> fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs And in response I remarked (very accurately) that there's an even larger number of people who…
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I wouldn't describe the speakers on the M1 I use as amazing. It's more or less as bad as the speakers of previous laptops I used. I mean, it is a speaker. Good enough for simple sound feedback on most applications.…
Except they don't? I hate the speaker sound on the Mac I use for work. Unless "so good" in the title means "not as awful as other shitty laptop speakers", but even that is a poor statement, when the text in the link…
Made me spit my coffee. Have my upvote, you glorious bastard.
Agreed. And I say that when my role is "building software systems" People with different roles in an organization will have different perspectives and goals. Ultimately the software system being built will have to be a…
> Europe has nothing. The company that develops Stable Diffusion is German. I find it as impressive as ChatGPT.
> when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. Ahh, like Kodak when they were the first to create digital cameras, a good 10 years…
> We survived nukes because they were heavily controlled and their spread contained Much to the opposite. We survived nukes because many countries have them. If only one country had them, I presume it would be a lot…
That's exactly how I've been using it. Absolutely amazing stuff. Saves me hours of combing stuff through the internet while coding, so I can focus in the actual problems I need to work on.
> If you do the math that doesn't always work out. I disagree. But it depends on how less the remote companies pay. Are we talking about 80% of the salary of a RTO company? 60%? 30%? The close it gets, the better the…
Smaller salary to be able to live in much cheaper cities where your general quality of life will also be massively improved? Sounds like a win-win to me. Especially considering that the decrease in cost of living…
> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine Let's crush some puppies m'boy. Them bills, they keep coming.
This is the right answer. I think the startup scene is mostly a huge grift. Companies that don't make any sense being propped up by VC money until they find and exit (typically an IPO) and are left to crash and burn. I…
> It helps that in the Netherlands, poverty is typically unnecessary. There is (almost) guaranteed livable income for everyone independent of employment, due to our strong social security system. I lived in multiple…
> There are not that many parties to vote for and people vote for the party they dislike least This is democracy at its finest.
How exactly is it just "barely" democratic?
> There are many concerns about giving a centralized authority more power > Also, since the EU is a vassal of Pax Americana So the problem is giving a centralized authority (EU) more power. At the same time the EU is a…
Are you implying I gave up freedoms to state/bureaucracy? Which freedoms did I give up, exactly?
Funny, do they? I don't participate in threads about the US and its policies, so I wouldn't be able to tell.
Forgive me for not taking their opinion about an economic block that they don't seem to understand and that their country doesn't belong to very seriously.
I think the benefits far outweigh the downsides. To be frank, I think a big chunk of its problems is that it is not integrated enough. Then again, my perspective is from someone not originally from Europe, that chose to…
You're right, they will never grow out of it.
> If you want to be a game developer, are you really going to be happy writing business crud apps with the majority of your working energy You may not be happy doing that, but you will also not be sad, especially if…
Where I live (also in the EU), I noticed a slowdown in recruiting starting on mid-December. While I usually receive at least 2 messages from recruiters per week, I received only 2 messages in almost 2 months. However,…
> fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs And in response I remarked (very accurately) that there's an even larger number of people who…
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I wouldn't describe the speakers on the M1 I use as amazing. It's more or less as bad as the speakers of previous laptops I used. I mean, it is a speaker. Good enough for simple sound feedback on most applications.…
Except they don't? I hate the speaker sound on the Mac I use for work. Unless "so good" in the title means "not as awful as other shitty laptop speakers", but even that is a poor statement, when the text in the link…
Made me spit my coffee. Have my upvote, you glorious bastard.
Agreed. And I say that when my role is "building software systems" People with different roles in an organization will have different perspectives and goals. Ultimately the software system being built will have to be a…
> Europe has nothing. The company that develops Stable Diffusion is German. I find it as impressive as ChatGPT.
> when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. Ahh, like Kodak when they were the first to create digital cameras, a good 10 years…
> We survived nukes because they were heavily controlled and their spread contained Much to the opposite. We survived nukes because many countries have them. If only one country had them, I presume it would be a lot…
That's exactly how I've been using it. Absolutely amazing stuff. Saves me hours of combing stuff through the internet while coding, so I can focus in the actual problems I need to work on.
> If you do the math that doesn't always work out. I disagree. But it depends on how less the remote companies pay. Are we talking about 80% of the salary of a RTO company? 60%? 30%? The close it gets, the better the…
Smaller salary to be able to live in much cheaper cities where your general quality of life will also be massively improved? Sounds like a win-win to me. Especially considering that the decrease in cost of living…
> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine Let's crush some puppies m'boy. Them bills, they keep coming.
This is the right answer. I think the startup scene is mostly a huge grift. Companies that don't make any sense being propped up by VC money until they find and exit (typically an IPO) and are left to crash and burn. I…
> It helps that in the Netherlands, poverty is typically unnecessary. There is (almost) guaranteed livable income for everyone independent of employment, due to our strong social security system. I lived in multiple…
> There are not that many parties to vote for and people vote for the party they dislike least This is democracy at its finest.
How exactly is it just "barely" democratic?
> There are many concerns about giving a centralized authority more power > Also, since the EU is a vassal of Pax Americana So the problem is giving a centralized authority (EU) more power. At the same time the EU is a…
Are you implying I gave up freedoms to state/bureaucracy? Which freedoms did I give up, exactly?
Funny, do they? I don't participate in threads about the US and its policies, so I wouldn't be able to tell.
Forgive me for not taking their opinion about an economic block that they don't seem to understand and that their country doesn't belong to very seriously.
I think the benefits far outweigh the downsides. To be frank, I think a big chunk of its problems is that it is not integrated enough. Then again, my perspective is from someone not originally from Europe, that chose to…
You're right, they will never grow out of it.
> If you want to be a game developer, are you really going to be happy writing business crud apps with the majority of your working energy You may not be happy doing that, but you will also not be sad, especially if…
Where I live (also in the EU), I noticed a slowdown in recruiting starting on mid-December. While I usually receive at least 2 messages from recruiters per week, I received only 2 messages in almost 2 months. However,…