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His on national tv promoting this with the president of the country. Alot of people think its a grift, the devices seem to be simply inverters.
There is a massive problem with this on youtube. Pretty much every category on youtube now has a host of these bots trolling content and playing the youtube strike system like a banjo. There are channels detected to showing you how to setup these content mills. This tool can make you good money.
They are very effective at trimming the fat and creating peons. Also effective in stopping the corperate real estate crash that alot of important trust funds depend on.
Productivity < Compliant Workers < Stock value
SO is positioning itself with a clean dataset, likely with an agreement to sell that data to other compnanies?
The way the OP here was talking about sonnet being above way above chatgtp in this case, it could be true. Google probably has the largest Go codebases on search to train the AI on higher quiality inputs. Go is a simpler language with less variation over time compared to something like .net also adding to its corner.
ive always been the type of person to use the right language for the each use case. For the last 10+ years ive primarly been building cross platform apps that target every common OS. So these "ai" tools like phind.com give me a universal API interface and generate code which is equiv to a SO answer. They are the ability of an outsourced junior dev who you would never let push code to prod, that doesnt have the language barrier but retains the fake dergee overheads ;)
So thats the ideaology of the people who work in this space. This person lobbied for the largest mining companies in Aus. I guess it really was a preminiation of today, when the GBR has finally shrunk enough to have more uses to corperations then simply being a tailings pond. Now they can leech the funding being earmarked for recovering the reef that they killed. Win win! Money talks. Rare us is ok, but really rare, now thats were the money is at.
This payment compentsates those taxi licence holders who held the dip.
> value of test pyramid
I mean more from the perspective of covering your bases, you never just want one kind of testing pattern in your project. Each codebase is different and i agree that taking on high value test styles/cases is a project by project challange that should be tailored by many variables. The shape of your testing pyramid may be different to others. If your inheriting a legacy system, maybe its top heavy because the effort/reward ratio just isnt there. In this circumstances i usually take on the approach of "add more layers when bugs are found" to hone in on places that could use more or less test coverage.
Our inhouse framework is really just a wrapper around certain tools that fill different gaps (think docker/selenium etc) in order for different projects to build suites that are compatible with our ci/cd pipelines that do things like generate environments on demand to run test suites against. So dropping in testcontainers to replace the home-grown docker will be trivial. Keeping test frameworks fresh and compatible with the cloud vendors that agreesively upgrade is a challange just like keeping the API bleed of other programming deps is. Our test suites essentially have a domain language that is consistant. We can upgrade selenium, swap functions for different operations, without having to change any tests. Same goes for unit or integration tests - they are exactly the same in terms of assertions, syntax etc, they may just just have different environment setup logic. CI/CD can inject and overrride logic as it needs. Sometimes its suitable, in some cases, to mock certain external hard deps in integration tests for instance to having all the unit testing tools availible a plus. Or in other cases, we may take a unit test written against mocks, and inject real deps into it for certain CI/CD scenarios.
I dont know why integration testing like this is considered a gamechanger. the testing pyramid is a testing pyramid for a reason and its always considered them important. Sometimes starting with integration tests in your project is right because your dont waste time doing manual point and clicks. Instead you design your system around being able to integration test, this includes when you choose dependancies. You think to yourself "how easily will that be able to be stood up on its own from a command?" If the answer is "not very good" then you move on.
I dont know, i stopped buying new cars once computers were added. I own a 95` landcruiser with 300k on the clock and i beleive it has another 300 which will basically mean it will do me for life. And the advantage of buying and old car, and learning todo the maintence yourself, is that not only do you save money from every angle, your car is on the other side of the bell curve where they start to increase in value again. In the 10yrs ive owned it, my car has increased in value by ~40%. Its made of metal, and is held together with bolts not glue. It will not dry rot away, and rust is easily controlled with modern epoxy paints. It will not go out of fashion given the thirst car collectors of the future will have the past.
My plan is to swap a hydrogen motor in i guess once mature the tech and consequently ban diesel.
This is from someone who in 2005 bought his first ~50k$ car over the internet, one click style, without seeing it in person from a used car guy (it was 2nd hand, 10k on the clock, ~10% of retailm had 2yrs warrenty). Thats really the problem with buying a one-click these days though, the people who buy them are too risk adverse to be without a warrenty or buy second hand. So they crash the value of their own investments because the others know what to expect with seconds on a modern car. The reason people sell cars after 1 or 2 years is many, in my country, leasing cars like this is maximises your dollar vs tax.
Any moden car: ~50k outlay, 10yr useful life
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i bought a 2002 rav4 with 400k for ~2k, 5~ yrs ago. Ive spent roughly ~500$ repairing different things on it in that time putting on ~40k because they reused the same parts for this car across many different years and models which means CHEAP CHEAP. It means parts have been copied and mass reproduced on a scale that sees me paying $30 for a waterpump and ~1hr to install DIY on the side of the road not $600 ~ $2k labour for a moden car that requires half the car to be dissaembled to even just see the water pump. And since your modern pump is made of plastic, and all the pipes are plastic, and the pipes are have special numbers of propritiy fittings.... well yes, you see why modern cars suck in terms of investment ratio.
let me show you that math. ~2.5k outlay / 5yrs = ~500$ per year total cost. The car is now worth ~10-12k because people are so sick of modern cars and toyotas keep their value.
