Alexander Rojas

Have you ever noticed how every new tech from silicon valley is sold as a way to find the cure to cancer only to later be used just to show us more and better targeted ads?

I cannot over state how annoying is, in Germany, how often you get an email with a PDF which you have to print, sign, and scan back to get anything done.
Why cannot just I fill a form online and be done with the whole wasting a sheet of paper?

Palantir sells itself as a Minority Report tool, find the worst criminals before the crime occurs. And yet, given the amount of shootings in the US, I think it utterly fails at its goal, while compromising our freedoms and giving power someone more akin to Sauron than any other human being

I got my first #shimano #di2 groupset, and my conclusion is that electric groupsets are just plain stupid. There was nothing wrong with using cables to pull a derrailler.

Canyon sales fall by £34m with "efficiency measures" now underway, months after parent company reduced bike brand's valuation by 43% Financial performance blamed on "ongoing challenging market", as investment group that owns Canyon confirms "implementation of efficiency measures" needed to get back on track

I feel that "efficiency measures" is just corpspeak for: "Entshitify" and "Lower quality"

It just hits me that the US is going through its own form of China's cultural revolution

And the update is: A new tool was presented today, and agent orchestrator, to basically do all our work. It didn't produced anything useful, or even that compiled. The manager still said we have to use it, because otherwise we won't be 10x more productive...

While I don't disagree from your conclusions. Today we got the message from my manager that people who left the team won't get replaced and we need to leverage AI to keep the timeline of our goals (someone let a chuckle come out when he said that)

I usually don't fall for ragebait, but it is 2025, can you please stop calling us Latinx? I haven't found the first of us who actually likes this term

That's corporate america (really, more worldwide): They will be liberals or far right supporters as long as it doesn't hurt the bottom line

Didn't Adam Smith said the same as he wrote the Wealth of Nations?

The way all branches of power just abdicated to a tyrant is just sad.
So much for a constitution which actually had provisions for the people to raise against a tyrannical government.

Almost daily I hear stories of americans moving to Europe scaping the new american policies, and yet, no one call them Refugees. When will start calling them the same way we call other people scaping their governments?

Well, I am latino. My wife's family aren't but they were born in south america. When I met my in laws, one of the first thing her father said to me was: "One of the main reasons we left latin america was that I didn't want my daughters to end with a latino," so you tell me

Reminds me of a very evangelical relative who called Obama the antichrist, but Trump the saviour of christianity. I guess that shows the real values there

Not a pro here, but this is something I experience constantly, my wife who is a musician often wonders how do I have such good ear but cannot sing on key, to which I always reply that I just don't know how to phisically move my throat to produce what I want

Reminds me of a post I saw:

It's my first app ever.
It took me 50 min.
Vibe coding is a thing, indeed.
I'm proud of myself and ChatGPT, lol

the app in question was a form

yo creo que más del problema del campo, es que vaya a haber un lucho herrera que le tiene ganas a la tierrita, pero no tiene ganas de pagar por ella

To all the hamburgers who voted against hosted the olympics because that money could be better use in any of X alternative projects proposed. After 10 years, did any of those projects came to fruition?

I am waiting to see the collapse in the sports world when the arabs run out of oil: Football, Cycling now even Golf

Una mujer compra un piso en Canarias y descubre en la primera junta de vecinos que debe pagar 200 euros por un traductor: muchos de los inquilinos son alemanes El fenómeno es cada vez más frecuente en las islas, que se han convertido en un destino muy popular para jubilados y turistas de otras nacionalidades

In the 20 years I've been living in Germany, I have heard often that foreigners need to assimilate and integrate. That one should speak German in Germany.

It seems however that does not apply to Germans abroad

That post-credits scene from "Predator: Killer of Killers" just destroyed everything that "PREY" built. It just spoiled both movies for me.

Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn is having major regrets after widely bragging about replacing his human staffers with AI.

His reaction encapsulates the disconection between the Silicon Valley and the rest of the world.
The Valley is drunk on the potential of AI, while the rest of the world is cautious at best

Donde trabajo, esa celebración parecer estár cancelada. Mientras el año pasado había pines y camisetas y decoraciones por toda la oficina. Este año solo hubo un par de banderas en la cafetería, que desaparecieron para la hora del almuerzo

The article says "Plain english specs," so more than translating code, it seems to be building requirements for a rewrite.

I wonder how that compares to transpiling the code to a modern language and then refactor that modern language.

A Clean Energy Boom Was Just Starting. Now, a Republican Bill Aims to End It.

When I read news like this one, I always imagine people wanting to go back to whale oil to light up streets and coal to power trains and cars.

I'm honestly concerned that the AfD will come to power despite being so hated

Uy, haciendo las tareas bajo la vela escuchando la luciernaga con un radio de baterías

I watched the movie iHostage, and after some research it seems the movie does closely follow the real events.
It makes me chucked then that many of the reviews call it unrealistic: The hostage taker makes to many mistakes and the police response is exesive.
We normalized the lies from hollywood.

I will always have an special apprecitation for the son '39 by Queen. Who else has composed a love song about the separation induced by time dilation through near speed of light space travel