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Yes, Rust copied all those good ideas from Go, so this is an odd argument to use.

I don't know why we're talking about Rust in the first place, but an obvious advantage would be compilation time and iteration speed in general.
> shitshow

Compared to what large bureaucracy? US federal government? China? India? UN? I'd say EU is about as sane as these things go. Large bureaucracies tend to be a little crazy.

And as for the merits of it: NATO is fraying at the edges, and EU is the only credible alternative. It is hard to imagine basically all EU members reassembling a military union outside of the EU. Which would put Norway and the UK in a tight spot.

As to the costs, it's the usual tradeoffs. EU has single set of rules, which in practice Norway has to accept without a seat at the table - they literally say that in TFA. That's already some sovereignty outsourced. They are considering swapping it for a vote.

Also the single diplomacy aspect is massive when dealing with Trump. EU can apply counter-tarriffs much more easily than a non-EU country.
A big win, but not so stable - IIRC within a few years of this referendum the polls had swung back to about 2/3 against membership of the EC, where it remained for a long time.
No, we won't. Iceland might though
>But that said, I don’t believe this author is complaining that students generally don’t attend lecture. They’re complaining that absenteeism has increased, implying that it has increased substantially recently. And that this sudden increase in the delta is a cause for concern.

From experience on the professor's side, the problem isn't the brilliant students who show up to one class and ace the exam like everyone in here seems to have been. The problem is the students who miss most lectures and get 50% or lower because they (and, increasingly, most students these days) don't actually understand how to study from a textbook.
I see state funded education as making the problem worse. The market just reacts to what is available, and funding everyone to go to college, whether or not its useful or resourceful to do so means companies have a large enough pool of applicants to make it a requirement.

I could see even, that employers themselves would take up the cost to train if they lacked qualified applicants. Imagine for example there wasn't a billion CS students. All the company still need programmers, so what are they going to do?

IMO, instead of funding universities, simply give people a stipend to be used for some sort of educational purpose.
Is "bodhi" the Buddhist term for enlightenment? (Or the tree that frequently appears at Theravada Buddhist temples?)
With US becoming actively hostile to Europe and Russia too close for comfort, it makes sense to group, especially as talk of European army building starts. But unfortunately, like you mentioned, the current structure is governed by impotent bureaucrats (vs actual leaders) and the small interests diverge all over Europe.
I have confidence in American democracy and the American people. If Trump can win two elections, he will win a third; however, Trump's third term might be held by a Trump whose name is not Trump.
Blocking the scripts in question works better for that without the need to make an account. But neither solves the problem of others sharing links to image views that won't work without scripts enabled.
Pardoned?

Do you think I support that?
The same goes for extending infinite amount of benefit of doubt toward people who has shown who they are again and again and again. And this was going on for years here and very much empowered bad far right actors and their enablers.

There is no issue of people projecting bad intention into conservatives or Trump. There is opposite issue - people excusing them forever with increasingly implausible explanations.
The optimiser doesn't know how long optimisation will take or how much time it will save before starting the work, therefore it has to hold off on optimising not frequently called functions.

There are also often multiple concrete types that can be passed in, optimising for one will not help if it is also getting called with other concrete types.
Something that's positive-sum, not zero-sum.
This touches on the actual reason, IMHO. A significant number of HN users is obviously leaning towards supporting the cult, and of course do the part which cult members are supposed to do - scour the internet for inconvenient speech and then downvote, barricade, and whine.
I find it curious that Israel managed to convince US that they can run their own firmware, (most probably) bypassing all this. I mean do get that region politics, oil and Iran and all, plus who sits in US power places but still.

Or why Europeans didn't insist to get same version (probably no leverage). Well any next armament purchase by Europe thats smarter than a lead bullet should have full code delivery with all build processes. Still not 100% perfect scenario but least minimum acceptable.
I think an EU membership will only happen in Norway when the old generations die out, the yes/no divide is a big generational thing. Even though the latest poll only shows a six percent difference between yes/no, it's only as high as it is now because of the current political situation with trade wars and actual wars. Any vote now for a membership will only happen when a party knows the yes side will win, doing otherwise will postpone the vote another thirty years again. Personally I think we should join the EU, we're already heavily tangled with EU laws and regulations, but I understand the concerns for our agriculture and fishing industries.
Do you live in a EU country? EU rules are generally good things: rule of law, sane deficit and debt rules etc. And in practice states have a lot of sway.

