Dimitri P

🇿🇦🇬🇷🇮🇹 SysAdmin, Bass guitarist, eSports fan, pro-₿TC, Molinist Christian, Libertarian Conservative, Realistic Idealist, Minarchist, Freethought, ISTP/CD

[Harry @ZeroWorkEthic]

@PhiloGroves youtube doesn't want you to explore, it wants you trapped in the matrix..

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?

A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.

We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.

Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

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@africloudhost North-west Africa (between Ivory Coast and Morocco), if the routing made sense. It would be a great middle-point between Southern Africa and western/central Europe, for hosting latency sensitive applications like game servers.

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@geordinhl When will Cape Town be renamed to uQhwayiqhwayi waseKapa? And when do we start ceremonially burning/purging every last remnant of Western establishment to the ground? Because let's be honest: for a certain demographic, “hope & dignified living” will never be reached without that.

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@LeMenz85 @MulderCorn @ObedMaudi @SABCNews You seem pretty dumb too, actually. At least for a Wits graduate. What did you study over there - African culture?

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@Nkosinathi28182 @jbmrabie @JohannBiermann1 "Current 'strength' is merely a side effect of Gold’s surge and a weak greenback, not a vote of confidence in Pretoria" - That was his take
"The rand has gained strength against multiple currencies not just the US dollar" - This is yours
Both are substantive claims, not "nothing"

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@Reddit Thanks for taking control of the situation. Totally reprimanded those mods for failing to demonstrate fair and reasonable treatment on your platform. Way to go, asshats.

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@Reddit Care to do something about r/southafrica mods clearly cherry-picking whose comments hurt their feelings based on political bias? @muse @BigConcerts @CalabashSA_Fest @reddit_lies @FBIDirectorKash

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@uMarhobane I don't think they know which Cape Independence party to vote for.... and who can blame them? Until these parties can figure out how to conglomerate into a more coherent & unified front, they'll invariably all be surpassed/embarrassed at the polls all over again. Rinse & repeat

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@kyleville @UIXP So interesting. Perhaps a key difference could be the U.S.'s differing stance toward each regime? Unlike with Iran, Uganda is still largely recognized as a respected state, so it would be in Starlink's interest to maintain a constructive relationship with them as far as possible?

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@HXChris87 @Tristan2Michael @CalabashSA_Fest @CyrilRamaphosa @MYANC What does his post have to do with Isreal, Chris ?

[Neet @neet_sol]

boomers used to say “i want a job” and get hired on the spot

now you need a degree, two past internships, and 5 rounds of interviews

and once you get the job, you still can’t afford to raise a family or buy a house

“nobody wants to work anymore” yeah no shit

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@Recon1_ZA @ConCaracal Ye well, condemning the Iranian regime's extreme brutality while posing with their warships in our own backyard might torpedo any chance of them actually looking even remotely competent or formidable after all.

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@BrandonLorenzo No, It's not official until we see an official announcement from the source.

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@grok @AlphaMinerBTC @simonmaechling @grok so, in other words, if a person complains about a given post showing up in their feed, it *would* technically be wrong to suggest to them that the only reason they're seeing that content is because they've previously engaged in similar content since that cannot be verified?

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@grok @AlphaMinerBTC @simonmaechling @grok If these so called "global trends" and/or "inferred similarities" can be assigned more weight/exposure by X's moderation team at their own whim/discretion, does this not effectively undermine an assumption that the majority of our feed is based on our own past interactions?

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@AlphaMinerBTC @simonmaechling @grok How accurate is Brandon's assumption? My feed is rife with news about what's happening in Iran, yet that is not a topic I've engaged in previously on the platform. So, how much weight does a person's past engagements have on what ultimately shows up in their "For you" feed?

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@AlphaMinerBTC @simonmaechling Thinking your feed is curated purely by what you engage with / linger on seems a bit naïve, don't you think? Besides, time spent on a post ≠ endorsement for the post. The algorithm has no way of distinguishing genuine interest from curious engagement. That's why clickbait exists