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It's not my habit, but today I need your help. For real.
The sailplane club in Rouen, France, is being under attack by people who want to destroy a non-profit association, its community and all the knowledge, friendship and environmental consciousness for the sake of building more industrial activity.
Please, aviatio...
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We are now at the mercy of token sellers.
If you build with AI, your margins and even product viability depend on pricing and rate limits you do not control. A small change can break unit economics overnight.
Open weights, local inference and model diversity are not ideology, they are risk management.
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I doubt the majority of future dev think like that, but I admire this and can only advise any wannabe dev to follow @thecurioushermit example.
I have my 40y+ dev XP behind me so AI is just a tool to go faster. But I really worry about how new devs will be able to learn without falling in the laziness trap AI is setti...
I'm learning it because I want to learn it myself. When I use AI, it's to have it help me degub my code and better understand a concept, not have it write it for me. I'm not optimizing to get as much done in as short of time as possible, I'm optimizing for personal knowledge and cognitive challenge.
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I did some research on how to declare a webcam in public restricted space (airfield) with no surveillance goal and no image recording.
But it seems a camera has to be for surveillance, no gov site allows you to declare a camera that just shows a big green grass runway, trees, clouds and a windsock if you can't identif...
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I've always thought we should write laws with git too.
A pitch deck is a lossy compression of reality tuned for maximum appeal. A pitch .md in a GitHub repo is version-controlled, forkable, and transparent.
You can see the entire history of how the founders described their own company.
That's a better signal than gradient fills.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-pitc
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Some important reminders trop the 1930s:
"The fictitious money that states are now producing on a massive scale."
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"real money can never be created in this way. A banknote does not become money simply because the state designates it as such and forces the population to consider it as such."
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"However, it is rare ...
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After 10+ years in crypto, I have a new correlation to drive my investment decisions.
The better the t-shirt quality and graphic design at a booth or launch, the higher the probability the project fails or rugs.
Good branding is not a signal of substance. It is often a signal of budget allocation.
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