I would say in all areas of governance, post-Brexit the quality of government has decreased, despite throwing off the yoke of EU. And UK has one of the more professional civil service bodies out there.
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I think that's the biggest disruption of all, and goes well under the radar. Universities were originally guilds of students who hired masters of fields to profess their knowledge.

Now anyone with a computer connected to the internet can have access to the best lectures in the world. People talk a lot about employment, diploma mill mentality, student and professor ethics in this thread.

But I think the silent revolution, one that has nothing to do with AI, is that nowadays anyone can learn and acquire basically any knowledge based skills they might want. I have always lived by the maxim "don't let school get in the way of your education". And I also think that education is a life long journey. Fretting about the state of complex systems is an exercise in futility. Educating oneself has never been easier and I love it!
I'm confused. At the universities I attended, or later worked at, lectures were absolutely, definitely, optional. That's how it should be. Universities provide a framework for students to learn. The university then tests what the student has learned in order to give them a diploma. How the student learned that is surely not important.

(Things are of course different when there are practical considerations to the teaching, such as labwork, which of comes with a degree of associated testing anyway.)
How did it contribute to bringing trump to power?
> There is a generation of completely unemployable "graduates" in the pipeline.

A friend who's a high-school teacher says all the students want to be software engineers, so there's also a glut of them coming...
It also means instead of listening youre busy writing down stuff in time before the next slide
> the genocide contributed to bringing Trump to power

Only because folks who refused to vote for Kamala said they could not stand her support of Israel policies :-) Like poor voters in the Midwest, you can always count on a certain electorate, to vote against their own interests and what they care about...
How could 27 independent member states - instead of one federated state, which, by definition, a "bureucratic monstrosity" - compete on the world stage?
WDS has been deprecated - you now need to use Configuration Manager. Which means giving them more money. Because of course it does.
> Then at the end he asks what he's supposed to do... maintain standards by failing the students? Heaven forbid! The University might make less money!

He did say it, but you have to keep reading after that. Fail too many students and you will get called in by the dean for a "discussion" where they basically tell you to stop doing that. For the non-tenured faculty this is not something they can reasonably fight. Maybe tenured faculty could, and they might not get outright fired, but their teaching load could be reduced or students will simply not sign up for their classes once they have a reputation for being a hardass.

Aside from that, nearly every student manages to have some "disability" that requires an accommodation. I had one professor friend tell me a student required an accommodation that they not receive any negative feedback. They literally weren't allowed to tell the student when they were wrong.
EU parliament is mostly empty during sessions and laws are written by lobbyists. Nothing stops Norway and UK from lobbying. Buying eastern European deputy for them is pennies. Only poor states benefit from full membership.
So a country with 3% of the population of the US can throw the US into lawlessness or transform the US into a dictatorship? Pretty weak structure if that actually works.
> frightened into rationality

An oxymoron if I ever heard one. To become rational means letting go of fears (to a large extent). I fear that one reason we fail to act is that we are guided by fear. Fear makes us focus on the wrong things. And I fear that in a civilized society fear becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Fear makes us obsess about the problem and how to avoid it in the very narrow and short term. It doesn't make us very good at long term planning and execution. It's an instinct that is evolved for animals that want to avoid predators, not for civilization builders.

Building a civilization requires vision, big plans and the feeling that we can afford bold ideas. We need to take risks. But how can we take more risks when we're constantly afraid of the future? How can we build a better future when all we do all day is imagining the worst possible future? If our minds are constantly occupied by dystopia we can't plan for anything else. So that's what we build.
There’s also a remarkable cognitive dissonance thinking that the EU would “accept” being dumped (very publicly and dramatically, with many instances of name calling), followed by having their old partner crawling back asking for an open relationship, because “but Norway+”.

Norway wasn’t a founding member. Norway never fully joined and then partially pulled out.

I really hope the UK rejoins eventually, but I will never support them having the prime position they used to enjoy.
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>When they lose (and especially when they lose to foreigners) they get extremely resentful and behave as if something has been taken from them.

