We used turbo pascal in school in the early 90’s. And it had assembly blocks… which I used copious amounts of because it was the only way to make the IBM PS/1’s do useful graphics.

But why is it nailed there?!

There was a report that Mazda was going to do this with their next release cycle, except they’re going to use Rotary engines because they can make small pancake ones shoved in the corner of a trunk do it.

Ironically, ChatGPT is trained from the online communities.

And without fresh data on the communities, CharGPT will soon lack the answers people seek.

Don’t forget, Kubernetes is totally happy with json input and output instead. Use json, be the change you want to see in the world!

I feel like this is very short sighted. Yes, they can’t do it now. Yes, they are far behind…

But as a manager and a father, the textbook way you get someone to truly learn something and grow is to give them pointers, give them a reason to want to do it, and then let them figure it out on their own. This is how kids learn to walk, how people get good at games, how employees are pushed to learn and grow in their roles, and how countries develop their own tech.

China clearly has enough examples and pointers (legally or not), and now we have a given them a reason to do it (barring them from importing it, but still needing the tech). It will take a while, and their end goals and processes might be different than what ours were. I.e., Sometimes my kid thinks of doing something a different way and it still works. Time will tell. But in the end, they will have their own logistics, their own factories, and their own products. They might be worse, but they could definitely be better, that’s all up to them.

If you wanted China to stay dependent on us, then this was not the right move.

Someone should tow it outside the environment first, just in case.

Even if you use a data cable, it might not have the pins/wires for usb 1.1 fallback meaning a keyboard or mouse won’t work with it. Or it might support low power only. I had to buy a usbc cable tester to validate which ones might actually work with what.

My favorite is that not all chargers support all voltages. I have a few that do 5v, 9v, and 20v, but if your device asks for 12v, you’re out of luck, you either don’t get anything, or it fails back to 9v which isn’t enough to accomplish what the device wants to do (like charge). Still, it’s standards compliant!

The standard explicitly allows but doesn’t require support of any subset of standards so you never REALLY know what that cable or charger in your hand or the devices you’re holding can actually do without finding specs in docs… It’s really infuriating. The idea of USB-C is better than the reality, which makes the push to standardize on the connector not nearly as cool as it could be.

What’s annoying in this situation is that the Republicans love Israel, back them in the war and want to send weapons to them in droves. This means that Joe, being more of a moderate/centrist wins favor and likely votes from their side by doing so.

But it also means if we don’t agree with that, we can’t vote Republican either because it’ll likely be worse.

Obviously this is due to all the deep fried foods in southern cuisine.

Or he won’t because this is an old story that already has an acquittal: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68099669

Defense Dept’s sick leave policy is that bad that he had to work while in the hospital?! Dude, take a break! The H in WFH is for Home not for Hospital!

On one hand, I get why resigning really makes your opinion known and gets the point across.

On the other hand, if everyone with a conscience resigns, then what’s left? This basically just makes it certain that atrocities like this will continue.

Abstaining just makes everyone else’s vote worth a hair more.

the US state department accused China of “dangerous and unlawful actions”,

The EU Ambassador to the Philippines Luc Véron said described the “repetition and intensification” of incidents such as Sunday’s collisions as “dangerous and very disturbing”.

Canada’s embassy in the Philippines called China’s actions “unjustified” and said that “Continuing acts of intimidation and coercion undermine safety, stability, and security across the region, and increase the risk of miscalculation”.

I know they have to say these things, but I always wonder if they really think the other side is going to reply with: “Awe, shit, you’re right. My bad!” Like, other than posturing, what’s the point anymore?