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gcbirzan··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
I would call it using. Because we could've sent troops there, we just chose not to. You are obviously doing it for your own reasons, but we are just happy to see you get slaughtered, as long as our people don't get killed.
gcbirzan··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
We (or at least not the insane part of) in NATO are using you, in the sense that it's easier for us to throw money at you fighting Russia than not, you losing, then us having to lose people.

I don't know how I feel about that, on one hand, we are helping you defend, on the other we are just going "well, at least it's not our civilians and soldiers dying".

But, either way, thank you!

gcbirzan··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
Yes, it is in the interest of Ukraine, but that doesn't mean they're pushing for it or prove that Ukraine attacked Romania. And since these were Russian drones, are you suggesting that, unlike the previous times Russia bombed indiscriminately, this time Ukraine stole Russian drones and launched them at Romania?

As for the second part of your comment, your point is that Russia occupied and committed a genocide against that 'fake' country, when they became free tried to exercise soft power, failed, then invaded, but yet it's NATO that is waging war there?

The only part where you're right is that it is in NATO's interest that Ukraine keeps fighting, since it only costs us money, not people, while still killing the enemy. And that's why we're (and I include the EU here) giving them money, because we're terrified of what will happen when Russia is done with Ukraine.

gcbirzan··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
They are all just as easy to shoot down, if you're willing to spend half a million dollars doing it. When you're Romania that hasn't been fighting a war for years and you get one a day, it's trivial to shoot them down. When you get tens to hundreds a day and you're Ukraine, it's harder since you cannot afford to use F16s and sidewinders to shoot them down. And even if you do, you cannot shoot down all of them, but when you just get one a day, it'll be a while until the 95% interception rate gives you a miss.

Oh, wait, Romania actually got hit by one. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93x4nxlkjeo

It's just a matter of numbers, both percentages and money.

gcbirzan··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Why did you post an archive.is link?
gcbirzan··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
Sadly, it's populated.
gcbirzan··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
> Trump's landslide victory in 2024.

What are you talking about?

gcbirzan··on Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
We shouldn't compare doing stupid stuff on sqlite vs doing stupid stuff on postgresql, we should compare doing stupid stuff on sqlite vs not doing stupid stuff on sqlite.

How much faster are the better queries?

gcbirzan··on Scott Adams has died
He, on the other hand, was an absolute piece of shit.
gcbirzan··on Scott Adams has died
We're talking about his political views, try to keep up.
gcbirzan··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
I'm using Easy Move+Resize, though, I don't recommend using cmd as the only modifier (you're already using ctrl+cmd, so shouldn't be a big deal), since that screws up with cmd clicking on links to open in a new tab.
gcbirzan··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I think you got it wrong. It might be better for Venezuela, but it will for sure be great for those companies.
gcbirzan··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
But they still READ. So, if you 'interact' (and by that I mean do any write-like action, like commenting, posting, liking, whatever) less, that's gonna show up.
gcbirzan··on Graphite is joining Cursor
What I don't understand why people would go all in on one IDE/editor and refuse to make plugins for others. Whether you prefer the CLI or the integrated experience, only offering it on vscode (and a shitty version of it, as well) is just stupid.
gcbirzan··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
> I see it as a competent software developer but one that doesn't know the code base.

I know what you mean, but the thing I find windsurf (which we moved to from copilot) most useful (except writing opeanapi spec files) is asking it questions about the codebase. Just random minutiae that I could find by grepping or following the code, but would take me more than the 30s-1m it takes it. For reference, this is a monorepo of a bit over 1M LoC (and 800k YAML files, because, did I mention I hate API specs?), so not really a small code base either.

> I will break down the tasks to the same size as if I was implementing it. But instead of doing it myself, I roughly describe the task on a technical level (and add relevant classes to the context) and it will ask me clarifying questions. After 2-3 rounds the plan usually looks good and I let it implement the task.

Here I disagree, sort of. I almost never ask it to do complex tasks, the most time consuming and hardest part is not actually typing out the code, describing it to an AI takes me almost as much time as implementing for most things. One thing I did find very useful is the supertab feature of windsurf, which, at a high level, looks at the changes you started making and starts suggesting the next change. And it's not only limited to repetitive things (like . in vi), if you start adding a parameter to a function, it starts adding it to the docs, to the functions you need below, and starts implementing it.

