For starters even EU does not recognize Maduro as legit head of state

People who drive policy believe it has already collapsed; now it’s just about asserting control over the resources that will let US(or them personally) thrive in an isolationist, post-AGI world.

Interesting, can you link me to more?

just listen to Peter Thiel most of these policies align with his ideas/agenda

MY NY resolution is to switch to Linux after two decades of using MacOS as primary OS. The UI direction, abysmal quality of software and people getting randomly banned from the ecosystem without good reason and with no recourse finally pushed me over the edge.

Sure Musk trying his hardest to blow up EU has 0 effect on sales there

If this boat sinks there will not be places you can hide in

The USA is important, but not *that* important.

Even the British survived the end of the British empire, and that was bigger relative to the world than the US is now.

Silly argument. Empires rise and fall. USA isn’t the end of history. If USA sinks it won’t be great for the rest of the world but no not everything else will fall.

Sure but if the place you plan to escape to enjoyed protection of the falling empire before the fall things can go south fairly fast

If things deteriorate in US there will not be places to leave to pretty soon

with LLMs started defaulting to go for most projects

Rust for WASM

Zig is what I'd use if I started a greenfield DBMS project

Has BoFesc vibes "It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!

I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that..."

Solar Flares was always my favourite result on the BoFH Excuse Generator.

http://jefflane.org/bofh/bofh.pl

Solar flares are the best excuse. We just have to wait it out.

They are consistent (the C in ACID) for a particular transaction ID / timestamp. You are operating on a consistent snapshot. You can also view consistent states across time if you are archiving log.

The government response to the disaster was slow and inadequate. It sure was they denied it actually happened for a pretty long time.