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helloooooooo··on Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard
The assumption that the Anglo idea of being well mannered, quiet and not rowdy at such an event is wrong IMO. The Roman upper classes probably got loud and very obnoxious by our standards, but assuming that the Romans perceived that as “low-class” is probably not correct
helloooooooo··on Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet
Cohere is doing a lot of enterprise AI business, and a lot of business directly with the federal government. They are also not juiced up in these financial games that OpenAI or Oracle are playing.

Additionally, Cohere is no less “kids” than Anthropic or OpenAI. Aidan was literally one of the co-authors of “Attention is all you need”.

helloooooooo··on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
The goal of these rules is to reduce corruption and theft. A lot of these rules go out the window when there is a need for speed. The goals have obviously changed: the US Gov believes the world is on a path to war again, and is reforming on that assumption.
helloooooooo··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
It’s a tragedy of the horizon (if I may use the term coined by the Prime Minister). Basically, corporations and democratic countries are more focussed on the short term, such that long term concerns like national security, climate change etc… are not appropriately integrated into risk models.
helloooooooo··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
China is always willing to dump, tariff and subversively coerce its way into hollowing industries. This is not stable nor reliable. It is aggressive and a national security threat.

They infiltrate civil society through their networks of “police stations” and the Confucius Institute with the aim of placing sycophants in positions of power.

They aren’t our friends, and Canadian civil society needs to recognize that.

helloooooooo··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
This is the wrong take. Economic dependence on China is a massive national security threat. Exporting your manufacturing base to a nation that opposes the fundamental values of a nation is completely suicidal, and if war ever occurs, you’re toast. China is increasingly belligerent with their excess industrial capacity, engaging in dumping and overproducing to cut out competing non-Chinese manufacturers. They engage heavily in IP theft.

Allowing critical manufacturing supply chains to move to China is stupid.

helloooooooo··on Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
You need to understand: for every tariff the US places on China, the more excess industrial capacity that China needs to direct elsewhere. It goes for steel, autos and more. This means, since America sanctioned Chinese steel, China has been dumping their steel into Canadian markets. With the excess electric car capacity unable to be absorbed by America, China wants to direct it elsewhere. If they start exporting to Canada, this excess capacity will completely destroy automotive manufacturing in Canada, leading to mass layoffs and entire industrial supply chains falling apart. This will inevitably lead to political instability as a large portion of second tier cities in Ontario start having a labour crisis.

This is evidently not ideal. I bore witness to manufacturing completely leave my hometown, third tier city over the span of a decade. Today, there is little economic opportunity in that town, with massive drug abuse, and petty crime. It used to be a nice place, and working in a factory earned you an honest living. Unfettered trade with China killed places like this, destroying an entire generation.

At the end of the day, wanting electric cars from China depends on your values, do you want incredibly cheap electric vehicles, even if it means destroying an entire industry that the largest province in the country relies upon? Or do you want to maintain a functional manufacturing base that is critical to political and social stability?

helloooooooo··on ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
The x64 Windows Kernel is starting to get support for this. There are a few references to memory tagging appearing in the public symbol files.
helloooooooo··on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
I don’t think anyone here has yet come to the realization that ending rampant consumerism is the whole damn point of the tariffs.
helloooooooo··on Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year
Why is consumerism the metric here, and not general societal health?
helloooooooo··on Dépanneurs
Couche-Tard owns Circle-K and is looking to buy 7-Eleven. It’s literally the worlds largest dép/convenience store chain
helloooooooo··on Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
They do. Security is about risk management. It’s all very actuarial. If the damages from an attack are severe enough (ie. a company makes it go bankrupt), that’s capitalism working.
helloooooooo··on The death of partying in the USA
I am going to assume your grandmother probably didn’t work, and instead took made her and her husband’s social life her full time job.

It’s much easier to entertain constantly when one half of the relationship has the availability to do it.

If I’m mistaken, then holy heck how did your grandparents do it lmao.

helloooooooo··on The Future of MCPs
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

helloooooooo··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
IMF does have Speecial Drawing Rights that kind of, but not really, acts as a global currency
helloooooooo··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
No… you can also sync with iCloud Passwords, or use a hardware token, like a Yubikey.
helloooooooo··on How I configure my Git identities
No, the previous commenter is saying that you cannot trust the identity provided in commits period. This has nothing to do with trusting employees, rather placing trust in the identity in commit.
helloooooooo··on Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed
Well that’s a lie. The summit was on September 10th.
helloooooooo··on From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer
It is the most secure browser. The lifetime of these kinds of bugs is generally a few weeks to perhaps 2 months. With a high churn codebase, these things just happen. There is a lot of ongoing work to mitigate the impact of renderer bugs, such as the V8 heap sandbox.
helloooooooo··on Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say
It can also be that AVP is an “emergent” product while they work on the parts for something larger. I would imagine a lot of the “harder” parts for AVP line up closely with whatever car Apple is attempting to build.
helloooooooo··on ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture
It’s because all of the early React developers now have incredibly successful careers and don’t really have time to support it
helloooooooo··on Routers cyber security best practices
If they are read only file systems it will disrupt any malware on the router. I’ve reversed routers whose file system only allows signed executables, and update packages. It’s good practice. I give the same advice to people and their phones, reboot regularly.
helloooooooo··on Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance
lol cope
helloooooooo··on Iran president helicopter in hard landing – state media
The exact same place they are today. The overthrow was inevitable, regardless of interference.
helloooooooo··on Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
For timber frame buildings, maybe. But in modern concrete fire resistant compartmentalized building it does not make sense at all.
helloooooooo··on Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard
You know people can just do these things for fun right? It doesn’t have to be intended as any form of competitor.
helloooooooo··on Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20
Read this: https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

It will help you understand why "smart pointers" still won't help you.

helloooooooo··on The Americas Act and Its Chances of Becoming Law
Republicans had better like this. This is literally the fundamental solution to the migrant situation at the southern border, economic development of the near south.
helloooooooo··on Differential: Type safe RPC that feels like local functions
Try DCOM
helloooooooo··on Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads
You wouldn’t ever need or want to drive if you lived there.
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