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Never underestimate the power of saving face. The Taiwan invasion had a dry run with how they handled Hong Kong. This is going to happen and my guess is it will be on Trump’s way out. That way it all gets done during the 2028 election season, and all the next President can do is pout.

It’s a win-win for Trump because he keeps China at bay for three years, which is good enough for him.
Governments aren’t without the ability to deny incorporation, and they routinely dissolve or suspend corporations passively by operation of law. For example failure to file an annual information report in my state for a number of consecutive years automatically results in a suspension of your business registration (and lawful authority to transact business).
iCucks in shambles, many such cases
The tests on this website run for very little time indeed. They use input values that e.g. the original BehnchmarksGame suggests for validation before running for a longer time to get actual performance (another case in point - surely you want to run a web server longer than a couple hundred milliseconds). In my experience the data there does not always replicate to what you get in real world scenarios. It’s an unfortunate tradeoff because the benchmark runs when you want to support so many languages will take a very long time, but in my opinion it’s better to have numbers that are useful for making informed decisions over pure quantity.

If you have something specific in mind, it can be more interesting to build and measure the exact scenario you’d like to know about (standard caveats to benchmarking properly apply), which is quite easier if you have, say, just two languages.
> capex!=operating costs

True, but when your only moat is capabilities, and those degrade with time and use, it might as well be.
Employee NICs and employer NICs are effectively the same thing, they just have different names. Your employer has a bucket of money to pay employees with. Some of this money is given to the government and some of this money is given to their employees. Saying the money given to the government is on behalf of the employee or the employer is mostly irrelevant. There are cases where it is relevant if the employee or employer can get tax refunds against the money but mostly it is irrelevant. Who actually pays the burden of tax is a question of tax incidence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence). In theory the burden of income taxes could even be falling on your employer. But it is very likely that most of the burden of income taxes/payroll taxes falls on the employee. But if you are doing cross-country comparisons its much easier to just total up all taxes related to employment in one bucket and compare them under the assumption the incidence burden would be similar across different countries.
The wildest thing about European colonialism is that it was kicked off to get more spices for European food. Then in the worlds most bizarre twist European food gave up all spices a few centuries later and colonies had to invent something else to sell back to the colonial centre.
Coal is dead in the UK, from 30% in 2014 to 0.5% in 2024.

They went a full month with zero coal electricity generation back in 2020 and 2025 will be entirely coal free.

Even natural gas is in decline.
> Let that be a lesson to the US

No worries, they're busy speed-running it to its conclusion..
Yes. The investors here are making a bet that AI goes supermassive and brings in a load of money.

Some people at anthropic almost certainly do think they're going to be successful. I suspect that at least some of them are engaging in salesmanship at a level that makes it fraud.
There is no reason for anyone with a wind park to sell cheap if there are customers willing to pay a high price.

That said with a battery and dynamic prices, there are many days where you can charge a battery when the prices are low and use them battery when the prices are high.
As i recommended to parent, buy a synology. It does everything both of you are talking about. If you're only trying to sync between computers, just use CIFS - \\192.168.0.5\sharename\ - in windows right click "this PC" on the left in an explorer window and "Map Network Drive". For cellphones, there's "DS" apps for all the features that the webUI exposes - File browser, audio player, surveillance (NVR is built in, or was), video system similar to plex/netflix but called DS video. and that's all "out of the box" - there's several dozen "addons" that are click-to-install.

and look, i am sure qnap and Aghyzzicgh from aliexpress might do this too, but i can't speak to them. I bought a synology on recommendation from a friend. My first one got hit by lightning (yes) and i had to buy a new NAS but the drives still work. i've replaced the original drives, but they still work. i installed one in my kid's machine to hold games. My current synology is a 4-bay dualcore with 2GB of ram.

it works perfectly for all this stuff. my phone automatically backs up photos to it when i connect to wifi, for example. If you put your syno on a public IP, you can hotlink to content on it. there may be ACL shenanigans, i have no idea. I don't use it that way.

why don't i use my synology that way?

Because i run a public nextcloud instance to be able to synchronize my photos and documents and hotlink them.

derp https://nextcloud.projectftm.com/index.php/s/synoscreenshot
Of course, as a start-up you base your valuation on potential in the future, which should be well calculated based on how capable your employees are, how innovative your product is and what are the expected earnings.

Do you think Anthropic is still a startup? That's an honest question, Wikipedia certainly seems to think so, (Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence public-benefit startup founded in 2021.). I would typically say that once you have 61B valuation, you have to have a fundamentally sound business, and thus cease to be a startup, but I don't know where the line is drawn.
First "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cells
Bubbles in VR, crypto, ML are all part of the parallel computing bubble (2020)
So easy that Iran is still going strong, working on their nuclear weapons programme, with an outspoken goal of destroying Israel?
It seems that Windows NT naitively supported IBM's PowerPC processors (in addition to IA-32/x86). The "PowerPC Edition" did not sell much, so Micorosft discontinued the support in 1997.

