Not sure why you're being downvoted.
Your take on EU's DSA/DMA/KYC and what else is not wrong, but it started in the US with the PATRIOT Act(or even earlier?). The US drives the surveillance in pair with EU. The US does "full take" of internet traffic. Both parties suck.
> What if there is a breakthrough in efficiency
Slashdot had an article a few days ago about analog computers using RRAM. Still in research in China, but given the amount of money involved it will probably be fast-tracked to Chinese data centers (if the tech delivers what's promised). The summary mentioned "up to 1000x the performance and 1/1000 the power requirements. Not buying that, but even 10x or 100x would wreak havoc on traditional GPU based digital solutions.
> Do you remember the housing bubble? The banks hedged then too. They bundled loans into mortgage-backed-assets that they sold on the investor markets -spreading the risk to individuals and hedge funds (aka our retirement accounts). When the bubble popped we all lost because of the banks hedging their bad loans.
That was more fraud and not so much hedging. They sold their risky investments. A hedge would be protecting their investments by shorting the AI companies, like the summary mentions.
I mean, come on. Everybody knows that. They could've implemented the Lua parts in C as well, and then compare performance.
> I have no idea what led them to this madness.
Wild guess? Another nation state asked for a favor. Either a EU state or perhaps USA?
> You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to think that the day-to-day running of a data centre
Grok in Memphis did just that, in addition to 150MW from utilities.
ChatGPT Pro Deep Research has been very useful when researching my own genome. I use chatgpt to write the prompts for Deep Research, and AFAICT the results are accurate. From time to time, I ask Grok to check the output for correctness.
> but shock of all shocks, having code templated to the right variable type and not having to dereference pointers is a good thing, performance-wise.
So what? If qsort() is the bottleneck (it hardly ever is IME) and inlining solves the problem, one can still implement a faster or equally fast algorithm in C. More work? Of course, but kinda cool too.
I do live in a county which stores nuclear waste. It's not a problem at all.
I've read that burning coal releases way more radioactive material than nuclears, accidents excluded I assume.
I wonder why Merkel shut down nuclear. It's probably the biggest fuckup ever, along with the whole Energiewende thing. Germany could have been CO2 neutral today if they had taken the nuclear route instead of 'going green.' And they spent like 500 billion Euros?
Who benefited from Merkel's choice? The Russians?
Modern language? Ada has been around almost as long as C, and is considered by many to be quite safe.
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