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New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?"

ReflectedImage — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:08:17 +0000

You haven't really the addressed the point of the US not being trusted.

Even if the EU becomes far right, far right governments don't work or trust each other. What you are saying is moot.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?"

ReflectedImage — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:55:21 +0000

This is suppose to be a tech forum.

With enough solar panels, wind turbines and batteries it's completely possible to run an countries grid off renewables.

Right now the costs for doing so are around the same as the costs of running an oil / gas / coal power grid.

For the average country, not slowly switching over is basically madness.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

ReflectedImage — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:04:00 +0000

I didn't mention anything? But I'll answer your question anyway.

Be it software, artwork, essays, graphic design or movie clips. There is a market for shipping cheap junk.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:49:37 +0000

Well assuming it's successful, there will be a large number of companies who's value will be reassessed as the token cost to replicate and run the business.

Multi-million dollar companies will be reduced into multi thousand dollar companies.

The CEOs will be replaced with teenagers in garages with their parent's credit cards.

If it stalls, then China will undercut the whole AI market with cheap electricity and crash the US stock market.

So what exactly is the win scenario here?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts"

ReflectedImage — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:31:31 +0000

Apple only dominate the US mobile phone market

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

ReflectedImage — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:41:46 +0000

Probably a con job. The AI companies don't think they will be able to significantly improve their models in the next year or so, so they are stalling with government regulations whilst taking in investor money.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:53:33 +0000

"From the perspective of the Iranian state" Well you say that but they have got a non-nuclear nuke equivalent in the form of kamikaze drones.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:48:45 +0000

There is a designated third party Pakistan and they say Lebanon is part of the ceasefire.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off"

ReflectedImage — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:42:50 +0000

Oh no, I live in a flat in a converted commercial building.

They have been going wild in the UK converting office space to residential.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

ReflectedImage — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:38:43 +0000

The Spanish tankers aren't going through because there aren't any Spanish tankers that operate in that region.

Spain has permission from Iran to send through tankers if it indeed had some.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:43:58 +0000

So going forward all countries will be providing citizens of other countries free access to the internet whilst censoring their own citizens?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:28:00 +0000

Static typing and duck typing both date back to the 1950s. You may have heard of Lisp.

The last new significant thing invented in programming was OOP in the 1990s.

Everything else is just ancient, OOP was about bringing the benefits of micro-services to single computer environments. Yes, you read that right

The new ECS system for 3d games was used by the first computer drawing program Sketchpad in 1963.

Programming is mostly just recycling ideas around and around.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:09:06 +0000

The issue is that duck typing with a minimal set of types was the great idea of ABC, which is the language Guido cloned to make Python

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:50:27 +0000

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New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:24:22 +0000

Well given that the US DHS is posting on social media that it intends to get rid of all 100 million non-white Americans. What exactly did you expect?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:51:39 +0000

If you are a good software developer in India then you move abroad. It's not that India doesn't make great software developers, it's just they don't tend to stick around.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:47:41 +0000

Well either $100,000 per person or an large one time direct donation to Trump to be legally exempted from that charge.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

ReflectedImage — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:48:14 +0000

MAGA at its core is a rejection of the lower classes having wealth.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

ReflectedImage — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:36:56 +0000

Replacement? They haven't overthrown the Venezuela government just captured it's figure head.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:02:09 +0000

Well I don't think anyone would pay for the COBOL to Java conversion software.

Since it's no longer New Years Eve, I'm a bit more sober :p

Programming language to programming language conversions seems to be one of the things LLMs are actually good at. Whether they can actually do it or not is an open question.

CEOs will mandate security so the CSOs will mandate Rust over C/C++ and so Rust will slowly take over C++ in next 20 years. Can't see anything in C++'s defense other than it's legacy. The drawback of sticking every feature from every language into your language is that it becomes a massive security hazard.

huh? I'm currently at $1500 Monthly Recurring Revenue, so I'm currently between seeing if I can increase that or if need to get a job. I'll find out in a couple of months.