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Comment token efficiency (Score 4, Interesting) 56

One of the issues with C and C++ and many other "verbose" and overly "ceremonial" languages is that they are very token inefficient.

Expect languages that get more done with less code to be more popular going forward. The models have limited context and you don't want to waste half of it on boilerplate.

Comment Live by the Executive Order, die by the EO (Score 5, Insightful) 149

This is what happens when we have kings in the White House issuing decrees. A new king comes in and wipes out the decrees from the old king.

As disastrous as this sounds, the short term impact will be minimal. Companies are not going to invest in new capability without having a stable regulatory environment. If Dems lose big in Nov '26, they might then...but if Dems win big, expect companies to do nothing knowing that in 2028 the Endangerment Finding will be back and even more dire.

At the end of the day, Congress should be legislating these types of regulations and not leaving it up the current person occupying the White House. They need to get it together and do their job...or maybe "We the People" need to start doing our job instead of electing politicians that care more about their own power than they do about the future of America.

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Comment Re: Uhm... (Score 1) 144

It does, but it has a cost and that cost is your future income.
If I buy something now for $1,000 and I pay a 20% APY over the course of 5 years. So initially I only have to pay $26.49/mo and I get something worth $1,000. However, at the end of five years I've spent $1,589.63. So, yes I did just pluck $1k out of thin air for me to buy something, but now I'm gonna pay almost $600 over the next five year.

If I keep doing that I keep committing my future earnings and reduce what I can spend later. That $50k car, that $600,000 house. That $15,000 vacation. It all adds up and suddenly you run out of money because everything is committed to monthly payments.

It's a bit like where our federal government is right now. Their biggest expense is interest and it's only going to get bigger.

Comment They say it out loud (Score 3, Insightful) 118

"Instead, he said, it could run fewer, fuller flights with higher ticket prices. He said many flights were only taken because they were so cheap: “We know that a lot of air transport demand is induced. If you increase the cost, people would just choose a different type of holiday.”

The goal is to make it so only the wealthy can enjoy the world and we are all kept in our little corner.

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