Weird language, it seems to be almost exactly Go, GC, even has the “go” keyword for async, and tries for the same usecases of server backends

I wouldn’t go that far

Hard to say. I mean, the easy answer is only 10x a soldier in America. But they also get free housing, food, varied benefits & bonuses – and retired generals often make millions via their influence and power. But yeah they have salary caps and somehow the whole system still works pretty well

Yeah like I said, there are insane outliers. But you gotta give it to him, he did crazy and creative things nobody else did successfully, over and over, and there is a clear intentionality to his conduct. He does indeed network very efficiently. I can’t imagine him being easily replaced either

Paywalled but overall I’ve come to the conclusion that executive pay isn’t as insane as it seems. Like yeah okay there are outliers that are insane, but it’s actually a super difficult role to hire for, and certainly not a role AI can replace soon. It involves:

• high levels of creativity
• good taste and sound judgement
• a ton of politics and emotional intelligence
• mental stability and reliability
• a lot of intangible skills that are hard to survey
• connections & networking
• often unique and original views of the world
• organizational skills and high level problem solving

These aren’t skills to be taken lightly and they take years to develop, to be a good manager & bear responsibility for the lives of many employees. If AI made proposals, someone still has to actually judge which ideas to pursue, so you can’t really get rid of the job. Maybe you could reduce the amount of executives. But when a company has leadership that’s actually coherent and works, employees like them, it’s a goldmine that needs to be protected by the owners

I think for those that wanted Teslas, they realized they have to buy them before the tariff war gets too hot. So ironically there’s a surge of purchases

Ideology aside, they make some very good cars, and I don’t blame people for buying them

Haha thanks, that was fun

Don’t worry, as agents are on the rise, LLMs are learning iterative testing & tool use. I just published a new MCP tool for Cline which uses WolframAlpha to solve maths and other knowledge. It works great, and Cline can iterate to try different variants of prompts it sends to Wolfram if the syntax isn’t quite right. Then it ingests the result into context and can continue with the knowledge it gained

Jesus, my very gentle post was “Removed by mod”? Even though it has 6 upvotes and 1 downvote? Okay

Ok, here’s the definition of capitalism, plain and simple:

Capitalism is an economic system where private individuals and businesses own the factors of production, and prices and production are determined by supply and demand.

Characteristics of capitalism

• Private ownership: Private individuals and businesses own the means of production, such as capital goods.
• Free market: Prices and production are determined by supply and demand in a free market.
• Profit motive: The primary motivation is to make a profit.
• Market competition: Businesses compete with each other for business.
• Private control: Private individuals and businesses control the production and consumption of goods and services.

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I want my time back, RSS Bot. OP thinks hardware lasts a long time these days but actually does buy new stuff when it breaks. Tldr

Yeah I just had em mail me the thing

Y’know, you’re right & that’s wild. I guess I should have known, but didn’t assume that they have like 600m in unrelated investments. Though the burn rate is quite a lot too, so they probably would scale back browser dev a lot if it lost its profitability & become a pure VC kinda org

Not only does it need to do everything from memory management to job scheduling, it also has all of the UI and graphics driver complexity blended in. Usually that’s a different layer that the kernel historically didn’t worry about, it would be as if GTK is part of Linux, along with the programming language. Then there’s shit like WebAssembly and WebGL, databases, sandboxing, permissions, user management… A Brower is like a cross platform OS built to run on another OS

The thing is it’s never been more expensive and time consuming to write a browser, it’s bigger scope than a kernel in many ways. Stuff like Epiphany isn’t even close, despite relying on Apple’s webkit. Most distros just push people to Firefox now, despite a history of KHTML and all that. We would need something like the Linux Foundation to pick it up (which runs on corporate sponsorship for a shared resource)

Yeah but in the short term the company will literally go out of business

“Don’t worry about my security because I’ve talked with somebody. I said 'if I’m killed, you’ll kill BBM, Liza Araneta and Martin Romualdez. No joke, no joke,’” the vice president said without elaborating

I’m sorry, she said it’s not a joke but, lmao

Mmm yeah imma small brain here and say it cannot be won. There are nukes on subs traveling all over the ocean. Not to mention that the environmental damage and radiation will probably fuck up the world really bad no matter what. Did you know a single nuke in orbit would emp a whole continent and destabilize climate? Great, now you do

My question is “what does this mean for the nature of empires?” — can they no longer truly fall once they enter the nuclear era? How does civil war look?

Honestly hilarious level of QQ. The election wasn’t rigged. He won by almost 100 electoral college votes. He had the most popular votes, by 2.5 million people, roughly 50%. Republicans swept House, Senate, and Governors

Elections in the USA are always pretty close, that’s how it works. But this victory is a complete and total one with no real room for doubt

You may not like it, but those are the facts. Don’t mimic the sad boy GOP crying “election fraud” — the people voted. Yes, that means there are people in this country that disagree with you and don’t trust the direction of the Democrats. You might call them brainwashed, bigoted, transphobic, or religious extremists, but they get to voice their desires anyway. Society is a push and pull between different value systems, and imagining half the country is “evil” will only cause more harm

Nothing is going to stop the transition. Buckle up, and try harder next time. Maybe the Dems will actually let a primary happen rather than choosing your leader for you

Can’t you just go to WordPress.com, log in to their hosting, and install the plugin?