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by bgarbiak 13d ago
I’m all for an UBI but a future where people have no purposeful jobs, no way to actually make a real difference to anything around them, is a bleak one.
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by bgarbiak 13d ago
Yeah. I’m almost glad I didn’t invest any time in any of my 100s ideas for a startup. Most of them would be destroyed by AI by now. But, you can create cool stuff just for yourself. That’s the upside. It’s just hard to make a living on cool
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by bgarbiak 19d ago
The point of the article is not that banners are good; it’s that they would not be needed at all if websites didn’t share all the possible data about their users with hundreds of vendors. Fun fact: the OP blog doesn’t display a GPDR banner.
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by bgarbiak 22d ago
Isn’t it the same as relying on human developers? Gotchas aside: I’m not saying the end of programming is a good thing. I’m just saying: it’s happening. Unless the LLM tech will suddenly hit any sort of ceiling.
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by bgarbiak 22d ago
The responses about code quality, wisdom that comes with experience, etc. are missing the big picture: no one will ever care about any of this as long as things work as explained in the prompt. Eventual shortcomings will be fixed not by loo
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by bgarbiak 3mo ago
The cheapest Minis are made by GWM in China, and are using different motors and batteries. However, comparing prices between cars nowadays is a complicated matter. BMW's iX1 and iX2 (they use the BMW EESM motors) theoretically cost abo
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by bgarbiak 3mo ago
BMW also makes rare-earths-free motors for their EVs and - at this very moment - theirs are far more advanced. They offer almost twice the power (up to 300kW vs 160kW) and are on a 800v architecture.
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by bgarbiak 3mo ago
Working in the music industry and not being aware who Rick Rubin is… is a bit weird.
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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It(nytimes.com)
5 points by bgarbiak 6mo ago|2 comments
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by bgarbiak 7mo ago
It’s not about goodwill. Selling parts is simply a good business. The margins at authorized dealers are crazy.
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by bgarbiak 9mo ago
I guess it depends on who you’d ask. BMW made a switch from prismatic cells to cylindrical design only recently, and it looks like the biggest gain was in costs and weight efficiency. The range/capacity ratio didn’t improve that much.
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by bgarbiak 9mo ago
Europe doesn’t need new entrants. They got legacy automakers that are no worse at making EVs than Chinese and American startups. The problem is: they can’t make them cheap enough to compete with China in developing countries. I’m not sure i
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by bgarbiak 10mo ago
There is also Mercedes eActros line and MAN eTGX. There are already thousands of them in Europe. Funny how that just happened, without fanfares and trillion dollar evaluations. Speaking of which, I don’t know why would anyone still wait for
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by bgarbiak 11mo ago
You can absolutely be a hobbyist photographer for a fraction of $3k. A hobbyist lens collector is a different story.
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
I tried this approach years ago. Now I consider it an anti-pattern. You really don’t want the look of your website/document to be dependent on its structure. Things like li:has( > a + p) - it seems so clever initially, but then yo
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
https://archive.is/hO6YV
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
Well, nowadays, you can implement a lot of logic for forms using HTML and pure CSS, without JS at all. Example: form:has(.conditional-checkbox:not(:checked)) .optional-part-of-form { display: none; } I’m not saying it’s better
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
How about mobile monitors? Like Uperfect?
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
In that case people (some of them at least) would switch to a different browser. Reducing Chrome market share would be healthy for the web too.
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
It was cool to smoke when all the cool guys in the movies were smoking. One of the reasons it’s not cool anymore is that the cool guys in the movies don’t smoke nowadays (although they do it more often now than they did ten years ago; which
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
I once shouted into the phone while on a call with a helpline person. They screwed me over with an invoice that looked like a contract extension (domain, hosting), but turned out was an invoice for a separate, second contract for services I
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
Strange. As a father of two I prefer hotels over AirBnB. Laundry could be an issue, yes, but not having a kitchen is actually a feature for me. Someone else taking care of feeding the little ones is exactly what hotels are for
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
And Porsche has its Active Ride[1] tech, already implemented in Panamera and Taycan. Yet, for some reason they, supposedly, want to use the so-called Bose tech too. [1] https://youtu.be/BohF6I3_QZ4
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
Well, the iPhones were in fact faster. Faster at playing the animations, at least. I worked on an app in the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S II era and we wanted to use the same trick on both: smoothly animate the view switch between user interactio
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
Certainly not only TikTok, but - IMHO - the most damaging part of every other social media _is_ the one based on it: Reels, Shorts, etc. The endless swiping for the next dose of dopamine. The YouTube's one (Shorts) is especially irrita
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
Trump can make that illegal in no time. „No foreign funds” is a well known method of fighting opposition, tried and tested in many soft regimes (looking for a recent example, Hungary comes to mind).
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by bgarbiak 1y ago
I remember the communism. Boy, you have no idea. And, frankly, your comparisons between EU clampdown on disinformation and hate speech (however effective or justified it is) to communism propaganda and to persecutions against its opponents
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by bgarbiak 2y ago
Uhm, that Polish plane wasn’t shot down. Don’t spread silly conspiracy theories. Polish military spendings were rising steadily since long before the accident, but a significant increase happened after Russian full scale invasion on Ukraine
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by bgarbiak 2y ago
They shoot down their own redundant satellites, and it was in 2007 in 2010.
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by bgarbiak 2y ago
Well, we’ll build all sort of APIs for LLMs to plug into.

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