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by s_dev 4d ago
Because it's treated as a strategic asset now. AI capital spendign 1/3 of US GDP growth last quarter take it out and the economy is stalled. Nobody in DC is going to prosecute the only thing making the number go up.
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by s_dev 5d ago
It's amazing, people act as if there wasn't shit code before LLMs. LLMs are just another multiplier. A liability in the hands of incompetence and an asset in the hands competence. Another tool, knowledge will always empower those
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by s_dev 5d ago
I have a script that changes the background colour of my terminal based on whatever directory or server I'm in. That's enough beauty for me, I do believe there is such a thing as over configuring and defaults are very powerful. Th
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by s_dev 6d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608023 Not arguing one way or the other just brining up the last Hacker News conversation where it was established that dirty hands are good for you.
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by s_dev 7d ago
I agree YC funding Flock is bad but I don't think you're helping. You're making it seem like there is an orchestrated effort to discredit YC rather than articulating this is poor form on their part.
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by s_dev 7d ago
They are a YCombinator company! TIL. I'm genuinely taken aback by that. I can clearly see a bunch of brand new accounts brigading the thread, YCisComplict, YCisBad etc. Presumably bots or something but this is still bad even discountin
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by s_dev 8d ago
It's still in beta unfortunately but this is Hacker News and it's okay to share software before it hits prod. People want to be ahead of the curve and it looks promising.
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by s_dev 8d ago
Power generates healthy scepticism and contempt. Since Mistral has very little relative to other AI companies it doesn't draw the same ire. Like Lovable they seem to settling in to a niche but in this case supplying AI to large EU firm
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by s_dev 8d ago
MVP would be widely understood on this forum to mean "Minimum Viable Product", I don't think that's what you meant. Options are always good to have.
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by s_dev 8d ago
You should try this: https://neptuneplayer.com/
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by s_dev 8d ago
Scaleway Object Storage + rclone. Airbus is switching from AWS to Scaleway and has begun their migration. So they are enterprise grade but seem to have the ease of use of Digital Ocean which I migrated from last year. I get a bit overwhelme
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by s_dev 8d ago
https://eualternative.eu/categories/cdn/
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by s_dev 9d ago
Went from 10.11 to 12.0 and had zero issues. Scaleway/Ubuntu/Docker env with 8GB RAM. Well one small niggle, I had a custom script setup on Caddy that overrides how certain buckets are sorted because my users are too lazy to follo
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by s_dev 9d ago
It's how all hyperscalers and kickstarter work so small and big companies. You raise based on an idea and a sample. Who invests? Those who want to see the product made i.e. instead of buying an album. You invest in a band who promises
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by s_dev 9d ago
A lot of scores on the doors are often faked defeating their purpose. Helpful but not bullet proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SO8KcfhJmc Old school methods like what McDonald's use, literally allow the customer
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by s_dev 9d ago
You mean marketing and engineering.
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by s_dev 10d ago
I'd rather Germany had been first on the Moon, instead of the US. Disclosing a preference isn't necessarily insightful commentary on achievements.
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by s_dev 10d ago
Great suggestion, there is real value in these lists. Options are always good. I like the freshness transparency and that helps impart confidence going forward as it's easy to see when it was last updated but the suggested alternatives
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by s_dev 12d ago
Obligatory as always: https://european-alternatives.eu/categories
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by s_dev 12d ago
https://www.moltbook.com/
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by s_dev 13d ago
Look at Silicon Valley Bank that was also "too big to fail" and when it did the taxpayer had to bail it out. If something is too big to fail, it's too big, the regulator should have stepped in earlier to chop it up.
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by s_dev 15d ago
Let it collapse get rid of patents and copyright. They are holding us back. People will assume that means that you can copy and distribute for free and profit without work. You already can. The business model will have to shift to collectin
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by s_dev 17d ago
It's not that, it's calling the EU a dictatorship, meanwhile the US has genuinely slipped out of the liberal democracy rankings to a electoral democracy (the same as Hungary last year) and seems to be on the path to full blown oli
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by s_dev 18d ago
The reason low tech works for something as important as voting is because it's expensive and inefficient. That expense and inefficiency is what protects it from fraud. You would need enormous sums of money to overturn an election like
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by s_dev 20d ago
"A robot that's a tenth of the speed is still cost effective when it's a hundredth of the price" -- CPG Grey, Humans Need not Apply. Released over a decade ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMFj75kBQlU
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by s_dev 20d ago
I can confirm Ireland does this as well. I'm not familiar with immigration law as have both US and EU passports and can travel to work freely between the two. While I critique the US for a lot and it does get a lot wrong I think many c
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by s_dev 21d ago
I recently migrated from Digital Ocean to Scaleway. Digital Ocean was great but I had to make sure my stack was entirely in the EU in case the US decides to hit a kill switch for some mental negotiation tactic. Pricing and interface and per
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by s_dev 24d ago
Tech is super important but it's not energy or food. The threat of a 'Microsoft Famine' would only lead to the EU being forced to send that money to China and develop it's own tech sector more thoroughly. The US was powe
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by s_dev 25d ago
The US sells software to the EU. To me is constantly amazing that US citizens and US gov thinks it can just pull the plug without consequence to itself. You pull the plug the money stops rolling in. I don't know if you've ever tri
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by s_dev 26d ago
Like I said, you could own one and it's broken. Your 5 year old knocks over a glass wine the night before a morning interview. What do you do? The fact you can't work around it also might reflect badly on you as a potential employ

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