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  • I'm super happy with Kagi search. Even the AI summary is quite good as it's based on the search results, not just made up from training data. Of course, it's still a stupid LLM, so double check everthing. But i find it quite useful to get a grasp on the overall content of the results.

    And search itself works well, haven't had a moment where it was worse than one of the big providers. The dedicated forum, programming and other serchas are cool and i love being able to adjust the priority of pages or even blacklist them.

  • Deutsche zahlen nach wie vor häufiger bar als viele Nachbarn
  • In der Schweiz ist so gut wie alles bargeldlos mittlerweile. Berghütte auf 3000m, Bauernhof Selbstbedienungsladen, die eine kleine Tierpension usw.

    Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt hatten die Glühweinstände sogar schon grosse "kein Bargeld" Schilder. Immerhin kann man sonst an den meisten Orten noch bar zahlen.

  • Your Most Frustrating Configuration Experience?
  • You misunderstand, the first two commands are just one time setup to install a specific python version and then to create an env using that version. After that all you need is `pyenv activate myenv´ to drop you into that env, which will use the correct python version and make sure everything is isolated from other environments you might have.

    You can also just create an env with the system python version, but the question was specifically about managing multiple versions of python side by side and this makes that super easy.

    You could also combine it with direnv to automatically drop you into the correct environment based on the folder you are in, so you don't have to type anything after the initial setup.

  • Passive income
  • But a lot of european countries are pushing pretty hard to not borrow and have a zero balance or positive budget. So e.g. Switzerland don't sell that many bonds and yield on a lot of them is 0.5%, maybe 2% on long term ones vs around 4% for US ones.

  • Your Most Frustrating Configuration Experience?
  • pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv together solves this for me. Virtualenv with specific python versions that work together well with other tools like pip or poetry.

    It boils down to something like

    $ pyenv install 3.12.7
    $ pyenv virtualenv 3.12.7 myenv
    $ pyenv activate myenv
    

    and at that point you can do regular python stuff like pip installing etc.

  • What alias do you have to update the system from terminal?
  • You could give helix a try, feature/functionality wise it's almost vim, but with 0 config needed and all commands easily discoverable which is closer to nano.

    As someone who really tried to get into modal editors, both emacs and vim, for years, it was the first one where i was reasonably fast after a short time and it was easy to discover the keybindings.

  • French President Emmanuel Macron announces new right-wing government
  • Slavery in the US before the civil war didn't happen in a vacuum. There were slaves in the south that didn't consume anything, producing goods that in a large part were exported to britain. And the money from that was used to buy more slaves and land. But some of it was used to buy goods and expertise from the north that the slave economy was lacking, which in turn drove industrialization in the north.

    But i stand by my point that over time the artificially low prices due to slave labor causes outflows of money from the rest of the world, depriving workers in other countries of money/wages and causing them to spend less. So all those slaves would overproduce things that there isn't demand anymore and it's still worse for the rich fucks than if they had paid slaves a fair wages.

    Just to be clear, I'm not saying such a system can't exist or work, just that in the long run it's worse for everyone, even the rich who thrive on exploiting poor people.

    Sadly the billionaire class don't seem to understand this and there's not much to do other than teaching them by force every 50-150 years.

  • French President Emmanuel Macron announces new right-wing government
  • Well, profitable in the short term. If the lowly peons don't have money because you took it all, they cant spend it on stuff from your factories and your profit goes down and everything grinds to a halt. of course you can try to sell it to other countries, which fucks over their economies and makes them more susceptible to populism/facism (well after an initial phase of excitement over those sweet cheap imports) and then it's facism all around and everyone is fucked. You just need to plan it well enough so you're on your private island/mars colony with robot butlers by that point

  • Book recommendations to learn programming fundamentals
  • 'Programming from the ground up' the main idea of this one is to teach programming in a bottom up way, so very low level.

    it's mostly about teaching (linux) assembly to beginners, so in a way it is just learning a new language. But it's mainly about understanding low level how a computer works, like registers, kernel calls, how function calls are handled, all for beginners. It's really easy to pick up.

    Knowing those fundamentals can go a long way in understanding other computing concepts.

    Others that come to mind are :

    • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
    • A Philosophy of Software Design
    • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"
  • How is it that Germany and Japan can maintain good urban planning despite being home to some of the largest car companies?
  • Well, cars are certainly important everywhere in the world and still too important in Switzerland. But relatively speaking compared to other countries they're really not that important.

    Right now there's a vote coming up to build more highways, it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.

    To put some numbers on things, we spend 4-5 billion per year on rail, we spend 8.8billion over the next 3 years on road maintenance plus total another 11 billion until 2030 for new road infrastructure. I wouldn't call that 'barely investing', it seems roughly equal to me.

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers
  • I always thought the Mer de Glace at the Mont Blanc illustrates this really well. You arrive and there's a sign "the glacier was here in 1910" and that's where tourists back then.

    To get to the actual glacier, you have to eall down many flights of metal stairs for about half an hour and there's several signs for different years, 1950, 1990, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, something like this, with the years between each sign getting shorter but the distance staying roughly the same. And from the top it's really far away.

    Of course, once you actually reach the glacier, you get to the main attraction, a 3m diameter tunnel they bored 100m deep into it as a tourist attraction with ice sculptures inside. Above the tunnel you can see the remains of the tunnel from the previous year, half melted...

  • «Die Zukunft des Faschismus», Folge 2: Die Maschine
    www.republik.ch «Die Zukunft des Faschismus», Folge 2: Die Maschine

    Faschismus braucht heute weder Ideologie noch Faschisten. Er läuft automatisch, weltweit.

    «Die Zukunft des Faschismus», Folge 2: Die Maschine

    Zweiter Teil in einer Serie über den weltweiten Faschismus heutzutage, der sehr detailliert darauf eingeht, inwiefern der Faschismus von heute sich von früheren Wellen unterscheidet und welche Formen er annimmt. Ziemlich langer Artikel aber lohnt sich meiner Meinung nach, vor allem in Hinsicht auf die aktuelle Situation in Europa.

    Folge 1 ist denke ich nicht so relevant, da geht es hauptsächlich um die Situation in der USA und DeSantis vs Trump, deswegen poste ich nur Folge 2.

    Und ich teile normalerweise Republik Artikel nicht, ist ein super Magazin und will sie nicht um Einnahmen bringen (zumal man die Artikel ohne Datenklaumauer teilen kann), aber finde den Artikel wichtig genug um eine Ausnahme zu machen.

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