You're so lucky to work for a company where PMs don't vibecode and tell how easy it is to do things....!

The problem sometimes is even PMs don't know what to do, so vibecode things is just burning tokens without a real goal!

Becoming and staying a leader in innovation sometimes requires shortcuts. You can also frame a law to make that exception specific for an industry, a field or a group so it doesn't become the norm (or time box it, if you want). You need innovation, there is no other way USA can lead in AI if you don't build these damn data centers.

Come to live in Europe and you will see how nice it is to stagnate because rule A depends on rule B, but there is an exception C that requires D....

Death by a thousand cuts.

It is in fact very nice to live in Europe and stagnate. Can recommend.

In some MAJOR banks (not gonna say which one), the last digits of the IBAN are also used as username.

So basically people outside can lock your online account.

I am shocked by how F** dumb this was ever designed.

a user name should not be something that needs to be kept secret. If that is the case, the bank fucked up in my eyes...

It's the Malaria tropica according to [0]:

> Im Zusammenhang mit den bereits bekannten sechs Fällen von Malaria tropica bei Personen, die am Flughafen Frankfurt am Main tätig sind, sind zwei Erkrankte verstorben

And a quick search says that this is the most dangerous one. Of course it had to be...

[0]:https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/gesund...

Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)

I think stackoverflow jobs was better than all the alternatives we ever had or have now (which are ridiculous).

If there is one thing I miss on the internet is indeed stackoverlow jobs. Crazy that it didn't work out.

LinkedIn is the Facebook of people who don't want to be on Facebook but want to post Facebook kind of stuff.

Make him do side projects, something he can explain and be proud of. Online communities, some github projects he might be interested, ...anything.

Let him contribute to something, yes for free, so that potential future coworkers can see 1) who he is, 2) what he can do, 3) how he approaches people.

I agree because there was always this "well, you don't have experience...".

Wtf of course i don't, otherwise i would not apply for a junior role!

EU is huge and hourly rates are different in many countries.

Nevertheless, the point is not the electronic toothbrush, but rather the "BIG" stuff that costs much and it's creating a lot of garbage.

A 1200 euro TV that breaks after 5 years - are you willing to buy a new one just because?

Once you have that infrastructure in place, eventually also the "smaller" things will be cheaper to replace.

TV, unfortunately, are the worst offenders in most cases as they cannot be reliably opened.

Things that are on the not hard scale to fix - cleaning robots, inkjet printers (with fill-in ink), laptops (incl. board repairs as long as they are not a BGA), desktop pc, mowing robots, mowers (all 2 and 4 stroke variants), most battery tools (drills, sanders, saws, etc.). Overall stuff that can opened reliably, even if that requires specialized tools like bearing pullers or impact wrenches.

Things that are hard - anything that uses glue as the prime assembly fastening choice, e.g. TVs and monitors (or just plastic clips). Cheap plastics (ABS) bodies are annoying as well. Fridges, no way to refill or fix the compressor. Serialized components that need specialized tools/software after being replaced.

In that regard that would be my complaint - ease of disassembly and clearly marked parts, exploded views, schematics. Spare parts. Personally, I'd spend half a night to repair 30-40euro device w/o any documentation, just b/c I can -- but that shall not be the norm.

1200 euro TVs don't really break after 5 years anymore, not in any meaningful numbers.

I've played with entrepreneurship most of my life - I know how "a solution looking for a problem" looks like. Any VC would laugh them out of the room.

Edit: don't get me wrong - there is a part of this that is almost free and only requires a bit of enforcement. That part is good, and it's exactly what governments should deal with. But anything that imposes direct or indirect costs should go through serious cost/benefit analysis.

I just used it on 4 texts. The 1st version was the output from my first (chatGPT) prompt. The 4th was the last prompts of "reduce, make it less AI, etc" of the same original request/output.

In all cases it was meatbag. In the 1st case gave chatGPT 0.35. The remaining ones were much lower.

EDIT: I didn't ask just to generate some text. The original prompt was very specific, which is most of the time the way I use LLMs anyways. Probably it catches better the "hey just generate this email...".

The rule applies to imported goods too. So not sure why would overseas electronics get a free pass.