Yep, I've heard variants of all of those first-hand from people who work at my company.
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That being said, there is a broader trend, that Japan's immigration authorities are becoming more foreigner-hostile, reflecting a broader political view shift in Japanese society (see: Sanseito political party) and one could argue in the US and globally.
One data point: a few months back we had one of our employees denied a Permanent Resident Visa due to a clerical error where our company forgot to notify the immigration bureau of an address change--we literally moved our office across the street, same city block. Our lawyer said such a case was unheard of a few years ago; these were always handled as simple corrections, instead the poor chap had to go to the back of the 9+ month waiting queue.
Our lawyer says the news is too new to know what concrete ramifications it will actually have on us, a tech company which uses English as the main language for engineering roles.
"Democracy" itself was not at stake in the American Civil War because both sides practiced it. The Confederacy was/would have been a democracy analogous to ancient Athens--one where slaves (and women) were excluded from political participation. The vast majority of Confederate politicians, including Jefferson Davis, came from the "Democratic Party"--which, true to its name, championed enfranchisement for the "common (white) man" as opposed to control by elites.
Perhaps a better example is the "Tobacco War" of 1780 in the American Revolution, where Cornwallis and Benedict Arnold destroyed massive quantities of cured tobacco to try to cripple the war financing of the colonies.
Control of tobacco in Latin/South America since the 1700s (Spain's second-largest source of imperial revenue after precious metals) also had a directly stifling effect on democratic self-governance.
For me, Claude, Suno, Gemini and AI tools are pure bliss for creation, because they eliminate the boring grunt work. Who cares how to implement OAuth login flow, or anything that has been done 1000 times?
I do not miss doing grunt work!
A consultant like Nihonium or whatever wont be able to help you really. Like any good consultant, they will be there to tell you things you already know. The motivation to do it needs to come fundamentally from your own company.
And even after doing all that, VCs will still undervalue your company vs a similarly sized US company.
On package memory is claimed to be a 40% reduction in power consumption. To beat actual LL by 30%, it means the PL chip must actually be ~58% more efficient in an apples-to-apples non-SoC configuration.
Possible if they doped PL’s silicon with magic pixie dust.
Intel called it a “one-off mistake”, it’s the best mistake Intel ever made.
Whoever wrote this article is likely also high, or at least delusional.
First, YJIT/ZJIT do much better when they know the type signatures of methods. You pay a performance penalty for implicit polymorphism, e.g. using a mix of types (Integer, Symbol, String) etc in the same method argument.
Second, from my experience with Typescript, as much as I naturally dislike type declarations, I find it does help LLMs. Having strongly typed libs/gems and being able to mix in untyped app code would be a nice balance.
Ouch. Well it is Gemini I guess :D
bicycles --> police forces, see the Japanese in Malaya 1941
sewing machines --> factory labor, mass production of clothes
hand tools --> Guild systems
musical instruments --> organized religion, national anthems, cultural soft power
open radio bands --> policing, surveillance
blacksmithing --> weapons
etc. etc. we can do this all day :)