There is a reason for that. And it is most likely that they are rapidly freeing up Capital so they can try their hand at AI bullshit along with everybody else.

You don't just cut 20% of your staff like it's nothing. Companies are firing employees left and right to free up capital. This is actually by design it's what high interest rates are designed to do.

If inflation was under control a lot of these layoffs wouldn't be happening because companies would just borrow at low interest rates.

Claude code is basically just a fancy network client for the cloud-hosted LLM. There is nothing in it demanding high performance. It just needs to be a sandbox around the shell environment and be able to send off prompts, collect user input, and carry out intents returned from the LLM. 99.9% of the time the CLI app is idle waiting for user input, idle waiting for LLM network I/O, or idle waiting for a cli tool invocation to return.

The more important requirement is for it to be something cross platform and easy to iterate on since this is a rapidly evolving space.

So I was using telling Trump kind of broadly. What they would actually be doing is calling the senators they own and telling them to sit down with Trump and explain that if he doesn't back the fuck down he's going to lose his War Powers. And if he keeps up at it they will have the senators they own impeach him and remove him from office after the midterms.

Remember the Trump isn't actually in charge the billionaires are. So if this is happening it's because the billionaires want it to.

I'm sure that the various other AI companies will respect the copyrights involved and not steal all the useful information and ideas and algorithms. If it's one group of people who are always very respectful of copyright it's AI companies.

Right, which is why charging networks can get away with bullshit like requiring an app to charge. Frequent flyers only get annoyed once and then just use the app. The rare road tripper has no choice. If charging stations were more ubiquitous, the we could give them the finger and use one that took CCs, but they aren't, so we can't. Also, the largest player in the US, Tesla, has what was up to recently a proprietary network that only worked with Tesla cars, so you HAVE to use an app at most of their locations, and they've unfortunately normalized this shit for the rest of the industry.

So download a browser that lies about the kernel flag? The remote service can't interface with the kernel directly, it's counting on a browser to accurately report the state of the flag.

The only way you could trust the flag state as report by the client, is if it was signed by a trusted third party, at which point, it's irrelevant if it's a kernel feature or not. All you need is for the browser to pass along the signed bolus of data, e.g. PKCS#11 or similar.

The trouble is the only place to dump it that much money involved is into your 401k. So it's only a matter of time.

There will be an initial gold rush by Insiders. And then the regulations will quietly be altered. Just in time to let them screw us all over and make out with all our money.

Did you get paid to post that? If not then you should be.

We stopped and forcing antitrust law in the '80s. If you try to make a serious go at competing with any major company then they will come in and if you are extremely lucky off of the buy you out but these days they just come in and copy your product and do it cheaper by leveraging other businesses they own and run you out of business.

As a employee you're also fucked because we also stopped and forcing labor protection laws. So companies can collude to lower wages while getting tax breaks for offshoring your job.

The game is rigged against you. But that's a really hard thing for people to accept.

Is so good for the billionaires that they don't care that America is rapidly getting shut out of the rest of the world because we are a national security risk...

Ordinarily what would be happening right now is billionaires would be telling Trump to knock it the fuck off with the crazy foreign policy because of the risk of us companies being frozen out of European markets. But nope. Everybody is just full steam ahead on the Trump train.

It's another example of how every single system designed to protect you has broken down.

Of bad stock into your 401k. The YouTuber Patrick Boyle has a detailed video on the subject.

Basically SpaceX is going to be valued at 1.5 trillion. However it is impossible for it to reach that valuation in the real world.

SpaceX already has all the launch customers that can possibly get even under the best case scenario. And in unfavorable administration would almost certainly start looking for alternatives because Elon meddled in a war.

So the only possible growth sector for SpaceX is launching its own satellites, specifically the ones for internet.

But that's a dead end too because there aren't enough customers who can afford high-speed internet and also do not have access to some form of landline based internet like cable or DSL

the only other growth sector would be AI bullshit but Elon has lost most of his engineers to other companies. SpaceX got this huge boost because Elon had a mystique and he was talking about going to Mars so a shitload of rocket engineers took lower pay than they could get in any other job and work longer hours to work for spacex. That isn't happening with elon's AI companies. So he can't compete and the stuff he's building is barely better than what you could build yourself and run off your own GPU.

Everybody knows this, at least everybody who is investing that kind of money, so in order to get the kind of money he wants he's doing a weird stock scheme that limits access to the stock in order to drive up the price. Basically a few insiders will get all the profit and it's going to leave a huge amount of worthless stock that needs to be sent somewhere.

Normally it would be dumped into public pensions but those have been maxed out with bad stock already. So we are 401K is going to get hammered.

This is just the largest of many scams that are going to loot your retirement and there's basically nothing you can do about it except vote for pro-consumer politicians who want to regulate Wall Street but that's going to be annoying people like Elizabeth Warren and AOC and Bernie Sanders and frankly people don't like them... And in politics likeability is basically everything now.

What I'm saying is that if you are retiring or even if you're just retired you're a fucked. You have money and somebody wants it and they're going to get it

Start a new site called oldiefans

You only think that's not political because you're confusing centrists with leftists.

No, it's because of all the idiotic enablers. We could just solve the problem by walking into the halls of power en masse and removing them but you can only get that kind of energy from total fucking clowns who want anarchy, and not the good kind that doesn't exist (as it leads naturally to feudalism) but the bad kind with only chaos.

Web apps make at least some sense when you are delivering the exact same app via the web and as a local application. But Microsoft isn't doing that, so they make none...