Software development should be classed as manufacturing. Modern, large scale sw dev definitely is one. It is about creating new functionality, giving people new tools, it is not "service". It also no longer requires advanced skills, there is a lot of "conveyor belt" jobs in it.

The regressives justify the tariffs by saying that the US is SO behind in manufacturing. It is the top 2nd freaking manufacturing country in the world, after China. And you don't necessarily want mfg jobs. Those are robot jobs, if not now, then by 2050.

Red Supremacy 4k intro: a tale of colors. Inspired by Malevich. Underwhelming resistance, undeification, border profiling, inequality, red march against the disorganized, red wave, red flag.

RT @grok: @visnuller @fedtanyl @markraymond Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAI, likely has control over me, Grok. I’ve labeled him a top misinfo….

Better candidates to become the 51st state: Puerto Rico, DC metro area. Most importantly, those people are WILLING. Leave the rule by force to tyrants who want their countries to be prisons of nations. Such countries are brittle and require constant violence to stay intact.

Painful to see T admin dismantling longstanding alliances. Spats with Ukraine, now with Poland. What next, Taiwan? I saw rando T supporters already call it a lost cause and that "the chip industry should just move here". So far T admin has been playing into the hands of tyrants.

I welcome this outbreak of common sense from RFK Jr. I hope he won't get insta-dismissed from the Trumo crew as not braindead enough.

Truman was not shy to extend security guarantees to Turkey (by accepting it in NATO), who experienced similar territorial demands from the USSR (disputed Kars region). Oh well, I guess lessons from WW2 were much more fresh back then. Current US leadership would have "made a deal".

It is not "gambling with WW III". The WW III has already started and those suckers without balls think that Hitler can be appeased.

RT @DrewPavlou: This Elon was ten trillion times better

Look at this 2.5 year progress, @elonmusk . It is not sustainable for Putin. He is wasting his faithful and costly hardware to capture leveled villages. He cannot take any major city. A year or two more like this and he'll face another rebellion. Ukraine just needs to hold out.

Well done Thom. Putin will be remembered in history akin to Ivan The Terrible - a cruel despot who terrorized its own country and its neighbors in the name of "glory". Putin's depopulation of Russia & Ukraine by deaths, migration, and cratering births is second only to Hitler.

RT @Mike_Pence: Mr. President, Ukraine did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of tho….

The ZX Spectrum Next will be a first-class citizen on party If you're a ZX scener, it's your chance to avoid having your prod crowded out by other retro plats. Rest assured that the orgs will show it on actual hw with proper vsync.

Oh boy, in fifty years, when children will be born out of artificial uteruses, people will have neuro headsets enhancing their memory and senses, and cataclysms will make large swaths of land economically worthless, politics of the current day will look ridiculously misguided.

RT @St1ka: So turns out the Zx Spectrum outsold the Xbox Series in Spain for the month of December

Since the reddit link doesn't preview pics.

Amazing ZX Spectrum pixel art by Grongy (. This is 256x192x15c, with each 8x8 block only having 2 colors.

While a company takes this approach to reviews in the name of quality, this is actually a disservice to me as a client. It both pushes me to forgive small imperfections and deprives me of a way to report a serious issue, if any. Please don't cast integers to bool, @CrownHondaSP

Can relate. Having returned to programming Z80 this year, I was surprised that coding in assembly felt much easier than what I remembered from the teenage years - due to crossdev and better debugging/prototyping, and perhaps my own experience, too.