> who were also protected by the minister of justice’s approach to justice
I've repeatedly called you a dumbass on this website and it's not about to change with this comment: the minister of justice is not in charge of:
* Police
* Arresting people
* Building prisons
* Fixing the prison overpopulation that makes it impossible to send someone to jail.
* Changing laws.
> before you say it: the Crans Montana owner was French, with the name of Macron’s first minister of justice
Macron's ministers of justice were Bayrou, then Belloubet, before Dupont-Moretti. Who hasn't been minister since 2024. That's without considering the fact that it's the most absolute dog shit "link" you could make. Last names can be shared, woohoo. Zero relationship between Jacques Moretti and Eric Dupont-Moretti.
That’s because you don’t agree with the conclusion that many ethnicities in France aren’t at peace with letting the French live. But let’s analyze your accusations.
A French guy emigrated in Crans-Montana cared so little about Swiss lives that he skimmed some laws and dozens of people died in a horrible, avoidable accident which is typical from people skimming laws.
Dupont Moretti was the first minister of justice of Macron, I stand by my words. You can say a minister is not responsible for anything that happens under him, and yet, when one walks into the ashes of a parliament, people hear about it 80 years later. The “reduce prison population by freeing criminals” policy was real and is real under Macron.
The real thing you skipped is that hundreds of French people are killed every year. It’s not a slaughter, because there’s both intent and selection on ethnicity and religion: It’s an intentional genocide.
You can get a usable smartphone for well under 100 USD on AliExpress or a reasonable secondhand one from a reputable brand for about the same price here in Norway on online trading sites. Don't teenagers get pocket money or do weekend jobs any more? My sons were grown up by the time smartphones were affordable but No. 2 son bought his own Siemens C65 with saved up pocket money when he was in his early teens.
You only need $25-30. It'll be locked to a carrier, but that doesn't matter and is perhaps preferable (no monthly fee for a subsidized device) if you are able to use wifi. There's an ETA prime video which explores using a 2025 Moto 5G as handheld game console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ad5BrcfHkY
tl;dw it's quite capable for the money and would could easily get on social media apps/sites.
This way you can do twice the terrible job twice as fast!
(Also, this only applies if what you're working on happens to be easily parallelizable _and_ you're part of the extremely privileged subset of SV software engineers. Try getting two Android Studios/XCodes/Clang builds in parallel without 128GB of RAM, see what happens).
But yeah improving build speed & parallel running I think are one of the biggest advances devs can do to speed up development time in the AI age. With native apps that can be a challenge. I restructured a react native project to make it faster to iterate, but I have a feeling you might not be fond of rn.
With all due respect, the commment does carry the vibes of "it's okay I can totally multitask" that's nearly a cliche in programming. It just feels a bit insensitive to respond to an article talking about context switching being a big problem with LLMs and then suggest the biggest possible context switch of managing multiple workstations.
And yes, your hardware expenditure will vary per industry. I can barely run one instance of Unreal Engine as is.
Man, life must be easy when you can't read and just get to make things up online. Especially when things such as the URSSAF's simulation tool is like, freely available online: https://mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr/simulateurs/salaire-brut-ne... giving you a copy of a pay slip with detailed amounts of where your money goes.
Someone making 2500€ gross will take home 1885€ per month after taxes and contributions. On which you can add a 20% VAT. Even should you want to operate in incredibly bad faith and add employer contributions, it would only amount to 3175 in total. For fun, I tried to figure out what would be needed for someone to have 82% of their salary going away into taxes. It is physically impossible to go anywhere above 55%, the math just stops scaling. Even taking employer costs into account, the max will be 65%. This all starts happening when you have the lowly gross salary of about 30 000€/month, something that I'm sure you're being paid right now to complain about to much about it.
Hell, even the damn link you're posting shows that you can't read:
> In France, income tax and employer social security contributions combine to account for 82% of the total tax wedge, compared with 77% of the total OECD average tax wedge
What the fuck do you think tax brackets cover, ponies ? And acting offended about it like it's some unacceptable thing when the OECD average is... 5 percentage point lower ?
> 82% of the average gross salary in France is indeed taken by the state,
You literally can't read.
> In other words, in France the take-home pay of an average single worker, after tax and benefits, was 71.9% of their gross wage
> his means that an average married worker with two children in
France had a take-home pay, after tax and family benefits, of 83.1% of their gross wage
Now, there are ways to solve these expenses, they involve cutting all pensions. I'm sure you'll be okay with letting your parents, and mine, die, right ?
> even should you want to operate in incredibly bad faith and add employer contributions,
How is that bad faith? It's basic common sense to count that together. Total cost is what matters to employers. You can't compare different countries either if you don't hacks like this that try to confuse the workers about how much they are paying.
> I don't particularly give a shit about employer's costs either
So you don't care about the size of your salary? Fair enough...
It's all the same to them, whether the social insurance contributions are shown on your payslip or not is just an accounting detail. It's still a tax on labour and no different that the share you are paying.
No, my employer's costs are not part of my salary. The proof of it being that employers have never raised salaries in response to their social contributions going down.
Well, life isn't that easy then, because you failed to comprehend URSSAF's simulation tool.
On a €2500 gross salary you take home €1651 (which is a very low salary in France very close to the minimum salary). But I guess you think the gross salary is what the company, by law, has to say they pay you, instead of what the total cost for the company of your salary.
See, in France, even if you are getting close to the minimum salary, the state is taking 33% of the cake for themselves. This is for people that earn very little. For people that earn average salaries of €2669 liquid (€5000 gross for the company), the French state takes 47% of the cake.
It's a normal mistake for people that don't actually have to support the costs themselves. Once people actually start a small business or pay more attention to their own wages and how much is being taken away, they figure out how it actually works.
