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Re:No code is dead. Long live vibe coding on Friday April 11, 2025 @09:45AM (#43653727)
This was written as VC fluff. It is impossible to agree with an argument of having control over code when theres a middleman which interprets natural language.

The human won't understand how the codebase works when the codebase is developed by AI. Coupled to the fact AI misunderstands and gets things wrong, any company worth an audit needs more assurances

Re:Botswana Successfully Launches First Satellite, Botsat-1 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:29PM (#43486927)
It's a whole satellite now in orbit for the people of Botswana. The payload is plenty of engineering, people. What an amazing feat
There are many cases of market failure and inefficiencies, rentiers, useless 'BS jobs' and unchecked monopolies in a market economy. Why would the people criticizing it be wrong? It's not like it's rare.

A landlord or a holder of IP can and will arrange deals that have negative value for society because of the fact it attracts monetary value for them.

A client paying for a service, is this done 'willingly' when it is needed and no other choice exists? If someone wants to compete, can they navigate the moats companies are so fond of?

I assure you this motivation does not exist in a vacuum, and many will quite rightly find achievement more important than generating capital for someone else.
Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:00PM (#42053224)
And if raids are court ordered?
Re:The Future of European Competitiveness on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:30AM (#41489507)
I agree wholeheartedly. There are many benefits still to be reaped from making this regulation more paperless and automated, while keeping it as a check against unsupervised growth.
The non-Javascript message on this page reads:

> What a lovely hat

>Is it made out of tin foil?

Oh my, very aggressive

That's code for linear programming (optimization) not for linear algebra
Re:El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:20AM (#40084196)
Tech workers here are paid so much less than they should be; there's tons of unemployment only to earn 15k/yr when theyre at work. Salaries like this are a joke and should rise
Re:$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:08AM (#38432373)
There's a massive corpus of useful math proofs, just most of them have been implemented and are second nature now
Re:Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:31PM (#38194750)
It's much more expensive to live in the center of a big city. And not just in Spain.
Re:Pigging on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:06AM (#37966512)
Or in Pierce Brosnan's "The World is not Enough". They must have liked the whimsy of a pipeline vehicle.
I'm now picturing a slightly different government to ours, where the oversight bodies have the additional function of making sure officials don't talk to one another outside of recorded meetings under the public's eye.

It seems like a huge burden. It is the kind of thing, though, that in a parallel universe would make total sense: our representatives should be beholden to us.

Re:RZK: Experimental proof assistant for synthetic ∞-categories on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:38PM (#37693793)
I didn't read it as a complaint, more of a humorous observation. Either way, there's no need to get aggressive onto someone that hasn't figured it out yet.
Yes, I worked in one union job - at a different point of time in my life also a guild. They improved my quality of work dealing with exactly the kind of predatory companies we're talking about here.

From what I gather from your comments, yours must have been a horrible experience (why?). It doesn't cancel the fact that these Amazon workers are being squeezed for a competitive edge in a company that's already a monopoly - in several sectors. They need to battle for fair working conditions which is exactly what a union will provide.

I'd say tough luck on this one because it's already adversarial - the power imbalance is too large at Amazon not to implement a union. That way the workers will have a more equal footing.