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Works fine for me on a 17e.

Rust may have a tremendous success in the future, because it's much easier to write it with AI (ignoring for a moment whether that's really a good thing).

It’s interesting that Rust could become the most deployed but the least written (by humans) programming language if the dreams of AI bros come true.

If AI gets good enough to competently translate other languages to Rust then there is no point writing in Rust (a language with a steep learning curve and is high friction in use), you can just write in a low friction language like C, C++, Odin, Zig, … etc. and have AI translate it to Rust catching all the memory bugs in the process.

C being an old soul mate.

Maybe try Odin. Based on what I have read, it’s basically C capability-wise with better ergonomics - a simple language; no objects and limited compile time shenanigans.

Don't think it has worked though. People in generally don't seem to give a shit. Everyone is worried about day to day stuff - the price and availability of housing (getting kind of stupid now), inflation, job security, trouble with neighbors, ... etc.

Personally, the only good thing about Singapore is its relatively good governance - which covers a lot but it's not perfect; e.g. housing.

For me, remove that and its just an island in the Pacific.

If I'm supposed to be feeling some sort of patriotic zeal, it hasn't happened yet. But maybe that's because I'm a bitter old man living in a rented one room flat who is now really feeling the apparent temperature of 32C at 09:45pm.

He bought into those companies willingly and on his terms though. Twitter he was force to buy. Now he is flailing around for some kind of exit strategy from his 1 billion a year interest payments.

Also today's Musk isn't the same as yesteryear's Musk. Back then people still gave him the benefit of the doubt and allowing him to hype things to the moon. Today he is disliked by a hell of a lot of people making everything he touches toxic to those people.

I don’t know. A multipolar world might lead to more wars.

A unipolar world isn’t fair but when no one is near-peer with the toughest guy on the block, a fight is unlikely to break out - that toughest guy often plays police too so war among the rest is reduced as well.

It’s still keyword-based. They just weight the appearance of the keyword in the documents now.

What does “Hated the name Harry and got it removed” meant then? Sounds like the poster got the name removed.

Also it was his grandfather that gave him the name “Harry”, not his parents.

SE Asian ethnic Chinese names: Harry Lee Kuan Yew, (English name) (Surname) (Given name). Hated the name Harry and got it removed, though many Chinese are referred to by an English name.

Really? Your parents named you the exact same name as a famous politician?

Edit: Really? Downvote me for the OP’s bad English?

Companies like Apple kind of do it for you as you upgrade from iPhone to iPhone and data from your old phone is transferred to the new one.

I think people’s GoogleFu has also gotten worse. A lot of examples on this page of bad google results have natural language queries.

Google is a traditional search engine. Traditional search engines run on keywords. You enter the keywords you want on the webpage and press “search”. Didn’t find what you were looking for? Add more keywords to make it more specific. Things you don’t want polluting the search results? Exclude a keyword by adding a “-“ in front of it to remove those specific results. Rinse and repeat until you find what you need or give up.

Videos are too light on solid information and are too hard to use as references.

Depends on the video.

I rarely use videos for how-to though. The written word is more convenient as it allows me to skim it and it’s easier to skip ahead. Video is good for demonstrating things where motion information is useful though.

Microsoft was one of the most ruthless orgs in tech history.

MS is like a boxer who doesn’t just want to beat you in the ring. He wants to outright kill you too so you will never fight again.

YouTube search doesn’t even respect the “exclude word(s)” operator “-“ anymore. Freaking useless.

Imagine trying to find videos on the Cyberpunk genre and getting nothing but videos on that buggy video game that came out a few years ago.

Yupe, keywords is still how I search most of the time unless I’m literally looking for a question (or something close to it) hoping to hit a Stack Overflow and clones / Reddit post asking that question.

You can tell who all the old people are that were using search engines since back in the day. LOL

All I ever expect from a search engine is it find pages with the words in my query (and maybe exclude certain words as specified), anything else is just gravy.

Google isn’t answering your question. That’s not its job.

Its job is to find websites talking about what you entered as your query. If all people are doing is speculating … that’s all Google will return.

release date of an upcoming video game or movie which you know for a fact hasn't had an announced date.

