South Korea's 2026 government budget is $557bn. #Samsung and #Hynex between them are expected to pay $435bn in taxes.
In the UK, the government announces apprentice schemes to train NEETs to become barbers.
We are not a serious country.
Back in the 8-bit , CP/M days, as soon as I started working with dbase II I wondered why source code was still stored in flat files and not as records, per function, in a database. Probably impractical unless you had a (very expensive) 10MB HD.
A LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER PROVED THE THING YOU PUSH CODE TO IS SECRETLY A DATABASE THAT CAN VERSION ALMOST ANYTHING AND THAT MOST DEVS HAVE ONLY EVER TOUCHED A TENTH OF IT
42 minutes from Josh Triplett -- a longtime Linux kernel and Debian developer -- showing that Git is a general-purpose, tamper-evident versioning engine that just happens to be famous for code.
-> The moment it clicks, Git stops being "Where my code lives" and becomes what it really is underneath: a content-addressable store that can version almost anything -- your configs, your notes, your servers' state, entire datasets.
People run whole wikis on it. They version their entire machine's configuration with it. They ship websites by pushing to it. They track data too big to email. None of it is a hack -- it's the same handful of objects you already use for code, pointed somewhere new.
Treating Git as a code-only tool was never the ceiling -> it's a versioning engine for anything, and the people who see that automate what the rest of the team still does by hand. And as AI agents start spitting out not just code but configs, docs and data, the one system that can version and audit all of it at once is already sitting on your machine.
You learned five commands to survive. This is the talk that shows you were standing on top of a database the whole time.
It changes what you think the tool is even for.
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Very sorry to see that Sir Alex Younger has died of cancer, aged just 62. Younger's wife 'was shocked that he had never told his mother he was a spy, and so he did. “Yes, darling, so was I,” his mother replied.' https://t.co/6sfVIqBqpF
Very much "end of the Soviet Union" vibe as workers just sell off industrial materials, equipment, plant, for what they can get. They know this is the end.
https://t.co/aAWuNie5yh
I wonder what happened to this lost civilisation. Did they leave earth for the stars? Or were they wiped out by a cataclysm? Will they return at some point?
The Royal Navy has a long history of building Floating Dry Docks to maintain the Fleet around the world. In the 1869, the world’s largest floating Dry Dock was towed across the Atlantic to Bermuda to support the Ironclads which at the time was the largest ever built. 🧵1/3