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by petcat 10mo ago
> the emergence of LLM coding tools could make it even easier than before I find this highly optimistic. It will take years, maybe decades for EU to replace US clouds and tech. And if they're going to do it with LLMs, then it will
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by petcat 10mo ago
Nobody stops you from buying products directly from the company's website. You don't have to buy everything from Amazon. I browse on Amazon, and then go to the company's website directly for the purchase. USPS, UPS, and FedEx
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by petcat 10mo ago
> a robust bash script These hardly exist in practice. But I get what you mean.
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by petcat 10mo ago
Question: There is still a competitive AoE2 community. Will that be destroyed by AI?
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by petcat 10mo ago
> allow everyone living in the city to vote Who is "everyone" in this case?
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Taiwan will invest $250B in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal(cnbc.com)
5 points by petcat 10mo ago|0 comments
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by petcat 10mo ago
The AWS EC2 virtualization team invented and maintains the Nitro system. And that team is overwhelmingly based in Seattle, WA USA.
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by petcat 10mo ago
> The publishers say that their industry is bleeding out while they wait for a deal that may never come. It sounds like their government needs to do even more subsidizing if they're really that reliant on US companies to pay their b
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by petcat 10mo ago
Why is it the responsibility of American tech companies to subsidize Danish news and media industries? If it's really that important for national security, shouldn't the Danish government be setting up some kind of a state journal
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Taiwan will invest $250B in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal(cnbc.com)
11 points by petcat 10mo ago|2 comments
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by petcat 10mo ago
This reads like they are trying to force American tech companies to subsidize their local news and journalism industries. The question is, if they want it so bad, why don't they just establish a state fund for news and journalism so th
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by petcat 10mo ago
If journalism really weren't just about the financial bottom line in Denmark, then why are they quibbling over what Google will pay them at all? It sounds like they'll be happy with just Google listing and driving traffic to their
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by petcat 10mo ago
Yeah it seems like if they were really struggling to break up then they wouldn't be trying to force Google or Meta to the negotiating table. They would be simply kicking them out and not utilizing their services at all. But it's a
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by petcat 10mo ago
> In 2024, Google ran a set of tests of user interest in news content in Denmark and several other countries, concluding that removing such content had “no measurable impact” on search ad revenue. Those findings — along with the testing
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by petcat 10mo ago
None of that matters. AI bots can still figure out how to navigate the website.
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by petcat 10mo ago
ASML is a critical component, but they don't actually build the chips. And a significant part of their technology is developed in California anyway.
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by petcat 10mo ago
> The US has its own TSMC supply (insert comments about it not being cutting edge) USA has been strategically re-homing TSMC to the US mainland for a long time now. 30% of all 2nm and better technologies are slated to be produced in Ari
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by petcat 10mo ago
Proton is relocating their servers out of Switzerland and into Germany over privacy concerns. They are now facing the possibility of the same privacy concerns in EU countries. Ironically, the safest place to host a private VPN service may
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by petcat 10mo ago
That article says that Cloudflare is fighting Spain about the censorship. ISP-level censorship is extremely rare in the US. Copyright and piracy is almost always handled by domain seizure ordered by a court, not ISP-level blocking (as is c
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by petcat 10mo ago
I feel like this is all going to end up with Denmark agreeing to long-term resource share with USA where USA gets something like 85% in exchange for Denmark getting to keep the title. Nobody is going to war over this and Denmark/EU wan
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by petcat 10mo ago
> Local and private > Your agent runs on your machine. We only relay the messages. How can this be private if this intermediate service is sending and receiving all the emails back and forth
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by petcat 10mo ago
> to get you inside their playground This would make more sense if they were someone like Apple, who has a real, integrated walled-garden moat. I can just use Gemini or OpenAI/Codex instead and get the same or better results as Clau
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by petcat 10mo ago
> the quality of work done by offshore teams is consistently crap This isn't nearly true anymore, and hasn't been for a long time. Especially since everyone is using the same AI tooling as everyone else now. What is true (in m
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by petcat 10mo ago
I don't think tech companies need H-1Bs anymore. From my experience they just set up a subsidiary in India and move all their dev teams there.
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by petcat 10mo ago
People care more about their guns because, in their minds, that's the last thing that stands between them and complete helplessness. They have fantasies of starting up an Idaho or Montana-style militia to protect themselves from the l
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by petcat 10mo ago
Not to mention that I would much rather give my $0.61 to a public service like the Post Office than to Amazon.
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by petcat 10mo ago
> answer being the borrow-checker There is an entire world in Rust where you never have to touch the borrow-checker or lifetimes at all. You can just clone or move everything, or put everything in an Arc (which is what most other languag
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by petcat 10mo ago
I doubt it actually works better. In my experience hobby FOSS is exceptional at building tools and servers, but abysmal at building GUIs and anything that requires some semblance of non-tech-user UX.
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by petcat 10mo ago
what does this have to do with smuggling tcp connections over email
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by petcat 10mo ago
It seems like these smuggle-disguise protocols are almost always trivially detectable.

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