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Data centers would be less contentious in the U.S. if energy was plentiful and clean. As it is, it externalizes costs onto the public and strains profit-optimized electrical grids …

Another reason this may be true, selling hardware may be the only durable moat after a while

It’s also a flywheel for China’s homegrown chips industry.

Nationalism is a cancer

I wish this had some code or pseudo-code tests!

That simplistic characterization is still essentially "China-bad." The CCP is the same government responsible for lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject…

> Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years? Yes, but China-bad ideology demands that we ask ”at what cost…

> I can’t conceive of the leadership of the Python or Rust or any other community I’ve ever worked with doing something like that. At least for Rust, part of this is because there …

Also throw in GLM 5.2 for good measure

> That depends on if car was originally made for left-hand or right-hand traffic I was referring to i.e. Arabic vs English

Surprised no one's mentioned it so far, but CarPlay / Android Auto aren't just features, they're consistency . Across makes, models, years. I know what I'm getting when I connect m…

Code review isn’t a singular thing. There are many reasons for code review, like knowledge sharing, liability laundering, code quality, regulatory compliance, etc. As usual, what p…

There's another end to test, yet!

Waymo Premier soon to be followed by Waymo Mythos and finally Waymo: Tokyo Drift

> The analysis uses a single metric: bugs per 10 commits (bugs/10c). Bugs per commit as a metric papers over severity, both in terms of security severity as well as the effect on t…

Also see: the entire history of America

Sort of, but the amnesia typically applies to writing characters, rather than reading them.

Pinyin is widely used, but pinyin’s primacy is oversold. Chinese texts start with teaching Chinese characters - many are recognizable to children from daily exposure to begin with,…

I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...

This runs counter to the last 50 years of American propaganda espousing the inefficiency of government. If the Chinese government can just throw money at industries and have them f…

I wonder how much of DeepSeek and Xiaomi's pricing cuts can be traced back to cheap energy in China.