Because Wii and GameCube were PowerPC-based, both can technically run Windows NT. This seems to be the main reason why this project was doable.

I think we are witnessing a historical accident materialized by obscure hardware legacies.
the unsafety is because of the lifetime laundering not because the operation is unsafe. The compiler doesn’t know that the lifetime of the underlying memory because static and decoupled from the lifetime of the consumed Box

And while we’re at it, please explain to me how this hypothetical language that allocates on the heap without mutable state exists without under the hood calling out to the real mutable allocator somewhere.

> If you retain a reference in a global then it is NOT a memory leak!

> Your definition of a memory leak seems to be... any memory usage at all?

It’s just that you’re choosing to define it as not a memory leak. Another definition of memory leak might be “memory that is retained longer than it needs to be to accomplish the intended goal”. That’s because users are indifferent to whether the user code is retaining the reference and forgetting about it or the user code lost the reference and the language did too.

So from that perspective tracing GC systems even regularly leak memory and then go on a hunt trying to reclaim it when they’ve leaked too much.

More importantly as has been pointed out numerous times to you, memory safety is a technical term of art in the field (unlike memory leaks) that specifically is defined as the issues safe Rust prevents and memory leaks very clearly do not fall under that very specific definition.
Looks like you got stuck on that first paragraph. The author doesn’t even make an analogy between small commits and small docs, it’s just used as a hook for the intro.
wow. an insightful yt comment;

> The MOST important thing from this is that people need to really take a step back and think about WHY he did it. Do you not get it? He wants you guys to think that he's one of you. That he's just like you. He wants you to cheer for him. Think that there's someone in power who represents you. But he's not like you. He's nothing like you. Don't let him manipulate you.
I think that combustion engines will make a come back, and we're at a false peak. I believe that due to a poor economic outlook, we see more people purchasing from the used-car market than new vehicles. I personally have seen a recent boom in the UK for road-worthy vehicles under £5k. On the other hand, I have seen used EVs completely unsellable, to the point where forecourts refuse to accept them as part-exchange.

If you see the breakdown graph [1], the likes of Norway is about to peak at 100%. The UK, US and EU are already becoming saturated, and China have saturated their internal markets and now face export tariffs to other significant markets to prevent dumping. The largest driving forces for this trend are essentially saturated.

Just in the EU for example we see that energy prices continue to increase per kWh [2], further reducing the "low cost benefit" of electricity that EVs previously enjoyed. We also see governments beginning to realise that they miss out on vehicle tax for EVs due to incentives, and such benefits begin to be withheld [3].

As the global economy continues to slow, I expect to see EVs and any green agenda items decrease in popularity, and a return to combustion engines and other policies with higher economic growth.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electric-car-sales-share

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[3] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low...
iCloud Photos syncing is crap on iOS too. iOS will randomly stop uploading photos to the cloud "to optimize performance". Every time something's not uploading, I check my iPhone settings only to find that it's "optimizing performance" again. Even if it's on a full battery and I'm barely even using it. There is no way to turn this off - you have to manually catch it every single time it decides to "optimize performance" and tell it to sync for an hour. If you took enough photos for it to take longer than that hour to upload them all, you'll have to do this multiple times as it goes right back to "optimizing performance" after that hour. Again, there is no way to turn this off.
Time wouldn't be on their side though. China would need to effectively complete the invasion before the US navy had time to react. Even if it was considered unlikely the US would react, I doubt China would commit to an invasion they weren't certain they could win.
I see your last paragraph but I am still triggered by attempts to explain "Russian" (they are Putin's) motivations, it gives them a pleasant aura of "this caused that so..." that makes my skin crawl. Also it's tempting to think in terms of resources, numbers, strategy game stuff, but as Russian I am aware of enough wild takes and rhetoric by people in Putin's circles to suspect it's mostly about his legacy, ego and desire to be in history.

NATO expansion was not really a threat to Russia beyond Putin's pretense. Putin pulled forces from Finland border after it joined. I hope the wrong lesson won't be learned.
Constant pricing means they make more when wholesale prices tank and less when whole prices rise. I’ll sell you X% of my output for Y$/kWh is a perfectly valid strategy and batteries can absorb output spikes just as they absorb blackouts.

