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This, and Larry Ellison buying all news outlets in America. Things should be happening quickly enough so that it's obvious where this is all going, right?

Whoever writes the next "Inglorious Basterds" should have a lot of fun parodying Larry...

Next up, the guy, probably named Buttle, will get billed for the intervention.

The dumbest timeline is the one with nuclear war. This might not be it.

If we're optimistic and assume that Trump, Xi and Putin have some kind of deal for a new world order where the US is no longer a world police, and the US gets to have its oligarchs just like Russia has.

Maybe that part of the deal is that Trump gets the Americas. It sure sucks for the new vassal states, but it beats having a nuclear war.

Propaganda is supposed to be for the proles. Whatever those bureaucrats say is not the candid truth, that should be obvious to anybody. Once the elite begins absorbing it at its first level of speech, it's a sure sign that the nation is in decline.

We don't refer to the same problem. This problem you're referring to is not about finding those people who have the ability, so rare among non-american people, to consume stuff. It's about ramping up production while at the same time paying tribute to the US. This is, indeed, a difficult problem to solve and no doubts requires the best minds of the economic academia world.

However, the nature of the problem changes once the US stops being the world police. The problem becomes figuring out what's the pecking order now.

That "consumption" is such a difficult thing to do is a preposterous idea, since you can always set things on fire. These theories are all make believe.

I mean, what makes american so special in their ability to consume? An african can watch football on their 54" TV just as well as an american. Just ship this crap there instead of in the US if you're so concerned about consuming it.

It's trade imbalance! You ship stuff, and the IOUs you get in return are never claimed. It's no better than shipping stuff in Africa and getting Zimbabwean money in return. Everyone knows that it can't be claimed for anything tangible, except from other countries who also owe fealty to the US and are forced to give this currency value. If everyone "asked" for something in return of those IOUs from the US itself, they'd get nothing of tangible value in return. These IOUs only have value insofar as the US is the world police.

That's why I said "set it on fire". This whole economic speak is just a cover to avoid saying that trade imbalance is a fealty payment to the US. It's ridiculous to say that a country that was previously sending out stuff for free to the US would suddenly have a big existential problem when they suddenly don't have to do it anymore. They will have other problems due to a changing world order, that's for sure, but figuring out what to do with that production won't be one of them.

It's a trade imbalance. They send stuff out, they get nothing in. They could just continue to produce the stuff, then just set it on fire. No mass unemployment. Problem solved, no? It seems easier to do than to build an industrial base again.

Hey, it did become bigger news. Good. It's the first time I see this on HN. An old 2 days thread being "bumped" by changing the timestamp?

It's the same thing, I used the wrong term.

Indeed, and it might be why the author didn't try, but I still find it odd to not at least mention how small this C compiler is, even if it is to say that it's not apples-to-apples comparable. I mean, 8x smaller than the smallest C compiler listed is still something notable...

By design, it's not a fully compliant ANSI C compiler, so it's never going to be complete, but it's complete enough to, for example, successfully compile Plan 9's driver for the Raspberry Pi USB controller with a minimal porting effort.

So, Dusk's compiler is not apple-to-apple comparable to the other, but comparable enough to give a ballpark idea that its code density compares very, very favorably.

I like the spirit of this article, but I find it strange that they open their article by quoting me, but then don't include Dusk OS's C compiler in the list.

Fairly counting SLOC is a tricky problem, but my count is 1119 lines of code for the C compiler (written in Forth of course), that's less than 8x the count of chibicc, described as the smallest.

Whoa, it should be bigger news. I too was under the impression that it was a done deal, with Larry Ellison coming in to mop the floor.

It would be so funny if ByteDance and China continued to successfully mock the US in this silly posturing.

Wherever there's gambling, there's sharks. If you don't know whether you're a shark or a fish in this pond, then you're a fish.

Oh, alright, we speak the same language. Of course I don't have evidence, only hunches, and they of course mean nothing.

I don't know, general principles. If you can balance your budget with money printed out of thin air, why bother with selling treasury bills to anyone but the Fed, at 0%?

Who's crying?

Does it do this often? This is quite literally "printing money", right? Wasn't the Fed not supposed to be allowed to do that?

I'm guessing that if it doesn't do that, short term treasury yields will spike, and they don't want that to happen?

