Man, the U.S. has been antagonistic to China, always. The only kind of "work together" the U.S. wanted was "work for us for free."

Lasers have inherent limitations no matter how powerful you make them due to divergence. The most powerful 300kW laser that has been made has a limitation of a few 10s of kilometers. A distance the hypersonic vehicle will cross in about 5 seconds. Put reflective and sacrificial armor on it and you've circumvented the only thing that could hope to stop it aside from a nuclear detonation on yourself.

Antagonize, mock, and threaten 1 billion people who are kicking your ass in academics, because you're scared they'll pull ahead of you, instead of working together so you both advance, and then you find out what happens... oops.

While I know Java doesn't inherently have to be slow and use excessive resources, I've never seen a significantly complex Java application that utilizes resources as expected. The CPU and memory usage is always a factor of 10X what I'd expect from a C++ application. I don't know the reasons as I'm not a Java developer, but I also don't find Java enticing enough to learn enough to find out.

Your boss is OK with this. They would rather have a 3rd grader without intelligence or ambition, than give you a raise.

At some point you'll realize the billionaires meet your criteria for CGD. It's more like they're the first in the human centipede.

Admittedly, after slogging through Jodie Whitaker'a seasons, I gave up after the first couple episodes of the new doctor. On your recommendation, I'll try the latest season.

The reason the show sucks now isn't Ncuti Gatwa, his acting or any indelible characteristics. It's Disney and their infinite capacity for ruining anything creative by playing it safe, coloring inside the lines.

This is the kind of thing that the US government would pay reporters to make up, using circular and non-existent citations. Late they revise or redact figures and reports to maintain a shred of credibility. The problem, is that someone's reputation was on the line, but now they can just defer blame to an AI hallucination. The damage is done, you've formed an opinion and a general sense of unease, but you forget what facts and sources you based that opinion or feeling on.

This might seem like a good comparison, but there's a key difference in that salaried intellectual work doesn't have strictly quantifiable output metrics. You can find yourself in a position where a feature, once explored in depth is really a rats nest of features. Developers can poop or pee, but they may find themselves under immense pressure to deliver something where a project manager has underestimated the effort required to complete it. The developer then finds themselves virtually shackled to a chair for long hours to meet management's expectations. Meanwhile, warehouse workers go home at the end of shifts.

Nuclear Lake refers to a lake used for nuclear waste storage. The Taiga Test site, or Atomic Lake, is a different lake and the radiation levels are fairly low.

You might not realize it, but we also have a one-party system in the US and a horrific history of human rights. For example, slave labor didn't end in the US, we just call it prison labor. This isn't what-about-ism, but pointing out that the US should worry about their own problems before pointing out China's problems. Much of your information is also just flat out propaganda and a distortion of reality.

I'm sure the average Slashdotter doesn't remember, but in 2020 I was saying the sanctions would backfire by clearing out competition in domestic Chinese markets. Well, here we are. While the US was busy staring in the rearview mirror, China was closer than they appeared and sped past. Clearly, the only solution is more sanctions, tariffs and cutting research funding!

While I love Rust, the "we wrote it in Rust so it's fast" or "Rust performance" conversation is getting really tired. Languages aren't "fast" or "slow", the software and algorithms written in the language are "fast" or "slow."

This is just gaslighting