If Lillienfeld had working examples, how is Gemini correct that it was the Bell people?

"A trend of the times"? In fact, Taiwan is not trending toward reunification.

The "trend" is a reference to the sentences preceding what I quoted, in which Xi Jinping celebrates the continued integration of Hong Kong and Macau.

"Not long ago, I attended the opening ceremony of the National Games, and I was glad to see Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao coming together in unity and acting in unison. We should unswervingly implement the policy of One Country, Two Systems, and support Hong Kong and Macao in better integrating into the overall development of our country and maintaining long-term prosperity and stability. We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share a bond of blood and kinship. The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable!"

Given the unrest and bad optics from Hong Kong, which was a gradual, negotiated transfer of power to China, I'm hoping that the threat of invasion remains just a threat. Soft power takes longer and is more easily contested. I think 2026 will determine if America's step back is a blip or the start of a trend. I wouldn't be surprised if China and other countries are waiting to determine the same.

Worse: You may created the proof. You may have linked to the proof. But if anyone has touched any of the code involved since then, it still has no value unless someone has re-done the proof and linked that. (Worse, it has negative value, because it can mislead.)

Not really. A quick git blame (or alternative) will give you the required information about the validity of such proof.

You must have some git plugin I haven’t heard about.

Git blame will show the commit and the date for each line. It’s easy to verify if the snippet has changed since the comment. i use Emacs and it’s builtin vc package that color code each block.

But you need the snippet and, potentially, the entire call tree (both up and down).

And anything that can affect relevant state, any dependencies that may have changed, validations to input that may have been modified; it’s hard to know without knowing what assumptions the assertion is based on.

Taiwan isn't a threat to China in the military sense. Taiwan is not going to wake up tomorrow and decide to invade China.

But Taiwan is a threat indirectly. Chinese people, but with much more political freedom than in the mainland, and with more prosperity - that's a threat to the Communist Party's legitimacy as ruler of China, in the same way that Ukraine is a threat to Putin's rule of Russia. It's somebody just next door, with approximately the same people, who's doing much better and is much more free. It makes the Chinese and Russians start to get ideas that maybe they could have that, too.

And Taiwan is more directly a threat, because Xi has explicitly made reunification with Taiwan a measure of the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi's mouth made that problem, and now he can't back down without losing face.

> Are they willing to kill millions of people just to protect their own pride?

In a "face" culture? Yes, they may be.

My contributions/spins on this:

The most general problem cannot be solved. (If you don't limit scope, you will never finish. You won't even finish the design.)

If you want it bad, that's how you're going to get it. (That is, rushing a project means you get crummy results. This may be "Hanka's Law", because I first heard it from Steve Hanka, but it may not be original to him.)

I used to see posts that I disagreed with that I still upvoted because they made me think new things. That happened often - say, multiple times a week.

It's been a long time since I saw something like that. There's far more yelling, far more people who seem to be here not to think, not to discuss, but only to argue and push an agenda. Far more people that simply Will. Not. Listen. no matter how thoughtful a point is being made in reply.

HN lost something - something that was really sweet while it was here.

Not just that. Imports become more expensive; exports become cheaper. This helps US manufacturing.

And, you actually wrote the regression test when you fixed the bug, right? Right?

I had a colleague, senior software developer with masters degree in CS who said: why should I write tests if I can write a new feature to close sprint scope faster?

The irony is when company did lay off him due to covid the actual velocity of the team increased.