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Comment Re:Unmatched Liquidity (Score 1) 27

Right now the drive to diversify is entirely political.
Ok great you hate Trump, congrats.
The FACT is that there is no serious alternative to the USD as a reserve currency.
The currencies mentioned (euro, yuan) are indeed probably the closest in a basically empty field.
The yuan is controlled by a deeply dishonest tyrannical government that hasn't authentically reported financial information for decades. The EU is an anti democratic talking shop that can't manage to stand up a coast guard, much less manage a monetary policy.

Don't get me wrong, there are major, major issues with how the US handles economics. Inter party vacillations every 4 years. Dishonesty about inflation or economic data when it's politically inconvenient. But to the point of real-world contexts critical to underpin faith in a currency, the US remains economically dominant, more militarily secure than all others, and well supplied with food, water, oil, and raw materials.

Comment Re:A FedEx truck... (Score 1) 48

I had a FedEx truck clip a support wire for an electric pole in front of my house. It pulled on the pole so much that it and 2 poles in each direction were all wobbling. The lines where swaying so much that the lines must have arced, and caused power to go out at my house and several of my neighbors. The damage that this drone did was very mundane in comparison. Why would this require an FAA investigation?

Because Amazon! Because capitalism! Heck, probably because Trump somehow!

Sheesh, get with the program! ;)

Comment Re:How do data leaks work? (Score 1) 32

You are correct. Donald Knuth, the famous computer scientist, himself says LLMs generate excellent "copy".
One day, exchanging (polite) message with obvious typos and unexpected turns of grammar and side-musings will be seen as a sign of genuine affection between humans communicating. :)

Comment Re:AI/LLMs and language translation (Score 1) 100

Thank you ... Interesting

Looks like we need TIOBE to be like a Neilsen Ratings TV set top box that measures what people actually watch. But in reality, it's more like something that counts up TV schedule listings.

TIOBE should offer a free 'anonymous stats reporting' plugin to various IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Emacs, vim)

Comment Re:AI/LLMs and language translation (Score 1) 100

Interesting.
  I have not used modern IDEs for several years
But a few months ago, I used AI LLM portals (Claude, ChatGPT) to code up a new 1000 line program in an unfamiliar language (Excel VBA). That was a 'copy paste compile debug repeat' exercise in creating a new program.. Given LLM session memory constraints, I could not imagine doing that to study and modify a complex existing codebase (say, a 100 KSLoC Java application).

What tool do you think could work ?

Comment Make the Web Webby Again! (Score 2) 38

That's the problem: they are not a web. The original idea of the internet was to have a web of connections so that a few cables or nodes going bad wouldn't stop data movement, it would route around the bad spots via going through adjacent parts of the web. Seems we have to return to the original vision.

Technically they usually route around damaged sea cables via a larger scale redundancy, such as through another continent, but the webbiness needs to be per sea based on the rate of damage so far.

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