That’s me. Wanted to move there because software engineer. Now I’m 30 and fuck no. Major changes would need to happen and even then I’m not sure I’d feel safe. It’s not the damn shootings that bother me even, it’s that so many people support Trump and ICE. Those people will still be around even when Trump is gone. Meaning at any time the US could elect a less incompetent version of Trump.

I have an HDMI cable somewhere that stops working temporarily when there are changes in temperature, air pressure or planetary alignment.

This is not an HDMI vs DisplayPort issue.

Dude you don’t have to put your load IN the magazine, it gets smelly. You use a sock for that! Or that’s what I gather from American movies from the 90s anyway.

For commercial software, definitely. It’d be web and MAYBE Windows unless there’s a Qt nerd spearheading the project or something.

FOSS is actually better off here IMO, since it’s done by people as passion projects, so there’s no need to pinch pennies by eliminating target platforms. HOWEVER there’d also be more need for the devs to have different platforms to test on.

There are, but few of them also work on the web as an alternative to the desktop. Writing one shitty web app and offering Electron wrapped versions of it gets you a webapp, a Windows app, a Linux app and a MacOS app. And you already have web devs on the team because everyone does.

It bolsters my theory that LLMs are repacing brain usage by humans

Since Paramount belongs to belongs to the Ellison family, I’d honestly prefer NETFLIX buying WB. At least they’d just ruin it, Ellisons are gonna do worse.

I’m honestly starting to think my ex is MAGA.

Neither of us is American. But she has accusations for everyone, particularly me.

My favourite one (the funniest one, anyway) is that she’s projecting incest. Allow me to elaborate: She made fun of a friend of hers, saying she’d slept with her relative. Said friend knows nothing about it (I told her that the ex was spreading such rumors). HOWEVER I know that one of my ex’s lovers is a man she claimed to be her relative. Also, after we’d broken up, when she essentially moved in with me again without my permission, she said she was going to get an apartment and her dad was going to help her with the down payment. In fact she had to visit her dad several times within a week for this, because he only has cash (that is actually true). But the person that was actually supposed to help her, the person she visited those times was her new boyfriend. Basically any time she wants to hide that she’s sleeping with someone, she calls that person a relative of some sort.

Most of the other projection is less fun shit, like claiming I’m trying to use our child as a weapon (something she’s been trying to do with both her children against both her baby daddies), accusing me and all her other exes of abuse, etc. But sometimes the accusations truly are entertaining.

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me… I was proud of what I’d created.

Well you didn’t create it, you said so yourself, not sure why you’d be proud, it’s almost like the conclusion should’ve been blindingly obvious right there.

Does a director create the movie? They don’t usually edit it, they don’t have to act in it, nor do all directors write movies. Yet the person giving directions is seen as the author.

The idea is that vibe coding is like being a director or architect. I mean that’s the idea. In reality it seems it doesn’t really pan out.

They’re gonna start reporting EBITDAI.

Would kinda make sense, around 2015 was the time when these things were starting to get fairly common in high end cars. 2015 was also a facelift year for the second gen Cayenne, so it may well be that they introduced new features. I’m assuming a lot of those cars are Cayennes, because it’s the most commonly sold model and the stereotypical cars of New Russians are luxury cars and SUVs, not sports cars. Though of course that is just a stereotype.

I’m super lucky, I have 32 gigs and a graphics card. It’s just a 3060 ti, but it’ll do for now. CPU is a bit shit, BUT since it’s one of the lowest end CPUs of the second to last generation on AM4, I can go forward a generation AND get hella more cores with higher clock rates. Lately I use my PC more for work than gaming, so extra CPU cores will carry it till 2027 or 2028. 300 euros will take me from 6 cores/6 threads (ryzen 5 3500x) to 16 cores/32 threads (5950x) lol

I did want to upgrade from 32 to 64 gigs too, but that won’t happen on this rig.

Put it this way, I’m waiting for DDR6 and AM6 now to buy any more RAM. Just a full on platform upgrade and I’ll make it a company computer because I work on it. Will save like 60% because taxes (social tax, income tax, VAT). I feel entitled to this because I’ve honestly paid a fuckload of taxes over the last 5-6 years and over half the money I’ve made in that period has been from abroad, so a lot of it is money that wouldn’t even have been in my country if not for me! Sorry for the rant, people on lemmy get a bit angry about tax optimization, but I honestly haven’t been doing it much, I just occasionally try to find legitimate business expenses and… pay them as business expenses. Because things I buy as a private person literally cost me more than 2x more than same thing as a business expense.

Edit: Just a thought, but maybe try to source used RAM when you do it? Or build on a workstation or server platform and get used RDIMMs lol, they tend to be a lot cheaper than used normal DIMMs, because desktop platforms can’t use them.

Well it turns out that Samsung and SK Hynix also sold out to Altman. Literally whose RAM we gonna buy now? There were only 3 major manufacturers in the first place.

It’s more that the actual leftist party will take votes away from the liberals, but not the full-on nazi party. Meaning that you’d end up with something like 15% new leftist party that nobody dares vote for because it’s new, 40% dems, 45% repugnants and now the 45% is enough for them to win, whereas previously maybe it would’ve been 55% dems.

In fact, to win an election under that system, it would be beneficial to start an even more right-wing party, because that would take votes away from the GOP. But at the end of the day, it takes a couple of election cycles for 2 dominant parties to emerge and the most extremist ones are typically the ones to lose as people unite under the more centrist banners. That’s how you get republican and republican lite, where really a lot of people would prefer a socialist party and a lot of other people would prefer a national-socialistic workers party. They have to meet in the middle and get two parties that are somewhere between the two polar opposites.

I mean if I was a rich ethnic Russian in either of those cities, I’d probably love it.

I’m Estonian though, don’t speak any more Russian than yes, no, please, thank you and go fuck yourself. Of course I also understand when being asked for a cigarette - an absolute necessity in Estonia (though these days you’re very unlikely to get attacked for not providing said cigarettes - 20-30 years ago was different, but I wasn’t exactly old enough to smoke then)

But overall I’m glad I don’t live in Russia because I don’t agree with the politics. Even before the current war, I’m sure I would’ve been seen as a dissident. I’m sure the people of Russia are actually mostly very nice. It’s also cheaper than a lot of western countries so working remotely, I’m sure I would’ve been able to live very comfortably before the war. I just wouldn’t ever want to live under Putin rule and I wouldn’t really want to live in a country with so many nationalists (US, if I ever moved there, would be a bit easier, because it’s more about race than nationality and I’m white)

I’m good as far as amounts are concerned (32 GB; on a DDR4 platform), though I still wanted to upgrade to 64 for the sake of not needing to swap when running a bunch of things at once.

Now I think I’m just going to wait for DDR6 and upgrade my entire setup because it’s going to take a few years and by then the AI bubble should’ve popped already.

So Samsung or SK Hynix. Because there are only 3 real players in the market :/

Might as well become a reseller lol

It’s a voluntary anti-theft measure I believe. Prevents it from being started without the owner’s consent. Which immobilizers are also supposed to do, but we all know how well those work.

If I owned a Porsche in Russia, I would also get something like that tbh. Luckily I don’t live in Russia, nor do I have a Porsche anymore and mine was too old for this kinda shit anyway

Oh you’ve missed so much. Yes, they did. Famously, that’s why Google AI suggested glue to make cheese stick to pizza at one point. Because of a joke on reddit made by user “fucksmith” some 11 years earlier.