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Not the EU, but I once accidentally entered Switzerland in the Zürich airport. The passport counter was unmanned and the doorway next to it was open, so I assumed there is another checkpoint somewhere further.

When a guy started chasing after me 30 seconds later I realized my assumption was wrong. But there really wasn't a way to know.

Russia's goal is direct annexation of about quarter of the Ukrainian territory and installing a lifelong puppet regime to control the other three quarters. Ukrainians stand to lose not just their voice and any semblance of economic prosperity, but also their very identity.

With the exception of extreme cases like Gaza, it doesn't get more binary than that.

It seems quite premature to say that. We're 3 to 4 years into the LLM revolution and the rate of progress is still impressive.

When we were 3 to 4 years into mobile phone revolution it was already abundantly clear that it's changing the way people leave.

Ditto when mobile phones became smartphones, and for many other tech items we got in the past decades.

As for LLMs... outside of a few precious professions you could live your life and not notice they are there.

The toys are the problem because there are so many being imported they can't possibly control them all.

And if the EU tries to do something structural about it the backlash is enormous - look at that 3 euro fee for packages for example.

Obviously not.

What an odd comment. I'd think it's obvious I referred to the current wave that started 15* years ago.

* give or take some years

I wonder if this is the reason Spain resisted the advent of far right for so long, compared to its European counterparts.

No. But I got time to clean some technical debt that I for ages ea wanted to do. I could have chosen not to do anything in that time.

I can now write software quicker in most of the cases, but the rest of the organization moves as slowly as ever.

I recently sat in on a lecture at my old uni and noticed almost every student heavily using ai.

But are they also paying for it? Or simply using the free version because it's available?

The LLM might change the economy of this, but I doubt it.

I tend to believe that the engineering culture you describe will end up producing similar or, as Joel postulates, an even worse result, just dressed up in a modern stack.

If the technical leadership remains the very same one that enabled such a culture, I don't see them being able to suddenly produce a genuinely better software product only because an LLM is in a picture - especially considering how easy it is to convince an LLM that your idea is the best one.

Wait until those prices start propagating to mass consumer products.

and that got me thinking that there's potentially a different type of gambling app that ignores the money and is more of a social/prediction-making platform

We have that in the Netherlands and we do it massively for every World Cup and Euro. The app my friend groups are on, Scorito, has 1.5 million competitors for the current WC, in the country of 18 million, and that's not the only app.

Normally a group would make a small buy in, like €5, where the winner takes all, but this year the legal department at work forbade that, se that sort of gambling Is actual illegal.

The acknowledgement is in the PR description, section "The design, and what it's based on".

Same here. I'll be in a market soon and I had my eyes on a VW i4 or a Škoda Enyaq, but this makes me seriously reconsider. I really wanted to support local industry and buy a European product this time, but they are making it seriously difficult (no, don't get me even started on Stellantis).

People do need to eat, but over 80% of the Dutch agricultural produce is being exported.

Also, good portion of it isn't even meant for human consumption. Think flowers or cattle feed.

This is not about feeding the population or about sustainability. It's simply about profit.

As someone who's pro-EU, I'd also really like to see major reforms within the organization.

While it contributes enormously to the welfare of the continent, the EU is by design dysfunctional and toothless.

I'm a pessimist, there is so much money behind the forces that want to see the EU fall apart because small individual countries are easier to buy off, I don't see how we can defend against that.

We'll only know what we lost when it's gone, but then it'll be too late.

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A successful rejoin referendum would probably help contain Reform.

However such a referendum is basically taboo in the British public discourse.

At the time "polls" predicted a Remain win.

This is a common trope but is simply not true. The polls were really tight[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United...

Being Serbian, I also find equalising Cyrillic with Russian mildly annoying. Or even worse, when people call it "Russian letters".

With that being said, I do think it's harder to make a clear programming language based on is a Slavic language, due to all the case and gender forms.

A lot of peple in this chain aren't paid to have a sense of ownership. They just do their job and their personal opinion of the work doesn't really matter.

Weird, I have exactly the same experience with GitHub Copilot Plugin in JetBrains vs Copilot CLI in the built-in terminal.

The plugin keeps asking for permissions, the terminal app just works.

I'm using chatbots for search, but that's only because Google became so horrible at it.

I'd rather just have results without chatbot fluff.

The public is literally being told that white collar jobs are gone. What do you expect?

20 minutes of walking is a perfect bicycle distance.

Luckily because of the AI we'll all be able to do more in less time, so those 10 hours will be easy to find.

Jokes aside, 10 hours a week is quite something. Good that they mention that 2-3 hours is also already beneficial.

Generally, people don't care about "fields being impacted", and the students certainly don't. People care about the impact certain technology has on their daily lives, on their welfare and the ability to pay off their mortgage and provide a decent life for their children.

The AI as it is today isn't really doing any of those things. At most, it's a sort of reliable replacement fot Google Search. Worden ehen, it's being presented as threat to all those things the people care about.

We have voted in the most right-wing Parliament and, by extension, Commission, in the EU's history.

It only makes sense they'll prioritize big-business interests over those of the common folk.

I genuinely think it's not ok even then. Copilot is a tool, one of many I use. That tool has no business polluting commit messages without my knowledge.

The appended message isn't even adding any new information, as in this day and age a vast majority of commits is probably "co-authored" by an LLM.

Waymo is a sort of public transit. It's just an vastly more inefficient than any other form of public transit, but an order of magnitude more efficient than private passenger cars.