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People like you never learn from history, that's why history repeats. You can learn a lot by looking at what happened during Ancient Roman times. Nothing has changed in 2000 years.

History repeats. We are on the verge of WW3. If you care to look, you can see the signs already. Human nature never changes. Fundamentally, nothing has changed in 80 years. You are a linear thinker, you should try and learn about the cyclical nature of the world.

History repeats, because people like you don't learn anything about history

> In NA countries if you're Asian, you're American / Canadian.

During WW2, the US government put Japanese people who were born in the US into concentration camps. So your statement is false.

Alternatively, you can listen to Jimmy Buffett's A Pirate Looks At Forty

> The thing is the LLM interfaces encourage people to write their own apps.

LLMs are simply the latest incarnation of VB6 + Clippy.

It would be like telling the computer to compress a music file containing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and getting back a file that contains Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Maybe you don't care, but I do.

Why don't you just use the transporter instead of your car?

Back in the early days of the internet, there were FAQs written about everything. You could talk to people who actually knew what they were doing, as opposed to today.

> lucky people, as soon as I learn how something works it's pretty much impossible for me to keep any interest in it

I guess that means you are still interested in pretty much everything

The Amiga also struggles with frame rates, with most games running at 30hz/25hz. There are quite a few games that have better gameplay on the Commodore 64 port than the Amiga port.

The only arcade games that use the bitmap/blitter architecture were mostly Williams games like Robotron, Joust, and so forth. Everything else was tiles/sprites, except for the Atari vector games.

> And then three fundamental hardware mistakes with the ST were:

> 1. not shipping it with the Blitter from the start so it couldn't compete on games, obviously with the Amiga but even with 8-bits of the time

I don't think a blitter is that big of a deal, especially for games. A sprite/tile architecture would be better for games.

I wish that the ST came with the YM2203, instead of the YM2149. That would make it an even better machine for music, with the addition of 3 4-op FM voices.

> This is why the default Workbench screen is 4-colour hires. It's hires to look nice and professional like an IBM, and not like a kid's toy like the Atari ST's default lowres GEM interface

The Atari ST had a professional resolution of 640x400 monochrome with a 70hz refresh rate. The Amiga had a 640x200 resolution non-interlaced, or a 640x400 interlaced which was basically a kid's toy.

Nothing beats serial programming imo

So, kind of like popular music, and good music

> And now we have junior programmers that don't understand the code being generated and submit pull requests with garbage code.

Sounds just like most 'senior' devs tbh.

I know I will never switch to ARM willingly. There is no advantage, only vendor lock-in. I feel that x86's openness was an accident, and we should try to keep x86 alive as long as possible.

If Apple cared about quality, they wouldn't have gotten rid of Qualcomm modems, and forced people to use the inferior Intel modems. I always avoided by iPhone models with Intel modems starting around the 6S era.

> I've got the feeling that the definition of "hacked" can get somewhat stretched.

Kind of like how someone "hacked" into John Podesta's (during the 2016 elections), but the reality was that he wrote his password on a Post-It note and stuck it on his monitor, or something to that effect.

I am not necessarily anti-AI. I am more anti-Sam Altman, against using LLMs to usurp power, and against using AI as a scapegoat to abdicate responsibility for decisions that are made. AI itself encompasses so much more than LLMs.

The US expects it's 'allies' to be subservient, and to do as they are told. Simple as that

> We're 30+ years into trackpads on laptops and they're still terrible on Windows machines. Make it make sense.

The old Mac trackpads were great. The new Mac trackpads where they increased the size, and made it solid-state feel terrible to use. Make it make sense.

> Never underestimate the impact of a good, tech savvy, manager.

A good, tech savvy manager is the stuff of legends, like the Loch Ness Monster, or Bigfoot.

> Sequoia will be taken from my cold dead hands.

I'm still running Leopard. The built in X11 server, combined with X11 forwarding, and a Linux box works fine for my meager needs. I can run Chromium using X11 forwarding, seems to work fine for the most part.

Resistance is futile.

Your analogies are completely non-sensical.

> You've said a bunch of things that don't really equate to "China already won".

There is no path for victory for the US, where it remains the world's reserve currency. China will become the world's reserve currency by 2032.

You are simply in denial. Everything that I wrote points to China winning.

> In what way has "China already won"?

The US has depleted their missile stockpile and can no longer defend anybody. Countries in the Middle East are moving away from the US and forming their own alliances. Taiwan knows that the US cannot do anything to help them. South Korea also knows. The US has weaponized the US Dollar, forcing countries out of the SWIFT system if they don't do what they are told. As a result, the CHIPS system has become the alternative. China understands better how the economy works, with the Belt and Road Initiative. The US government doesn't understand how the economy works, and is run by a bunch of complete m orons.

Von der Leyen was hand-picked by Klaus Schwab

There is no struggle, China has already won.