@JesperBylund @tadasgedgaudas More like 26.5%
€6000/m gross in Stockholm is €4406 after taxes.
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Andreas Bruse
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And if you don't believe it's the same salary in the rest of EU.
Here are stats from Lovable, #1 AI company in EU right now, competing with Replit and other US companies.
6k euros/month
30% tax
You bring home 4,200
Same as in Lithuania for a Senior engineering role.
Crazy.
I think Lithuanians are even overpaid lol because rent is so much cheaper and car insurance too (you don't need to drive a Toyota here)
TadasG 💻@tadasgedgaudas
This is the salary of senior engineers in Lithuania. Similar to the rest of Europe. Not worth IMO working in a company right now. Can make more money building your own SaaS/App. US is another story - there it's not worth indiehacking and better join a company for $10-20k/month
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@fchollet Hobbyists had been building modern quadcopter for a few years before the Parrot though. I saw them at the chaos communication congress in 2008 for the first time.
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The very first quadcopter prototype was the Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No. 1, created in 1907 by Breguet Aviation in France.
The first consumer quadcopter drone was the Parrot AR.Drone, released in 2010 by French company Parrot SA. It was also the first commercially successful mass-market drone, and the first time the word "drone" was used for a consumer product (previously "drone" only referred to unmanned military aircraft in an airplane form factor).
This was the starting point of the quadcopter drone era, which is still unfolding.
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@predict_addict Are they claiming only 35 startups have been founded by MIT alumni?
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These phony rankings don’t deceive anyone. When was the last time you saw an ETH Zurich alumnus found a mega hedge fund or a major tech company?
The biggest startup in Europe by far is Revolut, with a valuation exceeding that of most German and Swiss companies combined. It was founded by an alumnus of MIPT and NES.
The biggest recent hedge fund success, XTX Markets, was founded by an alumnus of MSU and the New Economic School.
Yet German and Swiss universities keep patting themselves on the back for launching a handful of micro-startups.
Neither the USA nor China has ever engaged in such self-congratulatory circus.🎪
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@randomname6956 @DubzyOnceAgain It's not like you have a choice. It will not fit anywhere but the center.
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@DubzyOnceAgain Nah, idc how much it’s worth, it’s cool as hell and that’s gonna be a center piece
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Hey one of these Monarch Century Tortoise Wood Stacking Drawer Chest
just sold for $1.3M at auction last year. There are two variations. The more common 3 toed tortoise version sells for around $900-$1000 at auction but there is an extremely rare 4 toed version. It was a fluke that this version ever came to be due to a flaw in the molding they poured the bronze/brass into. There are only 2 known 4 toed versions known today and if I see what I think I’m seeing then what you have there is extremely rare. I would take this to an appraiser who deals in fine antique furniture and let him know that an internet stranger made up an elaborate story about its rarity and value. God bless.
Grace@gracecamille_
bf just came home with 180 lb 3-drawer tortoise dresser. “By the time he got it out of the storage unit I couldn’t tell him I changed my mind” he explained
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@halvarflake Do you think the model of Linux package managers where people verify new versions/patches have a place in these ecosystems?
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With worries about supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, I wrote a few lines about my preferred development set-up, and how it adapts well to vibe-coding and mitigates many (if not all) risks.
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@predict_addict Kiselev's Algebra was published 34 years before the Soviet Union was established though?
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“USSR was communist,” they say.
Here is a problem from one of the standard algebra textbooks used by tens of millions of schoolchildren across the Soviet Union — Kiselev’s Algebra.
The example problem reads:
A factory’s profit for two months, January and February, was a rubles.
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@OwariDa Codex was pretty good about using gdb and r2 when I tested it with some wargames. Is that not the case for real scenarios?
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This. Debugging/instrumenting/profiling, anything that _actually_ provides hard raw data that can be used to pinpoint or at least meaningfully narrow down the search space at each step
LLMs can certainly do it, but they have a strong tendency to instead reason based on existing data and make guesses, over and over again, in somewhat of a random walk
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt@moyix
Begging, sobbing, pleading with my LLMs to just use a debugger instead of making galaxy brain inferences from carefully crafted input/output samples over the course of 6 hours
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Codex.app runs `git symbolic-ref --quiet refs/remotes/${remote}/HEAD` and if that returns empty, it will run `git remote show <remote>` which triggers the prompt. It triggers a few times a minute and is very disruptive.
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If Codex.app keeps asking to unlock your GitHub ssh key, make sure your repo has a local `origin/HEAD` ref through `git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main`
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@theiaincameron I guess Zimbabwe and Angola have the same issue now?
