Unfortunately it is the nature of the anti-coding-LLM debate that people who never wrote a line of assembly language, and never in their lives wrote a line of code that wouldn't be run in a managed runtime of some kind, now think they're the Masters of the Coding Universe and are qualified to dictate what are the Right Tools and the Wrong Tools to be a Real Programmer(tm).
Fortunately, as you rightly point out we've seen this dance a hundred times before. This too shall pass.
It's only regressive when framed as a tax on consumers - which is of course easier to do in a ridiculous country that allows retailers to advertise prices without all the retailer's costs included.
A properly organised VAT type tax is not regressive - it's a tax on corporations that buy product for cents and then sell them on for dollars, pocketing the difference. I've no idea why sales taxes bring out this "but won't somebody think of the corporations!" handwringing.
This isn't an AI story, it's a "completely fucking idiotic sysadmins exist" story.
Treat an AI like the idiot intern without any references you just hired. Gave the idiot intern permission to delete your production database? That's entirely on you, zero sympathy. (Actually, give any developer that power? You get what you deserve.)
Gas chambers 🥰.
What a country...
They're labelled "oxygen removers", so I rather assume that's what they're for. Dessicant is something else entirely.
I own a property & live part of the year in Thailand, and have worked in China for a decade - I don't need grandma to teach me to suck ants. Amazingly, in all that time I've discovered that a single layer of plastic and a bag clip is, in fact, entirely adequate to keep both humidity and ants out of food.
If this helps Asia get off its addiction to wrapping absolutely everything in about 5 layers of plastic, there may be an upside here.
(For the uninitiated: if you buy a packet of biscuits in Europe, you'll get a cardboard box, maybe one interior wrap of plastic, and the biscuits. The same packet of biscuits in China will see every two biscuits wrapped in its own sealed plastic bag. Each of those will have a small plastic bag of "oxygen remover" for God knows what reason. The bags will all then be carefully nestled into a thick plastic tray. The whole lot will then get another layer of plastic wrapped around it. Everything is like this there (and most of South East Asia in my experience) - it's genuinely nuts.)
Another perfectly normal day in Dumbfuckistan.
Why the ever loving fuck does an init system even need a user database?
Honest to God, if FIFA were giving out a World "Understanding UNIX" Prize, Poettering would be the inaugural, and only, winner. Never in the field of operating systems has one man driven so much enshittification through sheer force of cluelessness coupled with supreme arrogance. And in a world that Steve Ballmer still occupies, that's one hell of an accolade.
I am increasingly of the opinion that the first warning sign of a society heading for collapse is when "home schooling" becomes normalised, instead of being prima facie evidence that the kids are being abused and should be immediately taken into care.
The weird thing about this thread is just how many people hate the TSA.
And I'm not suggesting they shouldn't, but - it's weird. I don't hate the guys and girls who work at airport security anywhere else (and I fly a lot, around Europe and Asia.) They're just people doing a job that I regret is necessary, on the whole keeping people safe. Even the ones in China with a battery and cigarette lighter fetish.
What is it about the US that means as soon as someone gets even the remotest sniff of 'power' that they have to turn into a monumental asshole? There has to be something about education, society, organisation structures, whatever that makes the US almost uniquely like the Stanford Prison Experiment on a continental scale.
The US is battling the environmental and human rights issues that so agitate them about China by promoting 'clean coal' and rounding up brown people in concentration camps without due process.
It's almost as if environmental and human rights issues weren't their real concern 🤔.
Neat; sounds like a combination of traditional processing units, with FPGA-style reprogrammable logic for interconnection between them. I'm sold :^).