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New comment by helloooooooo in "Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard"

helloooooooo — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:54:44 +0000

The assumption that the Anglo idea of being well mannered, quiet and not rowdy at such an event is wrong IMO. The Roman upper classes probably got loud and very obnoxious by our standards, but assuming that the Romans perceived that as “low-class” is probably not correct

New comment by helloooooooo in "Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet"

helloooooooo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:33:22 +0000

Cohere is doing a lot of enterprise AI business, and a lot of business directly with the federal government. They are also not juiced up in these financial games that OpenAI or Oracle are playing.

Additionally, Cohere is no less “kids” than Anthropic or OpenAI. Aidan was literally one of the co-authors of “Attention is all you need”.

New comment by helloooooooo in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"

helloooooooo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:11:31 +0000

The goal of these rules is to reduce corruption and theft. A lot of these rules go out the window when there is a need for speed. The goals have obviously changed: the US Gov believes the world is on a path to war again, and is reforming on that assumption.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

helloooooooo — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:45:59 +0000

It’s a tragedy of the horizon (if I may use the term coined by the Prime Minister). Basically, corporations and democratic countries are more focussed on the short term, such that long term concerns like national security, climate change etc… are not appropriately integrated into risk models.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

helloooooooo — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:02:16 +0000

China is always willing to dump, tariff and subversively coerce its way into hollowing industries. This is not stable nor reliable. It is aggressive and a national security threat.

They infiltrate civil society through their networks of “police stations” and the Confucius Institute with the aim of placing sycophants in positions of power.

They aren’t our friends, and Canadian civil society needs to recognize that.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

helloooooooo — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:45:47 +0000

This is the wrong take. Economic dependence on China is a massive national security threat. Exporting your manufacturing base to a nation that opposes the fundamental values of a nation is completely suicidal, and if war ever occurs, you’re toast. China is increasingly belligerent with their excess industrial capacity, engaging in dumping and overproducing to cut out competing non-Chinese manufacturers. They engage heavily in IP theft.

Allowing critical manufacturing supply chains to move to China is stupid.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

helloooooooo — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:38:49 +0000

You need to understand: for every tariff the US places on China, the more excess industrial capacity that China needs to direct elsewhere. It goes for steel, autos and more. This means, since America sanctioned Chinese steel, China has been dumping their steel into Canadian markets. With the excess electric car capacity unable to be absorbed by America, China wants to direct it elsewhere. If they start exporting to Canada, this excess capacity will completely destroy automotive manufacturing in Canada, leading to mass layoffs and entire industrial supply chains falling apart. This will inevitably lead to political instability as a large portion of second tier cities in Ontario start having a labour crisis.

This is evidently not ideal. I bore witness to manufacturing completely leave my hometown, third tier city over the span of a decade. Today, there is little economic opportunity in that town, with massive drug abuse, and petty crime. It used to be a nice place, and working in a factory earned you an honest living. Unfettered trade with China killed places like this, destroying an entire generation.

At the end of the day, wanting electric cars from China depends on your values, do you want incredibly cheap electric vehicles, even if it means destroying an entire industry that the largest province in the country relies upon? Or do you want to maintain a functional manufacturing base that is critical to political and social stability?

New comment by helloooooooo in "ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety"

helloooooooo — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:02:01 +0000

The x64 Windows Kernel is starting to get support for this. There are a few references to memory tagging appearing in the public symbol files.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

helloooooooo — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:35:14 +0000

I don’t think anyone here has yet come to the realization that ending rampant consumerism is the whole damn point of the tariffs.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year"

helloooooooo — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:40:39 +0000

Why is consumerism the metric here, and not general societal health?

New comment by helloooooooo in "Dépanneurs"

helloooooooo — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:39:45 +0000

Couche-Tard owns Circle-K and is looking to buy 7-Eleven. It’s literally the worlds largest dép/convenience store chain

New comment by helloooooooo in "Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods"

helloooooooo — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:52:29 +0000

They do. Security is about risk management. It’s all very actuarial. If the damages from an attack are severe enough (ie. a company makes it go bankrupt), that’s capitalism working.

New comment by helloooooooo in "The death of partying in the USA"

helloooooooo — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:11:44 +0000

I am going to assume your grandmother probably didn’t work, and instead took made her and her husband’s social life her full time job.

It’s much easier to entertain constantly when one half of the relationship has the availability to do it.

If I’m mistaken, then holy heck how did your grandparents do it lmao.

New comment by helloooooooo in "The Future of MCPs"

helloooooooo — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:51:44 +0000

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

New comment by helloooooooo in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

helloooooooo — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:33:57 +0000

IMF does have Speecial Drawing Rights that kind of, but not really, acts as a global currency

New comment by helloooooooo in "Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users"

helloooooooo — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:23:47 +0000

No… you can also sync with iCloud Passwords, or use a hardware token, like a Yubikey.

New comment by helloooooooo in "How I configure my Git identities"

helloooooooo — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:48:43 +0000

No, the previous commenter is saying that you cannot trust the identity provided in commits period. This has nothing to do with trusting employees, rather placing trust in the identity in commit.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed"

helloooooooo — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:25:31 +0000

Well that’s a lie. The summit was on September 10th.

New comment by helloooooooo in "From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer"

helloooooooo — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:58:12 +0000

It is the most secure browser. The lifetime of these kinds of bugs is generally a few weeks to perhaps 2 months. With a high churn codebase, these things just happen. There is a lot of ongoing work to mitigate the impact of renderer bugs, such as the V8 heap sandbox.

New comment by helloooooooo in "Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say"

helloooooooo — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:41:10 +0000

It can also be that AVP is an “emergent” product while they work on the parts for something larger. I would imagine a lot of the “harder” parts for AVP line up closely with whatever car Apple is attempting to build.