- Next up, the guy, probably named Buttle, will get billed for the intervention.
- The dumbest timeline is the one with nuclear war. This might not be it.
If we're optimistic and assume that Trump, Xi and Putin have some kind of deal for a new world order where the US is no longer a world police, and the US gets to have its oligarchs just like Russia has.
Maybe that part of the deal is that Trump gets the Americas. It sure sucks for the new vassal states, but it beats having a nuclear war.
- Propaganda is supposed to be for the proles. Whatever those bureaucrats say is not the candid truth, that should be obvious to anybody. Once the elite begins absorbing it at its first level of speech, it's a sure sign that the nation is in decline.
We don't refer to the same problem. This problem you're referring to is not about finding those people who have the ability, so rare among non-american people, to consume stuff. It's about ramping up production while at the same time paying tribute to the US. This is, indeed, a difficult problem to solve and no doubts requires the best minds of the economic academia world.
However, the nature of the problem changes once the US stops being the world police. The problem becomes figuring out what's the pecking order now.
- That "consumption" is such a difficult thing to do is a preposterous idea, since you can always set things on fire. These theories are all make believe.
I mean, what makes american so special in their ability to consume? An african can watch football on their 54" TV just as well as an american. Just ship this crap there instead of in the US if you're so concerned about consuming it.
It's trade imbalance! You ship stuff, and the IOUs you get in return are never claimed. It's no better than shipping stuff in Africa and getting Zimbabwean money in return. Everyone knows that it can't be claimed for anything tangible, except from other countries who also owe fealty to the US and are forced to give this currency value. If everyone "asked" for something in return of those IOUs from the US itself, they'd get nothing of tangible value in return. These IOUs only have value insofar as the US is the world police.
- That's why I said "set it on fire". This whole economic speak is just a cover to avoid saying that trade imbalance is a fealty payment to the US. It's ridiculous to say that a country that was previously sending out stuff for free to the US would suddenly have a big existential problem when they suddenly don't have to do it anymore. They will have other problems due to a changing world order, that's for sure, but figuring out what to do with that production won't be one of them.
- It's a trade imbalance. They send stuff out, they get nothing in. They could just continue to produce the stuff, then just set it on fire. No mass unemployment. Problem solved, no? It seems easier to do than to build an industrial base again.
- Hey, it did become bigger news. Good. It's the first time I see this on HN. An old 2 days thread being "bumped" by changing the timestamp?
- It's the same thing, I used the wrong term.
- Indeed, and it might be why the author didn't try, but I still find it odd to not at least mention how small this C compiler is, even if it is to say that it's not apples-to-apples comparable. I mean, 8x smaller than the smallest C compiler listed is still something notable...
- By design, it's not a fully compliant ANSI C compiler, so it's never going to be complete, but it's complete enough to, for example, successfully compile Plan 9's driver for the Raspberry Pi USB controller with a minimal porting effort.
So, Dusk's compiler is not apple-to-apple comparable to the other, but comparable enough to give a ballpark idea that its code density compares very, very favorably.
- I like the spirit of this article, but I find it strange that they open their article by quoting me, but then don't include Dusk OS's C compiler in the list.
Fairly counting SLOC is a tricky problem, but my count is 1119 lines of code for the C compiler (written in Forth of course), that's less than 8x the count of chibicc, described as the smallest.
- Whoa, it should be bigger news. I too was under the impression that it was a done deal, with Larry Ellison coming in to mop the floor.
It would be so funny if ByteDance and China continued to successfully mock the US in this silly posturing.
- Wherever there's gambling, there's sharks. If you don't know whether you're a shark or a fish in this pond, then you're a fish.
- Oh, alright, we speak the same language. Of course I don't have evidence, only hunches, and they of course mean nothing.
- I don't know, general principles. If you can balance your budget with money printed out of thin air, why bother with selling treasury bills to anyone but the Fed, at 0%?
- Who's crying?
- Does it do this often? This is quite literally "printing money", right? Wasn't the Fed not supposed to be allowed to do that?
I'm guessing that if it doesn't do that, short term treasury yields will spike, and they don't want that to happen?
Doesn't this make treasury yields meaningless? If they're subsided by the Fed, then it means that nobody but them will buy them, since this subsidy means that short term treasuries are noncompetitive with other asset classes.
What am I missing?
- Yes, sometimes it's that, but what I've observed in the field is self-inflicted by programmers. It's the impostor syndrome. They don't know, but they don't want to show that they don't know. They look around for clues of what to choose. Monkey see, monkey do. And then, like monkeys, they bash their keyboard until it seems to work.
- The "terrible decisions" of yore hold no comparison to today's "terrible decisions". It's not the same ballpark, it's not the same sport.
Whoever writes the next "Inglorious Basterds" should have a lot of fun parodying Larry...