>It's a normal mistake for people that don't actually have to support the costs themselves. Once people actually start a small business or pay more attention to their own wages and how much is being taken away, they figure out how it actually works.
No, thank you, I am quite well versed in the concept of superbrut, and actively pay more than a SMIC in taxes every year: you won't play that game with me. Va jouer, comme on dit.
They're employer _contributions_ to the system. They're the price you pay for a healthy, well educated working population.
You don't get to claim it as "it would be your salary", because we both damn well know you'd never pay that back into the salary should it go away. We've had the experience every time, with tax writeoffs on SMICs, VAT lowered to 5.5% which led to zero jobs created and no changes in employment conditions, etc. You might even be old enough to remember the MEDEF's "1 million jobs" pin, where they created... 20k. Cool. The reality of things is, you as an employer cannot be trusted to not fuck over employees, especially the weakest and most vulnerable of us all.
Once again, your own damn links prove that 1/ France isn't that far off the OECD average for taxation and 2/ actually does better in not slapping in a bunch of unrelated crap in taxes.
> Yes, and we assume a spherical cow in a vacuum, I know.
There are countries in Europe that have done exactly that recently.
Besides Denmark which doesn't have employee contributions in the same way and is transparent about the full amount of taxes you are actually paying. Are you claiming that showing that on the payslip is somehow depressing wages in Denmark?
Nice. Look, I had a great idea for 0% worker taxes in France. You just change all the taxes accounting to make the numbers look like you take them from the employee instead of the worker, and puff, magical 0% taxes! It's great, isn't it?
> Now, there are ways to solve these expenses, they involve cutting all pensions. I'm sure you'll be okay with letting your parents, and mine, die, right ?
Man, I don't know you, I value my morning coffee more than your parents getting their retirement at 61 and receiving more - after taxes - than people that actually work to pay for their fantastic retiree life. But, I thought that all the taxes you paid are supposed to provide for your retirement. Are you actually telling me this is all a Ponzi scheme mandated by the State? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
> I value my morning coffee more than your parents getting their retirement at 61 and receiving more - after taxes - than people that actually work to pay for their fantastic retiree life.
Yep, that's probably why my parents are unable to retire before 65, because they'd otherwise be under the poverty line. Both of them retiring with rather high physical damage from their career.
Fucking hell, you keep reading headlines halfway, misunderstand them and then badly apply them broadly to a situation you don't understand
There's hundreds of gameboy emulators available on Github they've been trained on. It's quite literally the simplest piece of emulation you could do. The fact that they couldn't do it before is an indictment of how shit they were, but a gameboy emulator should be a weekend project for anyone even ever so slightly qualified. Your benchmark was awful to begin with.
Your expectations are wild. Most software engineers could not write a game boy emulator - and now you need zero programming skills whatsoever to write one.
Also take something into account: absolutely _none_ of the vibe coding influencer bros make anything more complicated than a single-feature, already implemented 50 times webapp. They've never built anything complicated either, or maintained something for more than a few years with all the warts that it entails. Literally, from his bio on his website:
> For 12 years, I led data and analytics at Indeed - creating company-wide success metrics used in board meetings, scaling SMB products 6x, managing organizations of 70+ people.
He's a manager that made graphs on Power BI.
They're not here because they want to build things, they're here to shit a product out and make money. By the time Claude has stopped being able to pipe together ffmpeg commands or glue together 3 JS libraries, they've gone on to another project and whoever bought it is a sucker.
It's not that much different from the companies of the 2000s promising a 5th generation language with a UI builder that would fix everything.
And then, as a very last warning: the author of this piece sells AI consulting services. It's in his interest to make you believe everything he has to say about AI, because by God is there going to be suckers buying his time at indecently high prices to get shit advice. This sucker is most likely your boss, by the way.
I'd have the decency to know and tell people that it's a steaming pile of shit and that I have no idea how it works though, and would not have the shamelessness to sell a course on how to put out LLM vomit in public though.
Engineering implies respect for your profession. Act like it.
But invoking No True Scotsman would imply that the focus is on gatekeeping the profession of programming. I don’t think the above poster is really concerned with the prestige aspect of whether vibe bros should be considered true programmers. They’re more saying that if you’re a regular programmer worried about becoming obsolete, you shouldn’t be fooled by the bluster. Vibe bros’ output is not serious enough to endanger your job, so don’t fret.
Most people running it are normies that saw it on linkedin and ran the funny "brew install" command they saw linked because "it automates their life" said the AI influencer.
Absolutely nobody in any meaningful amount is running this sandboxed.
It's funny because now you're sounding like you're blaming the school/the city for the situation.
Things are what they are. Driving situations are never perfect and that's why we adapt. The Waymo was speeding in a school zone. Did a dangerously fast overtake of a double parked car. It's engineering safety failure over engineering safety failure from Waymo's part, on nobody else.
Source? The article doesn't list a speed limit, but highways.dot.gov suggests to me that the speed limit would be 25mph in the school zone, in which case the waymo was going significantly under the speed limit.
I've repeatedly called you a dumbass on this website and it's not about to change with this comment: the minister of justice is not in charge of:
* Police
* Arresting people
* Building prisons
* Fixing the prison overpopulation that makes it impossible to send someone to jail.
* Changing laws.
> before you say it: the Crans Montana owner was French, with the name of Macron’s first minister of justice
Macron's ministers of justice were Bayrou, then Belloubet, before Dupont-Moretti. Who hasn't been minister since 2024. That's without considering the fact that it's the most absolute dog shit "link" you could make. Last names can be shared, woohoo. Zero relationship between Jacques Moretti and Eric Dupont-Moretti.
Dumbass.
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