StefanBatory

Thank you!

I was at library some time ago and skimmed upon some old textbooks, written still during the Communist rule here - and they just were so much better in terms of explaining things. (as long as they weren't history stuff, naturally.)

May I ask why?

... I just bought the second edition few days ago for my course.

It seems to me like their tasks were way heavier. For us, most of us did basic CRUDs with some implemention twist, and our papers were your standard: do a short theoretical introduction to the domain, make a few UML diagrams, explain how it works + some code examples, then testing.

Author of this article said he finished at Warsaw University of Technology - it was always considered to be one of the better ones here.

That being said, what also strikes me is how different the thesis were back in times. I did mine recently in another university of technology in some bigger city (without wanting to dox myself that much) and 90% of our engineering theses were of very subpar quality; mine included.

Ah, I see Claude has trained a lot on internet resources.

This made my day so far.

The part about marketing/labeling is a fair one - I haven't thought about that.

Okay, your argument is fair enough - I'll admit that.

Is there any other reason for this than protecting meat industries and/or cultural reasons?

It was always a small source of joy on Discord to see Americans getting on the server while East Asians would go to sleep, with us Europeans being in the middle. It always feels so cute for some reason I can't explain, but I do love that every time.

I wanted to use Bing, but I had to go back to Google - as it is absolutely awful for finding stuff in Polish, my native language.

Programming might be English but our lives aren't all in English.

Also, I don't get your argument at the end. Are you saying they're funded by Nazi parties?

Example on a smaller scale - I remember how at uni people who did none of the work could end up with better grades. I remember toiling weeks on a hard "group" project alone, and then my groupmates who contributed nothing got better grades - because from project we all got the same one, and from exams I got worse ones as I had no time to study well.

I looked at first post and yeah. Same in Poland. Do try to guess how many of our MPs are landlords. Rhetoric question, of course.

I wanted to tell you that we don't have conscription in Poland -

... but it got reinstated yesterday.

And it raises a very scary question - at which point will we be seen as useless to the ruling caste? And useless resources are to be disposed of...

I remember how once CEO of a company my dad worked at has called them. Cattle. Not humans.

That is what we are to the rich.

I do organize my books by genre (IT/science, high fiction, low fiction, history, non-fiction, language learning).

... and then by size. It's the most aesthetically pleasing for me, genuinely.

Hey, I didn't say it was a great reason! :P

It's... not that easy. And if he fails at it, he risks a lot - most likely getting thrown into army as a deserter and most likely sent to the equivalent of penal units.

(EDIT: Unless they're a woman/nb, in which case yeah - please try to do so because it will be way easier for you)

Russians could invade and while it is most likely that after a long war they'd be pushed back, they'd still leave ruins.

Also, we don't have unified army. So as painful as it is, it is most likely Baltic states would have to fend of with their military (and due to population, well, they can't - even if they are bringing conscription back), maybe Poland and Finland. Maybe. And then you'd have to coordinate what to do next between all national militaries.

And what would stop a Frenchman or Portuguese to say Why die for Vilnius?

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And you stop it now - no security guarantees for Ukraine - and more people will die in few years when Russia strikes back, having rearmed herself.

Chamberlain had a reason - UK army wasn't really ready for a fight. He tried to buy some time to rearm. Misguided or not, you could say there was a reason for that.

That would be a good ending by now - USA can start supporting Russia. With intelligence, with weapons.

Why are you making things up?

I'm afraid of USA by now.

That one day they will sever ties with Europe, I expected. But not becoming an actively hostile state.

I am left wondering - how long it will take until Americans start openly supporting Russia and China?

When I was younger, anti-American people were a source of jokes for me. Being a Pole, why would anyone be against our ally? Well, now I see. And it's painful to say that, but I'm starting to see Americans as people in very negative light. Perhaps you were hated in the rest of the world for a reason.

Cruelty is the point.

Nobody likes to lose their jobs, especially when it seems that it is the entire industry that will crash.

Seeing the progress in LLMs... I do believe it. One software engineer will do in the future what would take an entire team in the past.

Now what to do? I have just finished my undergrad in software engineering and got admitted to Masters, but I feel that's a mistake. At the same time, I never knew what else to do in my life but programming.

... I had been called out by it hard, lmao. Painfully accurate.

I recall seeing a nice sale, I was to get a few books from them, and then the reality of living on the second side of the Atlantic hit hard :(

At least one of our publishers did a translation for few of them...

Few days ago, in Poland died a journalist, historian and former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner. He was known for speaking every year there. His last speech was - remain vigilant.

I think that speaks for itself and I need not to comment on this.

Americans, why? Why are you so keen on dabbling with a homegrown fascism of yours? Why are you so keen on setting the world aflame?