Andreas Draganis

Researcher in the field of computational mechanics.

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@psiphi_gavagai @MrMontefiori @Microinteracti1 Brexit, and the first Trump administration, to me just represents a misguided and disappointing shift toward isolationism. The second Trump administration is a betrayal of the rest of the civilized world, for no real reason. I will not forget it for as long as I live.

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@monsieurgren ”A lie will have travelled halfway around the world before the truth has even had time to tie its shoelaces”

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@Fatesblind @ML3democrats The disregard for international law, and the lack of understanding that global stability and mutual trust and collaboration between allied nations is a requirement for security and prosperity for the people of those nations.

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@Jonathan_Blow @ciphergoth @lproven It is true - for nontrivial tasks, AI coding assistants can’t really get the snowball rolling on their own. But once you are in the implementation stage, the AI is a very powerful lubricant and accelerant, at least for the mechanical work of programming. 4/4

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@Jonathan_Blow @ciphergoth @lproven Also, copilot chat is useful as a repository of information which you can dig through and even reason with via natural conversation. 3/x

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@Jonathan_Blow @lemire You don’t find a use even for the autocomplete feature of e.g. GitHub Copilot? As overhyped as AI coding may be, I find that if nothing else, that feature is a true productivity enhancer.

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@LordHughMangas @86fromspace @EuromaidanPR Tragically naive view

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@huffm17_huffman @WarMonitor3 Moral leadership, to build strong alliances with democratically minded, militarily strong nations, to counter hostile nations that want to marginalise American hard and soft power globally, all for the benefit of mutual prosperity and security for all involved.

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@AmbiguouslyGrey @movebackbug__ @D_Laws_ @WatcherGuru The heart of the matter is this, and the rest is noise: Do we want back to the pre-WW2 geopolitical order of might-is-right, where territory was changing hands all the time. Or do we want to just lock that down and try to coexist and prosper? Trump seems to stand for the former.

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@SaarinenPyry @movebackbug__ @D_Laws_ @WatcherGuru Yes that is probably the single most outrageously despicable thing that the US has done under Trump 2.0. A nation fighting for its survival while weakening the US’s historical arch enemy in the process should just be bullied into a disadvantageous deal in a desperate situation

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@movebackbug__ @D_Laws_ @WatcherGuru The pause of aid to Ukraine. ”we sell them toned down equipment because maybe some day they are no longer our allies” Greenland, Canada as 51st state. ”PATHETIC”. Sowing doubt about article 5. ”Ukraine should have elections.”

Americans underestimate the damage done.

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@Emptyshiki @Jsd3187 @ramit @BillAckman I shudder to think what Trump would have to do to make his fans actually stop supporting him

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@PhDHaver @LPKittens @DOGE @USGSA You summed it up

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@kvistp Is this what the kids refer to as FAFO?

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@robertsgulans @penberg A cost-benefit analysis is important of course, which requires an understanding, which is kind of a catch-22.

But from the horrors I’ve seen, I’d say there clearly are cases where the codebase is in a death spiral, and it is existentially important to have a refactoring plan

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@robertsgulans @penberg Yes, the perceived unnecessary complexity can of course be necessary on closer inspection.

But it is also possible for previous developers to have written a severely overcomplicated mess that will simply collapse under its own weight unless something is done about it.

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@penberg @robertsgulans I think that in general, whether or not the rewrite is in a newer language, when the new system can be orders of magnitude simpler than the legacy system, that’s an argument to rewrite. There are some severely overcomplicated legacy code bases out there.

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@USterfry @ampalsson @YourAnonCentral So therefore the US needs to bully other countries and threaten their annexation? I don’t think that even Trump-opposed Americans fully understand how outrageous the rest of the world finds this, and the extent of the damage the US is causing to its own global standing.