2nd hand, high milage, reliable cars (toyota/honda) > anything modern made in the last ~15yrs. The morphing from 1 or 2 modules per car, to 20-100 modules per car with tonnes more emmisions gear IMO is the worse thing to happen to cars since their inception. BUT it has given me a retirement plan ... im thinking about becoming a ECU/electronics repairer once i get sick of tech :D All those modules are pretty much the same, they just allow you todo things via comment instead of lever. Once you learn the basics, its like hacking on VB or JS.
Around the world, the largest companies get away with the largest wholesale frauds and keep getting work over and over, repeating the cycle, to this day. Every sector this applies too. I can only imagine the same thing happens in every developed country.
Im not saying that they are all junk, but i am saying that a smaller company with just as capable people and credentials would do the job for a 1/10th of the price and in most cases its gonna be fine. Thats how i got into the game, helping a small company who had a foot in the door replace a reporting system Accenture was charging the gov a 1m a report to produce. We won a contract and built a system for 1m that delivered reports at 5-20k a pop, in 1/10 of the time, with more data sources. But its rare to happen, people like that dont get to sit at the table for lunch with the people who matter often (unless they are retired or neighbours with someone) - and we all know thats really how deals get made. LOL at all these fake processes our govs put in place to appear like they select vendors fairly. LOL such an illusion.
But you know what, even though our democracies are corrupt like this, its nothing compared the dictatorships where they are corrupt and dont deliver anything of value. We are lucky it wasnt tofu-dreg accounting software that spies on you, crashes as well as getting your records wrong.
If you dont, your tax will be to be a victim of the companies profit stratergy of planned obselesance. My dyson for instance was perfectly fine, just a peice of plastic in the handle that required you to dissassemble the whole machine was cracked. It was literly a free fix with some plastic welding a screwdriver.
PS. You can buy universal kits that will control a washer or a dryer these days in a low tech way amoung many other devices we use daily. When your smart appliance fails, you can retrofit them.
PSS. Your software/hacker spirit should not be limited to a text editor!
Its such a dellusion that humanity has been "pure" at any point in time. Drug prohition, and all its tenticles, is a political tool of mass control. Nothing more, nothing less. Today we are seeing the reemergance of the teachings that have been passed down for generations by tribes around the world as this viel is lifted.
So please, this is not a trend. Its a rediscovery of aincent knowledge. I appreciate that low dose is how this remergence started, but there its not a cureall, and its not the only way this sustance provides benifits. 20 years ago, these same people were trapped to tables, eletroshocked until they became cataonic. Heroic doeses have their place in therapy.
Its very intersting how my music taste has evolved over the years, the more genres and types i was exposed to, the more i discovered. Nothing beats going to a concert you dont know anything about and having the night of your life. Im one for nostalgia, no doubt, but i think listening to the same song, in the same tone, over and over again, is a simplistic view of music and ruines its potential magic. Music and moods are instrinically linked. What happens if i was to listen to my favourite rockband, but instead mixed into chillout music that ebbs and flows over 5 or 10 hours. I get to hear the songs i love, in different ways, evoking different emotions and memories. I find that extends the life of music, not run it into the ground, dulling all those memories that triggered your love in the first place. I kissed that girl for the first time listening to this song, fades if you listen to that song everyday.
Spotify is automated radio, warts and all. Popular amoung the consumerist sheeple, often coupled with tv and shopping subscription technoligies. Society has always had this cross section of music interest, chinstroker outlets always existed at fringes, hardly able to survive in the world they helped create. Music sells. Captalists like to sell things people love to buy. A victim of their own success. Such is the harsh reality of this economic system, things just cant be done, they have to be done to death, then revamped and rebranded and the cycle goes on.
When the scammer, attempts to scam a scammer, who is then scammed by a another scammer; which scammer wins? Which scammer is at fault?
Taking away party from the debate, and we see the similiarties in our situations. The world is run by corperations who have been yeilding value from the supply chain over the last 40years, creating record profits, concentrating record power, printing record money. THIS IS THE RESULT THAT. No single government of today is to blame, its the system of picking sides that creates collatoral for polticans to barter with coperations for things like censorship, monopolistic access to markets via in/action of laws, etc etc.
Behold the story of the capitalism and thoughts of the elites worldwide (eventually). They have all the money, but have no forfillment, no time to enjoy it, or dont even know how to enjoy anymore, even in early retirement.
The grind isnt as glamourise as the motivation porn you idolise. You spend your whole life looking for an answer in status, money and power - so even if it eventually comes, you know nothing else and get pleasure no other way.
Not sure why people think its respectable to work as a propaganda piece for a corp covering its tracks. So many challanges there to solve, so many "smart" people dedicating their lives to making people want things they don't need. Sounds inspiring to be surrounded those types. Truely.
So innovative and cutting edge it is working for a giant ad company that we all know takes money from whoevers shell company offers it or whatever reason. Plausible deniability is the game at this level, just enough to paint a favourable picture in the court of court of law when the day eventually comes.
Based on history, if you store a password in a obfuscated location on your computer, and you copy and paste it into every websites, its more secure then using a password manager in my opnion. Sure you wont be able to login to every secure websites from every device you have; but SHOULD you be? What is the price of that convience?
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lol @ Tavarish and Samcrac mentioned here, they are TV entertainers who are more concerned about drama. If you want to learn how to repair stuff, these guys are where its at ^
Repairing your car is just like programming, mechanics come in many varieties too.