10 years of experience", and judging by the picture on his GitHub page ;) [0] [0] https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel
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by V-2 2y ago
Games couldn't rely on patches back in the day, because they used to be shipped in boxes, and providing patches was tricky. (The ease of providing updates may indeed incentivize releasing half-baked software nowadays). I am less sure i
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by V-2 3y ago
Phlogiston, C-field... the list of such "placeholders" is pretty long.
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by V-2 3y ago
Sure, I see your point. Obviously a wasteful format is also getting in the way of queryability. My point is that the main goal should be to improve for queryability, which inherently requires some optimizing for storage, but that's sec
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by V-2 3y ago
What's good style in production code isn't necessarily good style in test code (and vice versa). Good style in an SDK or a library is not necessarily the same as good style in a self-contained business app. Just like suburbs and d
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by V-2 3y ago
PGN is a highly redundant format, but it has the inherent advantage of being human readable. The problem is interesting, but I think it falls on the side of "fun" more than "profit". Storage is cheap, and PGN files are s
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by V-2 3y ago
I think that AI, overhyped as it may be, will truly get to shine when it comes to this aspect of chess - basically, tutoring.
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by V-2 3y ago
> Use StockFish to predict the next move, and only store the diff between the actual move and the prediction. This ties the algorithm down to one specific version of Stockfish, and configured identically (stuff like the hashtable size et
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by V-2 3y ago
Why a "victim"? Honest question.
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by V-2 3y ago
Once you have the technology to freeze evolution, you also have the technology to accelerate it and steer it, and given the level of incentive (to gain competitive advantage), I don't imagine it would be a balanced sword-and-shield rac
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by V-2 3y ago
> Because they need to keep some gaps in the tax law to allow their friends to pay less taxes than normal people. The self-employed in Poland provide almost 30% of total budget revenue from income tax [1]. (This statistic is somewhat d
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by V-2 3y ago
It certainly helps the IT sector to stay globally competitive, also attracting foreign talent (hence plenty of programmers from eg. Ukraine, particularly these days). Being self-employed has its own downsides - if anything goes south (as in
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by V-2 3y ago
Not all intellectual property is patented. Anyhow, you don't include git diffs. You cannot, even if you wanted to - the code is not your property. The whole point is that you're selling your intellectual property rights. It also m
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by V-2 3y ago
> > I can't see why a company couldn't have one long-term customer. > Let's hope you won't find out why that's a very bad idea. The way you phrased it feels needlessly patronizing (perhaps unintentional
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by V-2 3y ago
I'm not sure if there had been any unprecented drop in the trust level between 2015 and 2023 (meaning under the Law and Justice government). While it is true that it's relatively low in Poland in general... Eg. according to this s
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by V-2 3y ago
> To truly do that, you need to move your center of life abroad, which generally means being outside Poland for 183 days a year. Yeah, theoretically. But at least within the Schengen area, that's pretty difficult to prove/dispr
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by V-2 3y ago
I'm not fighting, I was just curious what you're basing your claim on. I disregarded your unnecessarily incendiary phrasing ( "software from Poland is such a tacky crap" ) completely.
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by V-2 3y ago
> - Countries should want internally organised production, strong companies with own IP, not one-man "companies" producing IP to external entities. Of course it's great to have domestic tech giants (and, sadly, Europe as
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by V-2 3y ago
Yeah, but how do you know which application was and which wasn't? Apart from some big customers, it usually isn't public knowledge. Eg. my previous project was a banking app for a rich Middle Eastern country. There's no &quot
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by V-2 3y ago
I can't see why a company couldn't have one long-term customer. It's not unusual eg. in the building sector (where large construction projects, not unlike software projects, can take years to complete). Another common example
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by V-2 3y ago
> That's also why software from Poland is such a tacky crap despite so many "talents" [citation needed] How do you recognize "software from Poland" anyway?
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by V-2 3y ago
> How would it be beneficial to anyone? Most programmers provide outsourcing services for companies from abroad (including outside of the EU). Low taxes help them - and the umbrella companies AKA software houses - to remain competitive o
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by V-2 3y ago
The IT sector in Poland (again) is a booming one, and most of the services are effectively exported, as we're talking outsourcing. I guess it translates into the lack of political will to curb the practice, too, as the government would
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by V-2 3y ago
This risk does exist in Poland, but among the criteria for "false self-employment" is being expected to work within fixed hours, and in a location specified by the employer. As IT workers - even those who've got contracts of
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by V-2 3y ago
In Poland, where I'm from, it's pretty much the norm to be self-employed in Poland in the IT sector. I believe that around 50% of workers are technically contracted one-man companies, and this percentage is inversely correlated wi
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by V-2 3y ago
> a panel of users with sub-90 IQ who were in a stressful environment and trying to complete other tasks at the same time So long Vim or Emacs ;) I understand that your example is somewhat tongue in cheek, serving illustrative purposes
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by V-2 3y ago
Conspiracy theorists or cynics might claim it's not just about pollution and parking spots. Such initiatives could coincidentally align with the interests of French automotive industry. As of now, France is importing more cars than it

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