Microsoft: your computer, my choice

To be fair, in that world body armor seems to be both commonplace and extremely effective.

How often does a solution need “new” code and not “basically the same code as a previous issue but with two small details changed”? This is a genuine question, I have only ever coded as a hobby. But 25% of your work being essentially just copy pasted sounds plausible, and that’s sorta all LLMs are doing, right?

The point isn’t that we’ll never get there. The point is we sure as shit aren’t there yet.

The west

Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?

Private companies can be dicks. Public companies can and will be sued by their shareholders if they aren’t big enough dicks.

Lemmy users attempt to not steer conversations back to their 19th century failed politics challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.

At this point, I just use someone complaining about the national debt as a secret code for them saying “I have zero idea how economics works”.

If only there were people desperate for a better life here, alive now, perhaps in a neighboring country or even entire other continent bordering the states.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-national-debt-reaches-zero-dollars

TLDR: the last time someone that didn’t understand economics paid off the national debt, it didn’t end well.

If there is a finite amount of money you can print before suffering the effects of inflation, deficit spending allows you to increase the amount of money in circulation without just printing more. If I owe you 100 trillion dollars, you owe Japan 100 trillion dollars, and Japan owes me 100 trillion dollars, this is good for the economy. Yes, it probably sounds like voodoo magic. No, I’m not qualified to help with that.

Now, there is still an upper limit on how much debt is okay, generally tied to interest rates. We’re beginning to scratch that upper limit thanks to deficit spending during covid, but it’s by no means problematic and things would overall probably have been worse without the extra spending.

I mean, I don’t think the entire concept is flawed. I want to wait and see what it actually means - especially if it’s cheaper to grab food outside of surge hours.

I understand it likely won’t be, but I won’t damn them until we have more information.

My reddit account has just shy of 100k comment karma and less than 2k link karma, and I still got the message.

I marked it as spam for “unsolicited messaging” lmao

Sorry, are we on the same platform? All I see from the communists are cringe memes and even cringier “debates” that would get them laughed out of a middle school debate club.