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by rembal 9d ago
The best de-brain rot vacation I had so far was on a remote island in Raja Ampat: it wasn't about the island being remote, but about spotty internet access. It was just the correct amount of spotty: enough for text to load and IMs to g
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by rembal 3mo ago
It's maybe much easier to create code, but it's still hard to create good software, and for the next few years we have a monumental challenge of figuring out how does one create good software when cost of code is approaching zero.
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by rembal 3mo ago
And middle east and latin America have much higher birthrates than Europe, East Asia and the US. I guess most women there must be really unsophisticated (I know you don't mean straight up illiterate).
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by rembal 3mo ago
A different perspective from Poland: house affordability is equally as bad, so the argument could have been "young people don't have babies because they can't afford three bedroom apartments". But the country had a major
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by rembal 4mo ago
It's a well known movie, I'm pretty sure that Elon was either inspired by the movie or by the British code breaking computer from WWII. Frankly, I forgot about the movie (saw it in late 2000s), and assumed the inspiration came fro
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by rembal 4mo ago
+1 on the IAM over engineering, though to AWS credit, I suspect it was evolved rather than design, and that's what you get when evolution has to maintain some level of backward compatibility (think humans still having to be able to lay
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by rembal 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure I got prescribed an antibiotic at least once :) Also, my father has been through 5 cancer "journeys", all successfully treated via public healthcare, last few caught "too early to operate" due to ear
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by rembal 4mo ago
Not much I think. I had long discussions about it with my Ukrainian friends: we came to the conclusion that it was mostly the fact that Ukraine was part of the USSR (much harder crackdowns on opposition, actually including the church) - and
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by rembal 4mo ago
They have been indicating it constantly for last 12 years, regardless of who is in power...
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by rembal 4mo ago
I don't know. I have to admit that things might have been better, we could have been more active in international politics or trade, but we are a sort of low key, and maybe the money and effort is better spent on improving life of citi
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by rembal 4mo ago
Most Ukrainians (and Belarusians) settled in major cities, starting with Warsaw. In 2022 I had a Belarusian girlfriend, and at some point I tried convincing people coming here to target smaller towns, to no avail. Still, most of them stayed
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by rembal 4mo ago
So, who elected Stalin? He was the head of the USSR after all.
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by rembal 4mo ago
15%? With some legal footwork you can get to 10 or 5%, depending if you count general medical I surance as a tax or not.
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by rembal 5mo ago
Many countries in Europe have free universities: avoiding a few hundred thousands in debt maybe be worth moving in the long run.
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by rembal 5mo ago
That could work if the actors were rational. Unfortunately, they are largely ideological.
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by rembal 6mo ago
I'm too lazy to double check the numbers, but as far as I remember, Germany in order to increase it's average generation by 10% had to expand capacity by 70% in solar plus wind. With stats like this, there's a thin line betwe
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by rembal 6mo ago
I love the water/ice metaphor, but the author tends to completely ignore the physical world. Example with cardiologist - we all know what happened to the radiologist prediction. Example with defence (or war) becoming mostly a case of h
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by rembal 6mo ago
For a normal person, the only real words in this sentence are "get", "with", and "image", but the last one does not mean what they would think it means. Even WIX needs some level of tech savviness, usually beyo
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by rembal 6mo ago
Goons work MUCH better than rockets for intimidation, and actually scale much better. Rocket is obvious and spectacular. Those are for amateurs. A journalist got beaten up to the brink of death and will never walk again by 'unknown per
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by rembal 7mo ago
The pyramids in the article are missing "energy" and "capital": in the world where intelligence becomes a commodity only those two matter. Capital to buy the hardware and install it, and energy to run it. Models already
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by rembal 7mo ago
It's not certain this is the future: the obvious trade off is lack of flexibility: not only when a new model comes out, but also varying demand in the data centers - one day people want more LLM queries, another day more diffusion quer
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by rembal 7mo ago
The edge is ownership - of GPUs, capital, connections and distribution channels (this includes SEO). Also, SEO will be meaningless if LLMs will be the main discovery channels. Much less transparent, and we are already seeing that, for examp
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by rembal 7mo ago
Anecdotal evidence to confirm: I had two false alarms from an unrelated MRI scan, and beside wasting a lot of time on diagnosing them - it was also extremely stressful. My father is a part of "full body PET scan every 3 years" pro
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by rembal 10mo ago
Thank you for writing this. It was also my first impression after seeing not only spec driven dev, but agentic systems that try to mimic human roles and processes 1:1. It feels a bit like putting a saddle on an automobile so that it feels m
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by rembal 1y ago
I love how this article, just like a tsunami stone, surfaces on HN every few years. It just shows even shorter cycles of collective memories :)
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by rembal 1y ago
Nothing new, a lot of landmark buildings larger than this were moved like this in the 1940s in Warsaw, during post-war reconstructions. 80 years ago.