ernst_klim

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by ernst_klim 29d ago
Pixel itself is very mediocre hardware, it's not hard to surpass. The battery is my main problem with it, my current pixel can't barely survive half a day of usage.
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by ernst_klim 29d ago
> It could, for instance, do so on the grounds that it is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Act, which safeguards platforms from legal liability for content posted by third parties. But then the platform decides what to show
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by ernst_klim 2mo ago
I did live before internet bc widespread internet came quite late to my country, and I must say it wasn't all that different. Dating, job search and social interactions were actually easier and more pleasant.
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by ernst_klim 2mo ago
> I can bank from my pocket My opinion on that is, it's not such a big gain compared to legacy banking with checks, phone calls etc. All the operations you can do now you could do with legacy banks, just a bit slower. Given banking
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by ernst_klim 2mo ago
Exactly. I believe that growth caused by the rise of IT, be it Internet or LLM, will be marginal, because the benefits for humanity are very marginal compared to that caused by steam engine, wing, antibiotics or telegraph. Everything IT doe
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by ernst_klim 2mo ago
> The economic system itself is incompatible with the physical reality of a finite planet The economic reality is perfectly compatible with finite reality, because growth is not a function of resources. An email is more economically valu
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by ernst_klim 3mo ago
When you say €20 worth of tokens is it fair direct API call price or subsidized claude code?
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by ernst_klim 4mo ago
Or when the Internet came and made memory kinda obsolete. Why remember facts if you can simply index them and then lookup on demand. But now we delegate thinking itself, so I wonder what is left.
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> Is 'reading the code' really an option? You need a proxy. 100k is small, but you're right, it can be millions. I usually skim through the code tho, and it's not that hard . I don't need to fully read and under
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
I think people expect the star system to be a cheap proxy for "this is a reliable piece of sorfware which has a good quality and a lot of eyes". I think as a proxy it fails completely: astroturfing aside stars don't guarantee
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> to eliminate "useless eaters" It can't. It can't even deal with emails without randomly deleting your email folder [1]. Saying that it can make decisions and replace humans is akin of saying that random number gener
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> at equivalent adjusted income levels What is equivalent adjusted income level? PPP between Russia and USA is around 1.8. Median annual salary in the US is $57 ($1196 per week), median salary in Russia is $13200. Even if you adjust it,
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> Poverty levels Poverty levels are measured relative to median. Poverty in US and poverty in Bangladesh, Russia or Vietnam are completely different things. In the US poverty line is about $16k, while in Russia for example it is $2300. E
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> We all know the average white collar worker doesn't actually work for 40 hours despite being at the office. Yes bc now this worker works same 3-4 hours but 4 days instead of 5.
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> The average person gets no benefit from this You are proving the point. The avg. person gets an enormous benefit from it, even in countries like USA, Japan or Korea with far less generous welfare. The gap in standards of living of some
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> I am very happy with this I'm not. If you are european and will inherit something it's fine, but if not you'll barely be able to afford a house and a tiny investment portfolio. And at the face of the immense collapse of
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by ernst_klim 5mo ago
> Nearly no one I know in NL and DE works more than 36hrs per week. And we all have a sh”tload of holidays and irregular days off additionally. In DE I would argue that this is due to punitive taxes and I wouldn't call it progress.
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by ernst_klim 6mo ago
It probably is still subsidized, just not as much. We won't know if these APIs are profitable unless these companies go public, and till then it's safe to bet these APIs are underpriced to win the market share.
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by ernst_klim 6mo ago
Well FFmpeg is roughly 1500k, but it's C+Asm and it's dozens of codecs and pretty complex features. SBCL is around 500k I guess. I'm not saying that this is necessarily too much, I'm genuinely asking if this is a bloat o
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by ernst_klim 6mo ago
> 500k lines of code Isn't it a simple REPL with some tools and integrations, written in a very high level language? How the hell is it so big? Is it because it's vibecoded and LLMs strive for bloat, or is it meaningful complex
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by ernst_klim 6mo ago
I don't think government funded projects are any more secure. The political climate changes once in a few years and we had a lot of examples of previous decisions being scrapped. Limux in München was scrapped overnight, usaid was shut
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by ernst_klim 6mo ago
> Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writing code by hand. I would argue that the split existed before AI and these camps were not the same. There were always "Quality first" people and "Get the shi
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by ernst_klim 6mo ago
Indeed. I have a few colleages and they constantly try to push these long convoluted functions which look like is_done = False while not is_done: if pattern1: ... if pattern2: ... if match
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by ernst_klim 8mo ago
Same in Germany. That's why usually Max Mustermann (55) get's a better compensation for doing bare minimum than you for doing more work. But in case of layoffs you will be kicked out first and he would be kicked out the last and w
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by ernst_klim 8mo ago
> meaningful measures of economic health As someone who lived in a handful of countries with GDP per capita ranging from $3k to $70k I must say that GDP is a great proxy of the QoL and median citizen wealth. Not the only one and not the
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by ernst_klim 9mo ago
Indeed. "Science-based" lifting become quite popular in the recent years, but the actual science behind it is quite loose with a lot of methodologically weak studies, small samples etc.
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by ernst_klim 9mo ago
Tcc even supports that with `#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run`, although I don't understand people who use c or go for "scripting", when python, ruby, TCL or perl have much superior ergonomics.
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by ernst_klim 9mo ago
That's ridiculous. DB is not even trying to become profitable, not is there any evidence that it's sole shareholder, aka the government, sets it as a target.
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by ernst_klim 9mo ago
That's true, but at this point I would prefer slow but steady over being disembarked at random *dorf or standstill in a middle of nowhere with zero signal and no clue when we'll get back on track.
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by ernst_klim 9mo ago
> Twenty minutes late is normal in the UK. My biggest gripe with DB is not that it's late, but that it quite often cancels the trains. If you decided to go by regional trains with 1-2 hops instead of direct (bc you can go much cheap

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