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ReflectedImage··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
Your average large corp like Microsoft has the majority of it's employees stuck in meetings all day.

Now I don't know if I missed this feature in Claude Code or not but I don't believe it has technology for enhancing people's ability to sit around all day doing nothing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Mass pumping out slightly dodgy code is more of a startup strategy.

ReflectedImage··on Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks
For reference the number #1 affected country is the US. It just consumes so much more oil per capita then anyone else and unlike some other countries can't close it's oil import/exports due to logistical reasons.
ReflectedImage··on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
Generally speaking, static typing is the great enabler of writing bad Python code.

As soon as static typing is introduced into a Python code based, the developers start writing unscalable coding patterns that don't scale to larger programs.

ReflectedImage··on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
Not really, I measured it.

Typing prevents 1 minor bug per developer per year reaching the testing environment.

It costs 2x development time to use. (With LLMs it's doubles token usage, very measurable)

It's not actually a sane trade-off.

ReflectedImage··on UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program
Mass migration is a core Conservative policy. Even Reform made up of ex-Conservatives has agreed to mass migration in talks with their donors.

Importing people rather than investing in the locals is a core right wing belief in the UK.

ReflectedImage··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
Well the density goes down the larger the black hole so the extra states are still missing.

For exactly how that works, I'm a Comp Sci not a Physicist.

ReflectedImage··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
A 3d volume can contain a number of states equal to it's 2d dimensional surface.

All the extra states you would assume the 3d volume can contain are actually a single state called Black Hole.

There is a limit to how much you can fill a 3d volume before it's a Black Hole basically.

ReflectedImage··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
That's an artifact of it not using A-Z as it's alphabet. What you type gets translated before the AI sees it. The seventeen word the AI sees does only contain three 'e' s.
ReflectedImage··on Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
The AI numbers only work if it replaces white collar work.

Power tools for knowledge workers, which is what we are getting, isn't enough to save it.

ReflectedImage··on Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
Well no because it works by joining together existing novel insights.
ReflectedImage··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
You haven't really the addressed the point of the US not being trusted.

Even if the EU becomes far right, far right governments don't work or trust each other. What you are saying is moot.

ReflectedImage··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
This is suppose to be a tech forum.

With enough solar panels, wind turbines and batteries it's completely possible to run an countries grid off renewables.

Right now the costs for doing so are around the same as the costs of running an oil / gas / coal power grid.

For the average country, not slowly switching over is basically madness.

ReflectedImage··on AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
I didn't mention anything? But I'll answer your question anyway.

Be it software, artwork, essays, graphic design or movie clips. There is a market for shipping cheap junk.

ReflectedImage··on AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
Well assuming it's successful, there will be a large number of companies who's value will be reassessed as the token cost to replicate and run the business.

Multi-million dollar companies will be reduced into multi thousand dollar companies.

The CEOs will be replaced with teenagers in garages with their parent's credit cards.

If it stalls, then China will undercut the whole AI market with cheap electricity and crash the US stock market.

So what exactly is the win scenario here?

ReflectedImage··on UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
Apple only dominate the US mobile phone market
ReflectedImage··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Probably a con job. The AI companies don't think they will be able to significantly improve their models in the next year or so, so they are stalling with government regulations whilst taking in investor money.
ReflectedImage··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
"From the perspective of the Iranian state" Well you say that but they have got a non-nuclear nuke equivalent in the form of kamikaze drones.
ReflectedImage··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
There is a designated third party Pakistan and they say Lebanon is part of the ceasefire.
ReflectedImage··on A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off
Oh no, I live in a flat in a converted commercial building.

They have been going wild in the UK converting office space to residential.

ReflectedImage··on Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz
The Spanish tankers aren't going through because there aren't any Spanish tankers that operate in that region.

Spain has permission from Iran to send through tankers if it indeed had some.

ReflectedImage··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
So going forward all countries will be providing citizens of other countries free access to the internet whilst censoring their own citizens?
ReflectedImage··on MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
Static typing and duck typing both date back to the 1950s. You may have heard of Lisp.

The last new significant thing invented in programming was OOP in the 1990s.

Everything else is just ancient, OOP was about bringing the benefits of micro-services to single computer environments. Yes, you read that right

The new ECS system for 3d games was used by the first computer drawing program Sketchpad in 1963.

Programming is mostly just recycling ideas around and around.

ReflectedImage··on MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
The issue is that duck typing with a minimal set of types was the great idea of ABC, which is the language Guido cloned to make Python
ReflectedImage··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
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ReflectedImage··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
Well given that the US DHS is posting on social media that it intends to get rid of all 100 million non-white Americans. What exactly did you expect?
ReflectedImage··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
If you are a good software developer in India then you move abroad. It's not that India doesn't make great software developers, it's just they don't tend to stick around.
ReflectedImage··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
Well either $100,000 per person or an large one time direct donation to Trump to be legally exempted from that charge.
ReflectedImage··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
MAGA at its core is a rejection of the lower classes having wealth.
ReflectedImage··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Replacement? They haven't overthrown the Venezuela government just captured it's figure head.
ReflectedImage··on Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
Well I don't think anyone would pay for the COBOL to Java conversion software.

Since it's no longer New Years Eve, I'm a bit more sober :p

Programming language to programming language conversions seems to be one of the things LLMs are actually good at. Whether they can actually do it or not is an open question.

CEOs will mandate security so the CSOs will mandate Rust over C/C++ and so Rust will slowly take over C++ in next 20 years. Can't see anything in C++'s defense other than it's legacy. The drawback of sticking every feature from every language into your language is that it becomes a massive security hazard.

huh? I'm currently at $1500 Monthly Recurring Revenue, so I'm currently between seeing if I can increase that or if need to get a job. I'll find out in a couple of months.

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