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Your average large corp like Microsoft has the majority of it's employees stuck in meetings all day.

Now I don't know if I missed this feature in Claude Code or not but I don't believe it has technology for enhancing people's ability to sit around all day doing nothing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Mass pumping out slightly dodgy code is more of a startup strategy.

For reference the number #1 affected country is the US. It just consumes so much more oil per capita then anyone else and unlike some other countries can't close it's oil import/exports due to logistical reasons.
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:24PM (#50080849)
Generally speaking, static typing is the great enabler of writing bad Python code.

As soon as static typing is introduced into a Python code based, the developers start writing unscalable coding patterns that don't scale to larger programs.

Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:17PM (#50080794)
Not really, I measured it.

Typing prevents 1 minor bug per developer per year reaching the testing environment.

It costs 2x development time to use. (With LLMs it's doubles token usage, very measurable)

It's not actually a sane trade-off.

Mass migration is a core Conservative policy. Even Reform made up of ex-Conservatives has agreed to mass migration in talks with their donors.

Importing people rather than investing in the locals is a core right wing belief in the UK.

Re:Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:59PM (#49860486)
Well the density goes down the larger the black hole so the extra states are still missing.

For exactly how that works, I'm a Comp Sci not a Physicist.

Re:Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:40PM (#49851959)
A 3d volume can contain a number of states equal to it's 2d dimensional surface.

All the extra states you would assume the 3d volume can contain are actually a single state called Black Hole.

There is a limit to how much you can fill a 3d volume before it's a Black Hole basically.

Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:10PM (#49689231)
That's an artifact of it not using A-Z as it's alphabet. What you type gets translated before the AI sees it. The seventeen word the AI sees does only contain three 'e' s.
The AI numbers only work if it replaces white collar work.

Power tools for knowledge workers, which is what we are getting, isn't enough to save it.

Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:23PM (#49618565)
Well no because it works by joining together existing novel insights.
You haven't really the addressed the point of the US not being trusted.

Even if the EU becomes far right, far right governments don't work or trust each other. What you are saying is moot.

This is suppose to be a tech forum.

With enough solar panels, wind turbines and batteries it's completely possible to run an countries grid off renewables.

Right now the costs for doing so are around the same as the costs of running an oil / gas / coal power grid.

For the average country, not slowly switching over is basically madness.

I didn't mention anything? But I'll answer your question anyway.

Be it software, artwork, essays, graphic design or movie clips. There is a market for shipping cheap junk.

Well assuming it's successful, there will be a large number of companies who's value will be reassessed as the token cost to replicate and run the business.

Multi-million dollar companies will be reduced into multi thousand dollar companies.

The CEOs will be replaced with teenagers in garages with their parent's credit cards.

If it stalls, then China will undercut the whole AI market with cheap electricity and crash the US stock market.

So what exactly is the win scenario here?

Apple only dominate the US mobile phone market
Probably a con job. The AI companies don't think they will be able to significantly improve their models in the next year or so, so they are stalling with government regulations whilst taking in investor money.
"From the perspective of the Iranian state" Well you say that but they have got a non-nuclear nuke equivalent in the form of kamikaze drones.
There is a designated third party Pakistan and they say Lebanon is part of the ceasefire.
Re:A Fire Sale Has U.S. Office Buildings Going for 90% Off on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:42PM (#47679583)
Oh no, I live in a flat in a converted commercial building.

They have been going wild in the UK converting office space to residential.

The Spanish tankers aren't going through because there aren't any Spanish tankers that operate in that region.

Spain has permission from Iran to send through tankers if it indeed had some.

So going forward all countries will be providing citizens of other countries free access to the internet whilst censoring their own citizens?
Static typing and duck typing both date back to the 1950s. You may have heard of Lisp.

The last new significant thing invented in programming was OOP in the 1990s.

Everything else is just ancient, OOP was about bringing the benefits of micro-services to single computer environments. Yes, you read that right

The new ECS system for 3d games was used by the first computer drawing program Sketchpad in 1963.

Programming is mostly just recycling ideas around and around.

The issue is that duck typing with a minimal set of types was the great idea of ABC, which is the language Guido cloned to make Python
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Well given that the US DHS is posting on social media that it intends to get rid of all 100 million non-white Americans. What exactly did you expect?
If you are a good software developer in India then you move abroad. It's not that India doesn't make great software developers, it's just they don't tend to stick around.
Well either $100,000 per person or an large one time direct donation to Trump to be legally exempted from that charge.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:48AM (#46476570)
MAGA at its core is a rejection of the lower classes having wealth.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:36AM (#46475853)
Replacement? They haven't overthrown the Venezuela government just captured it's figure head.
Well I don't think anyone would pay for the COBOL to Java conversion software.

Since it's no longer New Years Eve, I'm a bit more sober :p

Programming language to programming language conversions seems to be one of the things LLMs are actually good at. Whether they can actually do it or not is an open question.

CEOs will mandate security so the CSOs will mandate Rust over C/C++ and so Rust will slowly take over C++ in next 20 years. Can't see anything in C++'s defense other than it's legacy. The drawback of sticking every feature from every language into your language is that it becomes a massive security hazard.

huh? I'm currently at $1500 Monthly Recurring Revenue, so I'm currently between seeing if I can increase that or if need to get a job. I'll find out in a couple of months.

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