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Maybe they will have to transition from Base 26 counting to Base 64!

AGI, I believe, given the prior article the author cited in the beginning.

> s/was/is. As in -- they're going to keep using Signal.

If that does turn out to be the case then I am certain this won't be the last time they inadvertently share information.

It's interesting and funny from a tech perspective that auto-suggestions on iPhone got him.

It's also proof that 1) security processes are important for a reason and 2) don't discuss information you don't want getting out on a consumer device (or really on any internet connected device) and 3) these guys' plan of using signal to avoid record keeping was foolish and stupid, more than just because of their silly fear that Democrats would release their records (that would require Democrats growing a spine).

In regards to Federal agencies, a lot of it comes down to many people just not knowing much about these agencies, and much of what they do know are the scary bits and pieces capitalists have broadcast through their media (I hesitate to just call them conservatives, as their agenda is completely separate from moving law and government in a slow, conservative manner).

I for one didn't even know we had an agency like USAID, which sounds like it has done wonderful work around the world. Most people (again, myself included), probably don't know just what the DOE's main function is. Turns out it's a pretty hands-off agency, and shutting it down will mostly just harm kids with disabilities. Why we shut these agencies down is beyond me, but I guess it makes them look like they're doing something without going after the actual big fish, like our national "defense" apparatus. Oh no, there we're going to build a "golden dome". A very "efficient" one I'm sure.

"A republic, if can keep it".

[0] https://constitutioncenter.org/education/classroom-resource-...

This is a good question. The other question that I haven't yet seen the answer for is how anyone will make money off of an AGI, if such a thing is actually feasible in the near term. As it is the business model for just LLMs and generative models in general seems flimsy.

I don't argue with your point regarding how many engineers have their PE. I don't have mine.

My point is that accreditation boards and trade unions can help set standard minimums of what an engineer (or trades person) will know going into a job. Of course employers can ignore them, but in general those standards help bring consistent expectations to a given trade.

Consistent educational standards leads to a common shared understanding of what knowledge and training your engineering colleagues have. This also makes it easier right off the bat for an employer to know what a "junior" engineer is - and leads to more consistent experience levels afterwards.

And you didn't quite mix it up, a degree from an ABET accredited school is required to get your professional engineering certification, which is often required in cases where engineering designs carry legal liability.

If they have an undergrad degree in any of those disciplines then their college has ABET accreditation.

Civil, mechanical, electrical, and most other engineering disciplines have an accreditation board. I don't think they are pushing a "flawed" ideology in those disciplines. At least I don't see civil engineers constantly questioning why they would do load modeling for a bridge, like SWE's constantly question the value of unit testing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABET

I quite like the idea of a trade union or accreditation board for SWE. The idea that we all work by a shared set of standards and terminology is appealing.

I think the idea is definitely to trigger a recession, but I doubt they care about "allies"; this crowd loved the zero-interest rate days. A strong enough recession should bring those back without the drama of the president forcing the fed chief to do so through coercion.

> I haven't been following .NET lately, but AFAIK .NET works on Linux now and "Mono" is basically .NET for Linux... what even are the differences?

Ideally few, but I think it is a good thing to have a separate implementation of the dotnet runtime as an insurance policy against the main contributor to dotnet.

My EE education keeps coming back.

That's the minimum they charge. The maximum they charge is how much they think customers are willing or have to pay. If the general mood is that tariffs will cause inflation, then price gouging will likely occur.

I've seen this trend regressing where I live, most restaurants I go to have done away with the QR codes (unless it's a brewery/distillery kind of establishment).

This is definitely true, however many of us remember Musk declaring himself a "free-speech absolutist", so in most cases people are referring to his hyprocisy rather than his legal rights.

[0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600

In my experience, if you can't create an agenda, then it's more than likely the meeting is unnecessary.

> Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!

I see you don't know the challenges of disk access on Android for developers.

Interesting! Would be curious to know what that is like.

In my opinion it seems like an experimental competitor to VS Code while also giving them a way to dog food new Java-based UI frameworks (KMP, Compose).

A tax cut probably won't do a lot to help people who aren't making taxable income.

The electoral college was created to prevent a majority from doing such things, but having the electoral college override the will of the people creates all sorts of problems (and possible tit-for-tat in future elections).

Unfortunately, the best they can do is "This is my confidence on what someone would say given the prior context".

Interesting that they didn't use one of their AI models to assist them...

Asking a software engineer to be more productive is akin to asking a mechanical engineer to be more productive. What does that end up looking like? More useless blueprints? It turns out when you ask software engineers to just crank out code, you just get lots of code.

I'm not familiar with Swift, but it still sounds like it's describing an actor model, just one with a subset of the functionality.

> Your Child Loves Actor Frameworks

It turns out, Promises are actors. Very simple actors that can have one and only one message that upon resolution they dispatch to all other subscribed actors [0]. So children might love Promises and async/await then?

Personally, I've often thought the resolution to the "color" debate would be for a new language to make all public interfaces between modules "Promises" by default. Then the default assumption is "if I call this public function it could take some time to complete". Everything acting synchronously should be an implementation detail that is nice if it works out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises#Semantics...

Yep in some way the programmer needs to express that the routine will have to _continue_ when IO completes (which will necessarily go up to the top of the stack in some way, unless you don't care about the result of the IO operation), or the runtime needs to block until IO completes.