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> Comfort is the fashion

It, most certainly, isn't, people wear all sorts of uncomfortable clothes and shoes in the name of fashion. Fashion is all about signalling your status and belonging to this or that social group. Suits are simply associated with people most folks don't want to be associated with.

> where electricity is abundant and/or cheap

Definitely not the Netherlands then

That stuff gets rediscovered all the time, the latest example probably being golang

China is very much repeating the history of Japan, and while we can argue how democratic Japan was in the second half of the XX century it definitely wasn't totalitarian.

But not having fixed size integers (or integers tied to the size of a pointer) was. Both can be useful

> Our power on the world stage will decrease, our infrastructure will start to be neglected due to lack of investment, quality will diminish in most areas…

I believe you've chosen the wrong tense there

That would make it the only company in the world not doing that

> Europeans don't get that choice

We absolutely, 100% do. Not everywhere, just like it isn't universally true in the US, but it definitely is a choice that many in Europe have. We just aren't chained to a car even in this case, public transport is still great even if you don't live in the city center.

That makes it even worse for european automakers, if they cannot compete even with a heavily tariffed BYD

> there has to be people alive who saw a complex problem and simplified it 10x

Absolutely. Let's be generous and say that there are a thousand of them alive today, what about everyone else? Are their lives meaningless now?

> the simplicity of the Internet

The Internet is TCP/IP and TCP/IP is a lot of things but hardly "simple"

> I don't see other nations reproducing the French institutions

Gaullism and strong governments are not in fashion these days. The main thing that made Messmer plan work was Messmer himself, a strong leader with the power to tell everyone to stfu and do it.

> Humans should focus on finding simple solutions that lead to a 10X improvement

How many humans can you name who really did that? Like, in the whole history of our species

Didn't Americans send all their freedom to Iran?

> It's avoiding two distinct vowel sounds in succession

That implies that English added a consonant there to avoid double vowels, but it's the other way around: it used to have "n" always, same as other Germanic languages, and then it was dropped to avoid two consonants in a row

My layman definition of what a star is is "it's somewhere in the sky and it gives off light". The word "density" wouldn't even come to my mind

I've been using it since the time it was called Netscape Navigator. Just sayin'

> So the (PCI-E) bandwidth strongly affects time to first token

On dedicated inference hardware I'd expect model weights to never leave the RAM, and you'd probably load them on startup before even starting to serve requests

Another 40% is in Russia, good luck with that

Afaik, the modern view on birds is not that they came from dinosaurs, but they are dinosaurs, the only kind that survived.

> The latest cuts come after Oracle's workforce fell by roughly 21,000 employees, or 13%, during fiscal 2026

13% doesn't seem too different from other tech companies

I guess, you don't use AI for work? Otherwise, why should you be paid for it? Should you only be paid for the code you actually wrote yourself?

Do you have a real argument to make rather than just appealing to authority?

Open weights != self hosted

"Intrusive" may be a C++ speak, but I wouldn't say that one or the other type of lists is necessarily much older or more "normal". After all, a cons cell embeds data and not the other way around and lisp is one of the oldest programming languages in existence

When going at a high speed, breaking hard with the front wheel alone can force the bike to rotate around it and the rider might enjoy a very short but very thrilling flight. Which I learned the hard way many years ago

Breaking with just the front wheel break is a very bad idea, so you always need the rear wheel hand to break

> It's free

It isn't, the cost is included in your electricity bill, not even talking about the cost of your time to set it up. It's very possible that it costs you more than a cloud mode would, you just don't want to calculate it properly.

> can't physically or geographically support subways or light rail

Why? Genuinely curious, I don't know much about US geography

Let me introduce you to this very new invention called public transport

Just use the beak?