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Great, so I'm not just some idiot who doesn't get it. Why then is anyone entertaining this IPO when it's clearly based on such a dumb plan?

Oh well that's good news. I don't mean to despair, I think it's within our grasp to break out of US tech dependence, I just worry the momentum won't last. There's a surge of EV sales whenever there's an energy crisis, but it usually trails off once the crisis is over.

I hope our push to be more local with tech is not just reactionary

I miss XP sometimes

> We were taught that generalists and specialists will always have their roles. But now the market is shaping everyone into becoming a generalist. That's not a bad thing per se, until you look under the economics of supply and demand: if everyone is a generalist, the price of a generalist falls if there's no demand to match. And we all know the demand is drying up.

I see many posts like this every month, and have many conversations with friends and colleagues who think the same, and I see two trends - like this author, they all joke about becoming carpenters, or electricians. Overwhelmingly, electricians. These two professions seem to be held in special regard by software engineers craving the simple life.

I hate to burst yet another bubble, but supply and demand economics apply here too folks. We can't all become electricians and carpenters. The work isn't there. In fact there's gonna be less work there than there is now of the economy tanks and nobody can afford to build or even renovate a house anymore

I just discovered my ISP blocks archive. Is, had to use phone data.

The article is very short and basically just lists a bunch of instances of govts moving away from US to EU alternatives, but it's a drop in the ocean right now. For every department ditching office 365 there must be thousands still dependent. One of the examples was the Belgian .be domain committing to move away from AWS. But what about the other 26 European domains?

I think it's a great idea to invest in homegrown alternatives, not just for security reasons but also to encourage industry in the EU. We're reliant on trading partners for things we can't manufacture, but there's nothing stopping us from coding our way out of a dependent on foreign SAAS.

That said, I worry that the impetus to do so can easily wane. I can easily see this effort losing steam, especially if the US midterms result in a power shift back towards "safe" allies.

I really hope we continue to invest in and grow our own alternatives, but it's going to be a long road to recovery

Why are we considering data centers in space? What problem does it solve? I don't understand this concept at all.

Surely putting server racks in orbit where you can't do basic maintenance without sending someone up there is a terrible idea?

It just always puts me in mind of the story of an IT guy having to travel for two days to go to a premises and turn on a server that three separate people ensure him was already on.

I have an x61 myself, bought it last year to add to my Thinkpad collection. I haven't done much besides put in some real to verify it actually works. And suggestions on an OS?

Ireland also stayed out of both wars.

Ireland is also a tech hub, although those facts probably don't have any bearing on each other.

Irelands success comes entirely from low corporation tax, EU infrastructure funding, investment in workforce education, and the fact that we speak English. This combination of factors resulted in a massive tech boom, with lots of American tech firms setting up in Dublin, mostly for tax reasons but ultimately creating an actual tech industry where development happens.

The fact that stripe exists at all is because the Collision brothers grew up in and around that industry, with Patrick doing coding lessons in university of Limerick which had a massive computer science dept built to feed that industry. Without that he might not have been in tech at all. But looking at the history, his first payments company was turned down funding by Enterprise Ireland, sending him abroad where a Canadian company bought it and gave him the footing and confidence to go on to found Stripe, which had lots of SV investment. sadly I don't think that would have been forthcoming here.

It's a textbook case of the European tech industry problem, which I'm sure is mirrored in other EU countries (regardless of if they were in the wars or not). We invest heavily in education and workforce and encourage tech to be here, but we won't take the risk of investing in it. It's all European developers working hard for American firms, or small European firms trying to compete.

Maybe that's about to change with EU governments wanting to reduce reliance on American fimrs, like swapping Stripe for Adyen. There might finally be money to go with the talent. Maybe the next Collison will found their firm here

It hurts a little that stripe is an American company since it was founded by two Irish brothers. It could have been an EU company to begin with

Noob q: can advancements like this targeted at local inference have bonus effects for cloud inference? Presumably if you can get great results on cheaper hardware that also equates to less resource usage on cutting edge hardware, and less power draw?

Will advancements like this ultimately reduce the carbon footprint of AI?

Who doesn't enjoy a quick Jonathan now and then.

But seriously, wouldn't productive text on a 90s cell phone pass this test?

I still use office 2003 on Windows

It launches in half a second on any modern machine and does the important stuff even in 2026

Really annoying but somebody used AI to transcribe whatever Tony said in his speech and interview, And it's really obvious because it's full of small mistakes

"New cycle" instead of news cycle "Catherine reel" instead of Catherine wheel

I don't believe they do any of this for votes. I think somebody within the administration has a personal grudge against science, especially anything related to climate change.

I don't believe Trump himself makes any of these decisions, and as for deals I don't think he remembers what happened yesterday let alone a deal made on the campaign trail. Parties in his administration are actively trying to destroy science and cripple any kind of climate research or green energy development, even if it costs nothing. Whoever they are, they make these plans and then get him to sign while he's awake.

Having read through what saab is offering it seems like an absolute no brainer decision. The gripens would be built in Canada, injecting a big chunk of the money into Canadas own aerospace industry. The planes are cheaper to operate and probably more suited for Canadas needs of defending and patrolling the Arctic, rather than the f35 which is great at flying undetected into enemy airspace, something Canada will be less likely to need

And you can warm up the croissant by just placing it on the trackpad while you wait for the LLM to finish

When will these companies realize nobody wants to talk to an AI? The reason we begrudgingly pick up the phone is because some problem is not solvable through the website. The last thing we want at that point is an automated system parroting the website back to us, or telling us to go there ourselves

They probably just don't have any humans left in marketing that can write original copy. They've all been fired or has their brains turned to mush from using copilot all day every day

> I really hope no human would write something like that

Sorry to shatter your hopes but any garbage an LLM writes is mimicry of some human written garbage that came before.

It can only write cringe because we taught it what cringe looks like

Could it be that new tech that passes air over the board without a fan? Was announced last year, I forget what it was called

Yeah that's definitely it. So that makes this an arm device with nvidia GPU. It's not the first as you pointed out, but it would be a more consumer shaped example - a laptop that normal people might be able to afford

I could be wrong but I don't think there are any arm machines with nvidia GPU yet, I think that would be a first.

So it's probably Intel

My first thought was "Tesla is making AI shoes?"

I misread the title as biff, and thought it was a back to the future reference. Turns out I need glasses AND it was a back to the future reference

Is there any better metaphor for AI than that scene? Everyone is terrified at the speed of movement and then it turns out it was all a grift and they were barely moving at all

26Mb sounds perfectly reasonable. Electron apps are usually 100+, and we live in a world where apps download gigabytes of LLMs in the background to do very basic stuff.

Wait, it doesn't do that does it?

Well now I'm imagining Optimus robots teabagging the enemy.

I don't think it's a great approach for an actual game. In this case they're demonstrating that the model can create a shared space that's consistent for many players/users, for a short time. But like you say it would probably not endure.

Although it does put me in mind of playing daggerfall years ago, which had randomly generated dungeons that didn't always work. You could sometimes get trapped in architecture, jump from a height with no way to climb back up again. There was a reason Bethesda moved away from that

I have had fun with a $40 Chromebook on which I installed Linux (I can't remember the exact flavor). It great low power portable for writing on the go when I don't want to worry about bringing a more expensive machine around, but sadly the screen cracked and it would have cost more than $40 to fix