I you even know how often I've heard students complain about "having my A taken away from me". It's insane, but it's also what to expect from a society just like you described who has been told that the point of school is to get good grades.

Now, a lot of students here are discovering that minmaxing to get a high GPA in a degree like compsci lands them firmly in jobless land if they failed to use those 4 years in an environment of learning to actually learn things. Doesn't even have to be from courses, things like student groups and competitions, research opportunities, etc.

Employers don't really want people whose sole interest is to do nothing and be rewarded for it.
Probably burnishing their resumes to join DOGE next :D
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> NATO is fraying at the edges, and EU is the only credible alternative

The EU isn't a military unit though, is it? It's a regulatory one.
For the top 1% and 0.01% the effective tax has been halved from ~50% to ~25%, which is perhaps not very surprising.
That surprises me. The major DEs (KDE and Gnome) have felt reasonably polished to me for quite a few years now, they haven't felt buggy to me for even longer, and they always felt like they catered to power users unlike Windows and Mac that actively get in your way when trying to customize things.

Several times they've been ahead of the curve and I've been surprised to learn that Windows or Mac were only just getting a feature that I'd had access to for years or more.

Of course at present I only use i3-alikes. I'd characterize those as a return to the sanity of the past.
Chihiro and Triforce might have had significant games, but arcade hardware based on home consoles runs much older: Master System, Playstation, Genesis, Neo-Geo, Playstation 2, NES, Dreamcast, Playstation 3, Saturn, have one (or more!) arcade counterparts.
I voted against joining.

Norway has those benefits because it's one of the three net contributors. Norway, the Netherlands and Germany pay more to the EU than the EU pays to them. The treaties that were signed wouldn't have been signed without money changing hands. The argument now is that while Norway does have influence by virtue of paying, Norway's reach into the institutions isn't as deep as it should have been.

Basically: When von der Leyen presents a policy, the committee that wrote it did not include a Norwegian. Someone from the committee may unofficially have had lunch with someone who works in a building across the street, but that's not the same.
I will try to save someone if his life is in danger. I will try to help a stranger if I can and I by helping him does not produce harm to others.

But I am only motivated to help individuals. I don't plan to change societies, I don't plan to help social groups, invade countries, dictate some policies, doctrines, because that is what someone can mean "by taking care of the world".

I began to have a profound mistrust and dislike for activists, ideologues, social warriors, fighters for "a good cause" and revolutionaries. Their actions are usually finalized through loss of freedoms and blood baths.
Losing all instruments with no visibility is still ejectable even if he thought the engine was still running. He was disorientated and relying on his instruments, when flying under IFR (instrument flight rules) loss of instruments is tantamount to loss of control. The likely outcome in those situations is controlled flight into terrain at 350+mph.

With low altitude being an aggravating factor he was always 100% correct in ejecting and whatever the plane did afterwards is largely irrelevant.
> The kind of people who make good new things don't need rules to keep them honest.

Seriously? People have done horrible things in the name of "progress". For example, shipping slaves from another continent to make good new things.
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My favorite “vibe coder” workflow: Prompt Tower → Gemini 2.5 → Cursor Agent

Prompt Tower helps me rinse and repeat a consistent instruction set for Gemini. Which creates instructions that a cursor Agent can follow to the tee - often around 16 steps - cursor falls on its face working alone and I’m too lazy to just follow Gemini’s guidance directly.

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Im not a pilot or anything, but looking at the cockpit of the f35, it seems pretty weird that the whole thing is a big touch screen. Reminds me of cars replacing physical controls with touchscreens...
I am working on nothing which by the is something important and precious because it is something to works on nothing.
By the way, nothing else matter, which mean that everything keep my mind on working on the thing of nothing.
That is a quite pervasive thought in the tech industry nowadays: we break everything, let the politics/society/aliens fix it. What would you say if the politics/society/aliens decide to block said tech, stopping the problem at the source? It's not a given, that techbros can do anything with impunity.
> LLMs are, in fact, one of the few products in the past decades that - at least for now - align with this vision. That's because they empower the end users directly.

