Wouldn’t speculative decoding decrease overall throughput, but optimise (perceived) responsiveness?

In reality no such thing happened and one YouTube video of a handful of protestors doesn’t make it so.

What she did say is that a Chinese attack on Taiwan _could_ clearly become an existential threat to Japan. Note that key word _could_

Which… of course it could!

Japan hosts multiple US military bases. If it developed into an armed conflict between the US and China then it’s exceedingly likely that Japan would be attacked. Think Chinese missiles aimed At Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo.

Not only that but Japan and China have multiple territorial disputes. It’s not hard to imagine China deciding to go all in and settle those as well.

Reunification with Taiwan has been a major policy goal of the CCP since the civil war and is one of Xi’s explicit policy goals. He just reaffirmed this commitment as part of his New Year’s speech.

Historically China has lacked force projection capability. However it has had a multi-decade modernisation and military build-up which has drastically changed this situation.

Further we’ve seen significant tightening of CCP control over society and in particular the military in Xi’s term.

A straight forward analysis of these events, in line with Xi’s public statements and past Chinese actions, is that the ground work is being laid for encirclement of Taiwan followed by China taking over, by force if necessary.

Modern LLMs are amazing for writing small self contained tools/apps and adding isolated features to larger code bases, especially when the problem can be solved by composing existing open source libraries.

Where they fall flat is their lack of long term memory and inability to learn from mistakes and gain new insider knowledge/experience over time.

The other area they seem to fall flat is that they seem to rush to achieve their immediate goal and tick functional boxes without considering wider issues such as security, performance and maintainability. I suspect this is an artefact of the reinforcement learning process. It’s relatively easy to asses whether a functional outcome has been achieved, while assessing secondary outcomes (is this code secure, bug free, maintainable and performant) is much harder.

This feels like a very unfair take to me. Uv didn’t happen in isolation, and wasn’t the first alternative to pip. It’s built on a lot of hard work by the community to put the standards in place, through the PEP process, that make it possible.

What uv did was to bring it all together.

I remember evaluating Aider and Cursor side by side before Claude Code existed.

The problem the OP is pointing out is that some programmers are incompetent and do string concatenation anyway. A mistake which if anything is even easier in Python thanks to string interpolation.

This is more flexible as it still allows runtime configuration of the logging level.

The OP is simply pointing that some programmers are incompetent and call the trace function incorrectly.

However to calculate total income taxes you do need to include the 15% tax on superannuation contributions.

If your pre-tax take home salary is $100k AUD, then your total salary package is 111.5k including the 11.5% compulsory employer superannuation contribution.

You’ll pay regular income taxes + 2% Medicare levy on $100k and your $11.5k super contribution will be taxed at 15%.

So your total income tax including the Medicare levy (but assuming you don’t pay the Medicare surcharge or claim any deductions) will be $24,513. Giving an effective tax rate of 20.2%

There are no state or local income taxes in Australia so that’s it for personal income taxes. However states do charge payroll tax on most companies payroll (e.g. 4.85% on annual payroll over $1M in the state of Victoria for companies in the Melbourne metro area).

There’s no “insurance networks” and no visitation limits. You can go to _any_ doctor nationwide.

I’d be curious to know where you had that experience and what the limits are on finding a different doctor ..

Takaichi is a slightly right of centre nationalist. Pushing a mild tightening of some immigration rules to maintain the social contract around immigration, and fend off the right wing populists. Her policies amount to things like tightening foreign land ownership rules and refusing visa renewals for people not paying their health insurance or pension (which is mandatory by law for all residents).

She’s had friendly relations with SK so far and recently met with the SK President and bowed in respect to the Korean flag.

Her “provocation” of China was to state, when asked in parliament, that an armed invasion of Taiwan by China would be a case of a potential existential threat to Japan.

Which frankly is utterly obvious to anyone, including of course China. Japan hosts American military bases. If China attacked Taiwan, triggering an American repose then there would at the least be Chinese missiles aiming for Tokyo (Yokosuka) and Okinawa.

I was diagnosed with LADA type 1 diabetes. First in my family to have it.

My immediate reaction was wanting to put together something to track my diet, blood glucose weight and so on.

Thank you for sharing your experience.