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It works better when you use it to generate something sane. My take away from the article is that to program in typescript you have to jump through insane hoops.

The guy was the program manager of THAAD. He is not going to write that his work is worthless. That would have stopped his career a long time ago.

Not that it means that what he says is necessarily untrue but you have to take it with a huge grain of salt. While definitely a subject expert, Tony Brunoula is approximately as far from a neutral party as one can be on this question.

I would like to see a breakdown of how long the average user stays subscribed but I guess it’s too sensitive to ever be communicated. I don’t think I have ever subscribed more than a month at a time every couple of years to watch something very specific (or play actually - last time was because of Immortality). While I think this is an unusual customer profile, I wouldn’t be surprised if short subscriptions still represented a significant number of accounts.

Links have to be interesting but based on intrinsic quality of the linked elements and not the player experience as far as I remember but the rules are kept deliberately fuzzy in the book anyway. I don’t think the game is ever played outside of Castalia. I’m not entirely sure to be honest with you.

I do remember that Hesse description of how the past colours our experience of the present and his thoughts on both the nature of subjectivity and the place of spirituality made a strong impression on the young me at the time.

I probably should read this book again. It seems like the time is right.

Free range doesn’t mean the same thing in the USA and in the EU. As always when it comes to food, EU regulations are far more stringent and specify things like minimum time outside, which type of vegetation should cover it and what’s the maximum density of poultry allowed. It’s also controlled quite seriously.

Most people I know who keep chicken do it for the eggs and free range them because it makes for better eggs. The meat is also definitely a lot more tasty than what you get with factory farmed chicken once you do eat them.

Modern factory farming is absolutely awful. I’m still puzzled by how it’s even allowed.

Most poultry where I live is now killed using gas. That’s not very gruesome. It’s still slaughtering however.

It’s illegal to do that in The Glass Bead Game however, isn’t it? If I remember correctly - it’s been a decade since I read the book - that’s one of the thing the magister ponders for a long time while a student at the monastery, how his own memory and experience colours his perception and how that’s lost to the game. That’s a part which stayed with me.

This thing reads like a weird adolescent fever dream with the multiple mentions of an unspecified cool "underground" unrelated to an actual sense of purpose for why you are breaking the law.

I mean you can clearly be a criminal, an radical activist or a any kind of excentric if it suits you while negotiating your own relationship with the rest of society as you see fit if you are ready to deal with the consequences of your actions but I'm not sure I would call that an "underground".

I mean "I can't sign off on your office because the building you are in isn't compliant" seems like a fine reason to me even it's mostly outside of what you can directly do.

On the shorter side, there is a very good article from the New Yorker which was published last October for the 75th birthday of the CIA entitled "Has the C.I.A. done more harm than good?" [1]

The journalist is clearly verging on the side of more harm.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/has-the-cia-do...

Except that what you are presenting is not at all very well established history. So yes, definitely citations needed.

Not that you will be able to cite anything credible considering how bogus what you are advancing is.

They didn’t. They helped with suppressing its notoriety after Asturias was exiled. This part of the article should probably have seen better editing.

Talk of moving the goal post.

People are having a discussion about the ability of LLM to generate correct code from imprecise natural language descriptions and how good GPT4 was at that and your rebuke is that it can't do cutting edge algorithm research and an unnecessary ad hominem.

The core of the game clearly is urban planning - properly designing your city to avoid traffic jam and allow the ressource to flow where they need to go - not budgeting. The game doesn't want you to heavily work with numbers because, well, that's not very fun. The budget is mostly there to set the pace.

You can’t at the same time pretend to be an exporting country in a free market world and give billions of no string attached subsidies. That’s extreme market distortions not reasonable laws and taxes. Market distortions should be met with a strong answer from commercial partners. That’s what the US keeps saying China while themselves doing worse on nearly every points.

People mostly complain that it’s not SimCity but the gameplay is fine. It’s in no way shallow. Just different.

Let’s not forget all the Paradox games: City Skylines, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron. Very much content over graphics.

That tends to happen when one country starts giving large free handouts to corporations, yes. It’s a shame that the EU is so spineless. Tariffs and severe commercial restrictions should have been de rigueur following the passing of the IRA.

> How would you get the correct number?

You could simply check the book. It’s a shame there is not more literary data in ChatGPT training corpus.

You are taking flak for disparaging an open source protocol and set of softwares on allegations which are easy to disprove because the code is open and on the basis of prejudices which are themselves very close to being antisemitism.

I remember Matrix being heavily used by the French government anyway. I’m pretty sure you they did check that it’s not spyware.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean (well to be honest if blunt I think I understand and believe it doesn’t really make sense).

Android has bsd-derived core utils on top of a souped up Linux kernel. That’s pretty much a textbook Unix-like. Meanwhile Darwin is Unix-certified and a significant part of XNU was originally lifted from BSD.

Unless you meant the Java based/NDK development experience? But then you can have the same thing on a Unix machine: once you are removed enough from the OS what it is doesn’t really matter.

In a way, I think I agree with you in that I also believe that what’s happening at the lower-level matters less and less for the majority of developers.

They did indeed fork khtml because they needed a web browser for OSX and renamed it WebKit. I’m not sure I would call that initiating the investments but I guess if you squint hard enough you could call it that.

I mean, no offense, but considering I actually talked with these people, it’s pretty obvious that they were born a decade after the death of Stalin. You do realise there was 36 years between Stalin death and the fall of the Berlin Wall, don’t you?

I don’t know which Western European countries you are talking about but I’m French and the country is absolutely nothing like that.

I don’t know where you live but both committee minutes and debates are public here as they should.

> If trade deals were passed like legislation in a parliament or Congress, with time in committee and lots of room for individual legislators to add their input, there would be so much more corporate abuse it's not even funny. This would give a chance for every favored sector, major employer in a powerful legislator's district, company that the government favors at the moment etc. to add in clauses favoring them. Doing an up-or-down or vote actually greatly reduces pork.

The idea that there is less corporate interest meedling because everyting is done in secret and people can't see nor control what's happening is so ridiculous I am at loss to how you could come to this conclusion. Considering your disdain for actual democracy, I'm not surprised you like the EU in its current form.

This is something I heard a lot from people from the former GDR. Usually, they start by acknowledging the bad things: the limited opportunity to travel, the surveillance. But then, they tell you about what they miss. Knowing their neighbours, a certain idea of fraternity and togetherness in hardship, the feeling that even as a poor kid you could achieve something and be useful to society as a whole, the absence of really dire poverty.

I think people especially in the US are quick to dismiss the Soviet Republics while ignoring what they did get right and the alienating parts of their own culture.

The article is not very good but multinationals have been significantly abusing free-trade agreements for decades.

These agreements are negotiated in secret with very little public oversight and parliaments usually can only say yes or no to the whole thing. If it’s the EU sometimes national parliaments have no say.

Companies lobby to put clauses mandating arbitration or classifying some laws as distortion of competition. Here the article focus on laws impacting big tech but the same could be said for basically any sector.

> In most quality systems those parts are equivalent (they meet spec). If you need or want better parts, you tighten the spec.

Components being equivalent within spec doesn't mean they have the same performance. It only means they are all acceptable for their intended use. That's why the Apple A9 from TSCM were performing better than the Samsung ones in the same way batches of products made from the same blueprints can have widely different failure rates.

These are quality of manufacturing issues and yes it is due to TSCM having better processes than Samsung. That's not a better way to state it. One is the reason of the other.

Quality of manufacturing. Think about a mechanical assembly manufactured within specifications but where one is at the upper bound of tolerance and things rattle a bit while the other is a perfect fit.