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In my country (New Zealand) this would be very illegal

You cannot detain someone because you do not like their behavior, in almost all situations. In civilised countries

It is called kidnapping

worik

3 gün öncediscuss

That entire business sector is a cess pit of SEO slop.

Good riddence

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3 gün öncediscuss

> outside the Americas

So very wrong, not "mostly right"

South America is a big place, lots of people live there

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4 gün öncediscuss

> because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time.

No, that is incorrect

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4 gün öncediscuss

> Which european dictatorship left their country better off?

If monarchs count as dictators, and monarchic states as dictatorship, then almost all economic progress in Europe upto the 1840s

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4 gün öncediscuss

> yet we still trust them with our code and data

Who's we, eh?

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4 gün öncediscuss

Meanwhile their software, most software in wide use, continues to be unreliable and insecure

Share holder returns are doing OK tho

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5 gün öncediscuss

Yes

But how important?

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5 gün öncediscuss

> The era of building websites solely for Google traffic and monetizing them through ads and affiliate marketing has ended.

Yay!

Quite an assertion, I hope it is true

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7 gün öncediscuss

Interesting

I have noticed this too, but have a different problem

The "flow state" has never been where I want to be, it is where I make my worst mistakes and where the details swamp the bigger picture. A "cannot see the wood for the trees" problem

I am developing a practice for agentic coding, involving plans, reviews and check points. But the "twirling my thumbs" waiting for the agent to do its thing is a related problem for me

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7 gün öncediscuss

> The main bottleneck at this point is the cost of all of the token

Are you using Chinese models? Quite a bit cheaper, but maybe still too expensive?

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8 gün öncediscuss

> You don't need the world's stolen information to run a small project containing locally trained data you collected.

Local training? Is that feasible?

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8 gün öncediscuss

> chinese models without safety filters (it could be used to create software exploits)

Any decent coding setup can create software exploits. That bird has flown.

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8 gün öncediscuss

I loved it.

Different tastes

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9 gün öncediscuss

This is good work.

Ethical consumption in a capitalist economy is unachievable...but we can optimise

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10 gün öncediscuss

The only thing I use Amazon for is price guidance - is that hardware $1, $2, $10 or $100?

I have not bought from them since 2005.

There is no need

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13 gün öncediscuss

> There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4

Not across all architectures and operating systems there are not

Listen to those who have done this. Use integers for finance.

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13 gün öncediscuss

> JS engines treat numbers as 53 bit signed floats

Please do not use Javascript for finance applications. Just do not do it

Save it for user interface elements and dancing whizzimagigs, where it will do less harm.

worik

13 gün öncediscuss

Never use floats for financial calculations. Because hard won experience.

"Floats" are simulations of Real Numbers, and Reals are uncountable. Not what you want for finance, where everything is counted.

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13 gün öncediscuss

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