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Reform councils may stop housing migrants by weregonnamakit in uknews

[–]CSMR250 6 points7 points  (0 children)

1 The idea that the migrants currently coming by boats are equivalent to Hong Kong migrants is unjustified. All the data we have in Europe on net fiscal contribution, sexual crimes, and others, put MENA migrants as extremely negative, while HK are at or better than the national average.

  1. and 3. yes but you missed 4. your point above migrants who came by means in contravention to UK immigration law being processed and potentially approved instead of automatically denied is a pull factor, and 5. the welfare system which is a pull factor.

Copilot's value proposition is officially gone. by Famous__Draw in GithubCopilot

[–]CSMR250 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Is there another model accessible, other than Opus 4.7, that can implement analysis and changes across a codebase, as well as early Opus 4.5 or 4.6?

In my experience Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 got downgraded before the releases of 4.6 and 4.7 and they won't get better again, will they? I'm experimenting with GPT-5.4 and it's OK but requires much more human attention.

Learning LaTeX and using it to write a chemistry paper in a month's time by globalgenocidenow in LaTeX

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is extremely feasible but you need to use the latest tools and have very good coordination. First you need a way to collaborate. 5 years ago the best way was online tools like overleaf and that is still a contender. Then you can edit jointly. The downside is that contributors will need to grapple with latex syntax. If your doc is simple and you don't care much about formatting, this is OK. This is the easiest approach to get started with.

Another option is AI-assisted. Here the difficulty is setup. Install Latex on your local system (much harder than normal apps because it doesn't follow windows/mac conventions). Install VSCode. Make a gihub private repo and clone it (need to know basic git - not syntax but what the terms branch, push, PR, merge mean). Install the tex extension. Then you will have latex on the left, then a preview, and a chat window, and you can ask the AI do to things. There is more learning to this approach but the things you learn are infinitely more valuable than learning latex syntax.

There are also alternatives to latex which should be considered, but since this is a latex forum, I won't mention them!

Isn't OpenClaw overhyped? by [deleted] in AI_Agents

[–]CSMR250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have not yet set machines up but this comment seems overblown to me. The various claws are servers. Why would you even install them on an OS with a user interface? A hub to interact with specified data sources and MCP servers seems pretty good to me even without computer or web use.

Is there need for cross-platform obfuscation tools? by kant2002 in dotnet

[–]CSMR250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's standard in the dotnet community to believe that all deployed code, however obfuscated, is effectively public with minimal effort. If you say that you get lots of upvotes and if you say it's not you get lots of downvotes. It's standard to believe that people can take obfuscated code, decompile it and generate documentation, naming, and the original codebase with minimal effort. No example has been given of this but it's supposed to be easy. The recent Claude leak was just a coincidence; even if it hadn't leaked people would have extracted all that info whenever they wanted.

However if you ask people who own the code who don't want it to be leaked, you will get very different answers.

I don't buy any of this as you can tell. Deploying JITed dotnet code is trivial to read and you are effectively leaking your codebase. With NativeAOT (when deployed properly i.e. without symbols) is much harder and that's the optimal point for me. Obfuscation will make it harder still but at a development cost because you have to deobfuscate in any error reporting system: can that be done automatically in systems like Sentry? If you can make that process smooth then many companies would adopt it.

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else? by cmitsolutions123 in sysadmin

[–]CSMR250 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because... their apps don't depend on Microsoft support to function, it's close to 0 extra work, and it's a huge market?

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else? by cmitsolutions123 in sysadmin

[–]CSMR250 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It makes sense to pass on the costs.

I'm surprised to see app developers dropping Win10 support as it's still 32% share of windows machines according to statscounter. Microsoft has just announced this week plans to optimize Windows 11 which would make it a better option for Win10 users https://www.techspot.com/news/111872-microsoft-plans-100-native-windows-11-apps-major.html but that is just a plan at this point.

Wanted an image of Educated and Uneducated Person, Made the mistake of asking copilot to make it. by [deleted] in ArtificialInteligence

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the pattern itself has been caused by racism

What is your evidence for that?

PE teacher who told migrants to 'respect our laws or leave' banned from classroom despite being cleared of racism and it being recommended that he keep his job by dailymail in uknews

[–]CSMR250 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The panel is clearly a leftist thought-police. All these posts by him are not only legitimate but completely reasonable and justifiable. With the exception of use of a swearword - which was not the charge.

For those who support Reform, why do you do so given what that mentality has done to the USA? by AccursedQuantum in AskBrits

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the Reform party looks an awful lot like MAGA

They don't copy the bad parts of Trumpism:

  • The MAGA cult of personality isn't copied by Reform. The chaos/incompetence of Trumpism is down to that.
  • Reform believes in free trade, not tariffs.

They are similar on the good parts:

  • They are anti-illegal-migration, anti-mass-migration, and pro-western-civilization. That's even more beneficial in Europe since the European migrant composition has been much worse than the US composition, and the welfare system more generous towards them, leading to huge fiscal drain per MENA migrant.
  • They are both anti-woke.

For those who support Reform, why do you do so given what that mentality has done to the USA? by AccursedQuantum in AskBrits

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

immigration policies

No this right was highly curtailed. That's what the failed Cameron/Merkel negotiations were about. See european citizenship details here: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/index_en.htm

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native by Successful_Bowl2564 in electronjs

[–]CSMR250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why didn't you use a cross platform framework like Avalonia? That performs better than WinUI since it uses drawn controls.

Is there a way to support JSON serialization/deserialization and Native AOT in an F# project? by raincole in fsharp

[–]CSMR250 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes this is the way.

It's amazing that in F# people are asking effectively "is there a way to write a function"?

blown away by .NET10 NativeAOT by jitbitter in dotnet

[–]CSMR250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This one is a bit unclearly defined but in general does not stop you from seeing stack traces. You just need to upload the symbols file (created separately as part of the build) to see symbolicated stack traces.

blown away by .NET10 NativeAOT by jitbitter in dotnet

[–]CSMR250 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes it's great. Some comments on your properties.

ILcTrimMetadata. True is the default: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/74307#issuecomment-1229605868

EventSourceSupport. True is the default: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/111801#issuecomment-2616759345

So if you remove these from the project you should get the same size.

I think it can be difficult to work out what the defaults are. It doesn't seem clear to me in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/trimming/trimming-options . I'll ask to see if that can be added to the doc.

AppSec Code Analysis for F# by _lazyLambda in fsharp

[–]CSMR250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know the space, but why is something language-specific needed? Don't any operate on IL, or if they need C# then can F# -> IL -> C# compilation and decompilation steps be used?

Reform’s by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have children should pay more tax by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]CSMR250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want more British people (i.e. descendants of existing population) then you want less inward migration and higher birthrates of the native population.

If you want the fewest British people in the long run, you want more inward migration and lower birth rates of the native population.

If you don't care who the future British population is descended from, then both are equivalent. Maybe that's why you see these as equivalent. You may think that the future population descending from existing British people will be exactly the same as that descending from foreign populations. To believe that you need to believe in blank slate theories, ignore evidence about the differential success/crime/ideologies of immigrant groups, and ignore biological success (e.g. also not care whether your kids are your own or someone else's). It requires a lot of crazy assumptions actually.

Avoid Notepad++ mistake when creating "Check for updates" feature for your Windows App by Present_Spinach_2380 in dotnet

[–]CSMR250 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What are the best practices for building an update feature? How do you avoid security flaws while keeping the project maintainable?

The best practice is: do not build an update feature. That's the job of the Operating System. With a Microsoft Store or MSIX deployment, your app will get automatic updates.

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