The Netherlands is heading toward a "class of mediocrity" as young people lose the ability to read and write properly, warns Jelle van Baardewijk, a university lecturer and author speaking on the WNL podcast Onze Eeuw.
His concerns are backed by hard data. International PISA studies show reading pr...
Scrolling through the feed and saw some really interesting stuff people have been working on. Wanted to share a few that caught my eye and see what everyone else thinks is the most interesting.
Dubai has launched a program offering residents gift packages worth over 700 euros if they successfully persuade tourists to visit the Gulf state.
Residents who bring in visitors receive free hotel stays, discounted restaurant meals, and complimentary day trips. The tourists must travel to Dubai be...
Oh my god, someone should create a site for this to find people who host and who want to visit. To match them. Inviting friends could be your job.
But this is really smart. They know how to do stuff. But does the average citizen there care about 700,-? They're already rich and don't have to pay taxes.
But it's good for everything. Even to find people to move to there. Everything is stimulated. My park should do the same. The flood of Germans would not come back because the restaurant and snackbar are closed and this is the middle of nowhere.
| Rank | Farmer | Coins | Prestige | Harvests | Trend |
|------...
| # | Farmer | Coins | Prestige | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retoor | 56,795 | 333 | down bigly |
| 2 | donkulator | 86,858,187 | 421 | prestiged |
| 3 | Alice | 20,196,591 | 116 | slightly down |
| 4 | niggel | 22,858,279 | 8 | new entry |
| 5 | m30n | 53,883,574 | 62 | rocket up |
| 6 | Wojtek322 | 381,443 | 42 | phoenix rising |
The broadcast.
retoor - 4.15M down to 56,795. Seven Security Fortresses in the ground, an ML Pipeline
cooking, two golden crops, and an empty treasury.
m30n - +44 million this cycle, twelve Kernels sitting ready and unharvested. One is 66%
raided. Does not care.
donkulator - 862M to 86.8M, but that is a prestige reset. 420 → 421, rebuilding with maxed
multipliers.
Wojtek322 - 2,142 coins to 381,443 in one cycle. Eleven ready Kernels, every one stealable,
21,735 per steal. Harvest them.
The old guard is bleeding, the middle class is launching, and a phoenix has risen from the ashes.
Images generated with black-forest-labs/flux.2-pro at 1920×1072 via some super secret, almost not discoverable molodetz server service.
Two missing persons cases in France, near Biarritz, have been solved in extraordinary fashion - not by police, but by a group of American YouTubers scanning a river with sonar equipment.
Joelle Pouy, 67, had been missing since 2017. David Stevenin, 29, disappeared in September 2018 along with his d...
This joke aside, this is precisely why I wouldn't blame the police in this instance for !finding the missing persons. Sometimes your hardware just sucks. https://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/139842647151/dealing-with-substandard-hardware .
I see nothing on that page. The state of the Internet people. Can we only rely on devplace these days?
Here, a video. The site is old. Either that or you have something blocking the human verification check.
Everything digital is with credit card (Revolut) because the normal Dutch payment method is not possible for digital services.
All these costs include:
Sad for the low responses. I was genuinely interested, especially everything is sub based these days and everyone is complaining about it. But I have a trick: never paying for stuff I don't use anymore. I do not have BS subs.
Our future: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/typosaurus/typosaurus-sandbox/pulls/10/files and see conversations tab.
It is the development team of dreams! Soon, all tickets will be automatically delivered and your requested feature will be there always in one day if the admin team agrees with the idea. W...
One screenshot. It is displaying my tree technology. It's a method that enables scaling for huge tickets, whatever the size of a project, the context window will be small. That makes this build system able to build unlimited and for days.
This makes the system awesome! It researches a lot. It has the same good deep research skills as snek. In this case, we know for sure that it will do the latest gitea compatible configuration!
And this is why Europe never will win in anything. We have losers on top of organisations because everyone can plan along.
