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You are injecting a lot of assumptions and wishful thinking to view the removal of ownership from this equation as a net positive.

I see no reason to assume that this would lead to the disappearance of parked cars or to more trees. Our corporate overlords will want to make use of that space for more cars or infrastructure to support the new car network, why would they ever just give it back willingly?

What that always leaves out, however, is that no/little money can very much cause a lot of unhappiness.

Is there a term yet for Rust projects rewriting GPL code to get it under non-gpl licenses?

Rustwashing?

I'd say the "threat" of local models and user independence is currently (successfully) being fought by cutting off the supply and development of general computing devices and hardware.

The mentioned big few are buying up everything regardless of need and making hardware unaffordable and unavailable for normal people (or smaller businesses). And some of the few manufacturers are already being convinced to stop developing/producing consumer hardware altogether.

And whats left might be taken care of via the rise of attestation. Just start framing local, unapproved models as "security risks" at some point.

I mean aside from the somewhat...dishonest statements from the people involved, giving false explanations is one thing, but calling people who smelled this "overreacting" gives this a weird taste.

I am neutral on such a rewrite itself, there are pros and cons to the whole "rewrite in Rust" topic. People are making decent arguments. But the way the initiator here reacted makes it seem like the Bun team itself thinks they are doing something weird here...

Guess reviewing any code isn't exactly their thing either anymore? And I guess adjusting the tests themselves is certainly one way to make things pass.

Ultimately this just seems like it was done specifically to make Bun more "ai friendly". Whether it turns out good or not that appears to be the motivation behind it.

Neither does anyone else, as is being demonstrated currently.

You won't be 'underwhelmed' long.

This has been your constant mantra for 3 years now and is part of the reason people are underwhelmed.

Are you working on compilers? If not it seems you did not understand what is being talked about here.

Do you lack fundamental understand of those apps you built that are still in use? Did you lack understanding of their workings when you built them?

Yeah but Valve is not publicly traded, so that comparison is of course totally unfair! /s

Having skilled and happy employees that aren't constantly changing and do not spend all of their time on ways to fuck over customers and chase trends is simply impossible. Releasing a piece of hardware and leaving it open for customers to do with what they want? Linux? Not hiring people the second line goes up and then immediately firing them when line stagnates? Preposterous.

Can you elaborate or provide some context?

It is a fair note when there are a lot of people with a monetary incentive to hype up a certain piece of technology. And as gp correctly points out: "democratizing" is most commonly used in a very hostile and underhanded manner.

It is what we are talking about, hence not "counterproductive".

I will put some trust into these people if they make this a pure nonprofit organization at the minimum. Building ON measures to ensure that this will not be pushed for the most obvious cases, which is to fight user freedom. This shouldn't be some afterthought.

"Trust us" is never a good idea with profit seeking founders. Especially ones who come from a culture that generally hates the hacker spirit and general computing.

You basically wrote a whole narrative of things that could be. But the team is not even willing to make promises as big as yours. Their answers were essentially just "trust us we're cool guys" and "don't worry, money will work out" wrapped in average PR speak.

Yeah I also see the potential of LLMs to become the biggest enforcers of general technological and societal stagnation.

I've been running bcachefs on one of my laptops since it hit linux stable. Just wanted to say thank you for all your constant work on it.

Love picocad.

Now that picotron is ramping up which basically offers a superset in terms of features compared to pico8: will there be an expanded picotron version of picocad?

Not too long ago I would have agreed with you. That was, for a long time a decent way to enjoy Twitter, even when people were already long claiming it was an unpleasant place.

But for the current situation you are just misrepresenting the problem.

Aggressively maintaining a decent follow list no longer helps.

And "other viewpoints" are not the problem. Every somewhat popular tweet has automated replies full of porn bots and clearly automated answers that say basically nothing or just try to provoke or advertise.

"Following" has become infuriatingly useless too because it algorithmically sorts in nonsensical ways.

