chupy

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by chupy 7mo ago
You say this because young men use TikTok as a distraction?
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by chupy 1y ago
Because it has AI in it's name /s
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by chupy 1y ago
Not op but how I understood it is that until recently the majority of programmers were geeks and liked to tinker and understand the systems they were writing and deploying code on. Not sure that this is the case now, nonetheless it can be a
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by chupy 2y ago
What alternatives in Europe? My wife had to buy a car last year, wanted to buy electric and Tesla was the only one that was ready to deliver within a month and at a decent price per features. Don't care about Elon but in the end all th
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by chupy 2y ago
Companies are still charging 100x for the pills that cost pennies to produce. Besides deals with insurance companies and governments, one of the ways that they are still able to pull this is convincing everyone that it's too dangerous
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by chupy 2y ago
Volvo EX40, fully electric is made in Belgium and it does not seem that it will be phased out soon.
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by chupy 2y ago
Occam's razor here.. Polling failure and it's very clear from the actual amount of people voting for the guy. Yes you can make a conspiracy theory but it's a bit ridiculous. Most Romanians that work in IT(and post here) live
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by chupy 2y ago
Most of those cases of even the prime ministers were just for show. Getting a suspended punishment while not having to pay anything back from bribery and no repercussions. This is equivalent to how I punish my kid, stay in the corner for fi
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by chupy 2y ago
As you well know since you are Romanian there are not many cases of people tried and in jail in Romania for corruption. Now take a state actor and imagine that they are responsible. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend there will be re
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by chupy 2y ago
A lot of the things that we buy in Europe are already manufactured cheaply in China with different standards etc. We are moving a lot of manufacturing back to Europe, mostly in the eastern part of it. That part is still 'cheap' a
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by chupy 2y ago
I get it, I live in Belgium and being a freelancer is truly the only way to make a more than decent wage(more or less silicon valley salary with 36 hours week). Problem is that is not really fair
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by chupy 2y ago
Most of EU countries havr some kind of consultancy embedded deep into the their core financial and governments and other critical institutions. The EU commission is full of barely competent consultants developing some sort of applications.
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by chupy 2y ago
What would be kind accomplish there?
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by chupy 3y ago
It's because data engineering has been reduced to be able to login to a cloud provider and know which workflow to drag and drop. This is easily learned in a couple of weeks so that s why those skills might not be considered software en
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by chupy 3y ago
Can you give an example of modern technology that you believe would be supported or maintained in 50 years?
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by chupy 3y ago
Is it because you risk doing something like this? https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-...
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by chupy 3y ago
Even though bosch engines are amazing their support service is execrable. I had an issue where there was a weird noise after 25km/h and even if there was an warranty they are taking months to fix it. First they said it's normal th
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by chupy 4y ago
On the block where I live there are a couple of hairdressers all empty and also a café owned by shady 20 year old Albanians. A bunch of shops for construction gear where there is nobody etc. It's possible that it's a bad way to la
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by chupy 4y ago
Check out the Dole corporation to see how evil can they actually be - https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-dark-and-bloody-hist... . Nestle with the classic baby formula marketing to 2nd/3rd world countries, chi
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by chupy 5y ago
Let's be frank here, both of us know what you are implying. Cutting excerpts of wikipedia without the context is a pretty valid disinformation tactic. Replacing words randomly also to suit your previous point is ridiculous. Glory to th
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by chupy 5y ago
It's quite ridiculous but are you trying to insinuate that she was a Nazi? By the same logic you are applying does it mean that everyone that uses the phrase Allahu Akbar (God is great) is also a terrorist?
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by chupy 5y ago
He does not need to prevent invasion from the west, just having the nukes automatically prevents that and he knows it. One of the first thing the Russians did was unblock that canal that Ukraine cemented. That plus them sending cannon fodde
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by chupy 5y ago
Probably if you apply the same polls some folks in Texas they would also want to become independent from the US.
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by chupy 5y ago
Working in adtech was interesting for me because I learned how to work with distributed systems, thought me the importance of optimizing, scaling, instrumentation etc. It's extremely satisfying shaving a ms or two in response times in
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by chupy 5y ago
Is it not also true that if you do not practice at all this skill you lose it?
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by chupy 5y ago
What you should have been doing is actively fighting to set rules the way you want them.Both by electing the right people and, more importantly, actually, funding lobbying efforts. Maybe we should actively fight against the existence of l
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by chupy 5y ago
In Belgium, you can get to 50% tax on that 100K + 21% VAT on normal goods (6% on food).
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by chupy 6y ago
Do you think that he is the only member of WSB that is a licensed broker or works in finance? I don't want to bet but I would say there is a good chance that people that a lot of people that used to post on WSB have either financial b
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by chupy 6y ago
> It's just not that widely understood in production as sql databases, and has limitations which you might reach in a few years. Reaching limitations in a few years and biting that bullet makes the difference between a successful st
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by chupy 6y ago
It's the same or even more in Romania (depending on the parts of the country), I do not know why everyone is surprised about it. There are a lot of benefits there that SWE (and IT in general get) - less taxes if you have a CS degree or

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