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I read a lot of tech bros saying what they did is easy because they used (illegally?) the chatgpt API for part of their model training. But it seems this kind of performance actually means better engineering, doesn’t it?
I’m glad a different country is able to challenge top USA tech, but I wish EU could do it together too. For now it seems we’re mostly able to duplicate American products with added GDPR compliance.

I think it’s probably because it is informal or maybe ambiguous.

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I had a Pycharm linter with “inconsiderate writing list” flag my use of “bi” as inappropriate, recommending to use “bisexual” instead. In my data job, BI, means business intelligence, it’s everywhere.

Gosh, the money to join the USB-C standard should go into RHS instead!

It’s also important to note that you might come out ahead in learning those abstract concepts using a harder language.

I agree that you will learn more abstract concepts with more low level languages, but they are often not necessary. See Scala, beautiful language, lot’s of fancy subtle computer science concepts, and a plummeting popularity since its main popularizer, Apache Spark, implemented a Python API.

Development environment is a mess, but given its popularity, it’s not difficult to find an up to date tutorial. Then it is the easiest I think, you will be able to try programming basics and get a minimum viable product (small web app, small analytics…) easlier than with any other language.

Some people think that because Python is the easiest language to learn, it’s going to be easy to learn programming with Python. But learning programming is still very hard, so many abstract concepts to grasp. Python just makes it a tiny less hard, almost insignificantly now that we can use an LLM to learn the syntax faster than than ever.

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For mage in pain:

I’m glad that there’s no micro transactions nor loot boxes.

Not even to spend good times with friends?

How do you agree on a meeting time with a group of people who all live in different places of your country?

That’s a good idea! Instead of discrete timezones, let’s have continuous timezones!

Are you one of those rare developers who spend most of their day actually coding?

Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like

Those tasks are a very small part of work time, so most people don’t feel the need to optimize it.

I had no idea that Tumblr was active again? I thought all Tumblr posts from the past 5 years were just recycled old stuff.

I think better regulation of the market so it benefits the consumers, like what EU tries to do, is more realistic than imagining a state being able to sustainably handle marketable innovation. I don’t think a state would have come out with efficient web search, smartphones or gen AI for exemple.

I think the absence of cap also makes super rich people motivated to invest in new projects that could make them even richer. If they don’t have this motivation anymore, it may reduce this investment source, they’d just keep what they have and don’t see the point in doing more with their money. Would the state do that better from taxes money? Maybe