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cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
The president isn’t, but what does that have to do with your decisions?
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
A good example is Many users looking to ditch Windows for Linux due to AI integrations and generally worse user experience. Is this the year of linux desktop?
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
Why unlimited? Populations are shrinking and there is only so much debt these economies can handle.
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
Given the products that the software industry is largely focused on building (predatory marketing for the attention economy and surveillance), this unfortunately may be the case.
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
But not an int, int32, or int64
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
“write a set of unit-tests against a set of abstract classes used as arguments of such unit-tests.”

An exhaustive set of use cases to confirm vibe AI generated apps would be an app by itself. Experienced developers know what subsets of tests are critical, avoiding much work.

cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
“The existence of earlier failures proves nothing in either direction.”

This seems extreme and obviously incorrect.

cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
in the most profitable / high margin software industry, what other major costs are there?
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
Most software, especially web software, is mediocre. LLMs are good at building web software.
cudgy··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
But you admit that fewer humans would be needed as “LLMs would have been good at subsets of that project”, so some impact already and these AI tools only get better.
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Spoken like a true autocrat. Cast the poster as a religious zealot and then claim self-support of the platform for your own view.
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Less US software and hardware is made in US with offshoring and Chinese manufacturing and quality is dropping …
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
True. China only kidnaps its own citizens.
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
And yet Trump admin deports fewer people than Biden admin. Trump is about theatre and will never remove all that cheap labor.
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
True. European countries will never violate privacy, prosecute citizens for their beliefs, or use blackmail operations against its citizens. Problem solved!
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Factory? Or assembly plant?
cudgy··on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Didn’t moving to the cloud exacerbate the problem in the first place?
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
“by all the means in their power” … “sorry we don’t have the means to destroy ourselves by attacking the US”
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Trump has already been impeached … twice … from within the US.
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
So you would prefer Trump be a martyr?
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
like the CEO of every public company and most politicians
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Do you know what impeached means?
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Tariffs have had less effect on prices in US than one would think. Inflation is lower.
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Supreme court cannot rule against all tariffs. Some tariffs will remain and adminstration can “reclassify”.
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Or California (most of western US) from Mexico. Or Florida from Spain. What’s left?
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Self interests of whom? China is a diverse, huge country.
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
So throw caution to the wind because a country (not your country) with 100,000 people are stressed out about geopolitics and possibly being acquired by the richest nation in the world?
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Seems you forgot about these things called nuclear missiles.
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Following Germany really paid off didn’t it?
cudgy··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Wrong. Greenland has been an issue all the way back to the times of Seward in 1868.
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