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by tumdum_ 3d ago
> is there a way to make the money flow through it? It's always good when money flows through you. Ah, yes! The dream of being rent seeking middleman! The first thing that come to mind when I think “hacker” ;)
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by tumdum_ 4d ago
Is it their way of saying “we are unable to increase energy production to maintain growth rates” without saying it?
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by tumdum_ 6d ago
Go to lobste.rs and hide the 'vibecoding' tag.
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by tumdum_ 7d ago
I think so, see the tournament results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chess_Engine_Championship#...
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by tumdum_ 27d ago
That was the initial work, but since then there was lots of work performed with LLMs.
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by tumdum_ 27d ago
I wonder what was total token cost of the rewrite.
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
It tells you little about living conditions but it tells you a lot about importance of a country as a whole. GDP per capita of China might be far from US but due to its size it still makes China very important actor.
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
They offer similar product to a more well known Proton.
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
Or you can just use any of the actual European companies (I’m using Tuta). https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
So you are saying that they cherrypicked some obscure illnesses to make Europe look good? They used data for: - infant mortality - maternal mortality - colon and breast cancer survival - heart attack mortality - childhood acute lymphocytic
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
They are looking at the outcomes of specific procedures because they are interested in the health care system quality. Looking at things like life expectancy would make it impossible to disentangle them from other factors like lifestyle or
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
It’s actually better to be average Western European than white and top 1-5% American: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
> The reallocations were real, but they were never the bottleneck. Why do people not write their own blogposts on their own?!
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
Latest presentation of Terence Tao on what current advancements in AI mean for math discusses (among other things) those issues: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.p...
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by tumdum_ 1mo ago
Is google still a big contributor to the c++ standard? I thought they are far less involved than a decade ago.
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by tumdum_ 2mo ago
I'm not sure how true is this claim about weak environmental laws. I don't have any data to back this up, but I was in China in 2013 and two years ago and the difference in air quality in major cities is staggering. So, maybe they
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by tumdum_ 2mo ago
Reading a book is a way to peek into author's mind. There is nothing to peek into when the book is generated by llm.
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by tumdum_ 2mo ago
Here is a nice summary of Polish health care: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
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by tumdum_ 2mo ago
> they don't have socialized healthcare You have free healthcare for children (up to 18 years old), pregnant women and registered unemployed. Moreover, any working person can (for free) add their spouse and parents. Plus people can
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by tumdum_ 2mo ago
They’ve made so many terrible decisions already. Going after widows wouldn’t change anything.
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by tumdum_ 2mo ago
If no issue there, then why would you ask who is behind it in a public forum?
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
Did you know that only 1,6% of US population works in agriculture compared to 5% in Portugal? See https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/employmen...
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
I think that in Europe the trend is in the other direction: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_... - e.g. -15% since 2019.
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
For example OS running on Amazon fire stick 4K kills your background processes after ~20 minutes.
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
> Many Europeans believe ... > ... misinformation (likely Ukrainian-origin) ... Your post is also "a half-baked, un-falsifiable conspiracy theory with little supporting evidence" ;)
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
I find the attitude shown in this post very surprising. On the one hand, the post starts with a story of adopting Linux and other FOSS. The core of FOSS is giving its users the ability to understand and modify software they run. On the othe
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
I know that this may sound surprising, but US is not the only country in the world ;)
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
In my experience advanced algorithms and data structures are almost never needed. You need simple data structures and algorithms and understanding of the environment in which you are running (for example see https://handmade.netw
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
No only that, but to ride the fastest Shinkansen you still need to pay additional fee on top of JR Pass.
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by tumdum_ 3mo ago
How is that different from https://yggdrasil-network.github.io ?

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