Indeed, lack of production has been a limiting factor in their exports so far.

Also the practice of pre-registering cars is commonplace in Europe. The dealer buys the car from themselves, registers it to themselves, and sells it "second hand" to the customer with only delivery miles on the clock. My current car was supposed to be like that, but they just registered it to me so it was brand new, but for the pre-registered price.

I'm always surprised that VS is the best IDE. You would think that there would be a really great open source one, given that every open source developer needs something to edit code and manage projects... But nope, the only half way decent open source IDE is Visual Studio Code, another Microsoft product.

I have to use Eclipse based IDEs for various things, and they are all painful and buggy. The UI is a complete mess. It's a little bit mind boggling how bad it is.

The Dice era did so much damage, but to be fair the new owner fixed a lot of things and the place got a lot better. Of course many people didn't come back.

This ad is annoying though because it covers the content. I'd rather it was part of the page layout, than floating over it.

The damages might be insignificant, but if OpenAI doesn't stop doing it they could be much larger. That's likely the point here, to stop them doing it or to force them to buy a licence.

All those things are true of places like Saudi Arabia, only worse. They don't seem to have issues getting talent though.

They pay big bucks, they have enclaves for foreigners to live in, and they use English as the working language where needed.

You know those stories about the Saudi police having supercars? Those cars were bought on credit by foreigners. It's illegal to default on a loan over there, so when they get fired and suddenly can't afford the repayments, they ditch the car and flee the country. The police eventually come and collect it as abandoned, and if they can't find the paperwork for it (accidentally fell in the shredder) they put police livery on it and use it for patrol.

This seems to be a misunderstanding of the current rules. Chinese nationals can take up about $50k out of the country annually, but there is no limit for foreign nationals. As long as you paid all your taxes, you can take as much money as you like out.

The fact that places like Saudi Arabia are able to attract people, despite the fact that drinking is illegal and women's rights are heavily curtailed, suggests that somewhere comparatively liberal like China won't have any issues.

A lot of people get an ffmpeg binary from some repo, and they often compile those with all the optional extras.

Either way, it needed to be fixed.

Right, and just leave the vulnerabilities unpatched so that someone else with AI can start exploiting them.

A 1995 video game format may sound unimportant, but if you say run a website where users can upload video, which gets transcoded with ffmpeg...

something in AI? That's surprising, they've been slow to jump on the LLM bandwagon. Maybe dragging their feet will look like the right move after the bubble pops.

...order to induce R&D, but the side effect is a glut of cars and mass collapsing of brands. Chinese citizens got dicked by a tator, who treats them like guinea pigs.

Republicans are perpetual Archie Bunkers.

Yeah but are they web scale?

I would love for you to tell me what of my post represents a thought terminating cliche and for you to actually debunk anything in my post.

And I would love even better for you to explain a path forward for humanity that doesn't involve guys like you getting the shit all over people beneath you on the social ladder. I'm not going to bother pointing out again that you will be at the bottom because there is no way in hell your mental facilities could imagine or envision that happening. You are simply too amazing and too glorious to end up as one of the many billions stuck on the reservations occasionally being fire bombed by drones...

Say hi to the world leaders at G5 this year for me.

And it's actually even worse then you think it is. Foreign students can and do get the same loans or sometimes better loans and better government assistance then locals. There are entire programs at major colleges that exist to bring people in from overseas who are basically already trained and ready to go, give them a little bit of specific skills that corporations want and then hand them over to the corporation to make money for that corporation.

If the corporation decides they want to keep the H1B then yeah the loans do get paid off by them or the corporation.

But if they don't keep them here which is not uncommon then the taxpayer just eats it

Meanwhile as an American you simply cannot apply for these programs. I mean technically you can but they're not there for you. I have had H1B coworkers ask me why us Americans aren't taking advantage of these programs only to have to explain that we can't because they're not for us.

You're also missing the point. These programs don't exist to educate those people it's just job training. The actual expensive education is done in their native country. That's typically where they get their bachelors and or masters degrees. That is billions of dollars worth of education spending that happens overseas where American billionaires don't have to pay for it.

That's the real cost savings. They can completely do away with 90% of education funding in America and get other countries to pay for it.

Which is a great deal for the billionaires getting tax cuts but for anyone who has kids and now has to come up with an additional 40 or $50,000 to pay for tuition because your kid is competing with somebody from India or even China good luck with that.

And if you bring this up the left wing will scream at you for being racist and the right wing will try to bury you in the algorithm and the centrists will tell you that it's fine because GDP go up and so line go up and line go up is always good.