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by vdupras 10mo ago
This, and Larry Ellison buying all news outlets in America. Things should be happening quickly enough so that it's obvious where this is all going, right? Whoever writes the next "Inglorious Basterds" should have a lot of fun
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Next up, the guy, probably named Buttle, will get billed for the intervention.
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by vdupras 10mo ago
The dumbest timeline is the one with nuclear war. This might not be it. If we're optimistic and assume that Trump, Xi and Putin have some kind of deal for a new world order where the US is no longer a world police, and the US gets to h
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Propaganda is supposed to be for the proles. Whatever those bureaucrats say is not the candid truth, that should be obvious to anybody. Once the elite begins absorbing it at its first level of speech, it's a sure sign that the nation i
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by vdupras 10mo ago
That "consumption" is such a difficult thing to do is a preposterous idea, since you can always set things on fire. These theories are all make believe. I mean, what makes american so special in their ability to consume? An africa
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by vdupras 10mo ago
That's why I said "set it on fire". This whole economic speak is just a cover to avoid saying that trade imbalance is a fealty payment to the US. It's ridiculous to say that a country that was previously sending out stuf
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by vdupras 10mo ago
It's a trade imbalance. They send stuff out, they get nothing in. They could just continue to produce the stuff, then just set it on fire. No mass unemployment. Problem solved, no? It seems easier to do than to build an industrial base
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Hey, it did become bigger news. Good. It's the first time I see this on HN. An old 2 days thread being "bumped" by changing the timestamp?
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by vdupras 10mo ago
It's the same thing, I used the wrong term.
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Indeed, and it might be why the author didn't try, but I still find it odd to not at least mention how small this C compiler is, even if it is to say that it's not apples-to-apples comparable. I mean, 8x smaller than the smallest
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by vdupras 10mo ago
By design, it's not a fully compliant ANSI C compiler, so it's never going to be complete, but it's complete enough to, for example, successfully compile Plan 9's driver for the Raspberry Pi USB controller with a minimal
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by vdupras 10mo ago
I like the spirit of this article, but I find it strange that they open their article by quoting me, but then don't include Dusk OS's C compiler in the list. Fairly counting SLOC is a tricky problem, but my count is 1119 lines of
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Whoa, it should be bigger news. I too was under the impression that it was a done deal, with Larry Ellison coming in to mop the floor. It would be so funny if ByteDance and China continued to successfully mock the US in this silly posturing
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Wherever there's gambling, there's sharks. If you don't know whether you're a shark or a fish in this pond, then you're a fish.
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Oh, alright, we speak the same language. Of course I don't have evidence, only hunches, and they of course mean nothing.
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by vdupras 10mo ago
I don't know, general principles. If you can balance your budget with money printed out of thin air, why bother with selling treasury bills to anyone but the Fed, at 0%?
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Who's crying?
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Does it do this often? This is quite literally "printing money", right? Wasn't the Fed not supposed to be allowed to do that? I'm guessing that if it doesn't do that, short term treasury yields will spike, and they
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Yes, sometimes it's that, but what I've observed in the field is self-inflicted by programmers. It's the impostor syndrome. They don't know, but they don't want to show that they don't know. They look around fo
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by vdupras 10mo ago
The "terrible decisions" of yore hold no comparison to today's "terrible decisions". It's not the same ballpark, it's not the same sport.
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by vdupras 10mo ago
The better tools are already there. It's not about making it better. It's about most programmers today choosing mediocrity. Sometimes, you can avoid contact with this mediocrity, but often you don't and you're forced to
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by vdupras 10mo ago
I'm wondering, at what point could we consider that DRAM is in "market failure" state?
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by vdupras 10mo ago
I don't think I am. I'm talking about propaganda. Let's ask our propaganda machines "Why is the US peace plan so favorable to Russia". Russia propaganda: because our super weapons do much better on the field than th
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by vdupras 11mo ago
Ok, so it's the peace prize. I don't have deep knowledge about this issue, so I guess you're right. This makes me have funny thoughts. You know, we're all heavily influenced by propaganda. We have american propaganda, th
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by vdupras 11mo ago
I understand that this is the conventionally accepted version of the military situation in Ukraine. But if that's the case, why is US' peace proposal favorable to Russia? The US should be laughing at Russia's puny attempts to
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by vdupras 11mo ago
This has to be related to Russia and the war in Ukraine. I'm not a military buff, so my analysis might be way off, but here we go. 1. The US has sent a shitload of weapons to Ukraine over the last years. 2. Given the US military
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by vdupras 11mo ago
Except for the "disabilities" part, which is problematic to classify, wouldn't your description broadly fit the word "losers"? EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. It's not a value judgement on Github e
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by vdupras 11mo ago
Thanks for the mention. The philosophy behind Dusk is also eerily relevant to Chuck's problem at the moment. To quote my own manifest[1]: When you operate a system, there is no problem that can arise that will make you powerless. S
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by vdupras 11mo ago
> A few months ago, I was in the city for a weekend and took Waymo for most of my rides. > [...] > I don't know if I trust Waymo cars with my life [...] I'm sorry to be that guy, but didn't you already?
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by vdupras 11mo ago
It depends on the weight of the target word. For trivial words like "dup" or "1+", the cost of the call is proportionally pretty big compared to inlining the native code. But all it all, I agree that this tax is far from

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