I'm so sick of this anthropics marketing stuff... claude is an ultra-success (according to claude judge), “good code”, bragging about creating 8x more bugs and tech-debt. claude writes code that works, yeah, sure anthropic, we saw that claude code leaks, some amazingly "good" code in there
By the way it's also the same way around with "Who is hiring" threads, tried posting a job there and my email just instantly filled with all sorts of letter-slop, hundreds of emails which are infeasible for a single human looking for a job candidate to sort out, some of them are just generated to match the job description, but it's completely unrelated experience listed in the CV, some of them are just straight spam promoting some yet another AI shit. They still keep coming to this day, few months after posting in that thread. It's very hard to look for a job, or look for a candidate nowadays by using the public channels where you just leave your email in the open thanks to the wicked automations some highly disrespected individuals are eager to keep setting up. I maybe received one or two letters written by the real people. Who is hiring and Who wants to be hired seems to be perpetually doomed by AI, good luck to you Ilia.
on the West of what? Culturally and historically it's a Western country, yes, but politically and economically it's an Eastern country – founding member of BRICS and a developing economy. I think the author of the parent comment used "Western" term referring to ideological and economic grouping
I think the idea of what’s authoritarian sounding is more of a cultural/historical/ideological distinction, not something that would naturally map to an economic label like BRICS.
Also Western and Eastern are just labels in this context, not opposite directions, even if Brazil was “not Western” in some way, it wouldn’t make sense to call it Eastern.
On the West of every single country in Europe, to start with.
Don't take this the wrong way, but have you looked at a world map? I ask since a significant chunk of people from the US cannot find Mexico on a map ...
Aside from its very evident geographic location, Brazil was the site of the first lasting European colony in the Americas established by Portugal.
People in Brazil speak Portuguese[1], a Romance language derived from Latin and closely related to Spanish, French and Italian.
The genetic lineages most commonly found within the Brazilian population include Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German, and to a much lesser degree but still significant, Lebanese and Turkish [2].
The top countries whose citizens visit Brazil as tourists are overwhelmingly from the Americas and Europe: Argentina, the USA, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy and the UK.
Likewise, when Brazilians travel abroad, their main destinations are Argentina, the USA, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Uruguay, the Caribbean, Spain and the UK.
Share of exports to Asia: ~41%
Share of exports to the Americas and Europe combined: ~47%
Share of imports from Asia: ~43%
Share of imports from the Americas and Europe combined: ~50%
How could one reach the conclussion that Brazil is an "Eastern" country? Oh yeah, they joined a trade organization with China and Russia ... sure, they must be Eastern now.
I agree that Brazil is Western, because it obviously is; it's a former European colony that speaks a European language and has European religious and cultural values. But geography has nothing to do with the concept of "Westernness", beyond historical etymology. Australia and New Zealand are as much part of "the West" as Canada is.
> I ask since a significant chunk of people from the US cannot find Mexico on a map ...
I love these comments. Don't worry: A "significant chunk of people" from Europe also cannot find Mexico on a map. Really, these comments say nothing. They are like "man on the street with a microphone" gotchas. Anybody under 30 years old has a mobile phone with Internet: They open their maps app, and search for Mexico. Done: Borders the southwestern United States.
How it's going with humans to Mars by 2024? Coast-to-Coast Full-Self Driving? 1 Million Robotaxis? 25000$ Model 2? Hyperloop? 2 trillion $ DOGE Cost Cuts?
Elon Musk is like that developer you hired which always promises "this feature will be ready tommorow" and it end's up in the backlog for 6 years. The richest person in the world who understood that the world is not built on trust anymore and all you need is hype.
To extend your metaphor further, it would be like also giving them performance bonuses and building them a new home office which they then rent out on AirBnB on the strength of those predictions.
> Tesla acquired SolarCity for $2.6 billion partly on the strength of this vision [of producing thousands
Many. Let me give you a very boring example: I use mmap in some of my programs, because it's the easiest/best way to solve the problem I was working on. Mmap is unsafe in rust, because if there are modifications to the backing file it can violate some of rust's assumptions about the behavior of memory not changing unless it was changed by the rust code.
In my application I'm able to guarantee that there is no modification to the backing file by making them read-only and ensuring nobody messes with them, but that guarantee exists outside of rust. So -- unsafe with a big SAFETY comment explaining the requirements if you use it.
Much rust code will never use unsafe. Systems code is likely to use a bit but also to know what it's doing.
Things like this port of bun are unusual and presumably transitory on the way to an implementation with minimal use of unsafe.
This comment somohow makes it look like google is a non-profit charity organisation.
Isn't it the corporation which makes super-profits and gmail is just part of the equation?
I highly doubt that anyone would ever riot over loss of access to email, nor that it's some critical piece of infrastructure, there are dozens of other communication methods online today.
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