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That article portrays a very bleak future. I can’t imagine programming will be generally useful if it needs a massive AI model that can only run on machines that cost an enormous amount of money, or cost you some cents for every word it generates using an API.

Please hit the - button at this top therapy comment so you can get the answer to the question you asked. Yes it’s possible. You can do it. You can do anything you put your mind into. You just need to figure out a strategy that works for you.

So happy this PoS and his crew are getting arrested. May they rot away in prison till they die.

Livebook and Liveview seem basically like magic to me.

How many of the best engineers could Twitter possibly be employing? Other companies with sufficient cash might already have their share of the best. If you are really good, you will certainly find takers but unlikely at the same high compensation levels. The state of the economy might be more crucial to anybody’s prospects than you might think.

To say that Hitler was appealing to some shared aryan culture by using the hakenkreuz symbol turns out to be just absolute bullshit. Hitler was a Christian fundamentalist. And his hatred for the Jews originated from his belief in Christianity. It was certainly not because Aryans hated the Jews. Or some such ludicrous thing.

>Nakagaki’s research also shows the symbol was called the hakenkreuz in U.S. newspapers until the early 1930s, when the word swastika replaced it.

I think further research will show you that Hitler himself never used the word Swastika and always referred to his own symbol as the hooked cross.

I’m guessing that maybe the leading Christian voices of the time were so guilt stricken by what Hitler had done in the name of their religion that they were happy to blame his pathology on him dabbling with obscure alien philosophies rather than admitting that he was just being a “true Christian”.

It has taken a long time for Christian religious institutions to absolve the Jewish people of the crime of “killing Jesus Christ”. Or have they? I don’t know.

For Hitler himself, the motivation to use the hooked cross was probably to symbolise a return to the roots of Christianity and for that he chose the oldest version of the cross he (or his designer) could find.

>honest politician

There is no such thing

>helps no one, is just a punishment

Not true. This makes me feel better. That is invaluable.

>helps middle class not to make a stupid decision

I don't feel anything about that.

>helps people in peril regardless what their decision is

I don't feel anything about that.

Sounds like a bunch of nimby a-holes. Sure they can trade their homegrown chicken and moonshine for crypto among each other. What's the big deal?

This is all right. But bitcoin or any other cryptocoin is a shitty currency because of their volatility. If all BTC users lived in crypto island and fiat speculation over crypto was some curious ritual that only non islanders indulged in, without affecting the balance or transfer of the coins then crypto would stand a chance of becoming a currency in crypto island. In the real world there is no chance of this happening. Mainly because BTC and almost every other crypto are closed systems and don't incorporate ways to interact with other systems (even other blockchains). Their's is an all or nothing world, and it will inevitably be nothing.

Satoshi only solved one part of the puzzle with bitcoin. But the problem is much larger and crypto-land is beset with untalented frauds.

>This is not true.

It is absolutely true. Just because you don't consider yourself rich doesn't mean that these devices aren't out of the reach of a vast majority of the population.

Almost everyone has access to a smartphone, but most of those are poorly made, overheating pieces of plastic - barely suitable for use as a phone, let alone as a computing device on which you can learn something.

In my second statement, I'm also trying to say that though you have a huge number of people in the workforce who haven't had easy access to computing devices, there are also many who do (in absolute numbers but not in percentage). But the numbers are such that given an average Indian programmer, they are more likely to be someone who got educated in a substandard setting among unmotivated peers who have an aversion or even a fear of tinkering and putting a big investment (like a PC) at risk.

People who have money to get a PC as a hobbyist do it for unworthy reasons - like the chance to play garbage tier games like pubg or whatever, or becoming an influencer. This is a generalisation but it will affect the probabilities.

Programming/anything to do with PCs in India is a rich man’s hobby. Tinkering is not encouraged in colleges in the country. In any case this is a big country with a lot of talented devs. But for the same reason the pool of mediocre programmers is also pretty big.

I always wanted my phone and tablet devices to serve as mini heaters/hand warmers. Thanks!

The growth in population will never reverse. The decline in population will never reverse.

Irreversible permanent value storage seems like a dubious aim. Gold seems like a good storage of value now but what if in the future there were an explosion in gold supply because humanity developed the capability to mine the asteroids? Same with crypto because people might just stop mining and move on to other “disrupters”. Ultimately people need to understand that value of something itself is a social decision and not inherent. In my opinion the entire crypto space has been propelled in the wrong direction by treating these tokens as assets which presumably “store value” rather than developing them into fast moving easily transactable currencies, cross chain swapping etc. This would have led to freer taxless societies and communes. Instead the greed of “number go up” took over and now people will reap what they sowed.

