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snailmailstare··on Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030
Carrot or stick might be all the same to TSMC, but Intel shouldn't have such a huge amount of its fab capacity within hotel tariff.
snailmailstare··on Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
Without some research the current President would probably not be healthy enough to be in office, clearly we have to reduce the risk of that happening again.
snailmailstare··on Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud
I don't think revenue numbers reflect that we are in a ditching the cloud hype cycle, particularly given emerging political risks.. At any given time there is hype for every possibility with controversy or ramifications and the software market is so much larger than what many of us were used to that any group seems large enough to be most of the market.
snailmailstare··on Electronic devices used for car thefts set to be banned
Assuming your friend has Internet access nothing could really go wrong. If you forget to send them the code they can just watch a short video.
snailmailstare··on The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
Any man can avoid one boss, the trick is avoiding both.
snailmailstare··on Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
Linus was pretty clear about his views on working with vendors, etc, in his Autobiography so I'm not sure if/why there would be surprise.

Solaris, Java and C/C++ conpilers were all owned by Sun. I feel that is a situation without anyone even trying to maintain whatever separation some might expect from Linus.

snailmailstare··on New German leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations
I'm sorry.. "Did it hurt?"
snailmailstare··on DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
Sure some users would keep the CA active out of fear, while everyone paying digicert would also begin to move out of fear.. What portion of the strange sort of sites that couldn't figure out how to get off but could figure out how to renew would bother with paying for a different error message?
snailmailstare··on New German leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations
Trump achieves what Hitler could not..
snailmailstare··on Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming
I hear a lot about how ahead of their time they were and how everything since is based on them.. But it seems like newer things since then are all being built on the shoulders of a generation of thousands of giants instead of a generation where we can only identify 2.
snailmailstare··on Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
I think the pressures are from everywhere all the time. There's always a risk that something picks up enough steam to replace an OS even if it is a derivative or fork of the same OS. For C++ adoption, Linus gauged correctly that it's steam is limited and even directly taunting its supporters had low risk in a project that could challenge Linux because its set of choices over time has had many foot guns, where many developers would intentionally use what any user would consider a foot gun. As long as Linus didn't step in to define strong rules for how C++ would be used there was no likely challenger over any reasonable amount of time (for Linux/C). This is not true for rust.
snailmailstare··on Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees
In finance you can strut around wall street and cause a bidding war. In chip design you can move your life to a specific shitsville to work for the other employer and get sued before they decide to close down again.
snailmailstare··on Bybit sees over $4B 'bank run' after crypto's biggest hack
> But how would we hear about the ones who don't?

I hear stories about them and whether the con-artist got access to their digital wallet, whether they made it to a safe room in the home invasion and, of course, whether they got rights to mine the dump.

snailmailstare··on Bybit sees over $4B 'bank run' after crypto's biggest hack
ETH is supposed to be an electronic contracts market.. Is everyone who writes a contract from now on going to include code to block using these coins as collateral? If there's no consensus to interfere with the transaction, I assume people will watch the coins in motion and extend a larger map of tainted accounts and coins, yet be unable to interfere in many algorithm decided actions.
snailmailstare··on But good sir, what is electricity?
I had a similarly funny discussion with a proper engineering student on refrigeration insulation and why it isn't more natural to express it similarly with temporarily trapping cold given the inevitable nature of heat/entropy.
snailmailstare··on Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests
You can build real high density urban places outside an old city center and they can function quite a bit better in terms of neighborhood restaurants, schools, markets, etc..

There are plenty of places where the old city is not all that vibrant or interesting (and where a family is so rare the question is how to get the few kids to a lively district every morning) and I don't have a fiddle small enough for the owner's opportunity loss.

snailmailstare··on Simplewall Has Been Discontinued
It might be the hardest proof to expect, but there is an unarchive button and people archive for reasons like moving rather than stopping a project permanently.
snailmailstare··on Bybit loses $1.5B in hack but can cover loss, CEO confirms
This loss is more than 5% of their holdings.. To me that implies the supposed benefit of crypto is nonexistent. If an institution is making so much money off your crypto assets that they can return 5% of them, they are a bank doing whatever it was that was so evil.
snailmailstare··on Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy
I don't really get that point. We have decided against removing the prodigies from the normal environment so its not at all uncommon to see someone who was expected to be the most promising for society held back by a basic social or economic trap they should have avoided if they valued putting the slightest thought into our mundane things.
snailmailstare··on Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy
The article goes on to make better arguments than the comments imply, but still treats the opposition as a strawman. Showing a student how compound interest works on one loan or account is microeconomics and it was never as ineffective as teaching kids smoking public health statistics which is more like teaching macroeconomics and expecting children to be afraid they will ruin the GDP.
snailmailstare··on I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
Ah, then that is a strange way to partially switch over to the metric system.
snailmailstare··on Suckless.org: software that sucks less
Oh then I totally disagree (or don't understand why you would need to see a psychoanalysis of a blacksmith to evaluate their offerings?). Many projects have places that need some complexity, configuration or advanced tools that doesn't imply the hardware store should stop selling average hammers or make you wade through an aisle of crap from providers like peloton to see if they better meet your needs.

(I.e. show me where in the article he replaced a standard tool like the hammer or pot with a complex one customized to exactly what he wanted to solve or explain why that advanced tool wouldn't suck given that there's a lot more details than one would expect.)

snailmailstare··on Suckless.org: software that sucks less
I like these tools because they are minimalist.. I don't really care for the fact that they are C/make oriented and would rather help someone rewriting them in go or rust than show that I have a non minimal amount of scar tissue to work with a needlessly complicated past.
snailmailstare··on Suckless.org: software that sucks less
If the goal were not to suck at all a GUI would be the wrong choice of genre.

But I do hope the st buffer overflow fixes my st usage in builds..

snailmailstare··on I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
I only took one economics class so I'm not familiar with this dieting elephant?
snailmailstare··on Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue
It's not clear to me if the light stays on, a PR department is likely to not be vague about something positive. Anyone used to past vehicles of similar size may expect less risk driving a car with no power steering to a shop (or just away from a risky place to be stopped).
snailmailstare··on DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
I spent a long time trying to figure out who he could have been comparing himself to every time he was in the media for decades, until I was watching the Simpsons and realized Krusty had always been there but was no longer the worlds most beloved clown.
snailmailstare··on Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
It looks like the site you are referring to quotes pure ISP costs while the matrix foundation bridge costs include maintaining bridge related software they would otherwise archive.
snailmailstare··on Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
Or he cheaped out on quality.
snailmailstare··on What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf]
There's certainly many dimensions along these lines that if you don't think about them in relation to the type of software development you are doing, and what you have done, you will take a long time to improve.. But this being the model for all software development (such that all others are bad) strikes me as a missing chapter from printf.

https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html

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