Hedges like this are a useful risk mitigation strategy as going bankrupt is a much larger downside than making slightly more money.
Nothing achieved for you but for example my mother and some relatives don't have to live under forced occupation. Her city was under siege for a number of weeks during initial invasion and totally cut off from any basic human needs like water, electricity and food supplies were limited. Not to mention constant rocket attacks and some shelling. There are millions of people like my mother who are greatful for what Ukrainian army has achieved and are still fighting for. The containment of further expansion and the fact that there is very little progress Russian army is making is also an achievement. Russian Soviet stock piles are depleted, their economy is on a downward spiral, untill a few weeks ago they were totally isolated from the rest of the civilised world, that's another achievement.Exposing Russia's bluff of their military might is another achievement. The fact that USA can now "focus on China" is thanks to Ukraine. Everyone in the world was united against the aggressor. What is happening right now is that some of those achievements are being undone and may I ask for who's benefit? So that Trump can make a deal that he promised and restore the economic relations with Russia? It might stop the deaths and fighting now but you are simply taking a "peace debt" from Putin.
This reminds me of this book I read a few years back -https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

How much work actually goes into the cheapest toaster the chap works to make every element from scratch into a toaster.
They never invaded HK. HK was returned to China.
I've ridden many thousands of kilometers on all kinds of regular bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters (of the small-wheels kind), electrified kickbikes (of the big-front-wheel kind) and actual scooters (of the vespa kind) and it all feels roughly the same to me. If you're an idiot who couldn't be bothered to learn how to ride $vehicle, you will likely crash $vehicle.

The issue is that e-scooters (of the small-wheels kind) are nowadays the weapon of choice of idiots who don't take riding seriously — because they're the cheapest and most portable solution that doesn't require any energy expenditure (unlike a bike) or special skill (unlike a onewheel or similar).
Renan, this is absolutely captivating!

I randomly downloaded it from F-Droid a few days ago, and I've played it a lot (100% unlocked and 66k high score so far, still looking for even more strategies though).

I wanted to bring to your attention a bug that can abruptly end a run: the Respawn perk may cause the ball(s) to keep floating in the void, with no bricks left to hit (it has happened twice, I suppose it's related to Respawn but can't be 100% sure).

Also, I've read in a few comments about features and stuff: I think they're not really needed and even potentially harmful. I love the game simplicity.

What could be improved, in my opinion, is that:

1. The onboarding feels weird

It took me a while to understand how the game really worked. As an example, the metrics for getting upgrades and choices is not explicitly stated in the app, I had to figure it out myself (although I later found some details on the mechanics after digging your website and other sources like HN). A quick optional tutorial may be helpful.

(Other things that were unclear to me at first were the combo and miss indicators. I've notices that the web version does a much better job at signalling misses, I guess probably F-Droid lags behind as usual.)

2. Players can't choose the initial perk

Random is great, but if I'm going for a specific strat I may have to reset a bunch of times to get something I can work with. Which brings us to...

3. Players can't easily reset the run

If I want to restart, I have to (1) find out what perk I have and (2) literally lose the ball. It would be nice to (1) know in advance the starting perk and (2) have a reset button or option in the menu.

Last but not least, there's the game balancing aspect. I feel that some perks are really detrimental to your score, which makes some strategies are clearly superior and others just not viable unless you're optimizing for some other metrics (i.e. you're speedrunning, so time becomes more valuable than coins).

An idea would be to refine the combo increase/decrease and/or upgrade system and/or the ultimate goal of the game, i.e. making top score categories for "most coins", "less time", "least bricks broken", etc.

All in all, the game is already great as is – so I hope it won't change too much.

Thanks for your efforts!
A good first step would be to stop the daily dose of outragism on what Trump, Musk, et al. did yesterday. Gloomy headlines like "The end of Weather Forecasting" are not helpful. The opposite actually. It re-enforces the notion that democrats don't have a better plan.

Given that Trump is demolishing federal institutions currently, what's the plan for rebuilding those? Raise a lot of taxes and rehire everyone? Might not go down that well with voters. Restore it exactly as it was in all its gridlocked and dysfunctional ways? Same thing. That's not a plan. It's not even the beginning of a plan. I get that people are upset and emotional about this. But, reality check: it's happening. So, what's the plan forward from that? Simple question. I'm not aware of a coherent debate about any of that.

My recommendation would be dealing with the shit that's raining down currently. Accept that federal institutions will have been downsized by the time power reverts to the Democrats. Given that, how do can they make it better? What's their vision for getting things back on the rails? I don't think a reset at the federal level is necessarily that bad even. This seems to be a bit of a taboo topic with democrats. Because it involves admitting that things maybe weren't that perfect. It's easier to whine about how bad things are than it is to suggest concrete alternatives.
> As a European, I am aware of American cultural and military hegemony but I much rather argue with raging capitalists about workers rights compared to raging authoriatarian communists who kill everybody not on their ideological side.

