This is a tribute system, way past lobbying. Lobbying is cheap, Senators can be bought off for 5-figure sums. CEOs pay lobbyists so they don't have to meet with them personally. What's happening now involves CEOs appearing at political events and lobbying the president personally, to the tune of millions of dollars in declared "donations" for "ballroom construction", in exchange for security guarantees for their business empires.
Lobbying is tightly regulated, and the FEC really does keep a close eye.
This is just flat out bribery, using the thinnest of legal fig leaves. Which would not possibly pass muster if he hadn't also packed the court with supporters.
> I decided to implement this in the C programming language as it’s by far the fastest language on the planet to this day (thanks to the visionary genius Dennis Richie)
Am I lost?
Aren't the compiler/linker responsible for fast code, not the language itself?
There are language issues as well. 99% of C programs are valid C++, and if you compile with a C++ compiler instead of a C++ compiler will be slightly faster! C++ ha a stronger type system and so once in a while (very rarely) those C programs compile but give incorrect results since C++ allowed the optimizer to make an assumption that wasn't true. Fortran is often even faster because the language allows for even more assumptions. I don't know where Rust fits in here (Rust is hurt today because the better optimizes are designed for C++ and so don't take advantage of extra assumptions Rust allows - it was designed to allow different assumptions from C++ and likely could be better would a ground up optimizer but that would take a large team a decade+ to write: expensive)
Most of the difference in speed is the optimizer/linker. Assuming a fair competition the difference between Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Rust, Zig (and many others I can't think of) is very rarely even 1% in any real world situation. Of course it isn't hard add pessimization to make any language lose, sometimes accidentally, so fair competitions are very hard to find/make.
> I decided to use the slowest language on the planet, Python (thanks to the visionary genius of Ross van der Gussom).
given the article, it's fair to assume the author was joking around
that being said, the way the language is used and its ecosystem do contribute to the executable's efficiency. yet, given C's frugality, or the proximity between its instructions and the executed ones, it's not unfair to say that "C is fast"
Both, usually. A language's semantics can limit how much a compiler can speed up the language. Python, for example, is extremely difficult to make fast due to the fact that almost everything has the semantics of a hashmap lookup. C, in comparison, has relatively little in it that can't be mapped fairly straightforwardly to assembly, and then most of it can be mapped in a more difficult way to faster assembly.
The only exception in warehouse was the cafeteria. I guess my brain wanted to make something retro futuristic so it made the cafeteria “retro” — manned by humans and cooked by humans too. There were even balloons inside now that I recall…
Costco's revenue comes from their membership fees and their ability to strongarm suppliers to give them favorable terms (eg. Costco is one of the largest alcohol importers in the US and tends to strongarm LVMH).
I love Costco (I practically grew up at Costco as a kid), but their ICP is not the kind of person who shops at Dollar General or is on SNAP - it's very much targeted at the 50th percentile income bracket and above [0].
And this is why PE has taken over the dollar market segment - because it's a trash business that no one else wants to service over the long term. PE is basically the last resort if a business cannot raise capital from traditional avenues, and leadership and investors want to exit. For y'all graybeards think of "Sam Vimes Boots theory".
Mine Safety Disclosures did a great overview on Costco's operating model a couple years ago [1].
Costco purposefully targets the upper middle class to nearly the point of exclusion of everyone else. By charging membership fees, product selection, and the bulk pricing.
They could care less about the bottom 50% of the market.
> The US Cloud Act goes against Swiss standards for privacy and sovereignty, particularly because even data that’s hosted in a Swiss region is not immune from the US Cloud Act.
That the major reason why anyone outside the US shouldn't use 365.
Especially since the current administration showed how easy it is for the US as a whole to cut ties and cause trouble to any country that was considered an ally.
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