One can do anti-vandal protection with style, just with some black paint over the same wooden sheets everywhere. But it's all so ugly at the country scale. The state is so disfunctional that a piece of wood works better.
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Just a reminder, if AI in Google search results triggers you: udm14.com. For me, Google is the worst search engine, except for all the others, and with udm14 it just works and gets things done. The next logical step is that they kill this feature.
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Oh, on mobile Chrome, it's not possible to add a custom search provider, so half way there without this feature. #Firefox is the fix.
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The heatwave scared off people. Last time Paris center was so nice with so few people was during covid. I expected to melt on my way to a salad, but some clouds made it tolerable so far.
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While they spread myths and fables about #AI, it cannot calculate field offsets from a pasted simple C struct definition, and then failed 2 times when I was suspicious that part was not working as expected and asked to review. Offsets, Karl! 56 not 60!
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Published a new blog post and a small library for measuring .NET code performance with cycles precision and analysing results with a new HDR histogram implementation. #dotnet #csharp hotforknowledge.com/2026/05/…
It has happened N times already, I erase an unposted HN comment or delete one right after posting, because it will have either no disucssion or take time for engaging. So instead of a heated debate why Windows is so bad lately, an API Proposal to #dotnet github.com/dotnet/runtime/is…
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Despite having been very skeptical on actual AI usefullness for non-trivial coding, based on my own experience, I want it to succeed. It's usefullness has been growing very gradually, but then suddenly #codex seems to actually save time.
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Victor Baybekov retweeted
For an employer to pay/incentivize an employee a salary of €39,000, the employer has to pay €95,000; the difference is confiscated by the French government.
Victor Baybekov retweeted
Many of the best engineers are from Eastern Europe. It is obvious to anyone who has worked in tech. So why hasn’t a country like Poland been a leading economic power?
If you have work experience in dysfunctional environments, you know the answer.
Technical excellence means nothing without the proper culture. The number of excellent engineers stuck, unable to deploy and gain expertise, is enormous. It is probably the greatest obstacle to prosperity.
Look at what happened to Poland since 1990. Why 1990? It marked the fall of socialism in Eastern Europe. Poland got its first freely elected president since 1926.
Economists talk about resource allocation and so on…
But it wasn’t free elections that freed Poland. We know this because communist China is rising fast—its engineers do great work. Singapore isn’t exactly a democracy, yet it is one of the richest countries on Earth.
It is entrepreneurship that wins the day. Take young (or not-so-young) promising engineers, get them out of dead-end jobs, and put them in a culture where innovation is rewarded.
It is related to politics, but really more cultural than political. Does reality trump your feelings? Can I tell you your design sucks, build a new one, and shame you for your shoddy work?
A good rule of thumb is: would Elon Musk be welcome in your organization ? Would he be at ease in your country ? My bet is that, increasingly, people like Elon Musk would be welcome in Poland, but back in 1985, he would not have been.
Top 5 European countries by gold medals in International Science Olympiads 🥇
Mathematics
🇷🇺 Russia — 106
🇭🇺 Hungary — 90
🇷🇴 Romania — 88
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 59
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 57
Physics
🇷🇺 Russia — 99
🇷🇴 Romania — 62
🇭🇺 Hungary — 45
🇩🇪 Germany — 31
🇵🇱 Poland — 24
Informatics
🇷🇺 Russia — 68
🇵🇱 Poland — 45
🇷🇴 Romania — 38
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 29
🇫🇷 France — 26
Chemistry
🇷🇺 Russia — 16
🇷🇴 Romania — 13
🇨🇿 Czechia — 9
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 9
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 8
Biology
🇷🇺 Russia — 22
🇩🇪 Germany — 9
🇭🇺 Hungary — 8
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 6
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 5
Artificial Intelligence
🇷🇺 Russia — 6
🇵🇱 Poland — 4
🇷🇴 Romania — 2
🇸🇪 Sweden — 1
🇭🇺 Hungary — 1
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1
🇸🇮 Slovenia — 1
Eastern Europe dominates academic Olympiads — quietly, consistently, for decades.
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Grand Palais, Concorde bridge and Luxor obelisk, the tricolor, the banks of the Seine, and a nice rental bike in the new 85k number range. The weather is perfect. Almost everything is perfect... just some small things are not in their right place. Can you spot it, @Velib !?
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Nice, only over the last several days. Old stock from Amazon was still available, and no more. I thought no one wants 4800, myself included even for an oldish SFF box that only supports 4400, so wanted to take time to review later.
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FFS @Windows @Microsoft why RDP settings were disabled after a routine update, all my firewall rules evaporated, and I cannot re-enable RDP host with outbound connections blocked? This day has come, the pile of garbage has grown too big and stinks too much to continue to tolerate
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The only thing that Windows still does better than others is RDP. And I depend on it both for work and home. For more than a decade I have a powerful workstation and a thin Mac laptop client. Used to be Bootcamp, now it's a Win VM just for RDP, as Mac's client from MSFT is bad.
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I hope @gnome realizes that their RDP work is vital to enable LoD for a big niche of Windows users, who lough at VNC and similar invalid solutions. Gnome 48 is very close to make RDP usable, but still a lot to do. 49 with persistent sessions should be much better, if it works.
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