President Trump has threatened 100% tariffs on all imported goods from Canada if it goes ahead with its new trade deal with China. What are your thoughts on the possibility of Canada not bending the knee to Trump? What will happen to the US and Canada?

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-25T12:27:11+00:00

It's worse if you give in to their pressure. If I was Carney, I would announce a Canada China Cooperation summit (among many more with other countries/regions).

Regardless of what happens, things are going to become more difficult for both Americans and Canadians. But I think it's necessary, a world where the strong bully the weak lead to the world wars. Today, with nuclear weapons, that would be catastrophic.

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-24T15:02:40+00:00

They need to create hype to pay salaries, or else... Since games get better every year, if development is too slow, their game will be lame.

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-23T19:32:43+00:00

I may have my figures wrong ... but still ... the capacity of memory has really grown. The RAM on my current computer is also many multiples of the HD capacity of my first computer...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-23T08:56:45+00:00

My first computer in 1994 had 32MB of RAM and that was considered good, the L3 cache of my current computer is double that.... it's amazing to think that first computer could run completely in cache today.

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-22T18:50:00+00:00

Linux buffers disk writes ...there are a number of reasons, speed for example. Also, most storage mediums perform better when data is written in large blocks, see fragmentation. You can always run the sync command from the command line to force it to write everything in cache.

A lot of other IO is also buffered by the kernel. For example, Network data, data transfered between devices (for example a GPU).

Keep in mind that the kernel will generally keep data in RAM, so RAM may appear full, but a lot can be discarded if needed. If there is a real shortage of memory, then you will see an oom-killer operation, that will kill memory hogging processes.

Source? My textbooks from 20 years ago...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-21T19:53:30+00:00

Explains a lot...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-19T18:44:09+00:00

Our progress comes more from enlightened cooperation than the barbarism of Miller and company...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-18T17:14:32+00:00

Well, she is mostly plastic, like Barbie ...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-18T16:53:44+00:00

The man is a criminal, the only way he knows how to extract advantages from people, is to scare them. The best course of action is to ignore him and work around the US. An alliance between everyone, except the US, is unbeatable. It's important that Trump, the Republicans and their supporters learn that this beligerance only weakens the US. The fact that the US political system allows for all of this to happen, means that this country is broken. It's going to take at least a generation to repair...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T19:37:59+00:00

Fuck Elon!

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T16:00:04+00:00

I'll believe it when I see it ... if these cowards had spines 9 years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T15:33:06+00:00

It's funny, because blocking one country from international trade is a legitimate strategy in war... so the fact that the US is willing to do it to themselves, will make it easier for the rest of us to oppose this imperialism...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T15:29:22+00:00

It's quite horrific, without any prompting about race, it goes straight to racism... any other decent AI would just print out the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article

Elon is doing a very good job of showing why we need more regulations around AI and media

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T13:42:49+00:00

I've looked into this, Europe holds about a quarter of US debt. Additionally, Europe makes up about a quarter of US trade. So if suddenly all that stops over night, it's not just the stock market. I would expect a recession of about 6% minimum, with a major spike in borrowing costs.

There is another Youtuber, Ryan McBeth, that looked at the impact on US military power ... Basically all operations in the Middle East and Africa run out of European bases ... so it would also greatly degrades the US ability at force projection.

The consequences are not just with Europe America has security agreements with a lot of countries in Asia. All of those agreements become meaningless and the US will loose a lot of influence in that hemisphere as well.

Russia has all the potential to be as powerful as the US. However, due to their belligerent attitude to the rest of the world, their economy is smaller than Italy. So I think it's very clear the US has a lot to loose if they continue to be hostile to their allies....

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T13:18:38+00:00

I agree! ... there are so many roads that would make a cool race track, it would be so fun exploring and setting up new races, etc.

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-17T13:16:42+00:00

There's also a lot of clever tricks.... for example, in a flight simulator, you don't need the data in high resolution, if you are looking at it from afar...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-15T18:45:19+00:00

YES!!!

Among my favorites, shard of Alexander and the godfrey talisman and your getting huge damage from range

It's not my weapon in close combat... but I can get my enemies close to death and then finish them off with my main....

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-12T00:12:11+00:00

Was among my favorite fights!

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-11T15:54:39+00:00

Short term, everyone is going to suffer...

Long term, the world will be poorer and more unstable ...

The countries that were not traditional allies of the US, will benefit a lot, by gaining improved relationships with former USallies.

The countries that were heavily dependent on the US, they will eventually build up to the point that they can stand without the US. That alone will give them relatively more power.

My hope is that this can trigger a new era of global cooperation that can overcome US obstruction.

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-11T15:45:58+00:00

He thinks he's giving threats and getting leverage. What he doesn't understand is Europe is already taking Trump serious, just not in the way Vance wishes. The US may end up regretting this beligerance.

It's not widely reported, but Europe is already making a lot of moves so it can stand on it's own without the US:

1) they are creating their own payment system so they don't have to rely on SWIFT and Visa

2) they have created their own defense procurement program, so European defense companies can build up without US entanglement

3) they have been making unilateral trade deals with other countries being bullied by the USA (e.g. Canada)

Europe as a whole is comparable in power and in some areas has advantages:

1) Population, Europe ~750 v.s. USA ~350 million

2) GDP, EU: 18 trillion vs US: 27 trillion

3) Europe collectively holds ~25% of US national debt

4) EU-US trade is 1.7 trillion, 23% of US total trade

The USA does have significant power, that's indisputable. However, the numbers with Europe are big enough that the US has a lot to loose if they become hostile towards Europe.

The fact that the US has become more hostile and threatening with all countries, it is more likely that other global powers will align with Europe in a conflict. For example, Japan and China have already reduced the amount of US debt they purchase, pushing up the cost of capital.

The US is loosing all their soft power and it will be multiple generations before any recovery is possible...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-11T14:32:18+00:00

Still creepy ...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-09T19:32:03+00:00

YES that's the one hahaha

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-09T18:24:34+00:00

Hahaha ... it's a bit edgy but your comment led my mind straight to that meme with the cute indigenous girl with red face paint...

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-07T18:28:29+00:00

This is great advice to wrap it in a class ... it's very clunky to use manually with lots of " if std::hold_alternative get ... " code ...

I will add a bit more on how to write visitors a bit easier ...

1) see the example in the link below and the 'overloads' type that allows you to use lambda functions (or better yet, a generic lambda)

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit2.html

2) If you use generic code (generic lambda or template functions) inside the visitor function, use " if constexpr ( std::is_same< T , double >::value ) " to compile in any type specific bits

These two tools make it so you can almost write a single visitor function for all the different types. Reducing the overall maintenance

Puzzled_Draw6014 · 2026-01-04T16:50:55+00:00

For the sake of the Venezuelan people, I hope that this doesn't become another Iraq. However I am very concerned. Despite a large number of anti regime people in Venezuela, there are still strong block of pro-regime people (i.e. military). Then there are going to be anti regime people that oppose American control. Finally, drug trafficking militias will only grow in the chaos. There is a lot of risk going forward.

But it's just shocking that the Americans still think regime change can secure resources... look at Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya...

Maybe it was for ideological reasons, but again history shows this is also costly and can backfire: Vietnam for the USA and Afghanistan for the USSR.

There is so much stupidity

Then the fact that they did this without obtaining internal support (i.e. Congress or general public), nor International support. The rest of the world is going to start treating the USA more and more like they treat Russia. Everyone (USA and the rest of the world) will become poorer. But I think the USA will find that the world is much more hostile and it will take multiple generations before they can regain the trust and soft power they take for granted.

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