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> Vibe-coders might not visit this forum for example and might not be aware of a security exploit that must be fixed asap.

This is true of "regular" coders too, i've worked with/for extremely experienced programmers who, while knowing the security risks, implemented (or even worse, asked me to implement) flakey authentication systems, exposed databases, etc. I don't think this is an AI issue, it's a "care about your users" issue.

> is only going to increase the demand for professional services

Then shouldn't we be happy that more people are embracing vibe coding?
That there hasn’t been a Scandinavian military alliance is a huge mistake. It would stabilise the entire continent.

Instead there is NATO, totally dominated by the US.
Given a range of options for a similar problem, glider pilots generally opt for tugs, which suggests that complexity is within range of a general-aviation pilot class, let alone a commercially-certified one. But let's take your point as given.

Fighter aircraft are generally built for speed and have (even relative to commercial aviation) often fairly low range. The equivalent to "tugging" would be external jettisonable fuel tanks, and we have seen those in military use since at least WWII. Given the general lack of electric propulsion in military use, that seems reasonable. The other model has been JATO packs applied to both fighter and cargo aircraft (Fat Albert, a C-130 Hercules, is often fitted with these for air-show demos). Not electrical power, but an external boost assist.

For drone craft, there are deployment scenarios in which a large cargo plane drops (electrically-powered) drone swarms. I don't know the extent to which this has been deployed, but again it's similar.

If a military were to adopt tugs, I'd expect them to be applied to drone or cargo missions, either with a drone tug (similar to the cargo-plane model above, but possibly with remotely-piloted / autonomous tugs), or with some capability for lofting a battery pack that could be detached and flown back to the take-off site after contributing to initial take-off and climb. That is complicated, but might fit certain mission profiles, and for a relatively slow long-haul cargo mission might make the cut.

Worth also noting that most EV aviation concepts are for relatively modest cargoes and distances. The more viable range from 2--12 passengers for perhaps 100--200 km at low speeds. I've seen some more ambitious proposals, but they strike me as not especially viable.
> VGA was dying

Funny to read that in 2025 when all new PC GPUs still provide some form of VGA backwards compatibility with no plans to remove it.
Germany helped build up russia with money and technology which gave putin legitimacy
It's a Safari derivative (WebKit). You're still giving market share for an engine owned by a large corporation.
Presumably because they view the US as best for their classes when it was easier to do business and less beholden to international affairs while simultaneously not believing that empowering the government in such a manner will benefit them.

When the party advocating wealth redistribution also calls them “deplorables” and flagrantly provides worse services (eg, NC disaster vs CA disaster) that seems like a reasonable belief.
Yes, here too, add Mosaic and Netscape there. Switched to Waterfox, would pay for a full fork.
If Republicans would be oh-so concerned about the US "going broke" they wouldn't be pushing through trillions in tax cuts.

And much of this meeting with Zelensky had nothing to do with the budget (or at least the bits I've seen). It's just Trump being upset Zelensky isn't bending over backwards to praise Trump and being obsessed with shown to look "better" than other presidents (which is why he goes off on a tangent about Biden and Obama, disconnected from what Zelensky actually said).
I recently made a quest 3 minesweeper game using ChatGPT to code 95% of everything. I felt more like a manager than a coder. A manager with unlimited patience. By the end though, I felt accomplished and understood Unity IDE at a rudimentary level. I learned a lot and had a great time.
How are they going to return that money when they lost ~$19B last year and paid out ~$2B in dividends?
You mean the 60km convoy that stranded without gas because they thought they could refuel in Kyiv?
"Intellectually interesting" of course meaning that we should calmly discuss everybody's interests and motivations, and look for deeper meaning, while Russians have been lobbing missiles at Ukrainian homes for the last 3 years.

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<< Trump is kowtowing to Putin and giving Putin everything he wants.

Alternative interpretation:

Or.. you know, focusing on the interest of US, which does not automatically mean sending unlimited amount of money/gear/intelligence to Ukraine. After all, Ukraine is not part of NATO. There are no obligations to follow here. And Russia as an unfriendly country in future conflicts may complicate things further.

Yes. There is an argument to be made about what happens afterwards in baltics, but those countries are part of NATO, which is a different consideration.
It's far from "very likely", it's split in three groups of equal size and more people will lean left than far right, especially now
I guess this is a bad faith comment. Nothing about what 18F delivered is JavaScript focused.
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In other words, Trump seeks to undermine the world's premier reserve currency for fun and profit.
I think it does, objectively. In a pull request, I’d comment: “You imported pandas with an abbreviation. You economize the variable name `df` instead of dataframe. Those anticipate a reader who already knows when to chose the read_csv method.”
$7B was not enough to be "commercially viable" it seems.
There's another point changing, but that's not specific to Apple, to its investment towards developers, and to its "exigence" of quality; it's related to all US technology.

