beached_whale
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
They host a lot of models too, and that is probably where they burned the cash.
There are so many things that are expressible in C++ now that could not be without writing much more code or using per-compilation tools back then. The ability to run code at compile time that is not run at runtime is huge, #embed lets us make other tools output available without linker scripts or compiler specific tools that.
Also, most of the code from the past still works(from 10 years ago definitely works)
Wage suppression can be dealt with by making the wages for visa workers higher than some formula that takes local and national averages into account
I mean, they are getting everything the want with the Fed gov building pipelines and other infra to aid them. The east/west from years back was the company didn't want to budge on the route through Quebec and decided to walk, Keystone was the US cancelling. Trudeau got the pipeline to the west coast done and it's doing a million barrels a day almost now. Plus others to east and Churchill look like they are in the works. Only so many welders