Indeed, I was probably grumpy at the time I wrote the comment. I do find some truth in it still.
You're right ! The strawman theory is based.
But I think there's more to it, I find dislikable the structure of these sentences (which I find a bit sensationnalist for nothing, I don't know, maybe I am still grumpy).
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Those languages aren't expression-oriented, so you would need to assign the result to a previously-initialized variable in a higher scope. But that just makes this pattern clunkier in those languages. This subthread is about jumping to labels, which is a relatively obscure yet widespread feature supported by many languages (though C and Go allow forward jumps, and the rest only allow backward jumps, since the latter ensures that control flow does not become irreducible).
Indeed. And SAP has no cooperation with any European cloud providers, afaik. It's the big three plus alibaba. SAP wants to move away from on-prem, but I guess it has a solution for critical applications. Maybe that can be shoehorned onto OVH or something.
It could probably be vaguely useful in the kitchen/dining room/mudroom if I had pets/kids. As it is, a broom vac takes just a few minutes. Maybe if I had more day to day mess, I'd feel differently.
> They just announced that they want to topple democracy in our countries
Isn't it exactly the opposite, and it was the EU that attempted to overthrow democracy in the US (and failed)? While democracy in Europe is being successfully destroyed by the Europe themselves, opposition candidates are not allowed to participate in elections, assassinated, and election results are cancelled if they do not suit the elites.
> best buddies with Vladimir Putin
The facts point to the exact opposite. Even Zelenskyy acknowledged that the US provides more aid than the EU. And this is despite the fact that Europe has twice the population and doesn't have a vast ocean between it and Russia.
I mean, the EU has LITERALLY provided less aid to Ukraine than it has given to Russia, while mocking Trump for the last 10 years when he called on Europe to reduce its dependence on Russian energy resources and begin strengthening its own defense capabilities. Economic aid to Greece was greater than aid to Ukraine.
It does not state that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails. It says half of the climate impact of aviation is from contrails. Soot can have other effects and cause pollution in other ways such as reducing air quality but I suspect that is very minimal compared to other industries.
The guide presented by the map gives a very good explanation on how contrail formation can be mitigating by altering the course of flights to reduce the formation in areas where it will have the most impact. This is based on a recent study that showed contrail avoidance could be one of the most cost-effective methods of reducing warming that we know of.
Not wishing to join the bully's side, but I think making something private to prevent discussion/criticism has a bad smell about it. It's possible (to someone who knows neither you nor the bully) that the bully had some valid suggestions and that you became over defensive in allowing that to become a distraction rather than saying something like "okay, but can you make these suggestions after the meeting and we can work through them later".
Personally, I don't like the idea of someone hiding data and methodology just because of not wanting feedback.
Optimising hardware to run existing software is how you sell your hardware.
The amount of performance you can extract from a modern CPU if you really start optimising cache access patterns is astounding
High performance networking is another area like this. High performance NICs still go to great lengths to provide a BSD socket experience to devs. You can still get 80-90% of the performance advantages of kernel bypass without abandoning that model.
Same. At some point there was a new Charles version and I could not figure out how to use it the way I had used the old version (I admit I forget exactly what I was trying to do), and it was trivial in Proxyman. Proxyman also has a great app.
> Huawei became very competitive to Apple. Huawei got banned.
How would you explain Samsung, LG, Sony, etc.?
> DJI got banned.
Untrue.
Supply is constrained and future of new product availability is uncertain because of FY2025 National Defesnse Authorization ACt, which requires a security audit by late Dec 2025. If that doesn't happen, DJI could automatically be added to the FCC's restricted list, which could block new products from being certified and sold in the US.
Your argument is that US tech companies do not have the ability to compete, but this example doesn't support your claim; in fact it does the opposite.
But even so, your information is out of date. Nvidia is now allowed to sell its advanced H200 AI chips to China. The whiplash is dumb, but the move is aimed at maintaining US AI leadership, support American jobs, while addressing concerns about China's military AI development.