The result: many tweets I would have liked to see get completely buried while others get shown to me over and over as I visit the site.

I'm so incredibly tired of algorithmic timelines.

It used to be a good tool on interesting updates on hobbies I enjoy. Now it just wants to waste my time, and I'm just not interested in screaming matches about daily politics.

That includes echo chambers too so it is not about differing opinions even, I don't need people from "my side" telling me again and again what the "enemy" is doing wrong and how I am supposed get angry at that.

No, not where should it start.

Whether that behaviour is acceptable is not the question. In my opinion it is not, but I don't think I should decide because a whole lot of things that are widely seen as very acceptable I would place under bad for the internet as well.

If you throw around an idea as strong as that of a "good netizen" I am much more interested in where it ends.

Are the Tor developers good netizens?

can't behave like a good netizen

Who decides how a good netizen has to behave?

Something that the page does not seem to comment on: will easy embeddability, like with lua, be a priority for this project? Especially in Zig (obviously). It's the most interesting question and use-case that comes to mind.

Fully agree. The biggest bummer when it comes to Julia for me is that proper compilation is just an afterthought. And it seems like compilation of portable binaries will remain a second class citizen inside the Julia project?

Julia with a proper `Julia -compile` flag that results in a proper binary of reasonable size would catapult Julia from "kinda nice, but limited" into "one of my favourite languages" territory.

If this is supposed to be the biggest single weekend in tech ever I don't know what to say

I agree. Made by the people from Kotaku is not exactly a phrase that would make me want to visit a site.

SBF isn't exactly a useful source on anything SBF does or doesn't do.

I care not for this explanation and opinion. If someone is unable to work on practice problems without just looking up the solutions that is really their problem, not mine.

And you’re supposed to have teaching assistants or similar available when you really remain stuck.

That just translates to giving the middle finger to self learners.

I have not yet seen a decent explanation for withholding sample solutions/explanations. It usually just boils down to "I want this to be only for university professors to give homework from and I am of the opinion that university students lack the minimal discipline to work on problems in their own"

If an AI can do it instantly, it starts to feel like pointless busy work

If you can't solve the problem in a few seconds/minutes you will be able to just look up or copy/paste the answer for every AoC day from the associated solutions thread.

So in other words if you view it like that there was already a better "tool" to very easily "solve" any AoC problem: internet search.

If all you care about is getting a number to put into the website to get a checkmark that is.

This might not be relevant to medium's downward spiral, but as a reader I find that medium is a marker for content of very low quality.

I follow a lot of personal blogs and over the years less than 3 medium posts (not even whole blogs) made it into my bookmarks.

When searching the web, medium content is often times just 1 or 2 steps above the worst SEO spam sites.

In short: I avoid medium.com links most of the time. It's basically the site for people that just want to write tons of clickbait low quality content to "build their brand".

As a parent myself, working from home, I can't relate to what you describe, at all. What you describe sounds like a communication and relationship problem first and foremost.

If those same "emergencies" are urgent to you and demand your attention only when you work from home then the issue lies someplace else.

What does that even mean?

Is that just your gut feeling, as in typical "bright people doing amazing things, surely they would succeed doing x" (which ultimately means nothing, that's just PR speak), or are you saying that based on your own understanding of advanced mathematics and mathematical research from which you are assessing the mathematical work those people you talk about do?

The only artists that benefit from Spotify are the top of the top, as in Beyoncé/Lady Gaga level.

I always suspected that the falloff is pretty steep as soon as you step away from let's say the top n artists at a time.

This confirms this suspicion again.

I'd go as far as say that piracy is much better for artists due to the lack of dark patterns (which funnel more people to fewer artists). And once you visit a show or buy a piece of merch you have given an artist more money than Spotify listening alone ever would have, and it is not even close.

I experienced firsthand how this system breeds a new kind of system gamers that would not come to fruition otherwise.

Honestly stack ranking can only be described as a fetish, it offers no gain and really only exists because certain people really love it in a very creepy way.