While it may not have the same perspective and impact for US Americans, for others (europeans, here), it has: the current main issue now with Apple is that it is a US company. As Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, so much others.

As such, given the direction the US government is going, we (Europeans) _have to_ divest, as much as possible [1], from relying on US-based technology, for both pro and personal use.

Because, now, what trust or guarantee do we have our data and processes could not be taken hostage or offline or used against us by an adversary? the choice is obvious. We would never have invested our tech reliance on Russian tech, for instance.

I hear the comments "that's ludicrous, those are serious US business companies, won't happen, what are you going to do". But how are these serious US business companies free from any political interference from that kind of government?

[1] That hurts, already, and that will hurt. It means invest a lot into our own tech that is objectively not on par at all, but we realistically have no choice.
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I don’t think that’s true:

Per: https://thecpra.org/#1798.145(a)(6)

> Exemptions:
> (6) Collect, use, retain, sell, share, or disclose consumers’ personal information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.

I understand that people who have a vested interest in eroding any possibility of online privacy and data protection would want us to believe these laws are vague and overreaching - but that doesn’t mean they actually are vague and overreaching.
> this is 100% in big cities

Comparing Brazil with Mexico with Madrid with Tokyo and coming to the conclusion that "is all the same" seems farfetched.

Policies that see "the poor" as the problem instead "poverty" create violent dystopian cities. Good policy works and make big cities great places to live. Reducing inequality, giving good safety nets to citizens, treating drug addiction as a disease, etc. make a difference. Not 100% of big cities are the same.
That works in the short term, but the broader game is still zero sum.

There's only so many resources to go around, and at least with how we treat economics the only things of value are scarce.

Innovations and cooperation can give periods of optimization so it feel like the zero sum is no longer zero sum. At the end of the day it is though, and there's probably a decent case to be made that what we're seeing happen today is due in part to us having optimized as far as we can for this round.
Better wait while seating.

Firefox is at the edge of irrelevance and Safari barely supports WebGL 2.0.
A German Hypersonic Space Plane able to carry French Nuclear Weapons is an interesting proposition....
It used to be that you could have separate login and encryption passwords. It used to be that you could self-host it as easily as pointing to a separate WebDAV server (trivial to spin up if you have _any_ web server at all).

Not anymore.
No, they’re coupled issues — eg, open markets forces domestic labor to compete unfairly.

The manner in which those people accrued wealth is deeply related to the issue, by subverting the working and middle classes domestically.

I understand that many of the petite bourgeoisie believe that destruction of those classes via internationalism is a means to usher in communist policy — but that’s opposed wholesale by the American working and middle classes.
> And it's a new single point of control and failure!

That’s why there is a mandatory minimum of several unaffiliated logs that each certificate has to be submitted to.

If all of these were to catastrophically fail, it would still always be possible for browsers or central monitors to fall back to trusting certificates logged by exactly these without inclusion verification.
I do get the warning using the same Firefox version on Windows.

Note that the link in the article is mangled. The link text is <https://no-sct.badssl.com/>, but the actual href points to <https://certificate.transparency.dev/useragents/>. Your comment has the correct link which gives the warning.
Give suno a try: https://suno.com/home
One lede that gets buried when talking about 18F : they operate in a “cost recovery” model. Their funding comes from agencies that pay them for help.

There is no money saved eliminating 18F.
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What happens if the EU-USA relationship deteriorates to the point that EU doesn't sell lithography machines and other equipment to the US, doesn't accept imports made with chips from USA and requires these things be made in China, Korea or Japan?

The reason I'm curious about this is that in my understanding for a fab to become financially viable it needs to produce grotesque amount of chips.

Can America have state of the art fabs for a market of 340M people if the world becomes partitioned in the upcoming years? In Europe that was the main problem, people like to say that Europe lost on tech because of regulations but Europe lost on tech before EU become a thing, they simply didn't have a large enough local market for electronic components. Europeans got out of this market because it wasn't profitable, not because they couldn't figure out transistors etc.
The status quo in western countries of giving absolute primacy to the needs/demands of capital above all else has indeed failed. The share of national income going to the middle and working classses makes this obvious. Yet, this is not being resolved.
Instead, the very same groups that have benefitted from the status quo have managed to acquire power on the back of a disaffected populous, and they hold a fundamental belief that multi-lateral institutions/geopolitics do not act in the US's (or their) economic interest.
By denying access to basic services like education and health care, brutalizing the poor and enforcing laws selectively (black kid with few grams of weed = dealer; white kid with 50g and a digital scale = user), the government makes sure that the only options available to poor black people are misery or crime. Prisons are overcrowded and become effective schools of crime. Once you're through the system, you have very little option besides continuing to practice crime to feed yourself.