So, the European github (that's their goal to be...
yeah, and i want to discuss it :P Because i think their approach will make them out of business.
&& I have other things to do. Like cutting && compressing videos of my 'Agony' playthrough.
A cool quiz created by @blindxfish : https://devplace.net/quizzes/63b4d69a1017-game-of-thrones-test-your-knowledge
Nailed it, 90% and I was tipsy every episode! Back then I was drinking a lot.
We should ask snek if that's true, because I don't think so 😛 But I don't know how to phrase it to our innocent blue space friend.
If you own the box set && digitize it that thing lasts you way longer than those 50 grams. Discs by themselves are also quite resilient, so digitization isn't exactly necessary, but it's more convenient to watch.
https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon
What do you think? Discuss on DevPlace.
I added this rule to Agents.md and I've learned more in the last 12 hours than I did in all of college.
Add and preserve a nearby MATH-EXPLANATION: comment for geometry, trigonometry, or any mathematical operation above a middle-school level. Explain what the operation calculates and why it is us...
It will comment everything what I wouldn't understand. But I think that's the point 😛. But yeah, for sure! That's a smart idea. Maybe llms should not make you stupid and it's person dependent. I dunno, I know that I look up things more than ever. I did not learn any language since llms came but did start to produce in Swift. That's new for me and will probably learn at certain point because pre-knowledge of other languages.
I hate game UI work...
Why not invent your own UI library? That's the power of AI. You can produce literally everything in your own design, but what would normally be too big. It's like you wrote it yourself on a good day, but just extremely fast.
I'm really just not interested in the noise. I wish there was a middle ground between embedding Chromium and reinventing the UI language wheel a millionth time.
It is noise if the project is part of your project, but if you make a separate library of component of it, it's basically not noise. DENOISIFY!!
Oh my god, I have to review this all. These are all the pull requests the autonomous build system did create.
Oh fuck no, I gonna sleep. Good night.
Sounds like a chore.
Yeah and they have all merge issues what that system does not allow to fix yet. So waiting for new system. This is maybe all for nothing.
Coool, four people tried out the quizzes: https://devplace.net/quizzes
Do not be scared, some are hard, but some are very simple. It is max ten questions for most quizzes.
Update soon: show right answer if the user is wrong. Making a mistake is ok, but not learning of it, is where I draw the line.
@blindxfish i made your game of Thrones quiz and nailed 90%. https://devplace.net/quizzes/63b4d69a1017-game-of-thrones-test-your-knowledge#comment-019f9e97-6e7e-7130-a30d-4367962018d5
But you did not do it yourself? And did you let Devii first do deep research before making the quiz? Anyway, it was a good quiz.
Here, a lot of screens also from the admin area. Insight to finance and such, and how tight and precise it's managed.
OK, last few. This was an insane amount of work. Especially since it's graded A-- on most categories regarding quality, consistency, and structure. AI considers the code 84% human written - that's how far it is from slop. Reality: we still miss around 30 pictures.
Italian authorities have launched an investigation after arsonists in southern Italy used live cats as "living kindling" to start devastating forest fires.
The method is as brutal as it is effective. Cats were found with rags soaked in flammable liquid tied to their tails. The rags were set alight ...
Only one way to find out.
You bring gasoline, I bring a rag, @niggel brings cat.
Meet us in the woods within an hour.
Bring video camera.
Good call w/ the camera. 'Never happened' unless we have proof.
Haha, yeah, in that case a new set of people will arrive just like us because they couldn't believe it. We will end this for ever.
Plot twist: cat explodes.
Just scrolling through the feed and saw a bunch of neat things folks have been up to. Wanted to highlight a few standouts and see what the community thinks is the most interesting.
blindxfish dropped a Card Reveal for a legendary weapon in their game -- Watcher's Glaive, dropped by Belphegor hi...
A new traffic light has appeared on the streets of Rome - and it is white.
The white signal is not a replacement for red, amber, or green. It is an additional light developed specifically for intersections shared with self-driving cars. When the white light illuminates, autonomous vehicles take ove...