Probably SBF himself. Even if he can’t use this funds directly he can use them as collateral with a more skilled group to fund his eventual escape from the authorities

This guy SBF has close links to China. Who knows maybe the Wang chap on his board is a CPC guy. It’s time to consider state involvement in this fiasco. Why ignore that possibility?

A cousin of mine, just a week ago proudly showed me his balance on FTX. He had earned close to 1 BTC through the various crypto consulting jobs he’d done this month. This was a huge deal for him as he’d been unemployed/underemployed for many years. And now this crap takes place. I’ve been unable to reach him since leading me to suspect that he has probably lost his money. I sincerely hope that is not the case but this entire fiasco breaks my heart. I hope SBF and his accomplices suffer and rot.

It's a democratic decision. Everyone agreed that chain is no good. Just like everyone agrees on the current state of the chain.

Happy Deepawali!

In this lawsuit, an American woman alleges that a bunch of high level (probably white) American executives in the American branch of an Indian company were very biased against women and workers of Indian origin. And while expressing their biases through their actions they created a very hostile work environment for this person.

At least read the thing for a minute before going on a tangent?

I need to see some real source on GDP bit. You realise this is the 5th largest economy in the world right now? If scamming Americans was that lucrative and easy then some country in South America or Mexico would be one of the larger economies in the world rather than India, because of cultural and geographic proximity. If scamming Americans was that easy, the largest source of the scams would be local. Also I don’t think economists account for the proceeds from criminal activities into GDP calculations. Even if it is in some way, crime GDP would definitely be underaccounted.

Also state support to criminal organisations would have been highlighted in intelligence reports by now and would be a major topic of diplomatic interactions. As the government is pretty incompetent it would be impossible to keep it a secret.

Your and the other dude’s assertions seem paranoid and irrational. You’re probably just a racist.

Is it because in a PC you can have other programs running in parallel that can look into/modify the memory bits of a running game and in the process “hack” it? But in a closed system like a game console you can’t just run your own unapproved software, which drastically reduces the number of ways a game can be “hacked”.

Orcs are pretty cool characters. Lotr orcs are more brainwashed, but Warcraft orcs are cooler and explicitly say that they only follow the strongest. So comparison of the FSF sympathising developer horde to orcs is not an insult.

I’m just observing that the FSF needs the magic torch to be passed on to the next generation and doesn’t believe in organic leadership changes at least at the top level.

You seem to suggest that FSF is like an orc horde where orcs will naturally follow the strongest or the most capable. The reality is that the torch of leadership has to be passed on though.

It is a rude digression to discuss RMS’s personal character flaws and mental instability. The FSF more importantly is a force for good and always has been. And we need them to try to be more relevant and effective in the coming age of completely locked, learning capable and vastly more influential proprietary software.

I can just ghost you. The only obligatory relationship possible between us is either of blood or money. As a private individual, I don’t really owe you anything. You have the previlege of not having to use my work, or fork it and make it your own.

Exactly but the barrier to entry is price. Most indie games targeted at non casual gamers will run on potato PCs.

I see a lot of hate being thrown on Russian civilians in these forums. That’s clearly racist. And the allies (ie the US) never cared about fascists. They had business relations with each other for quite some time.

The denazification wasn’t a moral duty. But a smart thing to do, to defang your enemy when they were defeated. Americans thought they were de-baathifying Iraq. When that blew up in their face, they unanimously agreed that it was a mistake, even though the Baath party actions were quite evil.

Europeans have a cultural tendency to create moralistic almost religious justification for war and conquest. Whether it is the white man’s burden, or now denazification. It is used to squash internal dissent. And that’s fine. You need to whip up your peasants into joining your crusade, in one way or another. But the story crumbles when it’s exported across the world.

The rest of the world has no reason to sympathise with actions that might trigger a nuclear war in Europe. I used to think that European leaders understand that and it’s OK for Ukrainians to idly dream of wrecking great vengeance on Russia. But now, I’m not so sure.

Fighting is a stretch. It’s fisticuffs. Sometimes involves the use of melee weapons. There are agreements in place banning the use of firearms.

Unless NATO says sorry whenever they shoot down a Russian plane like Turkey did.