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There are quite a few tripoints in the world, where three countries come together to meet at a single location. Only at one point on Earth do four countries meet; Kazangula, on the Zambezi river (Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia). But, there’s a big catch.
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@Logan_Hall06 @notafan_jo All Ikea stores the world over are franchised. It's called tax planning.
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@notafan_jo Fun fact, ikea in the US are franchised and are a different company than the overseas versions
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@Midhache @Hollowind_ @swejohngalt Man får kvitta förluster mot vinst och kan spara det utrymmet framåt utan tidsgräns.
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@Hollowind_ @swejohngalt Yes.
Köper man aktier för 1 miljon, varpå värdet på aktien ökar med 100%, får man skatta 360.000kr.
Om värdet nästa år går tillbaka till 1 miljon får man inget tillbaka utan har alltså gått back 360kkr.
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Nederländerna har just röstat igenom 36% skatt på orealiserade kapitalvinster. Skatt på pengar du inte har. På vinster du inte gjort. På tillgångar du inte sålt. Sverige testade det på 70-talet. Tyskland testade det. Båda backade. Norge blöder miljonärer just nu. 1/3
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how the f*ck did this do so well
Elliot Arledge@elliotarledge
this model beats glm 4.7 at coding and is being served at 170+ tps for FREE
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@vxunderground It's not just CoPilot. They also sell compute to OpenAI, and access to OpenAI models to other companies.
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> does thing everyone hates
> makes insane profit
wtf? is money made up? how does this make money?
Satya Nadella@satyanadella
Just reported our quarterly results. We are still in the beginning phases of AI diffusion and its broad GDP impact, and already we’ve built an AI business that is larger than some of our biggest franchises that took decades to build. Our quarterly cloud revenue crossed $50 billion for the first time. What’s striking is it was less than 10 years ago that our annual cloud revenue was $10 billion! (That is what expanding TAM + good execution looks like) A few other highlights from across the stack:
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this was what the average passenger experienced during the golden age of travel in 2025
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@chaz_6 @matiasgoldberg You can keep PII in backups if your restoration procedure includes a routine to re-anonymize or re-delete the data.
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@matiasgoldberg Did they ever solve the problem of backups? It's just not feasible to wipe records one by one from every backup.
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It is an absolute nightmare to make a GDPR compliant website.
You have to make sure nginx logs are tweaked to comply. Same for your systemd journal. Same for apport. And whatever you-don't- know-even-exists for basic diagnostics.
Do you keep SSD TRIM enabled? Hoo boy...
🇪🇺🇩🇪 Vera@verachte
@not__vee Please.. it's really not hard to make a gdpr compliant site, it is hard when you want to sell off user data. We can make social media apps and have done so, it's about making them popular enough. That doesn't have much to do with functioning.
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TIL gene therapy is quite similar to flashing your PSP with custom firmware circa 2007
zeta@zeta_globin
the fact that so many gene therapies that cost millions wholly depend on you the patient just not getting a specific cold in the 2000s or in your teens is still extremely funny to me
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@sdamico @ImpulseLabs_ Didn't really think impulse offered that much improvement over the stoves I've owned in Europe, but now I'm convinced.
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so … we figured out how to make round-bottom woks work @ImpulseLabs_ (stove is unmodified)
will share more on … how … soon.
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@jamesacowling Running out of file descriptors is the one no one sets up observability alarms for, it seems. It's always a surprise.
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When ramping up the Dropbox storage system we were growing so fast we completely ran out of disk space in one 30PB storage cell. 0% disk space is a pretty tricky situation - a lot of software needs to write to the disk to run and you can't compact without writing first.
Fortunately there was a separate root disk for each 100-disk storage node. I wrote a script to move a small amount of data to the root disk, mount it via a symlink, run compaction, move it back then on to the next one.
The system evolved a lot since then and eventually didn't even use a filesystem but for a while the fix was to leave a large dummy file on each disk taking up space we could delete in an emergency.
Inside every major tech company is someone figuring out a creative way to recover from something clowny like running out of disk space.
(Dropbox's storage is incredibly bulletproof these days and afaik has never lost user data.)
anil@2abstract4me
@jamesacowling but before that ur backend needs to come down because u didn't rotate your logs.
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@dwarkesh_sp On the plus side I know a lot about what beer tastes like after a lot of other beer.
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Does everyone secretly feel that if you went back you to college now, you could learn so much faster, better, and deeper? And that your 18 year old self kinda wasted the opportunity?
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