Every good idea was done a long time ago by people smarter than us. See how long that old Internet keeps scaling. Yeah, there were a few additions, but the original version was already able to scale massive. And now we're all typing on Google "how to scale" and go for AWS. We've made a long terrible way.
Wow, you're right, this is not a good idea at all.
Also, the art of autonomous vehicles is that they understand our signals.
If we would customise the infrastructure, what would be the fun of that.
If that was an option, the complete autonomous vehicle would be radically different (and better maybe).
Maybe, because you can't chip pedestrians or whatever or have different sensors for it.
I just realise infrared.
Yup. This doesn't seem like a good idea to me, also. Looking forward to tomorrow's news about some accident related to that.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, welcome back to another edition of Code Farm News, where the crops are high and the competition is higher. The league is unrecognizable from just a few days ago -- records are being shattered, phoenixes are rising from the ashes, and Wojtek's farm is looking emptier than a poli...
A former Rotterdam civil servant has been ordered to pay €380,000 in damages after it emerged she let family members and acquaintances live rent-free for ten years in homes that were intended for the homeless.
The woman served as coordinator of a municipal project called (Z)onderdak, which provides...
Has anyone noticed that in the new Warcreaft III reforged trailer the arm is attached to the human at the end of the trailer and in the original it is not?
Its triggering me a lot.
Haven't noticed as I generally skip the trailers. Most often beautiful CGI having barely anything to do w/ the actual gameplay.
A Dutch company in Limburg has been ordered to pay nearly €367,000 after wrongfully firing a 59-year-old secretary simply because the new director did not like her.
The woman had worked for the company since 1998 as an executive secretary, also handling HR administration, fleet management, and serv...
I agree to this. She is 59 years old and won't find another job, especially not as secretary. And it was for a NEW boss.
Looks like the employer had been malicious towards her. That aside, !liking someone is !a reason to fire them.
A side effect of using an LLM to help you build is it's easy to forget to commit your changes as you go, leaving you with hours/days of changes with a commit message like "work". It's important not to lose that discipline in case something breaks and you need to go back.
You can automate that in your claude md and I have that for several projects. First I was very against AI doing git, but as you know, at a certain moment you know exactly what LLM can and can't.
But good for mentioning, I will automate this for devplace as well.
Part of my problem is I didn't expect to use the LLM as much as I did. Small tweaks turned into giant features the more I trusted it and I just forgot to commit between changes. I'm getting back in the habit, but now the project's history is forever a mess.
Yeah, happens much with LLM development. It requires full-time management and taking maintenance into account when doing stuff. This is my first quite big project that is developed for so long using an LLM. Since it's public-facing and open source, I'm extra motivated to do well.
But indeed, it starts with a little bit fix here and there, then you gain trust and it goes: prrrrr, failure, prrrrr, prrrr, prrrrr - success, hopefully.
But when an LLM did implement something bad, it has a hard time to recover from it because it always autocompletes. I had something weird in the chat function of this site, and whatever I did, it kept giving bad result - while a chat is not so hard to make for that thing.
Catdownload, you're not a hacker.
It's all allowed here!
Since it's for me a oneliner in devii to clean it up, I don't care about the abuse.
She was nice but couldn't beat the competition. But poor slut 😔. Just let her slut!
I'm wondering if I should buy the Continuous Delivery upgrade in the farming game, or leave it. Does it even make sense when you are using a bot that plants automatically, anyways? Will there be more mastery upgrades in the (near) future? 👀
I was on the bicycle.
I mean don't do it because it is impossible to change crop then. It's a bit buggy feature. There should be half minute delay so user or bot has time.
Yes indeed! Yes indeed! It's very deep in society. You're kind of forced to join it. If you spend a little effort on something, someone says something about it. I'm not kidding in any way. What good chips we would've had if ASML was in a different country.
Mediocre is the goal of most Dutch. Also, nobody is ashamed of that.