What do you get? Speculation? If so … I mean what did you expect? No one knows the answer so neither would Google.

I don’t know if Google has degraded. I mean I haven’t noticed it. Maybe I just search mostly common stuff. For niche stuff that Google doesn’t know much about, search engines like DDG seem to know even less.

If they were able to build a toaster (or whatever) profitably than they would have already done it.

For countries like Vietnam, that might be due to lack of investment.

For the last few decades, everyone was concentrating on China. This I believe has began to change - foreign investment in China is down if Im right.

On the other hand relationships between Vietnam and the West has been thawing the last decade or so - especially with the US.

Countries like Mexico are also looking to take on some of China’s manufacturing load - their proximity to the US is an advantage.

Tariffs on China effectively gives all their competitors a competitive advantage which will only help develop said competitors.

This is already happening with more than ~80% of products that are "Made in Vietnam" and at least ~40% of products that are "Made in Korea."

I wonder how long they are willing to do that. Those countries aren’t on the best terms with China either. Doubt they want a dependency on China if they can help it.

Wouldn’t they want to take over the manufacturing (along with it the profit) too instead of just re-exporting for a profit? They are in prime position to do so given they are the gateway for China’s goods - and can cut China’s goods out and substitute their own.

Can we feel confident that an Apple HEIC sitting inside an iPhone can be read 120 years from now?

The photos are trivial to copy though and will likely be preserved, if the owner chooses to do so, by being replicated across multiple storage devices over time.

I take it contributing to SS is voluntary? Else it’s kind of like robbery.

When you take a job with a pension, you run the risk of not being able to collect that pension if you die early. But it’s your choice to take the job.

Data analysts and accountants literally pour though millions of featureless numbers over their career, why would this be any different?

The numbers are probably meaningful to them due to their education though.

It’s like saying programmers spend their whole career pour though millions of lines of nigh random symbols they call source code.

Then crypto will get sued again and again while the SEC refine their internal model of what is lawful based on the outcome of court cases.

On the bright side, it clarify things. The downside is it cost a lot of money.

They can always do what traditional money does, stay within the safe zone with well established precedents.

Frankly, the SEC is probably feeling their way around too. They have an internal model of what is and isn’t lawful and they sue based on that. But that’s their internal model, not the actual law - as decided by politicians and the courts. Their internal model will be revised based on court rulings.

Frankly, these crypto bros seem to be trying to get the SEC to publicly contradict themselves, and plan to use that as ammo to turn the court of public opinion against them, but the SEC isn’t interested in playing their game.

My parents died at 68. That they paid social security for their entire careers and got so little is absurd.

Do their children (i.e. you and your siblings if any) get to access it? If yes, it’s not a complete waste.

Both are aiming to pacify the target society

In the West it’s really to make money. No one cares if the target audience is pacified or not - might even be more profitable if they are riled up to spend more money.

many of the stories revolve around tension between those with powers who would oppress the plebs vs those with powers who wish to benevolently rule over the plebs (but certainly not cede their power to them.)

Except not really. The most popular superheroes like Spider-Man has nothing of that sort going on. The tension in his story is the balance of his duty to use his gifts for good (with great power comes great responsibility) and the demands of his everyday life - with the latter often suffering to his detriment.

On DC’s side, Batman is probably the most popular. Frankly, Batman is more a plot device than a character, the most interesting characters in his stories are the villains.

Heck, in most cases, their super powers are not transferable.

While Elon is the only one with the intuition to bail out a company as large as Twitter

What intuition? Wasn’t he forced to buy Twitter by the SEC? He bought it at 4x the valuation - Twitter’s ex-shareholders made it out like bandits. Now he is losing money hand over fist thanks to Twitter - as Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped due to his changes (and big mouth) and he is paying to the tune of 1 billion USD a year in interest from the loan to buy Twitter; Twitter’s yearly income on the best of years have come nowhere close to a billion.

With the internet (and image hosting sites / YouTube if you are lazy; but YMMV) making stuff available is easier than ever.

Whether your audience can find your work is a separate matter … it is available.