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8mo ago
I take Linus's stance on this: how are you going to enforce it? How do you know I didn't just generate this with an LLM?
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8mo ago
Why RPM and not DEB or something more modern? Is it for Read Had compatibility?
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voidr
1y ago
> “We’re entering an era of untrustable code everywhere” - This assumes AI-generated code is inherently less trustworthy than human-written code, which isn’t obviously true. It's not true if your humans are on controlled substances
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voidr
1y ago
> Our 100% SLA ensures uninterrupted services, empowering businesses worldwide to thrive. Avoid ANY company that makes this claim. I'm European and European providers need to start by not being dishonest, we can't just give &#x
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1y ago
Péter Magyar has emerged exactly 1 year and 5 days ago, he went from a nobody to looking more and more like the end to Orbán's reign. Orbán has been complacent because the opposition was fragmented and useless, but now it looks like it
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1y ago
I don't get the obsession with YAML and making things declarative that really should not be declarative. I'm so much happier on projects where I can use the non-declarative Jenkins pipelines instead of GH Actions or BB pipelines.
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2y ago
European here: other than people obsessed with certain political events, nobody really cares, people aren't going to throw away their iPhones and switch away from Microsoft. I also find this very strange, that people did not talk about
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2y ago
> I fully understand that you hope to see sudden breakthroughs I want to see an end of this pointless war where a lot of people died for a lot of nothing and Europe along with other parts of the world just became poorer. > In the earl
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2y ago
No it didn't, you just need to stop asking questions an LLM can easily solve, most of those were probably terrible questions to begin with. I can create a simple project with 20 files, where you would need to check almost all of them t
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2y ago
We should have seen this post before Hector Martin got so fed up that he decided to resign(to be fair, he probably had other issues as well that contributed). I was very confused by the lack of an actual response from Linus, he only said th
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2y ago
> At a rate of less than 1% of territory gained Capturing Texas wouldn't enlarge Russia too much percentage wise, because it's already massive, not that this metric matters at all. You keep assuming that Russia needs more terri
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2y ago
> I'd say developing "evil" AI is a bad business idea. You know that quotes have a meaning, a knife can kill people, but it can also be used to make tasty food, the EU wants to ban the knife because it can kill people in t
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2y ago
> Oh look it's a Trump propagandist. Hello! If it's propaganda then I guess it would take you no effort to prove me wrong instead of writing nonsense. I guess you are now going to prove that this didn't happen: https:
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2y ago
> I don't believe that hosting in the EU means you need to treat non-EU jurisdictions with EU law. Let's say to that I want to develop something that uses an "evil" AI and I only want to sell to countries outside of t
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2y ago
> end up suffering US state censorship at some point. You had a higher risk for that with the democrats, remember the AI videos that upset Kamala and Gavin? European countries have a far worse track record of censorship. > Still, I wo
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2y ago
I'm an EU citizen, I would like the EU to be a competitive place in terms of software, however at the moment I have to say that it's a hostile place for software development and software as a service. They are making too many dumb
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2y ago
> Sure, it’s not pure CGI, just CGI on steroids. But frankly, it hasn’t gone too far. It doesn't need to go far, because it's selling point is that it's easy to learn and use. The way I see PHP is not as a competitor to Ja
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2y ago
> Last time i looked PHP still had no generics, and the "typesystem" is mostly a joke. So is Python's yet the language is enjoying great success. > All the builtin functions still have no namespaces, and no forced types
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2y ago
Nobody runs PHP in CGI mode, either they go with libapache2_mod_php, where Apache itself does the work or PHP-FPM with Nginx. Either way you are not going to pay for the PHP process startup cost. PHP can also cache the interpretations of fi
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2y ago
> No, certainly not. I think we can agree to disagree on that one, we are talking about a country that started wars for far less. > Russian losses are totally insane. The US lost 107 903 killed in action and 208 333 wounded in the ent
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2y ago
If you want to optimise for SEO you might want your content to be rendered on the server, however: rendered on the server is not the same as being sent down in the initial HTML payload. Server components are not convenient to use, because t
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2y ago
A lot of teams using NextJS end up creating things that are effectively SPAs where some part of the code run on the server, they gain no benefits but end up dealing with relatively long compilation times and have to deal with the confusing
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2y ago
> its still relevant Relevant in what way? Relevant as in they are factual or relevant to the day to day of a real PHP developer, because I can tell you the latter didn't hold up even when this was written. > even a decade has pa
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2y ago
A lot of the points were bad even when this was written for example "A language must be consistent." is probably not true for any of the top 10 languages. > PHP is inconsistent: strpos, str_rot13 I used PHP for two decades and
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2y ago
> I do not recall saying that Russia has seen 400 000+ casualties for each of the three years. Thought you meant to say it was every year, my bad, I had no intention to misinterpret it. > I do not recall saying that Russia has seen 40
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2y ago
> All of these channels are blatant Russian propaganda. They're also full of blatant lies. All 3 of them. Can you point out examples of lies or do you just label every source that does not align with your beliefs as propaganda? The
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2y ago
She should have been given life, she played with other people's lives and livelihoods for personal gain.
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2y ago
> the emphasis is on Holmes as a mother, and how hard it is for her to be away from her children. Many mothers are in prison for far less, don't believe she should get a free pass.
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2y ago
> They have not. > Russia captured some 22% of Ukraine > Ukrainian counteroffensives in 2022 reduced this to 17-18% Percentage of territory in terms of a war is not a good indicator of progress, especially taking into account the o
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2y ago
> In what sense is half a percent of territorial gain for 400 000 casualties "beating" anyone? It is textbook Pyrrhic victory. Maybe gaining territory was not really the objective, maybe not all territory is considered equal. A
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