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To those that have, is given. Everywhere and always.

The biggest delusion of Americans is that they worked hard for everything they have.

It is characteristic of Americans to think poor people are undeserving.

You are experiencing one of the corollaries of the thesis in the OP. Material loss is experienced as unhappiness, no matter where you started on the distribution of wealth.

Another is that there is no satisfaction to be had in status comparisons. There will be always somebody who has more than you.

Indeed. For example, volatility is of interest in financial data, because it relates to the pricing of risk. So are the correlations between asset classes.

Interestingly market volatility often goes hand-in-hand with increased correlation between asset prices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle#Order_...

This corresponds to a restatement of Murphy's Law, namely "life is a bitch and then you die". When you most need a diversified portfolio, diversification is hardest to achieve.

I loved pirate radio in London in the 90s. It was so vital. There was nowhere else that you could hear tracks that new unless you were at a club or the handful of record shops where DJs hung out. You could phone in and they would give you a shout out! We would record the Sunday specials on Kool FM and listen to them the rest of the week. Good times.

Perhaps your analogy is wrong.

Sure, sure. Innocent people have nothing to hide.

I have never advocated vandalism. I do advocate for oversight.

Russia doesn't have foreign currency to buy gasoline. They have to refine their own oil.

Do you mean authentic?

We are only just starting to model the physical world. There will be more training on empirical data.

Flock is run by incompetants. Their systems are comically insecure and access is easily abused. And the amount of surveillance data they routinely collect is not small. There needed to be a lot more discuss of who is doing the surveillance, how, and why before this was foisted on the public.

Polymarket, Kalshi etc are festering piles of grift and should be regulated hard against a wall, no vaseline.

Ukrainian drones took out the refineries.

Yes, we switched from C98 to C11 and are about to adopt MISRA C 2023 (with exceptions).

Languages with runtimes and dynamic types go all the way back to Lisp and Smalltalk.

Java was the 800lb gorilla though, wasn't it? Because it promised portability.

Why did Smalltalk not take off?

AFAIK PTX compilation is the bit that is not mature in the Rust CUDA ecosystem as well, because it has to be reverse engineered rather than simply translated.

I see. Similar to Balsamico di Modena / generic balsamic vinegar?

Does non-PDO Parmesan exist in Italy? In the US, "Parmesan" is usually some kind of domestic hard cheese that lacks maturity. The genuine Parmigiano Reggiano costs around 3x.

Oops. Thanks for the correction.

I'm not sure that I buy into the premise that everything Meta does is OK

> Don't use Opencode, Don't use remote models (cloud providers), Don't use Docker to isolate coding agents.

May as well write a post saying don't use LLM's for any SWE work.

Alternatives exist

It's a tool. Use it like a tool. It's not a substitute brain.

Yes. In contrast to Mozzarella, Champagne, and many others which are generic products in the USA, and protected trademarks in their region of origin.

I didn't realise the trademark holder is a US company.

Artists and writers got screwed first by piracy, then by generative AI.

That's too glib. Artists don't have a right to money that people won't spend.

It's not all down to bad actors. Although it's true that musicians got screwed when their distributors switched to a subscription model. Writers got screwed by the Amazon monopsony that crammed down publisher's margins.

Mostly what happened is that media technologies changed, professional creators had less control over production, and the money flowed upstream leaving them with a smaller niche.

All of their output used to be gatekept by media companies who had a lock on publishing. The internet reduced distribution costs to zero. Suddenly anybody could reach an audience.

Now generative AI has dropped the cost of content creation to the basement. It's so much easier to write a blog post or make an illustration.

That isn't cannibalizing content. It's a new way of making. It takes a lot of the value out of creating those kinds of things. The customer experiences this as a reduction in cost.

These changes happen with every new gadget. Photographers have to compete against everybody with a phone in their pocket. Now they just do weddings.

My grandfather was a portrait painter in the 1940s, a profession that was already moribund from the proliferation of photography studios. He gave up and became an insurance salesman.

Maybe he got screwed. The photography studios are all gone too. Because anybody can make a portrait using the phone in their pocket. At zero cost.

Solvair now make the real Dr Martens (in the UK)! The high street brand that owns the name makes all theirs in the far East. Check out Solvair if you can find them, they are better quality.

They are not knockoffs. Ugg boots are a generic product. The Australian manufacturer does not have exclusive rights to the design either.

I don't know really.

My guess is that Zig cannot be considered mature until someone has written an application in it that contains a Lisp interpreter. I'm banking on Ghostty. Your move MH ;)

It seems like the history of programming languages since the 1980s has mostly been people trying to avoid C++.

First languages with run-times and dynamic types, and more recently lower levels of abstraction (Go, Rust).

I've been writing C++ for embedded systems the past year or two.

We use a very conservative subset of C++, almost like C with inheritance. We barely even use templates. We try to avoid allocating on the heap. The code is mostly imperative.

Since 2011, a lot of new language features have been introduced. The ones we use are things like smart pointers (that improve lifetime management) and some tweaks for better type safety.

It is said that moden C++ enables a functional programming style. I have never actually seen anybody code that way (it would be hell to write and worse to read) but that could just be the niche I'm in.

What is undeniable is that C++ is so complex and has so many features that you have to choose a subset of the language to enforce a consistent style.

Also a lot of the STL (standard library functions) are deprecated in one way or another, which is a real minefield.

I've been running a CUPS server on a Pi Zero W since 2017. I suppose I should back up the SD card.

Back in the day I ran s××× coin miners off flash drives without any apparent problems.

Teslas though... ;)

This question strikes me as somewhat obtuse, but I will attempt an answer:

NVIDIA and AMD.

These are only two GPU manufacturers of any significance. (Intel is also a player, but not a major one.)

They supply SDKs (drivers and libraries required for software development) for their products that support C and C++ and precious little else.

There have been attempts to reverse engineer the toolchains in Rust but as I understand it they are not yet mature.

Lindy's Law says C will be around longer than any of that lot. Although I wouldn't bet against Rust now that it's used for Linux drivers.