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Not every nation thinks it has a God-given right to go half-way around the world and bomb other nation's bases, let alone schools. The kids at Fort Bragg Literacywatsdat Junior High have more to worry about violence-wise from each other cf. some imaginary foreign threat.

Again, really difficult concept to grasp. Take some time.

OpenCode Go is the best thing they have going. Pi is the way to go for coding harnesses, IMHO. But despite all the BS messaging, something like glm-5.3-flash on $10/month OpenCode Go plan is a great deal if they have a Come to Jesus moment about security and do a bit of team attitude adjustment.

"but all my opencode keys were deactivated in tbe process"

Similarly woke up this morning to find my OpenCode Go API key had been revoked (remaining monthly usage allowance fortunately not touched).

Whether that was precautionary or is evidence of wider data leak, who knows?

Concur that OC's X messaging is mostly 'Marketing by Sounding off like a Dick' and they're certainly not known for having the best documentation either.

Disappointed that it's missing name of a yacht or catamaran I once saw on trailer parked by roadside in 1980s Queensland:

Blue E. Zarzoff

DS comes out (one of, or) the most successful quant fund in China.

They don't strictly need any kind of subsidies.

FWIW they have a funding round planned (kerfuffle about leaks from CEO presentation few weeks back) -- presumably because infrastructure needs have ballooned.

Naturally there will be some PRC government interest in one of their flagship AI companies. From what is visible seems to be more along the lines of ensuring that DS gets its fair share of resources -- e.g. Xi Jinping meeting founder and positive comments about success of DS means that (hypothetically) Alibaba can't screw DS too much on infra charges to kill off a 'competitor'. Also would imagine that DS's top guys have been clearly identified and will have been 'discouraged' from going to work for one of the SV polycules. But even here as much carrot as stick -- none of the DS top guys will ever need to work again except for love of the job.

Are these tippy top-secret Skunkworks Final Boss Wunderwaffen with you in the room right now?

More and more there seems to be some wishful thinking that the USA has another hidden generation of SR-71 or Stealth tech type surprises squirrelled away for a rainy day. Find this hard to believe when the best brains of the generation got hoovered up by hedge funds, click merchants, and now token slingers.

Is there anything to stop the Chinese doing a silicon photonics end run independent of cracking EUV at scale? Or is getting EUV right first on the critical path? This part is a genuine question.

Workplace metrics and surveillance... What could possibly go wrong?

That being said, more than one (female at that) doctor has told me in confidence and based upon their observations during residencies, etc. that if I'm ever admitted, be very careful how I modulate my interactions with nurses. They're not all Florence Nightingale and Mother Theresa and there exist those who will @#$% you up on various pretexts or are just plain sloppy and negligent.

Despite all the moralising fluff, it's just a job, not some saintly vocation. Some safety oversight is needed, just as it is for any other work function. Still, can bet that anything 'Corporate' has mandated will be Goodharted up the wazoo.

Very good. Thought-termination achieved. Branch pruned. Back-tracking...

Now where's my pony?

I forgot to mention the converse also applies. Mathematicians talking about stuff we engineers learned the paint by numbers way makes our heads hurt!

December/January 1987 I was doing a vacation EE internship in a power station in Australia. Some of the Hitachi mini computers still used core RAM. This was in an all Hitachi Heavy Industries turnkey coal-fired power station commissioned ca. 1985. Pretty sure they had a reference design from boilers and turbines right down to the hardware and software level and kind of cookie cutter stamped out power stations from it. The Hitachi engineering attitude was obviously "If it works, keep doing it the same way for as long as possible". I was told that for some software (firmware?) updates, they'd simply ship out a new core RAM module -- It's non-volatile after all.

Back in the day you'd go into an electronics store and there'd be books containing just 555 circuit recipes. Not to mention the magazine articles.

And every EE student back when we tied onions to our belts must have had a lab assignment to spec out a PLL using 555 and bits and bobs and then measure transient responses, temperature stability, etc.

The world would be a much sadder, drearier place without the 555. That's the nostalgia part out of the way.

Really it's such a useful almost universal lego block of a component that it's hard to imagine it going away anytime soon. Sure microcontrollers are as cheap as chips these days, but you get a lot more with them. Do I need to say that sometimes more is less? Can think of scenarios where you absolutely don't want to see a chip containing firmware/code which needs auditing and locking down.

Back in the 1980s2H there was a brief fashion trend of woollen knit sweaters with IC mask type patterns. Guessing related to designers playing around with design software and knitting tech made possible by microprocessor revolution.

Plot twist: He's a Haskell guru juggling hylomorphisms blindfolded.