An extremely regressive tax system and overly complicated bureaucracy, designed to extract bribes, all but guarantee that only the well connected can invest and thrive, and makes sure that there is very little social mobility. Free education is available at all levels, but public basic schools are atrocious and public colleges have competitive admission, meaning that those with access to private education growing up get a subsidized degree from the government.

Building codes are rarely enforced so slum dwellers need not be paid more than enough to eat.

It is all very well thought out. Brazil is not underdeveloped. Brazil is a slave society with extra steps.
I think there are probably limits to that though.. when you control all branches of government and are making big splashy displays of firing tens of thousands of people and erecting big trade barriers - there really isn’t anyone else to (convincingly) blame.
Why is this downvoted?

Why does this bookmark syncing server need to be anything other than a dumb file storage? It used to be a simple WebDAV server -- Mozilla unilaterally changed it to this monstrosity of a service with little real gain for the user to be seen.
A button with a dice icon.
Ya when I clicked I was hoping it would be under £400
"There should be a simple option to choose between a browser"

Less money, not going to happen.
Time for the Northern Europe Alternative Treaty Organization.
This comes across as highly dismissive. The man can speak three languages very competently. That's two more than Vance and three more than Trump. Obviously language matters, but for Ukrainians democracy and sovereignty matter more.
He says that, but what do you call being aggressive and hostile to allies -- i.e. threatening military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland -- while aligning with Russia and China, who play the long game and will pretend to be friendly until the moment they see an opening and take it?
How is it short-term?

Division of labor does not go away. If anything, specialization and division of labor increase as the world economy becomes more and more complex and developed.
I'm tired of Microsoft existing.

Working on enterprise or higher level Microsoft is a way to get Grey hair fast. All the way back to Server 2003, we had the infuriating inconsistency of group policy, roaming profiles, DFS drives. Everything is full of errors, you will have a larger IT team as a result to deal with the headaches.

After using Google Workspace for IT, and AWS for infra, I always tell people to stay far away from Microsoft.

Even now, I have a friend who can't honestly deploy intune, because of inconsistencies of the "type" of enrollment, and it being able to execute a winget script as a result. Despite both machines enrolled in intune, the one that was enrolled during OOBE can run the scripts, but the machine enrolled in the OS cannot. Microsoft support has had that ticket for weeks.
They get to borrow it. Or they're insolvent, which seems plausible. Making heavy losses will do that eventually.
You're completely overstating this.

So far in 3 years of war the US has, for something like <10% of their military budget, destroyed a huge chunk of Russian military capabilities, without having to set a single US boot on the ground or losing a single US citizen. On purely selfish terms, that's an undeniably great investment.

But it's not only that. The US has an immense amount of soft power that it squanders if it completely mistreats, and even blackmails, its own allies — which it is doing right now — to appease hostile powers like Russia.

So with that being said:

It's ridiculous to jump to "we're gonna have to deploy x y and z batallions" when the US administration is not even doing the BARE MINIMUM, many tiers below that: they are publicly praising Putin and berating Zelensky. So it's pointless to talk as if this was about direct military intervention when in fact even soft diplomacy is going to the way of appeasement.
If I steal half your house, kill one of your children, and then ask for a cease fire, while I still get your kitchen and living room - what are your thoughts?

Would you be mad if you gave up your guns and your neighbor promised to protect you and then he said, unless you give me your back yard, I'm not helping, I know we had an agreement, but oh well, good luck on your own?

Why would you want to enter another agreement with this neighbor when he's already opportunistically screwing you over on existing agreement?
When the completely descriptive term "illegal immigrant" becomes somehow an immoral thing to call people who immigrate illegally, it was a bit absurd

I think you're missing GP's point. It's "illegals" that's arguably dehumanizing. Similar to "blacks" or "the blacks" versus "black people".

I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with GP, but I've definitely picked up on racism from people who talk about "blacks" instead of black people, and the homophobia from people who talk about "the gays" instead of gay people.
I'd like to see what a typical widebody's fuel drain over time is, but suspect a large share is the takeoff-and-climb portion of flight.

