mathiaspoint

How about "behave or you need to move your company elsewhere if you ever want foreign workers of any kind again."

Just ban organizations caught playing games (that is: "I'll know it when I see it" for labeling) and the ban should include not contracting consultancies that hire foreigners and maybe attached to anyone with feduciary duty as well. It would be very effective.

Yeah and the rest of us don't want a kernel that mutates a heap-like structure for every minor operation. So until there's a language for writing software with a C-like approach to memory and lifetimes you're not going to see C or C software replaced.

Sure. If you claim something is open source and then make it impractical to use without closed source components you should get in trouble for that.

What you're looking for is called "labor participation" not unemployment. After six months people stop being counted as unemployed.

Good product development really does seem to require some sort of leader who demands quality and smacks people when they don't deliver. Linux is nice because of Torvalds for example.

Sorry which part of that was rhetorical?

The Thai monarch actually has power though which makes the constitution meaningful. A constitution between two parties where one has no power is meaningless.

Again if it has to be applied to Wikipedia there's nothing meaningful beyond a static informational site it wouldn't apply to.

I haven't seen a coworking place that isn't insanely overpriced compared to a coffee shop so it's no surprise they're not doing well.

Yes if the best thing you can say about the deal is that you don't have to have much of it that's an argument for not doing the deal.

That's my point though. The monarch has so little power now it's irrelevant and the democratic government is out of control.

Didn't Snowden basically confirm the feds are actually watching?

Arrow's theorem would cause them to emerge even then.

Right of course every state has a "constitution" but the contemporary connotation of the word means an enforceable law that meaningfully constrains the state's power.

A British constitution makes no sense, power is delegated from the king not from the member states like in the US or Canada. The only way the UK could end up with a constitution that's meaningful and not performative would be after a civil war.

Kind of funny after the authors of the law complained service providers were interpreting it overzealously.

No, if Wikipedia falls under it anything meaningful does. You have once again failed to understand the internet.

Tim Dillon has a nice explanation if you want something a little more bombastic and attention grabbing.

Sure but there are a lot of people who disagree and I think what I wrote is a much more reasonable compromise with them.

And they can be subpoena'd just like every other company. I believe they keep copies of everyone's driver's license so enforcement is trivially straightforward.

Again malicious or lazy.

Go after the people producing it. Stop bothering service and infrastructure providers. Doing that is either lazy or malicious.

Those are both effectively the same thing. The cure for high prices is high prices. Peasant's revolt etc.

I think the issue is that the application process isn't justified by the salary.

One of the forums I often post to frequently went down the other month for a couple weeks (everyone thought it was gone for good) so I went back to idling on IRC for a while.

These things are still there, I occasionally peak at newsgroups from time to time (there are free providers for the text trees) they're just not growing. IMO a lack of growth these days is probably a good thing.

I'm American and use the phrase that way literally all the time. Also "Go ahead and..."

Most random unquoted strings are certainly not valid Python programs. I don't know Perl well enough to say anything about that but I know what you're saying certainly isn't true with Python.

Neovim with the llama.cpp plugin and heavily quantized qwen2.5-coder with 500 (600?) million parameters. It's almost plug and play although the default ring context limit is way too large if you don't have a GPU.

Probably because they need it themselves for data collection.

I learned git and project management by working with people in my college robotics club. (I already knew the barebones basics but that's where I learned the more complex stuff like rebasing.)

No professor or anyone else explained this, me and the other firmware programmers were on our own and had to figure out how to collaborate. That's what people mean when they say it's the social part of college that really matters IMO.

It's a shame MCP didn't end up using a sandboxed shell (or something similar, maybe even simpler.) All the pre-MCP agents I built just talked to the shell directly since the models are already trained to do that.

That's always how it works no matter how good the model is. I'm surprised people keep forgetting this. If no one has the theory then the artifacts are almost unmaintainable.

You can end up doing this with entirely human written code too. Good software devs can see it from a mile away.