Isn't this their main point? There's plenty of examples of killing those not on their side outside of "authoriatarian communists" (hint, Iraq, Gaza). You still believe in them and that's fine, but there is a lot of Western projection that they are right and others are not, which is the sense I get from your comment. It's reasonable for people to be against this and "anti-Western". It's also ok to see the strong development brought in from the West and support them. But this is a point for the locals to work through and not pushing a narrative like this one seems to be just as much pro-Western propaganda ignoring anything against it as the other way around.
Btw, that is a common misconception that is debunked (a common tool politicians use to fear monger and I hope this helps you not fall for it):
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-irs-armed/fact-che...

Taxes fund civilization and the world we've built. The IRS collects a percentage of our money to build roads and infrastructure, defend our nation's interests, provide income in retirement, provide health care, and so much more good stuff.

Part of that is ensuring that the world is stable so that our nation doesn't have to go to war. We do that with alliances, investment in military force, investment in diplomacy, and investment in building economic opportunity globally so people don't turn to violence.

It doesn't always work; no system is perfect.

But Ukraine is the perfect example of a democratic nation that has been invaded by a dictatorship and needs our support. They have already destroyed most of the Russian army and economy with our support, and we need to finish the job.

If we don't give them the resources to finish the job, it is just a matter of when the next dictator does similar, and we are forced to send our people to fight. Do you want to go fight in Tawain? Do you want to find in Estonia?

History has shown us that isolationism doesn't work, nor does giving into naked aggression from dictators and autocrats.
Yeah, man. I have emigrated from Russia to EU five years ago and it is heartbreaking to see the developed US and some European countries go through the same bullshit we were going since 2011. Like half the country starts living in wild, completely imaginary world, and you can always tell what is the current agenda of the propaganda machine just by talking to some relatives who fell through that rabbit hole
Why not integrate them with the code à la Literate Programming?

http://literateprogramming.com/

The bigger issue is that one really needs multiple types of documentation and they _all_ need to be kept in synch, and that's the real deal-breaker (and working out an easy way to do that would be a game changer). The problem with LP of course is that the typeset source of TeX: The Program is not what most users want, and even a Literate version of Plain TeX (if it existed --- why it does not is a separate discussion) doesn't suit most users who want instead an easy-to-use macro package (hence the popularity of LaTeX) and a template/sample document to start with and _maybe_ a tutorial, and when there is no other recourse, a manual with examples and an index.

https://diataxis.fr/

put forward two axes: Action/Cognition and Aquisition/Application and that this results in 4 different sorts of documentation which are needed:

- Tutorials

- How-to Guides

- Explanation

- Reference

which feels like a bit of confusing overlap to me, and I've been trying to simplify it down to:

- readme file --- what the project does --- mostly marketing fluff with some pretty images

- template file(s) --- a set of examples showing all possible usages of the overall project, _and_ including a valid example of each possible command where it should be possible for a user to select a template matching the specifics of their project and get started

It is expected that most users will only avail themselves of those two pieces of documentation

- manual which includes a command glossary and an index --- again, the command glossary includes a valid example of usage for each command

Which exists mostly for tech support purposes --- when queried on usage the reply is usually, "See sub-section X.Y, paragraph Z on pg. ###"

- typeset source code with comments --- which _should_ only need to be seen by developers working on the code
which are better listened to, in an acoustic transmission car
Anonymous credentials. The state doesn't even need to know when you use your creds because the token can't be linked back to you at all.
This contradicts your assertion: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/plug-hybrids-n...
The incentive is to sell all 100 units for £infinity. The incentive for the seller to sell at a high price isn't relevant. They don't have the ability to act on it. If they did, they wouldn't stop at £10,000. I'd pick numbers like £1,000,000,000,000 at a minimum if I was a seller and could truly set my own price based on my incentives.
> Let's not go there.

I genuinely don't know where's "there".

It is a fact, that NATO Article 5 doesn't guarantee anything regardless of other countries' response to USA triggering it, just as it is a fact, that the Budapest Memorandum was mischaracterized in this thread and that both the Europe and USA did help Ukraine. Should we not go where the facts are?

If you're about that the USA should continue helping Ukraine, then I did not question this point of view at all. Pointing out factual errors is not equal to taking a stance.
China has arguably excellent marine forces by now. Not sure the US would be able to counter that.
Considering they are one of the most democratic countries in the world (as per The Economist Democracy Index), even outranking the United States, I think they are more than capable of determining themselves what their future should be through their right of self-determination.