I’ve written thousands of lines of untyped python code for a system (still) used daily by hundreds of users, handling time critical as well as financial data. It made the company I worked for millions and it worked. Was it bug free? Nope, bugs would appear in production from time to time, but they were very easy to detect, and very quickly solved, especially because of the fact that python is an interpreted language. In 7 years of working on that application there was only one bug that caused data corruption and required us to reprocess some data that took a day or three. That was the worst thing to happen in the entire lifetime of that codebase. I totally agree that if you structure your code properly, log properly and give your developers the trust and permissions to actually solve stuff in production quickly, you might even get a competitive advantage.

If IP is abolished, that would to me imply that use of AI should be free for everyone, as it’s based on everyones collective knowledge.

Opinions differ I guess. I thought it was quite good.

This article makes it sound like Zhang was the victim here. Short story is that he took over a Dutch Tech company, mismanaged it and took its Intellectual property to transfer it to a Chinese company, essentially gutting nexperia. The board of the company and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce intervened. Note that the Dutch government didn’t do this for political reasons, but based on the findings of the Chamber of Commerce, who intervened because of intentional bad management.

The GOP also has issues with DEI, which stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Their followers are either not smart enough to realize, and will parrot what they hear, and thereby spread more hate, or they’re willingly malevolent.

Does it have an app to automatically backup photos and documents from an Android or iOS phone by chance? I know I can use syncthing, but in my experience a tool like Synology Drive works more reliably.

So many repressed feelings.

The naked gun

A thought provoking film.

My thoughts were “What the hell am I doing here?” and “Why did I pay money to see this?”.

Maybe it’s funnier when you’re really drunk or when you haven’t slept in a couple of days. Otherwise steer clear.

I asked him about it and he doesn’t remember… I swear he was super enthousiastic about this film back when it came out, and we sort of made fun of him for a while, because of the way he described a guy killing people with a CD weapon. But unfortunately it’s no longer his favorite film appearantly. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

Damn I remember a friend of mine describe this movie when it came out. Especially the cd part. I will ask him.

I think vercel (formerly zeit.co) has a free tier for static websites.

And nothing of value was lost. In fact, it might shield more European users from FUD, misinformation and propaganda.

A pass sentence is very hard to crack and easy to remember. Throw in a couple of numbers and capital letters for good measure.

Remember how clean the air was when most people were working from home?

But shareholder value is more important.

Good luck to this woman finding good employees. Good employees have a choice.

Good. Bye bye

Jeroom is a comedic genius

U.S. based. Not a great premise.

If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

Now we’re going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that’s a plus.

And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

Great, another 26 year old that stumbled into wealth and thinks that makes him an authority.

Like those 20 something “executive coaches” fresh out of school I always seem to stumble upon on LinkedIn. They think they are incredible, but in reality they are only incredible in the literal sense.