Hello,

Easy, if you live in Texas, or the US in general, it's most likely normal grid operations..

Here in France (unless you are in Spain), it's an attack :-)

Cyrille

Hello,

World citizen here (I have multiple nationalities and have lived on 4 continents)...

This is actually a great idea... For the rest of the world :-)

Movies is one of the MAIN way the US is exporting it's view of the world, it's "values"....
Movies ARE propaganda! And NO other nation has been as successful as the US at using said propaganda....

I live in Europe and I am DEAD TIRED of US movies (blockbusters mostly)...
Such tariffs will cause counter tariffs and we will see LESS of these crap movies here!

So, I say: go ahead, let's isolate the US from the world from a (movie) propaganda standpoint, it will only make things better :-)

Cyrille

Hello,

I was recently listening to a hearing of international chemical companies CEO at the french parlement...

Some very interesting exchange happened there where representatives will ask questions.

One representative asked about "returning some manufacturing to France" for "strategic reasons". This included molecules for medicine and some needed base products...

Later on, another representative (ecologist) talked about PFAS...

One of the CEOs answered (and I paraphrase) :

"Fluor is an element that forms VERY strong bonds and anything that has, or use Fluor is, or decays, for all intent and purpose, into a "forever chemical".

Fluor is present in over 40% of the medicine that we talked about earlier. And will be used in the manufacturing of another 20% of it.

As an ecologist, you want products that last. Fluor is one of the main components to make product last. Remove it and you get "low grade" plastics that decay faster.

We understand that PFAS are not good, but having them has a measurably huge effect through products that could not be done without them and through the quality improvements that they allow on other.

I guess our job is to make products that allow manufacturing of other products, your job as citizen representative is to find the balance between different conflicting needs and wants. In this meeting we are trying to give you the information that will help you understand what is at stake.
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Interestingly enough, this answer was kind of candid in the delivery (the guy was an old school CEO who went up the rank), and really hit the nail on the head highlighting the difficulties of making such decision and I hope that, in Mexio as in France politician will take the time to think hard and long before deciding where to place the cursor.

Cyrille

Hello,

Actually, European MD have the same issue. Even worse...
Here in France a visit to the doc cost less then 30€ for around 20mn with the doc (of which you end up paying less than 5 after insurance).
This is a 90€ an hour for the doc who has to pay for the office he works form, supplies, computer software, potentially secretary, car for house visits...

They work long hours and late in life (as their studies are long)...

They do need to make more money (and are often fighting the government for it). But they do not seem to be "perverted" by bad intensives. In fact, they are more likely to refuse patients than the other way around because they don't have enough time...
Maybe it's a question about number of doc vs number of patients...

Cyrille

Hello,

Except that if it can "write the documentation" out of your function prototype, then it means that the function prototype is self explanatory enough and does not need documentation.

Let us take a function:
int addsTwoNumbers(int a, int b);

Adding 6 lines of "documentation"(*) above that reads:
// There is a function called addsTwoNumbers
// this function will take 2 inputs
// The first one called "a"
// and a second one called "b"
// The function will return the result of the addition of these 2 numbers

This is 100% worthless as it did NOT give any more information. All it did is diluted the existing information, making it longer and harder for me to get the information that I need...
Furthermore, let us say that I have 20 similar functions (add, sub, mul...). Before I could present them in a pack of 20 declaration (20 lines of text), make it easy to "find" the needed function, nicely fitting on one screen...

Now, with the extra documentation they will take over 120 lines, making it a lot of screen and making finding information quite hard...

So, I do not see the advantage of IA here...

Cyrille
*: yes I know it says '6' lines of documentation and they are only 5 lines there.. But tell me this is not "business as usual" for AI to make that type of mistake :-)

Hello,

In the past, scientists were working on heating things up...

We reached 60 they said!
And what is it to us did the people say....

This year we reached 70 they said!
And what is it to us did the people say....

We reached 80 they said!
And what is it to us did the people say.... And why are we giving you so much money!

We achieved 90 this year said the scientists!
And the people wanted to more of it...

But the scientists pushed on... And they reached 100!
And the people said... We are done with this crap...
But the scientists said: With 100 we have steam, and the steam engines, and the industrial revolution was born...

OK, not 100% historically accurate, but we can all understand the analogy!

Cyrille

How do you call someone who speak 3 languages: a trilingual How do you call someone who speak 2 languages: a bilingual How do you call someone who speak 1 language: an american!

Yes, I could not agree more! Everyone should learn SH3 ASM!