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It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.

How could race-determined discrimination be anything other than racism?

Complexity is cost.

Surely a tax would be a better incentive mechanism than a hard cap.

All according to plan if you believe that Trump is a foreign-sponsored "useful idiot".

And US loses 1-4 even with their striker.

All states require tipped workers to make at least minimum wage, that's what a minimum wage is. However, usually they can make part of that wage in tips. In theory, if they make less then minimum wage in tips plus hourly wage, the employer is supposed to make up the difference. In practice, that doesn't always happen.

How does deep packet inspection work on encrypted traffic?

I'm reading this comment as sarcastic, you don't think that the recent infrastructure build out is a positive?

If this is happening in software engineering it would imply that Americans are moving to other, higher paid work which doesn't seem to be the case.

If the government wanted people to take holidays off they could just legislate that people can't work on those days. I doubt there is any political will to do this, though.

If at any point your counter-governmental action actually threatens to take some share of power away from the government, they will swiftly and quietly deal with you (they have about 1000 ways to track you, and AI reduces the cost of tracking greatly). If you are irrelevant you will mostly be ignored.

By the way, I'm sure that they are aware of all this privacy-first counter-tracking sentiment from certain communities, and are actively working to subvert it.

Surely all of those metrics can be easily gamed by a competent software engineer.

Well, yes, China has a large number of tarrifs imposed on it from the U.S.

It surprises me that any municipality would make that legal, seems dangerous.

There is no difference, from the model's point of view, between code it wrote and code someone else wrote. It's all just context.

Analogies can provide insight without exact equivalence.

While true, that doesn't distinguish between Zig and Rust, as both allow you to manually allocate memory and create custom data structures.

Jon Gjengset has some live streams where he does agentic coding.

Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.

Where I live (major city) because of zoning there are few apartment buildings and basically 100% are only for rent, not individually owned units. So if you want to own where you live it must be a townhome or detached house.

In fact, being able to "play the game" so to speak is probably part of what the interviewer is looking for.

I've always been interested in Fossil, especially how they handle all the things in a project that aren't strictly code but still need to be tracked.

It's pretty clear to me that these systems have a massive potential for intelligence agencies as people move more and more of their internal thought process to an external tool.

And, of course, intelligence agencies are good at realizing potential.

I think Arch is a great general purpose distribution because it doesn't try to hide anything from the user - all the details are right out in the open. That and excellent community documentation.

I usually find the exact opposite, where for Windows I can sometimes find a few SEO optimized pages with vague instructions, but for Linux I'm much more likely to hit a wiki or forum with in-depth technical information to solve my problem.

Strongly agree, and this makes Linux head and shoulders above Windows for everyday computing now. Because it's more text-native than Windows and in-depth technical documentation is more easily available, AI agents are simply more capable on Linux.

Spyware wouldn't help at all because you could just put the AI between the computer and the monitor, for example, or use a VM.

The short answer is that presumably people are willing to pay for it

Well, yes, but that's another way of saying the same thing. If the US can't pay and is forced to devalue their currency, thus tanking the value of your investment, you lose money. Therefore, the likelihood of this drives interest rates up.