Keep Donnie Dipshit in mind every time you fill up, book a flight or spend more on food. And don't forget his fake hillbilly Thiel-thrall.

This absurd, unnecessary disaster is entirely his.

It'll be easy to remember to keep thanking him, because you'll be paying for his emotional problems up through the 2028 elections and beyond.

This is definitely a sign of the current bubble (LLMs).

And some of us do remember ...

For example when a tea company added blockchain to its name and its stock soared 200%?

Later, it was investigated and charged by the SEC.

Just like Pets.com in the dotcom era.

You implemented CORS. You managed to get CSP headers to stop throwing errors. You implemented CSRFs. Get ready for the all new LLM-based Cross-Site Scripting.

And underpowered.

So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.

Or the brief period in the 90s when they hosted the most popular web search engine as a demo of the Alpha.

It amazes me how many people use shitty banks - I assume people just don't know how much better credit unions can be.

Far better interest rates on loans/credit cards, they don't nickel and dime you over everything, and services that are actually useful instead of stupid promotions designed to goose this quarters' bonus. They'll give you basically the best rates you can find on mortgages, too.

One downside is slower clearing, but I don't use them as my primary account, so I don't care about this.

They also tend to be more cautious about lending. The longer you have an account, the more comfortable they'll be with you on that front. (Assuming you are financially competent, of course.)

And what they offer varies - mine, for instance, does not have a money market account, so that is at a different institution.

But especially for younger folks or folks who carry credit card balances, they're so much better. My credit union CC rate is a few points hire than current inflation.

With their new Mythos model they can take Pentagon down, that's what I hear anyway. Maybe Pentagon needs to be taken down as well as the rest of the regime and all of the regimes.

i kinda wanted to think it was drunken kung fu, crazy wisdom, or 4d chess

That's always the claim.

It is rooted in the "madman" theory, and it isn't complete bunk, but vastly overrated. Acting like (or being) a crazy asshole is its own form of predictability.

And in Piggy's case, it is a cope masquerading as a boast. When he can't bully, the dipshit just has nothing else. He's strategic about nothing except protecting his fragile ego.

So he does utterly stupid things like attacking Iran while claiming the goals were secret so he could retcon whatever he wanted. The reality is he's decompensing - he's losing badly in court and public opinion. The weird kidnapping of the Honduran president made him think he knows better than all those egghead generals, and he stuck his dick in a meat grinder. And all the while he gets a little more demented, retreating up his own ass, mincing about the drapes in his oh-so-pretty ballroom/citadel from which to claim he can't be ousted as Supreme Ruler.

Which would be fine, except he's taking the rest of the country with him while making everyone hate us.

Trump is a shit stain on the underwear of the nation. He needs to go.

And it didn't even really pull the heat of the Epstein stuff, so it failed there, too.

On the bright side, the dipshit also badly damaged his coalition.

But yes, Stumpy: - spent upwards of 12 digits on war porn without any plan,
- got badly outplayed by Iran on one side, Israel on the other, and China playing adult in the room,
- destroyed the Freedom of Navigation the world depends on for trade the US used to guarantee,
- spit in the face of our allies, yet again,
- demonstrated to the world that the US cannot be trusted to keep commitments,
- turned the most active Iranian protests against the regime in decades into very public demonstrations defending it.

Oh - and we're not done. Iran says the ceasefire isn't on yet, because US/Israel is violating several of the provisions, and the Strait is not, in fact, open.

This is that fucking idiot failure Don Trump's gift for Americans.

2. Those who don't give a damn about ethics at all and make no bones about it.
...
People who don't give a damn aren't really a problem either, since in a world populated by mostly good people, they'll ultimately be shamed and marginalized or end up in jail.

Or, they get elected president, twice ... destroy the economy, country's reputation, and start a war they can't end.

This is an attempt to reduce fear, but it seems like a pretty sophomore effort.

They have enough money for really good PR, so I have to imagine there are... personalities interfering. Or maybe just one.

Going to be fun watching the hustling as they try to IPO with a CFO who says it won't work.

Totally agree with you ...

But it is not only libraries, there are other factors at play, me thinks ...

Developers don't have a culture of being economical with resources.
It is not taught, nor do first jobs they get care about those aspects.
For example, don't get me started on the infinity scroll which eats up RAM like crazy, rather than a pager of Next/Previous page.

There are also the layers involved, specially with web development.
It used to be HTML only, then CSS was added, then Javascript was added for certain smarts.
Then whole frameworks were invented and used for JS.

Anyway, there is no easy way out of this.
Maybe RAM shortage will compel developers to use RAM sparingly?
Nah, that is a pipe dream ... unfortunately.

As you can imagine I am 100% against communism and any form of socialism. Bezos and everyone else must have property rights not hindered by government, it is his business to run (or his board) and government must not be in position to dictate how any company hires and fires people, who they hire and fire, why, etc.