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Those in EU-office.

I was replying to the word "decay", not to the corruption situation. Probably they are related, but certainly not the same.

Is fertility so important?

Maybe the other western countries are equally infertile, but just allowed many immigrants in (which counts are population expansion) that also have more children on average.

How are Japan and Korea holing out? They are further down the infertility down-spiral.

Denmark?

The Swiss?

Norway?

And I was in Serbia lately, and while it was not as developed as NW-EU, nobody there described it as decaying (and many said they experiences decay when living in western nations over the past 2 decades).

I admire you guy keep trying.

I'm also glad I do not write C++ on the daily anymore: luckily my software does not need that kind of performance characteristics.

It's worse than a farce. It's actually evil. The way "they" are pushing chat control, and how Ursula is avoiding justice (she has a huge corruption case hanging over her head but manages continuously cancel court dates); this makes a all too clear.

The only way to fix this is EU member states become more critical: but for politicians in those states an EU position is the best promotion they can make. So almost nobody dares to speak out.

Strongly typed is not a well defined term.

But by most people definitions, Python certainly is NOT strongly typed.

My take at a definition... Strongly typed languages make a serious effort to use the type system to prevent whole categories of bugs.

It kinda bites with the "dynamic typing" (a euphemism or marketing-speak for "weak typing") that Python/Ruby/JS implement. Sure some are adding typing now (trying to make big codebases in those languages more manageable), but it's always an optional add-on.

Signalling = markets.

Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on networth. The markets that allowed this are usually "free'ish" at best.

There's a really insightful book on this topic (by pretty much the name you suggested):

https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/1...

I really liked the article. Sure maybe the title of the original article is a little clickbaity; but are article titles not supposed to be "drawing your attention"?

The author is doing really cool things, like a worker-coop for software engineering:

https://508.dev/pricing

Also i think the article contained some interesting points. Like the "class consciousness" of the owner-class and how this affects decisions on AI. But, to me, there were more.

Anyway, to each their own. I liked it.

Nice article...

Bloat is not "since generative AI coding" new. We always had it. As the author says:

“It does sound like Facebook’s ‘move fast and break things,’ which didn’t age well either.”

Which indeed did not age well, but it did help the company to grow to a certain point at which it is now a staple in our lives (and can do super expensive BS experiments like "Metaverse" and still show profits).

This may be what Tan does as well: first profitable, then correct.

This is an approach, which may work for some, it may also allow some companies to become irrelevant (like: once the bloat-app is profitable, a clone-app emerges that is bloat-free and overtakes the bloat-app in every dimension, while the bloat-app is figuring out how to scale up with a shitty db schema).

In many cases "transport encryption" would also fit that definition.

E2ee is quite well established imho. The server at Hetzner (a.k.a. "someone else's computer") is NOT to be trusted in e2ee schemes. Until today I'd be willing to say everyone agrees on this, but now I doubt that :)

It's a definition question. E2ee means in this cases that "the server" cannot decipher the data: the keys to that are only on the client and never shared with the server.

This setup simply does fit the definition. And trying to say it is "e2ee practically" is a bit dishonest: there is no definition for "practical e2ee".

The point of e2ee is that you do not have to trust the server (see Bitwarden for instance).

I used Bastion before. I'd not be too happy using an interpeted language like Python (that has eval capabilities) for this kind of purpose.

We used it a lot at first, but as our setup got more mature we rarely needed to SSH to our application servers/containers.

In my current project, I did not even setup smth like this.

There seems to be a multiple-of-19 "code" in the Quran. Many of these observations require the Arab alphabet to be interpreted as numbers; in Mohammed's days the Abjad system was used for this (similar but simpler than the Roman numerals, that also re-use the letters as numbers).

So using the Abjad system to give number values to the Arab letters there are many counts that add up to a multiple of 19. A critic (and I try to be one) so note that every 19 tries ("would this add up to a multiple of 19?") you are expected to find one that does add up to a multiple of 19!

In order to show how many cases add up, I created a unit test suite to demonstrate the claims.

See the code here:

https://github.com/cies/quran-analysis/blob/master/replicate...

Many of the claims involve the Bismallah (search for "bismallah" in that code).

Adult men are also the ones first to head out to retrieve food from dangerous places.

it's well documented

It's well documented that food distribution places were specifically made dangerous.

Agreed. But to do so at govt level, those govts first need to free themselves from the infiltration of lobbyists that make these kinds of policies "unthinkable" for their coward politicians.

This is, IMHO, the big difference with enacting these kinds of policies to apartheid South Africa (mentioned a lot in this discussion). Lobbyism is very effective in this specific case.

Or mass media.

This. What I've learned for VitD conversion in the skin the sun needs to be more than 45° "high". Below that it's not much effective.

Those long summer evenings in northern Europe are thus not all that useful for VitD.

From what I gather it's more that nazi/fascist/racist/extreme-right is used to shut people/parties up or paint them as impossible.

While the left/socialist/labour has alienated their base by not listening to the problem of the commoners who have to live among the immigrants (as they usually settle in the poorer parts of big cities, that where labour strongholds).

Upsides will be seen into societies that are not capital-above-govt, but govt-above-capital. China for instance: they will show advantages of AI (amongst other technologies). Sure they've got surveillance there, but there's also surveillance in the west. In China you have clean streets and low crime, while in the west it's surveillance without tangible benefit for the common people.

My Claude is looking into the PDFs, and makes changes, then looks again, etc. I did not even tell it to. It just knows how to use it all...

An LLM turned all my Latex projects to Typst and I'm not looking back.

Much easier stack (I stopped installing Latex-stacks myself, and switched to Overleaf, because it was just too finicky). Much simpler language. Just works.

I think C is hard for newcomers. Zig/Rust have a better story there.

Years ago I heard Oracle's db had an edge on PG when it comes to DELETEs. I guess that's still the case...

This first Rust/Zig kernel that allows Linux drivers to be ported over with ease (LLM assisted) could pick up a lot of run-on-bare-metal usage. Linux is the only FLOSS kernel that has broad hardware support.

What's the principle behind this law: it feels so arbitrary.

Who gets to decide what LLM-services can be exported and what not?

This is discussed many times. How to stop smoking in youngsters by XYZ.

But never: just force them to transparently list the junk they --currently secretly-- put in.

Yes! They should provide a list of all chemicals used to grow it, both in spray and in soil and in wash.

So you get for a banana:

Ingredients: banana, <a list of chemicals you cannot pronounce longer than the fist two chapters of the Bible>

Tobacco, wine and fresh bread are usually few of the consumables that in many western countries do not have to disclose their ingredients.

Why do we allow this? Just behave like all others.

Now we want to push for smoke-free societies: but non of ways to achieve this even dares to talk about "just make tobacco giants list all the ingredients/additives".