> For me this method allows me to focus on the architecture and overall structure and delegate the plumbing to Copilot.

Yeah, a coworker said this best, I give it the boring work, I keep the fun stuff for myself.

gcbirzan··on Mixpanel Security Breach
Only the supervisory authorities are required to be informed in 72 hour, and even there, it's not a hard rule, you can have excuses.
gcbirzan··on Python is not a great language for data science
There's also itertools.groupby, maybe not much shorter (need to define the keyfunc, sort, then iterate), but it does make the intent obvious.
gcbirzan··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
When I say history, I mean more than just the decision, which might look like "oh, they didn't like the results", but also the events that lead up to it, the campaign. I'm not even going to go into the coup d'etat he attempted after the elections with a group of far right mercenaries, or the things that came out about the campaign and Georgescu that weren't known at the time (which, obviously, couldn't have been a factor, but confirm that this was the right decision).

I'm not sure what the accusations you're talking about are

gcbirzan··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
I don't. I do remember when they were annulled after Russian interference and there were other fundamental issue with the first first round and Georgescu's campaign that broke the law.
gcbirzan··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
I'm sure you're very familiar with the politics of both countries, but tell me...

How is Nicusor Dan a puppet of the EU? More than Calin Georgescu? The guy who actively tried to stage a coup? More than George Simion? Granted, there's no PROOF he's a Russian puppet, but he's a far right twat that has views friendly to Russia.

How is Maia Sandu and PES a puppet of the EU? And... let's look at BEP. Voronin, Russia friendly ex President, he was very against Moldova trying to get closer to the West. And Dodon? The guy who is being indicted for treason, who's a friend of Plahotniuc (he stole 1 billion dollars from banks and fled the country)? Yeah, sure, puppets of the EU, vs corrupt fucking puppets of Russia.

I know it's easy to look at this stuff from the outside and say, oh, yeah, the EU is interfering in elections, but there's a lot of history here that you obviously don't have. I like Maia Sandu more than Nicusor Dan (his positions on gay rights were disgusting a while back, he now just stopped talking about them), but compared to the obviousness of the Russian support for their opposition, I think the fact that the EU supports them is just insignificant.

gcbirzan··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
I mean, Durov has been trying to push for Russian puppets to get elected in Romanian and Moldovan elections, by pushing to everyone (at least in Romania, he might've just posted on twitter for Moldova) that the French government is trying to interfere in the Romanian elections. I mean, it turns out, Russia was, on behalf of the candidate he was talking about... so take from that what you will.

Oh, yeah, and he calls himself DuRove now. Hats off for that one, but I hope he rots in prison for advancing the Russian agenda.

gcbirzan··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
> You run a merch store. You want to share with your suppliers order data so that you can get the right number of sizes/colors/etc. Is this PII under GDPR rules? Technically, yes!

Not at all. Your shirt size is not PII. Given this information, you couldn't be identified.

> Under the new proposal, sharing this data is okay, so long as you use pseudo-anonymous identifiers (customer-1234, customer-1235).

This was okay even before. Given this information (and your shirt size), you couldn't be identified.

gcbirzan··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
The reason my wife (I have coins) uses them is that it's just easier to access. No need to go through your coins (if you have any), you just put it in.
gcbirzan··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
Yes, but they do cost money and effort to get. A 25-50 eurocent coin is probably equivalent.

The only thing that's useful about those things is that it's easier to get them faster.

gcbirzan··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
It's not a lock pick for the carts, you need to leave it in.
gcbirzan··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
If it's on their keychain, do you really think they'd leave their keychain there?
gcbirzan··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
I hope you realise that lying is bad.
gcbirzan··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
That's not true, at all.
gcbirzan··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
I am not told I cannot access. And, yes, I would, because I'd be breaking the law otherwise.
gcbirzan··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
Yeah, that's a lie. I didn't do anything and I didn't get opted in.

Edit: And, btw, that statement was true before the default was changed. So, your comment is doubly false.

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