And also for some reason explicitly lists „military aircraft and ships“. Which surely should be allowed just for the comedic value.

Secret Squirrels will obviously keep track of who wants to blow up Starlink, but they will not interfere unless it makes sense for the country.

Completely different than parking a tank preventively in front of each base station. Or even just a police car.

And, well, would you expect the state to proactively assign military protection details to such people?

No. They would have their own body guards, and maybe a police protection if needed. But not army.

The spy and counterspy agency would probably investigate, but they are not going to post a flak cannon next to each Starlink base station.

It’s not exactly uncommon or inconceivable that yes, the property of foreigners doesn’t quite get the same protections.

VAT I guess being the interesting part given the original topic.

Federal Certificate of Vocational Training in Information and Communication Technology

It’s a 4 year high-school apprenticeship and you have to work under a licensed professional during your apprenticeship during those 4 years.

I had such apprentices on my team. It’s a good system.

Even IF they need code, they need at best a CRUD app to track patients, that's it. There is no way Fable or Opus 5.5 can't one-shot a village vet clinic app in 30 minutes, and only with "I need a village vet clinic app" as a prompt, and whatever questions it decides to ask along the way with it's "ask user" tool.

Or a florist, to use the example from a sibling comment.

Code is tiny part of "business".

Most business is correspondence with people who want money from you and people you want money from.

It's just amazing how quickly we accept that models are good at something.

My florist boss can't get Claude to automate rose pruning. But she sure as hell doesn't need to wait until Jacques is back in the shop to respond to that French supplier anymore. There is a lot of "business tasks" that are just paper being shuffled around no matter if you are a florist, baker, workshop owner, custom CNC shop, student offering lessons in extra time or whatever. And LLMs are already scary good at those.

In your case, the comment you link to says „business tasks“ and you expanded it now to „arbitrary new tasks“. Those are not the same. An LLM today sure can do many many many business-speak conversion tasks.

Pretending to be an „Ingenieur“ is illegal unless you have the paper to back it up. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a university paper, there are older trade papers that also work.

Calling yourself a „dipl. Ing. “ would be a crime if you don’t possess the appropriate degree.

Because of AI, there is more code to review. I don't know about you, but I get annoyed when the default git diff doesn't match something "obvious". I built CodeDiff to help.

It's a syntax-aware, careful implementation in Rust of all current research in code diffing. It parses 24 languages with TreeSitter and falls back to a modified Myers line diffing algorithm for any file it cannot parse. I wouldn't necessarily call it a novel algorithm, but it isn't a re-implementation of existing tools either.

I tested it on the last 50 commits of all 7400-or-so repositories that are in the Gentoo package list. CodeDiff can diff 99.95% of those file pairs in 120s and 6GB of RAM on a rusty 11 year old Intel E3-1275 v5. The median speed is 7ms and 93% of files are diffed in under 100ms.

I also did a bit of hand solving and have a test dataset of 1400 hand solved diffs. CodeDiff is perfect on 70% and near-perfect on 90% of them. But accuracy is actually a complex thing to measure, because if you are only after the AST diff, then it is perfect 89% of the time. Deciding what to paint however is not an objective thing so if you do try it out, check out the render options (press M) and make it fit your style.

If you just want to see how it looks like: https://ivankovic.github.io/codediff/showcase/?case=python-r...

If you want to install it: https://github.com/ivankovic/codediff

Do feel free to file issues. It's v0.1.1 at the moment, but I have been using it for months as my git difftool and I plan to keep that stable. Using it as a library directly from Rust however, might change until v1.0. The final goal for v1.0 is p99 < 400ms and 99% perfect diff, including multi-file diff support in 30 languages.

Credit where credit is due: There is a bunch of people researching diffs in the past 20 or so years. Without those papers, CodeDiff would be a lot harder to build. Especially without APTED and Myers algorithms.

License: AGPL3.0, I kind of like copy-left. If your company prevents use of AGPL software tell them to throw a few bucks my way for my token usage and we can talk.

AI disclosure: I use AI assisted coding. Claude and Mistral were used, heavily.

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Most trucks I pass on the road daily are already electric in my part of Europe. Seems like all the big European companies, especially Mercedes, are pushing them out the door as fast as they can.

LLMs have speed development up so much, the difference between engineers and programmers is becoming too obvious to ignore.

We will have to adopt something that is normal in all other engineering disciplines. Just like civil engineers can’t sign off projects until they pass the exam and „years working for an engineer who can sign off on projects“ is an exam requirement.

That is the whole point. If you want to understand more, this song is genuinely a good explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tgnx6jTQ

And I'm not even joking.

There’s a meeting scheduled in Ottawa next month for the actual deal writing.