Doesn't this make treasury yields meaningless? If they're subsided by the Fed, then it means that nobody but them will buy them, since this subsidy means that short term treasuries are noncompetitive with other asset classes.

What am I missing?

Yes, sometimes it's that, but what I've observed in the field is self-inflicted by programmers. It's the impostor syndrome. They don't know, but they don't want to show that they don't know. They look around for clues of what to choose. Monkey see, monkey do. And then, like monkeys, they bash their keyboard until it seems to work.

The "terrible decisions" of yore hold no comparison to today's "terrible decisions". It's not the same ballpark, it's not the same sport.

The better tools are already there. It's not about making it better. It's about most programmers today choosing mediocrity.

Sometimes, you can avoid contact with this mediocrity, but often you don't and you're forced to play in this swamp.

I'm wondering, at what point could we consider that DRAM is in "market failure" state?

I don't think I am. I'm talking about propaganda. Let's ask our propaganda machines "Why is the US peace plan so favorable to Russia".

Russia propaganda: because our super weapons do much better on the field than the US anticipated and they're shitting their pants now.

US propaganda: Because our weapons are invincible. Our superiority has always been overwhelming. America, fuck yeah! etc. etc. Oh wait, you meant those terms favorable to Russia? Yeah, huh, the peace prize.

I don't have the means to figure out who's right, but I know which one sounds funnier than the other.

Ok, so it's the peace prize. I don't have deep knowledge about this issue, so I guess you're right.

This makes me have funny thoughts. You know, we're all heavily influenced by propaganda. We have american propaganda, they have russian propaganda, they have chinese propaganda, etc.

So here it's the peace prize, and over there it's their super mega unstoppable missiles. There might be a day when foreign propaganda explains the reality that americans can observe in a manner that is more straightforward than their own nation's propaganda. That would be a fun day.

I understand that this is the conventionally accepted version of the military situation in Ukraine. But if that's the case, why is US' peace proposal favorable to Russia? The US should be laughing at Russia's puny attempts to breach their invincible defenses.

This has to be related to Russia and the war in Ukraine. I'm not a military buff, so my analysis might be way off, but here we go.

  1. The US has sent a shitload of weapons to Ukraine over the last years.
  2. Given the US military superiority and how weak Russia is supposed to be, Russia should be on its knees right now.
  3. The US is promoting a peace plan that seems to heavily favor Russia.

So, at that point, I see two possibilities:

  1. Trump is a russian asset
  2. The US military is privately shitting its pants about how weak they are in this proxy war.

Theoretically, if Trump was a russian asset, he wouldn't go after Venezuela. Why would Russia want to destroy its puppet state?

So I'm going with 2, and it's the cold war again. This is an attempt by the US military to spread Russia thin for further conflicts coming all over the place.

Except for the "disabilities" part, which is problematic to classify, wouldn't your description broadly fit the word "losers"?

EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. It's not a value judgement on Github employees, it's about the meaning of the word "loser". Go back to your teenage years. What's a loser? Someone, often through no fault of their own, keep being in a bad situation, having the "short end of the stick". What characteristically makes them losers is that they lack the audacity to snap out of it.

Isn't that an accurate definition of what "loser" generally means?

Thanks for the mention. The philosophy behind Dusk is also eerily relevant to Chuck's problem at the moment. To quote my own manifest[1]:

  When you operate a system, there is no problem that can arise that will make you powerless. Sure, you can have a hardware failure that hopelessly breaks your system, but at least you'll be able to identify that failure and know for sure that there is no software solution or workaround. That's control.

In this situation, of course Windows is to blame. But it could also happen with Linux, even if it's to a much much lesser degree.

If an update breaks your software in a way that is obscure enough to break only your software, then nobody else will fix your problem, and the system as a whole is too complex for you to dive in, making you powerless.

[1]: https://duskos.org/who.html

  > A few months ago, I was in the city for a weekend and took Waymo for most of my rides.
  > [...]
  > I don't know if I trust Waymo cars with my life [...]

I'm sorry to be that guy, but didn't you already?

It depends on the weight of the target word. For trivial words like "dup" or "1+", the cost of the call is proportionally pretty big compared to inlining the native code.

But all it all, I agree that this tax is far from being a deal breaker. That's why I don't say that in my article :)