Someone will fill in the gap.

Free college in Chinese seems like a great deal vs paying over 100k for Western college.

They're going to replace USAID in the poorest nations, offer more free Chinese education.

In time they'll unseat English as the global language.

The best colleges, by some metrics are already Chinese. Give a few hundred thousand Africans tier 1 free Chinese education and see how global perspectives shift in a few decades.

Next the Yuan will become the world reserve currency.

Edit: Sources are always better than opinions.

https://globalchinapulse.net/confucius-institutes-and-the-sp...

Easier Git doesn't translate into something I can get my boss to pay for.

I have what I need working in C#, and as a C# developer I actually understand what’s going on.

The only downside is now instead of having a portable Rust project, I have something which heavily leans into Windows APIs.

I assume with high level languages some smart people figured out all the memory stuff.

I’ve seen worse in enterprise shops and then I’ve gotten into nasty arguments with people who don’t care about programming. They can’t be wrong.

C# is a high level language that can handle a degree of sloppy programming.

I was working on a small tool yesterday. It was easier to vibe code it from scratch in C# than to modify an existing Rust project.

The only weird part is VS Code Copilot couldn’t figure out how to build it via the dotnet cli and I had to install VS Studio. After that everything was fine.

Corporations, can not. I've been though this twice. If they're doing press releases about how liberal they are, it's probably not a good fit.

Now that I'm old and jaded, I want politics out of my workplace.

After about a month of employment, I was told I was being rude to ask for payment. Apparently they neglected to tell me that they actually only pay their employees 60 to 70 days after they start.

Of course the first red flag was them doing the 1099 dance for slightly above minimum wage. I had been forced to do that before, but guess what. They paid us every single week.

Quiting without notice was one of the greatest feelings with these clowns. By this time they had started to ask me to literally work for free. "Unpaid training". They stopped scheduling me for paid hours anyway, so no notice needed.

Right after that I worked for some conservatives. They paid me early. My first year I got a large raise.

There were some awkward moments like the CEO telling me who to vote for. But for the most part it was awesome.

I still consider myself to be very liberal, but I don't want to work anywhere that does a lot of virtue signaling. Your beliefs don't make you a good person, your actions do.

I imagine it's possible, but just a manner of money.

But I think you're onto something, human languages just aren't optimal here. But to actually see this product to conclusion you'd probably need 60 to 100 million. You would have to completely invent a new language and awesome invent new training methods on top of it.

I'm down if someone wants to raise a VC round.

So it looks like an edge case, as usually you need huge pages at scale ??

As someone with a heavy QA/Dev Opps background I don't think we have enough details.

Is it only ARM64 ? How many ARM64 PG DBs are running 96 cores?

However...

This is the most popular database in the world. Odds are this will effect a bunch of other lesser known applications.

I own one of these, the cage is just a piece of plastic. Anyway, I don't think 80$ is that big of a difference here. I can't really afford a 4k Nvidia GPU. Intel is my only hope.

Takes a standard PSU. However, Mac Minis don't have occulink. So you might be a bit limited by whatever USB C can do.

Now if Intel can get there Arc drivers in order we'll see some real budget fun.

https://www.newegg.com/intel-arc-pro-b70-32gb-graphics-card/...

32 GB of VRAM for 1000$. Plus a 500$ Mac Mini.

With the gig economy as long as you can make 50$ a day via Uber Eats , you might be considered “employed”.

For the days I need to be in the office, my commute is well over 2 hours each way. Pay cuts, horrible commutes.

If either US AI mega corp is at risk of failing I suspect they’ll receive generous bailouts.

Some places have affordable healthcare, we have AI slop

In the US this is why so many wagons have turned into SUVs which have more lax fuel efficiency requirements. They find ways around the regulations.

All Apple laptops have hard soldered SSDs. SSDs have to go bad eventually.

Should the government force apple to only sell laptops with replaceable ssds ?

The most environmentally friendly laptop is a used Thinkpad. But I respect others have a right to buy what they want.

Back to the original point, the laptop isn’t even hard to fix. OP just didn’t do there research.

Should the government have a reparability board ? Who gets to be on it ?

If it pleases the King , may I buy a laptop while traveling and bring it home.

An argument could be made for a refundable recycling fee. Say 5% that gets returned when you take the device to a recycling center after your done with it

Even then, if I want a new ultra thin device that doesn’t have replaceable storage or user input devices, that’s my right to buy.

Who is going to magically determine what replaceable means ? From the post it looks like OP tried to fix it incorrectly.

Does apple owe op a new laptop even if they damaged it ?