Professional software and game developer from Finland.

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  • These news are quite eye opening how difficult winter can be in other parts of the globe. Here (Finland) it’s completely normal for temperatures to drop to -20C / -4F during winter and something like -25C / -13F is not out of the ordinary. We’ve had freezing air temperatures for about month now and it’ll likely stay that way until April.

    But something like this or even close to this with little to no infrastructure or clothing to handle it sounds brutal. Many of our buildings have thick walls with insulation, double pane windows and build in heating to handle these temperatures. Underground power lines in urban areas and even cars are required by the law to have studded tires or other forms of winter tires.













  • That’s wildly optimistic. If I recall correctly, early studies are showing the 51% of participants who saw any improvement, reported an average of a 20% improvement.

    Yes the value is wildly optimistic to match the expectations driven by all the hype from these companies pushing their LLM services.

    Even granting that optimism, since 5% of all software projects are on time and within budget, we may look forward to a whopping leap to 7.5 out of every hundred software projects arriving on time and under budget, in a best case scenario.

    The hard truth no one wants to talk about is that the average software development team is awful. The average software development team doesn’t understand how to deliver high quality maintainable solitions on a reasonable timeline.

    You’re oversimplifying things here there are a lot more variables that influence success in software projects. The company you work for might have oversold the project, the client might only have vague understanding of what they really want, project management may fail to keep the costs, developers or timeline in check, client or the company you work for might have high employee turnover causing delays as new employees need proper induction to the project, the initial tech stack may become deprecated or obsolete mid-way the project, etc