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  • Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel Prize

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  • I can though these are relatively common knowledge and easy to find on internet too. It has even made to wikipedia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado#Foreign_policy

    Openly anti-communist, Machado is a signatory of the 2020 Madrid Charter.[131][132] In February 2025, Machado addressed a Patriots for Europe rally in Madrid.[133][134] Machado called Javier Milei's victory in the 2023 Argentine presidential election a triumph in the fight for "change" and "freedom" in Latin America,[135] and said that their political projects shared a common thread in the "fundamental role of freedom" professed by Milei.[136] Machado is also a supporter of U.S. president Donald Trump, whom she described in 2025 as a "visionary" in relation to his opposition to the Maduro government in Venezuela.[137][138] Criticism of Machado has come from some Venezuelans who say she has not spoken forcefully against the deportation of Venezuelans under the second Trump administration.[117]

    After she won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Machado stated that Trump "certainly deserves" to win the 2026 award as "in only nine months, so many conflicts have been solved or prevented".[139][140] After he deployed the Navy to the Caribbean in 2025, Machado praised the Trump administration.[31][141] One of her advisors told The New York Times that she has coordinated with the Trump administration and that she has a plan for the first hundred hours after Maduro is deposed.

    Regarding the Israel–Palestine conflict, Machado expressed her solidarity with Israel following the 7 October attacks.[147] She thanked Israel for its support of Edmundo González as president-elect,[148] and previously of Guaidó as acting president.[149] Machado planned to reestablish diplomatic relations with Israel, which were cut by President Chávez in 2009 during the 2008–2009 Gaza war.[149] On a 17 October 2025 post on X (formerly Twitter), she said she called the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer thanks "for his warm congratulations to the people of Venezuela on our 2025 Nobel Peace Prize" and express support for Israel.[150] Israel's Prime Minister's Office said that Machado appreciated the ceasefire agreement that secured the release of Israeli hostages and supported Israel's efforts against Iran, which she called a threat to both countries.[150] The Prime Minister's Office also said that Machado generally supported Israel's actions and decisions during the Gaza war and the related Gaza offensive.[151] In another post on X, she wrote that Venezuelans knew that achieving peace "requires immense courage, strength, and moral clarity to stand against the totalitarian forces that oppose us".[152] Although Machado avoided mentioning Israel and Gaza, Israel presented her post as an endorsement of its Gaza offensive due to her calling out "the Iranian regime" as "a key supporter of the Maduro regime", which she said also "backs terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis".[152]

    https://latinoamerica21.com/en/maria-corina-machado-a-controversial-nobel-peace-prize/

    Machado has shifted from a conservative tendency (European liberalism/neoliberalism) to frequenting the global far right. In 2024 she drew closer to the Ibero-American far-right project Iberosphere, linked to Spain’s Vox party. And from February 2025 onward, Machado positioned herself more clearly by participating in “Europe Viva 25,” the summit of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) held in Madrid. The Patriots are a constellation of far-right European parties, very powerful in the European Parliament. At this forum, Machado and Milei were the star guests invited by Santiago Abascal (Vox). PfE includes parties such as Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s National Rally (RN), the Dutch Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), and Matteo Salvini’s League (Lega), among others, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud as an observer.

    At the convention—whose slogan, “Make Europe Great Again,” leaves little to the imagination—the cream of the continent’s far right was present, seasoned leaders in dismantling European democracies. The speakers’ narrative delved into the old litany of ultranationalist victimhood. Their bête noires are global multilateral institutions such as the UN, the WHO, or the ICC, as well as the European Union and Muslims.

    Machado thanked the forum for the invitation and welcomed the “awakening of European societies” and their appreciation of freedom, hinting at a retreat of democracy in Europe. Nor was there any lack of jubilation—shared by those present—over Donald Trump’s return to the White House. As for Netanyahu, the relationship is longstanding: at the time she congratulated him on his “decisive actions” in the “war” in Gaza and has promised to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which would violate international law.

    I have not vetted the credibility of this particular news source but the quotes and stuff I put here appeared in multiple news outlets so I don't doubt their reality.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • Not sure, even like ten years ago when I was doing my PhD lots of students in prominent US universities like Carnegie Mellon were going to China to intern in HEP colliders.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • Yea they are probably quite ahead in about %80 of critical tech. Not only that but they also seem to be investing quite alot in sustainable tech, public transport tech, medicine etc. I wouldn't be surprised at all if center of attraction for science shifts from US to China in near future.

  • Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel Prize

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  • She addressed the far right European movement Patriots of Europe. This movement is endorsed by people like Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban, Milei etc major players of today's world pushing world actively to extreme right, bigotry, sexism, anti-immigration and anti-muslim policies etc you name it. The slogan of this group is "Make Europe Great Again", that should tell you all you need about this group.

    She congratulated Netanyahu on his “decisive actions” in the “war” in Gaza, declared that "the struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel," and has promised to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which would violate international law.

    I don't know how much she has done for Venezuela, can't comment on that but if you work with groups that are actively pushing the world to shit, I find it hard to believe that her own goals for her own country can be that good. Far right politics is generally about power and personal gain at the expense of masses.

    I also don't know if she is actively a zionist but she has no qualms about supporting zionist and far-right agendas so she can get some bit of political power in her corner of the world. I wouldn't let her walk past near the nobel peace prize. Not that that prize has any credibility any more.

  • Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is NOT Going To Be Solved With Documentation"

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  • lol some of the submissions here are nightmares. The person who submits the AI report also replies back to dev comments and criticisms using LLMs. And after a while, instead of admitting it was wrong it just hallucinates code like changing <= with < and claiming that is the mistake. What an absolute waste of people's time.

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    Building a Physics Engine from Scratch (Rust/WGPU) to prove a theory I've been winging for a year. Looking for feedback on the compute kernels.

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  • Just so you know, LLMs might be useful tools as search engines or getting relevant keywords about some topic/knowledge that already exists but they don't have much reasoning skills. This does not however stop them from producing an output that is just a cleverly jumbled combination of keywords/pieces relevant to the topic. So if you are doing sth like "take this idea and produce a new physics theory from it", LLMs will not produce anything useful for you. You might take an LLM without any guardrails and massage it enough to convince it to produce a theory that proves earth is flat or that gravity does not exist.

  • Relatable

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  • I get what you mean, I had a similar kind of feeling when I did maths in my PhD too. I think that is an aptitude for mathematical style of thinking. I also love it when things that seem dissociated from each other suddenly becomes part of a single concept when you do a nice abstraction. I guess that is one of the points of abstraction anyway (reduce the number of building blocks as much as possible while keeping the same richness in end results).

  • Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

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  • hmm laying of %75 of the team unfortunately sounds like tying up any remaining businesses before closing down

  • Relatable

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  • I think the trill comes from the feeling that "I can do it better" if it is already done before or "I finally understand this in enough detail to build a nice abstraction" if not

  • Inspired by madmo's post, my partner crocheted me a smaller but no less cute ferris :)

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  • Every family has that weird cousin (it might be me in our case....)

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    There was no other way!

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  • Do we have a rule 34 analogue for Linux distros?

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    There was no other way!

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  • I would also have expected to see some mild insults (he has improved quite alot in terms of toning himself down).

  • Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

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  • Nice read thanks. Though I am not sure how this is a defense of C++. He seems to be complaining about extending C++ too much without solidifying the foundation enough.

  • Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

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  • I wouldn't be surprised at all if the guy who wrote this has been a 20 year long C++ coder. The tone feels like "NA NA NA NA NA NAAAA C++ IS THE BEST LANGUAGE EVER CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING YOU SAY NA NA NA"

    disclaimer: I am not a rust user or C++, I use python and C

  • A group of crows is a murder. A group of apes is a shrewdness. What's a group of you called?

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  • pasta fan club

  • Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise

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  • Trump is a thug and turned US goverment into a glorified mafia

  • Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

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  • Just enough stale bread to keep him barely alive though. I don't think he even deserves continuous nourishment from stale bread.

  • Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

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  • He means people who oppose shooting immigrants on sight

  • Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted

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  • I did too have a look at the post for the same reasons and did visit some of the links given there. Honestly it looks more to me like tribalism than anything, see for instance comments and discussions here:

    https://blogs.gnome.org/seb128/2019/06/27/system76-pop-os-team-should-learn-to-work-with-their-upstreams/

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/c67pkm/comment/es6p3zq/

    I think by now both groups are so entrenched in their position that they convey things from a strongly biased position and don't have any desire to find a common ground.

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • Not unless the claims that companies are hiring less junior devs in favour of LLMs with senior coder oversight. If this is indeed a true trend and AGI is not achieved, we might have senior coder shortage in future.