From a 2014 email from Yarvin to Thiel: “One of our hidden advantages is that these people wouldn’t believe in a conspiracy if it hit them over the head (this is perhaps the best measure of the decline of the Left).”
> Trump didn't realise DOGE was bullshit until recently
I think it's pretty naive to just take the reporting of how Trump supposedly reacted in public as an at-face-value reliable representation of what he knew and when.
Hahaha, from a 2014 email from Yarvin to Thiel: “One of our hidden advantages is that these people wouldn’t believe in a conspiracy if it hit them over the head (this is perhaps the best measure of the decline of the Left).” On that, he's not wrong!
Silicon Valley has been a military-intelligence creation from the beginning, and no one climbs all that high within it who hasn't made peace with that reality. Since the erstwhile tech industry liberal bent -- which is now being walked back with a (transparently astroturfed) "vibe shift", not to mention complicity with an open genocide -- is no longer tenable, more open censorship and labor discipline is the order of the day.
The subset of leftie conspiracy theorist Twitter I follow has taken note of some of the books in Lynch's collection like 'Trance Formation of America,' 'Behold a Pale Horse,' and 'Access Denied.'
I was more interested in healthy children, but, that's the case for pregnant women? What exactly is the quantified benefit to babies, and how was it measured?
Some of his paranoid-aware readers believe Pynchon's W.A.S.T.E. may have been an early reference to the ARPANET/internet, which (in this reading of events) Pynchon was read into some of the plans for.
Pretty funny to see people posting about "holding knowledge hostage" on a thread about a new LLM version from a company which 100% intends to make that its business model.
Tether prints billions of dollars a month with a staff of 15 while running a business that's arguably much closer to infringing on the USD's domain than anything that was ever done by Liberty Reserve. I'm sure the regulators' light touch has nothing to do with Brock Pierce being plugged in to elite trafficking networks.
Yeah I'm a big fan of the JetBrains IDEs but I tried it out a few days ago and couldn't even get it to stay connected. Gave up after reading a few recent forum posts about how much trouble people are still having with the feature (which does have a big purple "Beta" label in the IDE at least).
What did you mean by "inline classes" here? My only understanding of that term applies to something like what Java is still developing for Valhalla but has not delivered yet, whereas Kotlin is arguably a little farther along with its own feature with that exact name.
The general thinking around this is that if you're still in interpreted code, you're not in the kind of context where the cost of an extra object allocation is worth worrying about.
Java has replaced JNI with the Project Panama FFM, which depending on your use case might perform quite a bit better than JNI used to. The Vector API is stuck in incubator and still a bit rough around the edges though, so SIMD might be a bit trickier.
Yeah the Java team took the opportunity while introducing the new record feature to explicitly forbid mutating their final fields. Their intention is to eventually enforce the same invariants across all Java fields unless the JVM is passed an explicit opt-out flag. And if you're not reliant on any frameworks using reflection to modify final fields, there's already a flag you can use today which will instruct the JVM to "trust" and apply optimizations to `final`.
Is it your belief that the school closures were successful in mitigating a significant portion of the (grossly exaggerated) harms being enumerated in this thread?
Your numbers and etiology are complete nonsense, and again I'm not sure how they're relevant to the question of school closures, unless you believe schools (and I would think, to be consistent, all of public life itself?) should be shut down indefinitely to prevent COVID infections?
Not sure how this is relevant to an article about school closures, which were successful in preventing perhaps 0.00001% of children from eventually becoming infected with COVID.
I actually consider myself "on the left," but find their turn to a sort of scientistic blind trust of anything remotely billed as "public health" during COVID to have been disastrous.
The recent NIH meta-study indicated there may be neurotoxic effects at concentrations within an order of magnitude of the recommended drinking water level (perhaps even at just 2x the recommendation), I wouldn't call that "very low".
Now that Trump has obviously revealed himself as an Epstein-affiliated pedo with the second term re-rugpull I suppose his fans have reach for even more absurd mental contortions. "There was never anything to cover up in the first place!" lol
> I actually think Java is the better PL, but the worse runtime (in what world are 10s GC pauses ever acceptable).
This seems like a very odd/outdated criticism. 10s CMS full STW GCs are a thing of the past. There are low-latency GCs available for free in OpenJDK now with sub-millisecond pause times. Where I've seen the two runtimes compared (e.g. Coinbase used both langs in latency-sensitive exchange components) Java's has generally come out ahead.
> A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic”
... in case you still had any lingering doubts that the deployment of that term since October 7 has been an entirely cynical maneuver to justify Israeli state crimes.
Very nice article demonstrating a neat use of ASM bytecode. The Java language devs are also working on Project Babylon (code reflection), which will bring additional techniques to manipulate the output from the Java compiler: https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/code-models
We have integrations with dozens of external vendor APIs for which it's essentially impossible to disambiguate ahead of time whether any given error might be on their end or ours.
It's pretty funny that Westerners are still going on about this largely invented issue after underwriting a brutal genocide in Gaza for almost 18 months. Won't someone please think of the oppressed Muslims!