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wordofx··on Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
China will absolutely train and censor specific data it wants its citizens to believe. Especially around the history of China.

Outside of that tho China is in a very good position to say out perform the west with its disregard for copyright, and not caring if feelings get hurt by the woke left.

Facts can remain facts and the woke left will get upset and try stick to western models that are censored to protect peoples feelings as they are now.

wordofx··on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
Despite what people think. Lightning port survived way longer than usb-c ports do. I’ve seen phones with the usb-c port with broken middle bit. Go wobbly and lost contact on the board in the phone.

Let’s not even get into the terrible standard of usb-c where no 2 cables are the same. Some cables work on some devices…

wordofx··on Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement
What a load of crap. If someone is distracted by a persons attire then they probably are going to be distracted by other players playing, people walking around, noise.

This is nothing more than a dumb outdated rule. He wore jeans. Not a fluorescent jump suit.

wordofx··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
The funny thing is. China can talk about removing the U.S. dollar and trade when Yen. But they need a stable currency to convert between and so conversion is still done with the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar won’t be removed from trade in our life time.
wordofx··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
Huawei has a history of spying. China is good at spending money to sweep things under the rug and pretend like it didn’t happen. Look how they are using it to spread propaganda STILL to this day that Covid didn’t originate in Wuhan.
wordofx··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
Literally does not matter. ByteDance is a Chinese company and beholden to the CCP.
wordofx··on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
> We work exclusively on remote VMs that have no internet access.

Is this some kind of developer dominatrix fetish or something where people get off punishing themselves.

“You’ve been a bad boy! You used AI! No Internet for you”

wordofx··on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
He doesn’t want one sent to him because he believes customs will hold it until bribed.
wordofx··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
30 points higher than the average person on HN!
wordofx··on React 19
lol having worked through 3 large projects going from 0.14 to 15 - pain.

15 to 16 - pain.

16 to 17 - pain.

If you disagree you haven’t worked on anything even slightly complex.

Thankfully I’m on my 2nd project of ripping react out for htmx. The last one was a huge success. No doubt this one will be too.

wordofx··on React 19
> upgrading it is painless as long as you don’t ignore deprecation warnings

Maybe if you have a small app. React is as bad as going from angular to angular 2

wordofx··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
> Disclosure: HPC admin who works with NIVIDA cards here. > Because, no. It's not as simple as that.

Wow what he said is way above your head! Please reread what he wrote.

wordofx··on Evidence of the use of silk by Bronze Age civilization
The CCP gave itself the name CCP up until after the civil war when it tried to change it to CPC to distance itself from anything written about the CCP and attempt to deny any association.

CCP/CPC is the same thing, same party, same history.

wordofx··on If not React, then what?
React does not create a clear separation. Anyone who claims that hasn’t worked on any react bigger than a todo list.

If you struggle with backend code then you’re just not a good backend developer. Maybe just stick to HTML/CSS.

wordofx··on If not React, then what?
In 2024. React is probably the worst choice you could make when creating a new web application.
wordofx··on I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
0 downtime. Jesus Christ. Nginx and HAProxy solved this shit decades ago. You can drop out a server or group. Deploy it. Add it back in. With a single telnet command. You don’t need junk containers to solve things like “0 downtime deployments”. That was a solved problem.
wordofx··on I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
I’m confused. Do you hate cloud or the container shit? Cloud is awesome. Containers is dumb as hell for 99% of the applications hacker news kids work on.
wordofx··on The 'Return to Office' Lies
Yup makes it easier than firing you. We don’t want less productive people.
wordofx··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
None of the Fortune 500 companies hire top talent. They have a few good people but 98% of the engineers are average at best. Over paid.
wordofx··on AI makes tech debt more expensive
I enjoy reading these articles and reading comments from people who clearly have no idea how to use AI or it’s abilities.
wordofx··on The Onion buys Infowars
It really hasn’t.
wordofx··on PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure
There are sooo many programmers in China that they don’t value programming. You get paid peanuts because there’s so many people to do the job.
wordofx··on PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure
Hahahhahahah no way. Salaries in Japan, Korea, Singapore are WAY better than China.
wordofx··on AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel
^ things that never happened.
wordofx··on Salary expectations questions – How should you answer them? (2020)
> The incentive is to make sure you get placed fast.

No. If you place someone and the company has a 3 month probation period. If the person does not last past probation the recruiter does not get paid.

Unless America is different, this is how it works in Europe, Asia, AU/NZ.

The only time this changes is contract work because contract work done via a recruiter is the recruiter might charge you at $150/hr to the company and pay you $100/hr taking $50/hr for himself.

wordofx··on Salary expectations questions – How should you answer them? (2020)
Recruiters only get paid if a candidate stays beyond a period of time. If the candidate does not work out the recruiter needs to find a replacement. Recruiters won’t deal with shit people because if they don’t stay or are prone to not working out they are a burden.

In terms of money it’s usually a percentage of the salary. So if the recruiter works on 10% then they have incentive to get you as much money as possible.

wordofx··on Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
It’s only “insane costs” if you don’t know what you’re doing.
wordofx··on Trump wins presidency for second time
It’s not /only/ Mexicans crossing the border…
wordofx··on Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR
Idiot joined the DNF. A completely worthless foundation. First thing to do would be to leave.
wordofx··on Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom
Why do you need the power button to switch profiles?
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