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  • FrederikNJS ( FrederikNJS@piefed.zip ) toWorld News@quokk.au•US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland after Trump's vows to take islandEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Well then… the deal is now publicly available… Here you go, have a read: https://stm.dk/media/fx1h4fqx/aftale_eng.pdf

    As far as I read it, it…:

    • … states that the 1951 agreement is still valid
    • … allows the US to establish military bases at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig (which they could just have asked for under the 1951 agreement. Narsarsuaq was previously used by the US as both air and sea bases, but Mestersvig is new, but the US has previously had at least 3 military installations not too far away from there)
    • … allows the US to establish other military bases in Greenland, but this requires permission (just like the 1951 agreement)
    • … bans non-NATO powers to establish military installations, and make direct investments, unless otherwise agreed on by all parties.
    • … allows the US to establish unmanned military installations, but this requires permission (I also think this would have been fine under the 1951 agreement, but “unmanned” might be a special case)
    • … specifies that all contracts should be awarded to the greenlandic people to the maximum extent possible (This is new, and nice)
    • … allows free movement of US vessels, aircraft, armed forces, and vehicles between the bases (which was already allowed in the 1951 agreement)

    I dunno… the big thing seems to be the stuff around non-NATO investment and military… everything else seems to work under the 1951 agreement…

    It seems to me that we have yet another TACO Tuesday, with the benefit of Trump being able to claim victory to appease his voters… without having actually won much…

  • FrederikNJS ( FrederikNJS@piefed.zip ) toDullsters@dullsters.net•I just wanted to "dip my toes" in programmingEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is basically a study in layers of abstraction.

    At the very fundamental layer you just have a semi-conductor… Special sand that can either allow electricity to pass, or block electricity…

    Then when you arrange multiple of these semi conductors in special ways, you get logic gates.

    When you arrange the logic gates in special ways you can make more complex operations that can essentially do math with the electric signals.

    Then you introduce even more of there bits to be able to perform many different instructions, and some form of memory that can store instructions and execute then in sequence.

    With the right set of instructions you now have what is know as a “Turing machine”. Essentially a super basic computer that understands machine code.

    You extend the list of instructions and, and you arrive at Assembly.

    Then you decide to make a simpler more human readable language and write the assembly to translate this language to Assembly, this is basically C with a compiler.

    Then you start building languages with higher and higher levels of abstraction to make them easier for humans to express their intentions with.

    If you want to start at the very bottom layer and try to build some of those abstraction layers yourself to understand what’s going on. I can warmly recommend trying out https://www.nandgame.com/

  • FrederikNJS ( FrederikNJS@piefed.zip ) toTechnology@lemmy.zip•People are getting very nervous about AI; India saw the sharpest rise in AI nervousness of any countryEnglish
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    5 months ago

    About a decade ago I worked as a software developer consultant at a company that were in the process of outsourcing all their software development to India…

    A team of 6 Indians were hired in to take over the piece of software my team was developing. All 6 Indians had CVs that mentioned 10+ years of Java development experience, which was the language the software was written in.

    However after working with them for a full month it was pretty clear that none of them were very skilled. One of them was clearly better than the rest, and he confided with me that he actually only had a 12 week programming course as experience.

    This was far from a unique experience. Some of the other pieces of functionality had been running with an outsourcing team for 3 years. And despite daily status updates and constant checking up on them, they had yet to provide anything that actually worked.

    The company itself was pretty clearly a huge part of the problem as they had pretty much opted for the cheapest possible outsourcing firm…

    But all in all Claude would have run circles around pretty much every outsourcing developer I saw during that assignment… To be honest a single Claude license would probably have been a stronger contender than all 150 outsourcing developers combined…

    That’s a very large amount of jobs that are very directly threatened by AI.