Well they were sabotaging EUs goals of phasing out ICE vehicles. But at least this is something.

Still love you, Germany :)

Well, that would be avoidable if people applied the Mitchell and Webb test, asking themselves “are we the baddies?”.

If you know you are and don’t care, culture fit ! :)

For a number of years, pc publications around these parts actually shipped snapshots of websites on the bundled CD-ROM.

You couldn’t snapshot all, but you could definitely get a taste :)

Bye bye.

Would be great for us (Europeans).

On the other hand, were I an American interested in projecting power across the globe, not so much.

I wonder if it is more of this administration’s fantastic 5d chess. Amazing how quickly a bunch of infantile idiots can dismantle the incredibly powerful US empire of the 50’s and beyond.

What if you are an American who is not interested in projecting power across the globe? What if you would like to stop spending 1/3 of your budget on the military?

I take no pride in being an Empire or hegemon. I know this will be ugly and disorderly and could almost certainly be handled better, but as an American, I am looking forward to the day when problems 5000 miles away from my home are no longer treated as my problem.

>What if you would like to stop spending 1/3 of your budget on the military?

Then you would be happy, because the US spends 1/7th [13%] of the budget on the military.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

If you look at oil prices, the Iran-US-Israel-Saudi war is now everyone's problem globally, whether they're part of the hegemon or not.

It's very difficult to disconnect from the problems of the world when your fuel is imported (+) from the middle east and your chips are imported from the Far east. Trying to be an autarky is .. well, the US might be able to do it, but it will be fearsomely expensive.

(+) US is currently a net exporter of oil/petroleum products, but that is a recent development and subject to change

The biggest to suffer after the BAM is closed is the EU. It is not an accident that the USA decided not to support Saudi when they asked for air strikes last week.

ARAMCO just told the EU there will be no oil shipments next month.

Hurting the EU is a major goal of the current US admin.

Oil is a global market.

Oil prices will rise in the USA just as much as they will in the EU.

> What if you are an American who is not interested in projecting power across the globe? What if you would like to stop spending 1/3 of your budget on the military?

What do you think the second, third and fourth order effects of this would be for you?

What new problems, closer to home, would arise?

> I am looking forward to the day when problems 5000 miles away from my home are no longer treated as my problem.

The USA does not live in a vacuum.

I think you will find global events 5000 miles away ARE your problem, and mine, whether you like it or not.

Circling the wagons and tending our own garden is a nice ideal, but is no panacea just because we build some factories in Cleveland, celebrate the end of Globalism , claim ‘US energy independence’ (that’s gotten quiet lately.) reassessing our footprint? Yes great idea. Large poorly thought-through snap actions because headlines are needed? No thanks.

Well, I guess the issue is, someone is going to do that instead & by the time it causes a problem much closer to home, it might be too late.

Is budget really a reality here? This administration just proved it could spend billions on making gas expensive for us.

> What if you would like to stop spending 1/3 of your budget on the military?

Is that what you think this is going to achieve?

You will still be spending that money. Trump wants to increase military spending by 50%. It has very little to do with overseas force projection.

>I take no pride in being an Empire or hegemon. I know this will be ugly and disorderly and could almost certainly be handled better, but as an American,

Exactly. I'm gonna say the same thing I said when we pulled out of Afghanistan.

It's not my country and it never was. I wish them the best.

Please explain why having less soldiers would be "great".

But the US consumer is also quite self-centered. They will happily torch alliances and neighborly relations over perceived personal benefits. I doubt the US consumer would lift a finger for Taiwan. It will be a combination of weakness and indifference.

I think US fiscal policy and adventurism will manage this on its own. :)

But why wait? We can has global financial crash now:)

And I could say the opposite. Anecdata, it isn’t really helpful.

Fact is still that wayland does some things better, and a bunch og other things worse.

Matter of fact, the vast majority has moved on to Wayland years ago, both KDE and Gnome have reported their usage stats and neither sees a point in keeping X11 afloat. I too have been using Wayland (KDE) for years, it addressed some decades-long struggles around multi monitor and DPI layouts. I use input methods for CJK that work better and more consistently than before. As far as I'm concerned, this ship has sailed, for the better.

I and presumably quite a few others with AMD AI or Apple Mac platforms are very impacted by this.

:)

It is very relevant and for a certain group of us, far more impactful to our work the next month(s) than any blog post could be.

He also wanted to do a non-profit.

He even raised money on that premise.

He is a pathological liar, so is Dario. Don’t rely on the benevolence or truthfulness of these people.

They will say whatever is beneficial to say in the moment.

Someone having a vision of making it is affordable as electricity is someone having a vision, it wasn't a guarantee, it was a vision.

Telling. Downvotes but actually no arguments. Fitting, because there are none.

Referring to a baseless prediction by Sam Altman that AI will become like electricity without any push-back? Who really thinks Sam is working toward that future?

He already worked to undo every early promise made (non-profit, open source models, strong governing board, strong ethics/alignment/security focus). He's flip-flopped on other things like first characterising Trump "an unprecedented threat to America", then contributing 1M USD to Trump's inaugural fund far exceeding his earlier political contributions. Lately OpenAI, under his supervision, has also been working with Anthropic to lobby regulators in Washington for restrictions on open weights models - why so if not to undermine a free market in favour of an oligopoly?

Beyond that, you have the simple fact that most of his personal wealth and very probably the fate of OpenAI hinges on AI inference NOT becoming an interchangeable commodity.

I mean.. Honestly. The naivete is downright astounding.

I believe Sam is working towards the future. I do believe in his good parts. I have listened to a fair number of hours of interviews with Altman and do believe he is sincere.

You can never please everyone , and some stdlibs can age like milk (see ocaml).

Having libraries allow the community to explore rather than saddling it with a bad default. See the number of http server frameworks etc.

The real solution here is not for the stdlib to become a black hole, swallowing up every half-way popular library a but rather for “rustaceans” to adopt a more security-conscious approach to writing programs- C programs typically have few and well-chosen dependencies. Some languages, like Odin, completely eschew package managers because they see the very real issues stemming from writing a program with scores or hundreds of dependencies.

You seem to be ignoring that most people who want off the infernal npm/cargo hamster wheel are conscious that it implies a bit of spoilt milk or moldy bread in exchange for stability and that they're fine with it.

The gains are just too numerous and important to reject the few rust spots on a "good enough" stdlib.

But well, the kind of people who nod a bit too much while reading https://boringtechnology.club/ aren't using Rust. They're on C99, ANSI CL, Ada, maybe Python, Perl or Tcl.