A winged battery which could drop away at ~FL20--30 or so and return to either the origin field or some secondary collection point might be all you need, rather than tossing batteries out the cargo bay throughout the flight.

I also suspect that most EV aviation will be shorter haul such that a large set of drops wouldn't be necessary.
> if you asked a typical DNS server e.g. at an ISP or built into a cheap home router - any type of question except "A? some.web.site.example" you get either no answer or a confused error.

Really? Because that would mean that anything using SRV records wouldn’t work on home routers, yet it’s an integral part of many protocols at this point.

There’s some room between “my DNS resolver doesn’t do DNSSEC” and “I can only resolve A records”.
This is exactly what skilled human reverse engineers do. Almost no code is truly novel, at best it's a novel recombination of existing ideas. So yes, some information is lost, but all information relevant to the execution of the program can certainly be recovered.
Quora was great for awhile and then it sucked. I used to post there a lot they put me in the top writer program at one point and I went to a party once.

I can pinpoint the exact moment the site started to suck. It was when they started combining questions.

Instantly and immediately they took hundreds of thousands of thoughtful answers written by real people and made them incomprehensible, because the exact wording of questions really matters. Often the answers were quite clever, or touched on a specific word used by the asker, or something. Then they'd end up moved and under some generic question on the same topic.

There were a million examples, one dumb one that comes to mind is a question that was something like "If a man is willing to sleep with me, does that mean that he thinks I am attractive" and the top answer was the two word answer "attractive enough". Kind of silly obviously but funny, and accurate, and amusing content.

Then they merged questions so it ended up something like "How can I know if a man I am dating casually likes me" or something, and now the top answer of "attractive enough" makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Many such cases. Almost immediately the entire site felt like weird AI output before AI output was really a thing. That happened around ten years ago, and the site never recovered.
I'm not saying that passing tests proves the code is correct, I'm saying that if you find a problem with the code that your tests don't pick up, then you should add a test for it.
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I see a good excuse right there: the few thousand bucks.

I'd rather one the most reliable and cheap hardware security model we know of: paper.

Print a bunch of QR/datamatrix codes with your key. Keep one in a fireproof safe in your house, and another one elsewhere.

Total cost: ~$0.1 (+ the multipurpose safe, if needed)
We do? I thought we were clueless how long things will take.
It seems the S-300 missile hitting a grain silo in Poland was an accident, and the Banderea stuff was a while ago.
> How about we don't tell other people how to code? It's one thing to make suggestions, it's another to make demands. I've been doing this for a long time and I can code laps around most people. I also like well-commented code that allows me to quickly skim code and check it for correctness.

I'm sorry, that was not intended to be received as a demand, I edited my comment to hopefully clarify.

> You can have your preferences all you want and that's great, but when you start passing irrational judgement about the value of someone's code just because it's liberally commented, your perspective becomes less respectable.

I didn't say anything about the value of your or anyone's code other than that obvious comments don't add any to me. (I do tend to find it funny when a comment manages to obviously contradict the code that it's about, but here that's not the case.) My point was more that comments are more useful to me when they're non-obvious. See, again, the data structure example.
> Something that isn't seemingly being commented widely on either is that Vance started hitting Zelenskyy with bursts of multiple questions and as soon as he started answering the first there were immediate challenges and redirections.

It's a (shitty) debate tactic called "gish galloping." It's not exclusively used by people on the right, but there are some very popular online personalities on the right who use it. Ben Shapiro is easily the most infamous for using it, but Jordan Peterson and Trump himself use it too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
The French have submarine-launched ICBMs. They don't need this.
AMD also has a long history of using half-width, double-pumped SIMD implementations. It worked each time. With Zen 4 the surprise wasn't that it worked at all, but how well it worked and how little the core grew in any relevant metric to support it: size, static and dynamic power.

It makes me wonder why Intel didn't pair two efficiency cores with half width SIMD data paths per core sharing a single full width permute unit between them.
I do not think you watched the videos, because this is directly addressed. Julian says Newtonian physics is fine but it has a limit. Nothing "behaves differently" in this timeless model, because nothing changes but our perception.

What would change though is the math.

Getting rid of time" in quantum equations would fundamentally change the way quantum mechanics is formulated, potentially requiring a complete rethinking of the theory, as it would involve removing the time variable from the Schrödinger equation.

See: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-some-physicis...
What’s still totally unclear to me is how much money Intel has actually received. If they got all of the 7.9 B, then I would assume it doesn’t matter to them if the act is cancelled? But it’s not clear to me how much has actually been paid out so far.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/25/intel-close-to-8-billion-chi...