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I guess global warming will be solved through lots of different actions and changes, even though none of them will make a measurable difference on its own.

> Will AI replace developers? The Stanford data shows a tilt toward seniority rather than mass displacement: entry for 22 to 25 year olds is suffering, older workers are growing. WEF expects a net gain of 78 million jobs by 2030.

As a 42 years old web developper, this situation gives me headaches. I feel both with new superpowers and dangerously threatened. I feel we will need much less developpers and yet I can imagine some years where a developper will be able to handle much larger projects.

"No one actually cares about the politics as long as the model codes well."

> I totally care about politics, especially when it comes to not giving my money to people like musk.

I second that question

We might be in a kind of uncanny valley. Models may become good and "independant" enough to compare to a colleague.

I feel the solution is either reduce drastically time between each interaction with the agent OR increase it by a lot (every 2 or 3 hours).

Maybe we do not have the right workflow yet. Maybe the work with an agent should be more async.

I guess we will figure out.

Father of three here. I also enjoy very much this moment of the day, the calm before the storm. It was a real motivation to wake up a bit earlier.

One day, I decided to stop coffee for some weeks. My motivation to wake up before my kids vanished in a few days. I was quite surprised since it used to be a real pleasure. I guess the ritual part was much less important than the coffee chemical role.

I got back to coffe quite rapidly.

I found this in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42AzKZRNhsk

Thanks. It's great to read those feedbacks

Thanks. Here is the website (in french): https://rnb.beta.gouv.fr and the documentation (also in french): https://rnb.beta.gouv.fr/doc

Well, we have some connections with the community and we are discussing how to incorporate our buildings IDs in OSM. The other way around (OSM to national registry) seems more complicated for license reasons.

Last summer we tested the open approch by doing a "RNB Summer game". Basically, anyone could come on the map and send some error reporting, we had a score per player, per territory and a shared global score. The OSM community absolutely rolled ont the game :)

As an illustration of it: I have been working for two years on a new national project for the french state. Le Référentiel National des Bâtiments (for National Buildings Registry) which aim at creating and distributing a id key to every building in the country.

The goal is to make databases about buildings much more interoperable.

One key aspect is to have a precise list of all buildings includings recent constructions and demolition. It gets interesting because we recognize nobody in the country has the perfect list of buildings so we radically open the data to let governement agencies, cities, companies, citizens write directly in the registry. Think OSM or Wikipédia but for an official dataset.

This approach is very experimental for the french state and we are encouraged to test it and disseminate our learnings in other state branches.

I have no clue about space technology but many comments point the difficulty to cool anything in space. If Starcloud had an innovative solution to this problem, why on Earth (sic) focus on data centers when they could help the entire space industry? It does not smell good.

Make something hard harder, just because

Strong brands and marketers disagree with your perception of brands. People buy brands, they buy stories, they want to support what they like.

Well, to me, he used to represent technological ambition, impossible achievements made real. Now he represents foreign interference, social violence and neo fascism. And we, European (and especially French people), have a very very low tolerance for social violence and fascism.

Working on the french national building registry. We record every single building in the country, attach a unique number and distribute this number in many databases (public and private) as a pivot key. The goal is to create new analysis using data spread in different databases. Since nobody has a perfect database and no algo can detect everything, we are opening the database so any public structure, private company and citizen can participate to the content (think OpenStreetMap for an official state database). The url : https://rnb.beta.gouv.fr (in french)

Happy new year to all of you, fellow visitors of Internet best website.

I am at the beginning of Territory.fun .

It let you draw and decorate the world around you (think r/place on a map). So far people seem to like it and are making some nice little drawings in their neighbourhood. I have seen some funny projects like the Star Wars Rebel Alliance logo in east of Paris, some cute ninja turle, a "Kamala" on 5th Avenue in NYC (no politics here, it is just fun for me seeing people claiming some territory on my game).

I do this as a hobby and love it so far.

https://territory.fun

Well, you both twisted my brain and made me laugh with this one. Thank you, good sir.

For pure curiosity, could you give us some examples of what happen with your wife? Thx

Sometime a "generic self-help" wisdom strikes you and stays in you forever.

When I was a young teenager my dad told me "If you a give a no, always give a yes after". He meant you always have to propose an alternative after you rejected a proposition.

I have no idea why but this simple sentence became a strong principle for me. It influenced hundreds of decisions I made and my behavior in general.

There can be true actionnable value in those wisdom pieces.

Hi heyyeah. It sounds interesting. I am now in Bordeaux and looking for software job or freelance missions in energy/environement sectors. Can we talk? My email is on my profile.

Joyeux Noël from France. HN is a bastion of calm and intelligence, may it stay that way for a long time and inspire other communities. Merry Christmas to all of you.

French here. I don't know if it is Germany only but this is not whole EU for sure.

I spent 10 years freelancing. If i can give an humble advice: you don't cost your customer some money, you produce some extra value for him. Charge between 10% and 30% of the extra value you provide to your customer. Charging per hour is a trap. It is nice to start, it is easy to read, easy to calculate but it makes you a commodity. Don't be a commodity, be an expert.

I was in the same situation. I have done CRUDs for years and finally got longer projects (2 years). I am now facing much more techy problems : recommandation engine, OCR, search engine, simple geographical functions, etc.

It is much more fun, also much more complicated.

My first take would be to learn ElasticSearch, to get a new superpower (it is how it felt to me) and compliment your CRUD expertise. My 2 cents.

Excuse me but what do you mean with "It's a bit odd that the one retailer than meets the most aggressively demanded Progressive goal" ? real question.

I consume a lot of news from US and France on a quite large political spectrum, so I think the bias is quite reduced. I also discussed with an Amazon french warehouse manager. My decision is cold and well thought. Btw I would love to be wrong because I will miss their services.

Actually most of stories that influenced my decision are from US: employees fired by algorythm, fired because trying to unionize, etc. It seems all of this is impossible in France but still, this is not a culture I want to support.

Personnaly, the COVID episode is the final straw. I live in France rural area. Amazon brings huge benefits and comodities there but I can't stand their attitude towards employees anymore.