Zsolt Takács

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[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@garybernhardt In this case its actually not even fun doing it in a responsible way (doing more code reviews without it’s rewarding parts), more driven by fear

[fuck off kevin @bringsnacks__]

It’s funny hearing boomers claim nobody ate out and everyone brown bagged lunches, when the largest fast food expansion in American history happened during their generation.

Those chains didn’t build 20,000 locations because nobody was buying burgers.

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@guroot @rovarma https://t.co/mbSoNIy8qN another solution

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

Most of us on the left would much prefer a conservative committed to liberal democracy and the rule of law than a rightwing autocrat committed to neither. This is really not difficult to understand.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

To say Viktor Orban was a democrat after all because he admitted defeat is quite a stretch considering he manipulated the entire electoral system to his hand and in the end fell victim to the monster of his own creation.

Tisza only got 53% of the popular vote.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Fidesz 1 week ago: We thwarted a Ukraine plot to bomb pipelines at Tisza's behest!

Fidesz 6 hrs ago: There's fraud everywhere, and Tisza is plotting to march and ransack the PM's office when they lose!

Fidesz now: See? We conceded. It's ridiculous anyone ever thought otherwise

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

The peril of laziness lost
https://t.co/ahSIflm9va

ht: @Gregorein (and @garrytan, I guess?)

[Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin]

The two fronts in this war are the Strait of Hormuz and the NYSE opening bell

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

A five day pause lol. We’re only at war when the market’s closed, thank you for your attention to this matter

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

Of course I said for a decade that we shouldn't do another regime change in the Middle East because they never ever turn out well,

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@JustDeezGuy Even the officially unsupported on lower range consumer cards rocm works on my 6700 xt with ollama with one env var

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

Hiring juniors just became more profitable

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@StefanFSchubert @benbawan EU subsidies for closing the gap with EU. In Hungary some economists estimate it as a huge factor. Coincidentally since we don’t get them the growth stalled.

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@onehappyfellow @JustDeezGuy @pandam0nial Erlang is also a good example having a weak type system but a runtime/philosophy with reliability as the most important characteristic.

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@janetacarr You need to pass platform amd64 all the time on aarch64 but it works as advertised. Even better is that podman desktop too so you can avoid the desktop licensing.

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@MKULTRAENJYR @HSVSphere Cold brewing is even better

[Zsolt Takács @oker1]

@mitchellh @mitsuhiko The cookie banner thing should be redone for sure, but requiring explicit consent is also nice and generally it changed the mentality to collect all data mindlessly hoping it may be useful to don't collect PII unless absolutely necessary because it's a liability.

[chet porter @chetporter]

music should never be free (unless the artist wants it to be). people under 30 think the value of music is basically nothing because they have access to every song ever made for only $10 a month. you all need to go to a record store to see how much music should actually cost