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Even Elon Musk made the difference between the two. He's in control of Starlink, US government in control of Starshield. Ukraine claims both were affected.

How hard can it be to reason about this? Maybe ask ChatGPT, and it will says it's both.

But sure, they all lie and you are right, Ukraine only has Starlink. Not a problem for me at all, and the world can be flat too, no issue with that. Have a fun day.

When Ukrainian officials say they use Starshield, they probably use Starshield.

Those are the size of European tech companies. I mean, HP is about 10 times smaller than Siemens. So your list basically proves nothing.

Tesla clearly is a "tech giant", and it started in Silicon Valley by the way.

All the money is in Silicon Valley, that's why they move there.

If this was a US vs EU thing, I would love to hear a US tech giant that isn't in Silicon Valley or Seattle.

Fact is, even in US, no other city was able to replicate that success. For example, there would be no point to move your startup from EU to New York for example.

Canada is not a huge world power, so it realizes it needs friends. European countries are all in the same boat.

I wouldn't trust any country where the citizens somehow think they are bigger, better and stronger than anyone else.

As a Flemish person I can attest that the Dutch have outstanding engineers. So if their intelligence agency has a proper budget, they definitely have a nice pool to select from.

If we are talking about a world with super intelligence, maybe the real question is, why would that machine need you to command it?

The original gta was not a shooter game. Also, "normal" boys play computer games, including shooters. Maybe look at the statistics first and see if you are in the normal or abnormal group.

Any source you have that makes the link between wifebeaters and gamers?

I think after reading all the comments here, it's clear that some people develop an emotional bond with LLM's.

It reminders me of my parents, who were commenting after seeing a robot vacuum cleaner getting stuck in the same place every time "The poor thing was stuck there again, you should really do something about it! Last time the poor thing was sitting there for a day". Like it was a pet.

Or remember that video when the guys from Boston Dynamic kicked that robot dog, and there was an outrage about that?

I wonder if you and me also have a limit, where as robots get more realistic, we would be like "Don't be cruel to that thing!"

Hi, disturbed individual who needs help here.

One of the most fun parts in the original GTA was driving over pedestrians, especially those pink groups, trying to get them all at once.

So either you are one of the older generation (born before '75), or you must be one of the most boring people I've seen.

I would encourage you to load up the original gta, drive over some pedestrians, feel the fun, and join us disturbed psychopaths that need help.

Outsourcing coding to someone else is nothing new, especially not for senior developers. Most software is developed in teams anyway.

Observe the force and facial expression. This was not a pleasant "my heart goes out to you", this was clearly a very agressive salute, even more agressive than how most real nazi's would do it.

So no, the gesture was pretty clear.

Can you describe what came out, after letting it run for days? I always have a hard time understanding what kind of task would be worth it.

It's a bit sad that the only responses you get is "It's based in EU". If that's the only thing, it's not really impressive is it?

Don't get me wrong, as a European I'm all for EU, but we should offer products and services that are at least as good as abroad competitors. My company still relies heavily on US tech, for the simple fact that lots of it is plain better and/or cheaper.

> if we had any good ones in Europe

So you basically confirmed that being located in Europe isn't enough.

I like the small % of nutcases in my country. We also consider disinformation a national security threat. That way a foreign adversary cannot push the public into voting for an incompetent, ignorant and arrogant criminal narcissist. I don't want my country to turn into an idiocracy.

And concerning your 2nd amendment, I also own guns. The difference is that only sane, non-violent people can have guns in my country, and crazy people not. You know, crazy people that would take their guns to schools and start shooting.

Enjoy your freedom!

Speech inciting hatred, violence, or plain misinformation is harmful and so should be illegal or restricted.

Censorship? Do you mean the fact that we hold platforms accountable if they post hate speech or misinformation, or is this something else?

Good observation. If they are able to keep foreign AI out and stifle small startups with big regulatory upfront costs, they only compete with each other. And if they are all smart, they can keep their prices high and don't compete each other to death.

> But all those political divisions are a result of national politics of those countries.

Do you claim that Russia doesn't invest in disinformation campaigns against the West?

Don't forget the 2014 Vrbětice explosions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...

My kids follow STEM here in Belgium, and there were multiple times when I thought "If only I could do those things when I was young".

At 12 years old, they get an Arduino and start programming in C. Then over the years they do all kinds of interesting things with it: build a car with controlled acceleration, build a tiny house with all kinds of sensors and controllers, monitor algae breeding.

When my son was 16, they brewed their own beer (Hey, it's Belgium and they can legally drink at 16 :D)

Now in the final year, they can propose their own projects. I heard previous years did things like create their own windmill and analyse the efficiency, electric generators in rain drainpipe, etc.

Do you have any reference to your story? Because this is not the historically accepted one. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_III_of_Belgium#World_W...):

"On 24 May 1940, Leopold, having assumed command of the Belgian Army, met with his ministers for the final time. The ministers urged the king to leave the country with the government. Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot reminded him that capitulation was a decision for the Belgian government, not for the king, to make. The king indicated that he had decided to remain in Belgium with his troops, whatever the outcome. The ministers took this to mean that he would establish a new government under the direction of Hitler, potentially a treasonous act. Leopold thought that he might be seen as a deserter if he were to leave the country: "He was resolved to remain with his army and amidst his people so as to share their fate."[6] Leopold had long had a difficult and contentious relationship with his ministers, acting independently of government influence whenever possible, and seeking to circumvent and even limit the ministers' powers, while expanding his own."

Rewriting something from one language to another is not really the height of software development.

When you have an extensive testing suite, I would claim it's the ideal scenario for LLM's, next to crunching out small tools and MVP's.

Let's first see how it handles the architecture in a 1 year old project of 3 developers, before we make such claims as "the end of programming".

I love LLM's, they save me a lot of time and effort. But their autonomy degrades quickly when you keep adding context and complexity, which a medium codebase clearly has.

Maybe their survey should have asked one question: What is the difference between average and median?

More than half would not be able to answer this, and not only in US.

A prime minister visiting Russia on victory day, sure sounds like pro-Russia to me.

I know plenty of Slovaks, and you can divide them into 2 groups:

First group are disgusted that their government is pro-Russia.

Second group claims the Ukrainian government was "bombing the Donbas", and finds it normal that "Russia went to defend the Russian speaking population".

But sure, the second group probably consider themselves "neutral" and not "pro-Russia". That doesn't mean we all have to consider them as neutral, since they are deep into the Russian disinfo.

Slovakia is heavily influenced by Russian propaganda, which started way before Corona times.

It's mainly the older people that are influenced by this, and a lot of young people either left the country already, or have concrete plans to leave.

It's really sad, how these old people are ruining the future of their children and grandchildren, really crazy.

You can say a lot about Russia, but they are very good with misinformation, it's a real threat for Europe.

My wife is from Slovakia, so I have front row seats on the whole situation. The kinds of misinformation these older people are willing to believe is really nuts.

Meanwhile in Belgium (EU), company owners are recovering millions from the US government, possibly up to billion dollars for all of Belgium.

Don't assume EU is stupid.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/08/18/voka-invoerheffingen...

No, coding is more like building.

A garden shed can easily be built by an AI. A house? Maybe with supervision. A skyscraper? Good luck with that!

And no, garden sheds do not represent 99% of software.

So you erode democracy, and now blame capitalism?

Hi, Europe chiming in here. We still have proper democracies combined with capitalism, and life is great here.

But hey, if you don't like capitalism, go to some country where they don't have it, like North Korea or Cuba.