Oh BULLSHIT. Computer users have been empowered since the very first programming languages were invented. They simply chose not to engage with them.
The discussion in almost every post on HN that's about humanities topics reminds me how much they do, most of all to those who think they don't.
> unelected bureaucrats from Brussels like Ursula v.d. Leyen

Isn't she pretty much elected the same way the Norwegian prime minister is? That is so say: Not actually elected at all, but appointed by a majority in parliament.

The article doesn't mention that the polls suggest that it still only at most 40% of the population that supports an EU membership. I doubt that's high enough that the politicians would risk an actual vote on the matter. Especially as Norway have many of the benefits of a membership already, though no influence in the EU parliament.
"gets no say in how it’s written" ... well this is the same case for member countries (they also have only few things to say), and was one of the reasons for Brexit.
"While average effective tax rates barely changed in the US from 1945 to 2015, the average tax rates of high-income households fell sharply—from about 50 percent to 25 percent for the highest income 0.01 percent and from about 40 percent to about 25 percent for the top 1 percent."

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/effective-income-tax-rate...
Even professional software development as you know it may not stick around for very long. I believe knowledge and experience gained along the way can translate across different context and you can use that to pivot and adapt to the environment.
Aren’t there still some very significant barriers at least for food imports from the EU? They wouldn’t be possible with full membership.

Of course the overwhelming majority of Norwegians might not mind lower prices that much..
And just like the Tesla thing, accidents are mostly from people relying too heavily on the raw output, not checking or supervising enough, overestimating the system's reliability/consistency.
I think I'm lampooning the hyperbole. Both, Linux and Windows, have their own issues, and some shared issues, but none are making one or the other unusable or even hard to use. I, for one, am more comfortable with the issues Linux throws up than with those Windows throws up, which I often find vexing, but I guess that's habituation. It's important to realize your own biases, isn't it?
Regardless of the faith you have in the courts assessment time has shown the more critical opinion to be true. Solar City was a dead company, none of the promises they made has amounted to anything, they aren’t producing any products or revenue, and the deal has been shown to be self dealing in order to bail out his brother.

Where are the solar roof tiles? What’s happened to the tax payer funded factory in NY?
If someone built a space port in the Canary Islands that would actually be at a similar latitude to Cape Canaveral, though the latitude of French Guiana is hard to beat (and the Canary Islands are technically part of Africa, not Europe).
As if Israel was the only reason to not vote for Harris. I dont remember much of her "platform" that actually would be in my interest. Make-believe-minority-politics isn't for the masses.
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That’s a fair assessment :-)
There's middle ground between bolting same parts all day and completely avoiding anything difficult. Both body and mind atrophy when they aren't used and that necessarily includes some repetition.
Amen! I really do not understand this. It has been 7 years since SVE was introduced.

Writing an application in terms of a specific lane count loses performance portability - either it's too many, or too few, for the particular CPU. And it also enables/encourages antipatterns like putting RGB in Vec4.
> but isn't the ideal outcome that you actually know the language by the end?

Given that it is billed as a Python course that is reasonable.

But, to be fair, the intent of the course is almost certainly to provide background in the tools so that you can observe CS concepts learned later. Which is kind of like astronomy majors learning how to use a telescope so that they can observe its concepts. If Google image search provided the same imagery just as well as a telescope, the frustration in being compelled to teach rudimentary telescope operation is understandable. It is not like the sciences are studied for the tools.
"Hollywood accounting" being notorious for avoiding payout to rights owners down the list, is it fair to ask if this is a bit "leopards ate my face" as one arc of Hollywood consumes another by creative accounting?

The decision to release product against Village Roadshows wishes feels like potential breach of contract stuff but this is now water under the bridge.

I wonder if the bond completion insurance side of this is also now a bit underwater: money in films is strange and all kinds of people and their two-and-a-half employee company could be affected. Feel a bit sad for industry people who lose their shirt in this.
Windows 9x existed at a very different time.

PCI wasn't a given. Plug and play wasn't a given. You couldn't even reliably enumerate all hardware on a system.

Hardware detection back then involved a lot of poking at random IO ports and seeing what happens, using heuristics to select an appropriate driver. This is as dodgy as it sounds and would crash or hang your system if you weren't lucky.
Did anyone tell them about the current market for SW developers? :o
What is this a dupe of? Clicking past shows only one entry.
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