Containers are for lazy developers who can't be bothered to actually make software that works without a shed load of libraries sucked in.

It makes their lives easy, and the sysadmin's life far more difficult (especially given the range of potential docker formats).

Hey, the sysadmin won't let us spin up virtual machines, so we'll create fake miniature virtual machines that all include massive amounts of out-of-date dependencies in an independent manner so that they're obfuscated, locked into older version that we're "not allowed to run", and which become a management nightmare the second one of them needs updating globally.

But, hey, at least we don't have to comply with "IT" and their ridiculous security protocols.

It's good to a point, but what you don't want is Balkanization. Switzerland already has four official languages, so I see why they in particular might be acutely aware of it. There's a similar situation brewing in Mexico City as a lot of foreigners are moving in, with few of them even speaking Spanish, which is pissing off a lot of the locals.

Mexico city also has a related (but not the same) concept progressives are likely familiar with is gentrification, which is somehow bad despite balkanization being awesome because diversity.

Yeah, probably.

Not more than in other parts of the world. Probably less. And yes, I actually know that. For example, the fabled "anonymous Swiss bank accounts" have been history for a long time.

And not in a good way. Looks like a rather large number of people seriously do not know what they are doing.

When all compete but the products are still crap. Market failure does not get more spectacular than this.

Indeed. It still means "unusable for anything requiring accuracy". Which is quite a few things. Well, I guess this will not deliver the business model that finally turns a profit either. If that ever happens.

And you will never be able to. That would require a scaling up that is not feasible. Or an entirely different technology.

Indeed. Well, at least the crash will be spectacular. I am hoping for no more AI hypes for a long, long time.

You say the words, but you do not mean them.

USAID was horrifically corrupt

The cuts to USAID are projected to cause 14 million extra deaths - a large minority of those children - by 2030. And USAID engendered massive goodwill among its recipients

But no, by all means kill a couple million people per year and worsen living conditions (creating more migration) in order to save $23 per person, that's clearly Very Smart(TM).

And I don't know how to inform you of this, but the year is now 2025 and the Cold War and the politics therein ended nearly four decades ago. And USAID was not created "to smuggle CIA officers" (though CIA offers used every means available to them to do their work, certainly), it was created as a counterbalance to the USSR's use of similar soft power to turn the Third World to *its* side.

They can go back at any point if they don't think the conditions and salaries offered are worth the job. What matters is that they remain free to leave, with no "catches" keeping them there (inability to get return transport, inability to communicate with the outside world, misinformation, etc etc). Again, there's a debate to have over what conditions should be mandated by regulation, but the key point is that the salary offered - like happens illegally today en masse - is lower than US standards but higher than what they can get at home.

What on Earth are you talking about? Nobody is trying to make other countries poor and dangerous. People come to the US from these countries because even jobs that are tough and underpaid by US standards are vastly better than what is available at home. Creating a formal system just eliminates the worst aspects of it: the lawlessness, the sneaking across the border in often dangerous conditions (swimming across rivers, traveling through deserts), "coyotes" smuggling people in terrible conditions, and so forth. The current US system is the dumbest way you could possibly handle it: people wanting to work, US employers wanting them, the US economy benefitting from it... but still making it illegal, chaotic, dangerous, and unregulated for those involved.

There is reason to believe this limit will not actually be reached. And that would be a problem.

Keep in mind that this is the "SVP", which is essentially the "MAGA morons", Swiss version. They only need to collect 2% voter signatures in 18 months to start this. Does not mean they have any real chance of getting it accepted.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ha...