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There is only one external event - an event that takes place outside of China - that can seriously disrupt the CCP's rule over China and that is Taiwan successfully declaring independence and international recognition.

It would be a humiliating loss of face for the CCP and would probably be followed by a desperate reshuffling within the party and perhaps even a civil war. The CCP is strong and rigid, but like ceramic, not like steel. Their only mandate rests on China's continued economic and diplomatic success. Taiwanese independence would be the nucleating particle for an explosion of domestic unrest and chaos.

The CCP has (right or wrong) declared that Taiwan is an inviolable part of China and a rogue province. That means that if Taiwan were to declare independence and succeed, it would be a signal failure for the CCP - a gross loss of face. The party's legitimacy (always a complicated thing for an authoritarian state) would be threatened by the demonstration of weakness.

Taiwanese independence is the CCP's soft and fleshy underbelly. Bringing Taiwan under Beijing's control eliminates the uncertainty that comes from that political vulnerability.

If people regularly died because of IT infrastructure, we'd be regulated and licensed like civil engineers and we certainly wouldn't be writing software in C/C++/nodejs. We'd all be coding in stuff like Ada and Erlang and most of our day wouldn't involve writing logic at all - it would involve filling out documentation and forms around the occasional bit of logic that would get written, probably by someone else.

I don't get it - that was what all gfx chips were before shaders came along. That's not unlike how the PS2's GS chip worked too. Texturing and triangles was everything. What feature did the Voodoo have that the 740 didn't?

  - Yes:

    - Xiaomi sells products outside of China, both through their own website and through Amazon and Walmart. Sue retailers who carry Xiaomi products and sell them in the US and Europe.
    - In theory, this is what the US International Trade Commission can do - block imports of products that violate US  laws. EU probably has similar
    - You can't do anything about Xiaomi with China's kangaroo courts within China's borders, but Xiaomi wants US dollars and Euros too so eventually they'll play ball if you're willing to take this far enough

  - No: 

    - There is exactly nothing you can do so you should learn to take it and like it.

This is a terrible idea, though. It's always the desirable employees that have options that leave an environment like this, and it's always the less competent employees that hold on for dear life and stay.

I've seen this so many times in my career. The A players will stay because they're attached to the things they've created, but the B players will leave and you're left with lots of C players.

In the long run its cheaper to lay off people.

I have no evidence of this, and I have no reason for my priors to be set like this, but I do love bias confirmation.

CMake 2.x and earlier weren't really that compelling - it was sort of a version of Make except with a macro-ish syntax and the ability to write your build rules for you. CMake 3 was a huge change in that it introduced build target properties - that's what all that `target_include_` and `target_link_` stuff is. Being able to attach build properties to target objects rather than having them sitting around in file scope made a huge difference in CMake's organizational power.

Also, as far as I know it's still the only build system that really integrates well with most IDE's. That's important if you're on a team of Windows devs but you're trying to add non-Windows builds.

So we give existing house owners a subsidy by creating artificial housing scarcity, and then we give companies a subsidy to fix the house owner subsidy by starting new towns?

Who pays for this? Productive young people earning income? Again?

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Maybe you don’t use those 96 bits for routing. But then it becomes nothing but a sort of subnet address and you haven’t fixed the routing table size problem. And actually every endpoint needs to upgrade too because endpoints that don’t recognize the header extension will generate crazy responses and confuse TCP packets from different computers as coming from the same machine.

There’s no useful and backward compatible way of extending IPv4.

Or are we talking about the non-devs here?

Lua’s one big niche is interfacing with 0-based C code in plugins and this horribly and completely unnecessarily painful because of its 1-based array design flaw.