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Even at war and cut off from the world the Russian economy is growing. Driving by buoyant commodity prices.

They have tech for civilian aviation in their massive military industry. And just the sheer size of the country guarantees the demand.

Supersonic = +1 mach, hypersonic = +5 mach.

And the Chinese have a modern engine under development that can be used in a commercial airliner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAE_CJ-1000A

Both China and Russia are building alternatives to Boeing/Airbus commercial airliners. But are in two completely different situations.

COMAC relies on international suppliers, probably hoping that will make it easier for them to be allowed to fly outside China and then over time they can use more and more domestic suppliers. Whereas the Russians are completely cut off from international suppliers and travel, and have to resurrect their airliner projects which have been more or less dormant since the Soviet times.

I think both will be succesful over time; they have huge internal markets that can sponsor quite a bit of development cost.

Can your client actually pay? If not pursuing legal actions will just be a waste of money.

In general breakdown payment for larger projects into smaller installments / subprojects.

Isn't this the very point of tailwind? If you don't like it maybe just don't use tailwind.

Isn't Google chrome open source?

It should be possible to point to the source code of whatever google.com extensions that may exist.

Or is this only available in the packaged distributions of Chrome?

How can anyone think that Hong Kong new territories and Guantanamo, which were areas essentially taken by force and then had a dubious leasing agreement painted over them, is the same situation as an agreement between two formal allies?

“Leased”

It probably is.

I was trying to be tongue in the cheek - my point is emphasizing dangers and restricting access can act as a form of marketing.

OpenAIs models are so powerful and so close to AGI that the global balance of power would flip if autocratic regimes like China were to gain API access to it.

That’s what I am getting from the geopolitical safety researching marketing department.

Anyway as far as I can tell OpenAI has been turning access on and off for a while. And oddly enough now have decided to turn it off completely just as plenty of credible alternatives are emerging.

What is the point of making the matrix multiplication itself multithreaded (other than benchmarking)? Wouldn't it be more beneficial in practice to have the multithreadedness in the algorithm that use the multiplication?

Yes. Solar panels, and air cons for that matter, are as cheap as ever. We europeans can easily afford this.

Insisting on no air con is a cultural phenomenon. We associate it to something unneccessary, unnatural, excessive, distasteful, and wasteful. Our attitude is changing though ...

"Company President Brad Smith also revealed that China accounts for only 1.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue at a recent congressional hearing, raising questions about its future in the country."

1.5% sounds like a number massaged to please the particular audience.

I think it is hard to make a for profit general purpose language today; if you by that you mean that the developers directly pay for it. The business model has moved on; and builders for languages / platforms have found other ways of charging people.

Funny. I get 50 results for "facebook" - ending with:

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 50 already displayed.

"Infinite" scroll until I hit that message (no pagination).

If I search for "foo" - it will show a "More results v" button after about 50 and keep on doing that.

I am in Germany.

I cannot tell if you are joking or not. But it is obvious she is litigating in public until she gets the payoff she wants:

https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik

Of course a big corp cannot give in easily to behaviour like that as it would just open the flood gates.

So what about US companies like Apple, Tesla and Microsoft that operate in China and wants to make their AI offerings available there while being bound by Chinese requirements to run cloud services in the country? Wouldn’t they be caught by this and thus at a disadvantage vs local offerings?

It looks like a modern statically typed multi-paradigm language with OO, exceptions, higher order functions, pattern matching, annotations, concurrency primitives etc. sitting on top of LLVM and something called CVJM. I guess it is in family with modern C# and perhaps Swift - has kinda a similar syntax to Swift.

There are also some instructions for running it on Ubuntu in the pdf.

I will give you this: The emergence of mature powerful web browsers made it possible to move a lot of functionality to the end-user's device and that gave raise to the frontend / backend developer split. But you are pointing to a specific frontend technology (react) and that is not the culprit here.

I do not mean to be rude but what you describe is an organizational problem.

It was the "view as a (pure) function of your model" approach that was architecturally new in react.

This article explains it using a bit of react jargon (action, store, dispatcher) which is kind of unnecessary - but that's what I got from a quick google:

https://medium.com/@asif-ali/react-architecture-vs-mvc-unidi....

React Architecture vs. MVC: Unidirectional Flow Advantage.

What you write about has got nothing to do with react.

You can be old and experienced and still have an attitude of being open to new things ... at least to the point where you understand them before you embark on a rant.

Could it be that you never tried to understand react and why the approach makes sense to millions of developers?

What a silly rant. There is a huge world of different approaches to front-end and lots of them do cool and interesting things that would both up your productivity and give you completely new opportunities ... if you bothered instead of just being an old fart.

No they are not.

Not unless you connect a machine gun to your neural net.

Otherwise - we are talking about a chat bot - yes if there is no safety - it will say something racist - or implement a virus for you that you would have had to search 4chan for or something.

None of this is any more dangerous than what you can find on the far corners of the internet.

And it will not bring the end of the world.

It is a strange thing. We are not anywhere near “super intelligence” yet the priority is safety.

If the Wright brothers had focused on safety, I am not sure they would have flown very far.