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Worth keeping an eye for sure, but the vibecoded vibe puts me off.

> The Chinese government literally pushed companies to develop app for HarmonyOS [0].

Like the U.S. government is not pushing and investing its own companies, providing incentives, funding etc. etc. It's what sovereign governments are supposed to do.

> Have fun finding out what happens if you don't.

What is that even supposed to mean? You're going to a camp if you don't have a HarmonyOS app? That is just something that propagandists append to every post about China as if it means something. Get better propaganda, this is old and tired. I can stay random shit like the US is about to livestream an execution by a firing squad too, see?

Turns out a picture is worth a thousand words.

It depends. Sometimes having a short joke or interesting wording in otherwise terse text can help with what is otherwise a bit of a slog, but agreed that it can be confusing.

> There are also alternatives such as VSCodium, Neovim, or Emacs. In some cases, the alternative to an American company should not be a European company, but rather free software.

I agree in theory but VSCodium wouldn't be a thing without Microsoft continuing development of VS Code so you're dependent on American software nonetheless. If the goal is true sovereignty then VSCodium isn't it unless it becomes a truly independent fork aka when LibreOffice forked OpenOffice.

> The 'international rules-based order' was established by the US at the end of WWII as the legal framework for rebuilding Europe after the war.

The 'international rules-based order' is used today by the U.S. to imply to a naive reader that they mean international law as defined by the UN, whereas in fact they mean the world order where they're the world police, which essentially started after WWII and really kicked into another gear in the 90s when the U.S became the undisputed dominant power.

The phrase today is used merely as a ploy to suggest the U.S. is not acting alone/without UN approval in cases it in fact does precisely that.

> Honest question, what makes you think the US, China, or Russia need to abide by legal agreements made 80 years ago by people who aren't around anymore?

I dunno. I would like things like the Geneva Conventions to outlive their original authors, thank you very much.

As an aside, I don't think China's foreign policy can be casually compared to that of the U.S.

Ha, it's my proof that I am not a bot :-)

With OpenAI having all these 'rouge agents' around to pump their IPO, Anthropic must be feeling pressure to step up with their own army of rouges.

The U.S. wants to retain the right to commit war crimes without someone charging U.S. officials or soldiers with them, they have the sovereign right to commit war crimes. Russia doesn't, Iraq doesn't. The U.S. does, Israel does.

That is the 'International rules-based order' as opposed to the U.N. international law order.

Of course the UN is biased. So was Folke Bernadotte wasn't he?

It's a bit rich pretending like Zionists are somehow to fear for their jobs etc. given getting pro-Palestinian professors etc. fired was the Zionist modus operandi for decades. Germany really hasn't changed much, has it?

I am not American but given Germany's own role in much of what is going on in Gaza and the West Bank, the weapons shipments to Israel, (no 2 supplier after the US) and the diplomatic cover it gives to Israel, there's a lot Germany still needs to reflect on today.

Hint: The lesson was supposed to be that genocide is bad, period. Not that it's ok as long as it is some of the descendants Germany hurt doing it this time.

"If Oracle employees don't agree with our mission to support Israel maybe we aren't the right company for them"[1].

Some "really profoundly scary technology" was provided to the Israeli military by Oracle[2].

Given they're really happy to be political[3], this isn't your average 'no politics at work'.

1 - https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912017...

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8yo7_Inikg

3 - https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/h1w11pj11a...

They literally condition your employment at Oracle to you loving Israel.

Just to make it clear for anyone quickly scanning; this is YouTube being shady, NOT Penguin Mail.

It could. Given the nature of people who have the capital to control it, I don't think it will.

They're killing Americans in the West Bank, grabbing US tax payer money while laughing at how easy Americans are to manipulate, aggressively spying on all kinds of US targets incl by placing spy equipment on Secret Service vehicles during visits, spitting on Christians who visit Israel, harassing American lawmakers and diplomats, dragging the US into wars that don't serve its interests or the interests of its other partners, draining US military equipment meant to protect other assets etc. etc.

I am sure no other country could get away with the amount of shit the Israelis pull on a regular basis.

Have you done the same when the US invaded Iraq, Iran etc. with Google, Microsoft, Apple, AMD, Intel, NVidia, Netflix etc?

> Long time JB user here, and I mean long time. The past year I have been using claude in the JB terminal but nothing, and I mean nothing new has come of it in that year.

I don't get these comments. JetBrains AI assistant supports ClaudeCode, Codex and any ACP harness including OpenCode, in addition to their own. What is it with people saying they're stuck in the JB terminal etc. if they want Claude?

It's got each, but they're holding together with duct tape.

Patents that are only going to be used for trolling shouldn't be granted in the first place.

> That it's been tried so many times shows the demand is enormous

Capitalists want to pay their workers as little as possible or even not have workers and pocket close to 100% of the profits since forever. Whether they'll be able to do it this time is yet to be seen. Putting the tech itself aside, which is far from good enough yet imo, the only way to avoid a massive social backslash would be to use some of the additional profit they're able to keep because of AI for social spending. And I just don't think they realize yet that it's probably in their interest to do so if they want to replace 'human resources' with AI.

Theo de Raadt is like that, everything he touches is gold, everything someone else comes up with is garbage, unless he forks it.

> How can business leaders and shareholders spend money on long term R&D and still be accused of focusing on the short term and next quarter?

Because these two groups are not the same? My argument is, if a company overperforms to the point that some of the profits can be allocated to longer-term development without upsetting shareholders because the QbyQ profits are great, (like Apple did with the iPod), but if you can either only increase quarterly profits and not do long-term R&D or keep profits the same but do the R&D then no R&D it is.

In other words, Apple had to start with the iPod because that didn't require massive long-term R&D and then once that became such a success that Apple could not only satisfy shareholders on a short term basis, but also set money aside for long-term R&D was the iPhone possible.

> Is your claim that businesses that have to spend billions or tens of billions of dollars and years to bring facilities online to make the products they sell are owned (and influenced) by shareholders focused on quarterly numbers?

Yes? That doesn't mean they can't spend billions on R&D. If Apple didn't sell iPods like hotcakes, they wouldn't be able to R&D the iPhone. That doesn't mean nobody at Apple had long-term vision, quite the opposite.

If I can sell my things at a higher volume for longer vs higher price and less volume now, I'll go with the first, but not shareholders focused on quarterly numbers.

> a new chip solves nothing

It does allow Nvidia to sell more chips. This is no genuine attempt to solve anything, imo.

What a sleek way of positioning your comment as something that can't reasonably be disagreed with whereas it's nothing more than a pure opinion of yours. I am in awe.

You seem to not understand, among other things, what a duopoly is.

Why are you pretending anyone uses them? These phones ship with Google Play and that's what people use.