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First of all, yes, labor is taxed much higher in Germany than in the US (PPP adjustment already takes VAT on prices into account, so that doesn't matter in this case). In fact, Ger…

> American workers still get higher salaries than elsewhere in the OECD and growth in such industries isn't out competing those same industries in other OECD countries. I used to t…

It means that this is a cabinet decision, not (yet) legislation. It still has to go through the Bundestag. Given the opposition within the SPD and the idea being very unpopular amo…

I am not sure I'm buying this. The raison d'être for our existing software engineering methods is that humans make mistakes and we needed to contain the effects of these mistakes; …

My concern with most of these visual benchmarks, popular as they are, is that they are likely more indicative of knowledge (i.e. how comprehensive the training data is and how well…

I mean, Western providers such as Fireworks AI/Microsoft Foundry (US) or Tensorix (EU) already are offering many of these models on their own hardware with all the typical complian…

> For instance, OP's definition H = Var[G] / Var[P] seems to bypass the issues you mentioned: No, this is exactly the definition I am talking about. The problem is that while theor…

> That matches what I assumed it meant, and it seems like OP and the post are arguing that that is some kind of surprising interpretation. The unintuitive part is that in quantitat…

Heritability has a very specific meaning in quantitative genetics [1], which in many ways is not what your intuition would suggest [2]. It is this usage that the article talks abou…

No, the problem is that when logging in, the provider's website can provide an authentication shell command that OpenCode will send to the shell sight unseen, even if it is "rm -rf…

I am more concerned about their, umm, gallant approach to security. Not only that OpenCode is permissive by default in what it is allowed to do, but that it apparently tries to pul…

There is the Parliament's legislative train website [1]. However, it only tracks actual legislative steps, not the intra-Council negotiations, so the proposal's page appears to be …

> The shell, perl and python are likely for scripting and not used during runtime. Some git subcommands are implemented in these. git filter-branch is a shell script, git cvsimport…

> Of course the member states drafted and agreed to those and that's why pressure should be on governments to stop hand over the keys to Brussels. What specific example are you thi…

> The EU does not so as time passes the EU's power keeps creeping up. Actually, the EU has the same concept of enumerated powers (called "competences" in the case of the EU). They …

What you are proposing would amount replacing the current bicameral legislature (with the European Parliament as the lower house and the Council of the EU as the upper house) with …

Aside from the often cited nullability issue, here is an (incomplete) list of important things that Kotlin still does better than Java: - First class, fully functional closures. - …

The same argument would apply to any non-compacting allocator, because the worst case memory blowup due to external fragmentation is huge. But such cases are extremely rarely obser…

What happens under the hood is that a `sequence {}` call creates an instance of `SequenceScope`, which has `yield()` and `yieldAll()` methods. When executing the block, `this` will…

As somebody who uses and likes both Kotlin and Python (and quite a few other languages), I'd be cautious with using a subjective term such as "more expressive", too, but I can poss…

Like this? sequence { for (x in 0.. Now, technically, Kotlin doesn't have list comprehensions, only the equivalent of generator expressions in Python, so you have to tack an extra …

> the 'yield' keyword Am I missing something here? $ cat fib.kts fun fib() = sequence { var a = 1; var b = 1 while (true) { yield(a) a = b.also { b += a } } } println(fib().take(10…

> Note: I wasn't criticizing the paper. I was criticizing the comment, which claimed "it’s better" to view these as special cases. I didn't assume you were. My note about it being …

First of all, I recommend giving the paper a read, because I think you're misunderstanding the claim (plus, it is a very good paper). The claim is not that they are equivalent, but…