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European central bank will probably go for Aldi.

They're going with Scaleway, a French company. Seems like the owner is a billionaire with a few businesses, but neither La Redoute nor Intermarché!

https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-accelerates-its-eu...


Aldi Nord or Aldi Süd?

Hofer

Trader Joe cloud.

How come?

You can use it with just European models if you want.


"Agile was always aiming to solve the wrong problem (that code is the bottleneck)"

No, it aimed to solve the "out specs are bad and we need to iterate faster" problem.

"a massive lie exposed by LLMs"

No. LLMs add no insight about the problem and they expose nothing. They just help to engage this well-known problem with another tool.


Not in my experience. AI exposes the truth that agile as it is practised is a huge waste of time. All the bullshit ceremonies and short sprints were designed to get code squeezed out faster, no matter if the code actually addressed the goals of the project. The stupidity of agile is in its iteration speed since you can be handed utter crap, implement it to hit your story points and find out the drooling shitgibbon who wrote the specs phoned it in so your work is now wasted. Rinse, repeat.

Writing good endings is hard.

I liked Ra, but I liked Fine Structures more.


I liked piecing the story together in the SCP wiki.

Later I read the first version of the book and it was okay, but the vibes were a bit lost.

The new version of the book I didn't even finish.


Because there's only one reasonable implementation of AsciiDoc


Is that an issue? There’s only one reasonable implementation of Typst too, and both AsciiDoc and Typst are fully supported by Pandoc, which supports a wide selection of writers (output formats).


Sadly this is not binary.


Its not binary but rather orthogonal.


Maybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.


“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877


Should write a MIT case study on that in "Bad Hypotheses 101"


It's hard to explain without spoilers, but Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power (1958) is relevant to this concept of warfare.


If only wars would end when all the soldiers on one side were dead.

If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.


They will certainly make human soldiers unviable. (I draw mostly dystopian conclusions from that prediction.)


Or it will just lead to lopsided massacres like the maxim gun did.


"No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is."

Because to determine good code, you need to see it and I'd presume most open source code is free.


Half-OT: when does gambling become safe?

I mean, insurance is basically basically betting that bad things happen to you.


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