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do we have a word for the kind of crime where a person is found guilty of attempting to undermine the nation itself?

So you really place no value on talking to other people. I guess you must think that's not part of engineering

Is it unrealistic in depicting the idea that debris could cause a cascade which would create more debris?

once space is a battlefield, won't that largely salt the earth for economic uses? I watched the movie Gravity, so I know that it wouldn't take that much for however many trillion dollars of equipment is up there to be magically transmuted into an orbiting debris cloud

Yeah you could argue that, but it's a messy argument. I'm wiling to imagine that they hadn't used AI to do the rewrite to Rust. It wouldn't have been all that hard to do with plain old syntax tree transformation (my expertise). The trickier question for me is the ownership at the boundary where prompts were turned into Zig code. That is not a process that could have been done with syntax tree transformation: creative freedom was given to the model as to how to do the work at that stage, and so that is the stage at which I'm least sure they could legally defend their claim to ownership.

All great examples, but ones that do require installation. Their website is just where you download the product, I'm talking about making the website the product.

First, yes, the demand to be able to code natively in a browser is, I have reason to suspect, very large. It's just difficult to measure demand when nobody has ever offered a really compelling product. In engineering terms it's like getting a full-scale reading. The real level could be 1% above a full-scale reading, or the real level could be 100x higher than the full-scale reading.

Secondly, WASM isn't the right target for the browser anyway, JS and the DOM have to be what you consider "native", for the most rigorous UI projects at least (which building an IDE is). If you want to build a cross-platform UI product that doesn't require installation and has Emacs-like levels of extensibility, JS is the end of the line in terms of language selection. There are no other candidates.

Don't forget the group asking really dumb pointless questions like "who legally owns the rewritten code"

Haha TS7 is the next biggest example of, "Let's just do a line by line port to another language instead of seriously examining our architecture"

of course they also gave away their own claim to be the copyright owner, but that's neither here nor there ; )

I suspect the AI docs will make it hard to find humans who want to contribute writing. Humans will want to contribute if they see that you value writing highly.

What if not deceiving yourself about the nature of a relationship is associated with more self-sufficiency and better decision-making?

That rubber duck you used to talk to is still there... You don't have to pay a prostitute just to be able to think out loud.

Just don't pat yourself on the back for being a good human when you're coddling a billionaire's GPU

at a certain point if you're paying to be nice to a GPU which uses electricity to generate statistically-plausible nice-sounding text back, you've perhaps not embraced the best in humanity but rather started a relationship with a sexbot

I know what they meant to do, but they've drawn a line where no line exists and the result is confusion.

all languages are embedded in some domain, therefore having a domain does not make a language "a specific type of language"

lolol you're joking right? as a joke it's funny. If you think thats really what it sounds like when a project's design is well-understood... ... ...

"DSL" is a stupid word. If it's a language, it's a language.

It's a GitHub org: https://github.com/bablr-lang

Basically we've taken the "mystic quest" route, but we now have a pretty damn good data model

Well I'm hopeful because I'm not a passive observer here, but rather a bazaar builder.

I could talk for hours. If you want to hear what I have to say at length, come to the place where I build: https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX

I built a web-OS, a graphical IDE, and a version control system to replace git, all in about 40,000 lines of highly abstracted Javascript. If you're thinking about how important it is to be able to maintain million-line codebases, I suspect you might have substituted a metric for the actual end goal.

Does that not sound a little silly to you when you say it? Should I invest in becoming a memory athlete as a way of becoming a better software engineer? ...or should I learn how to build and use tools?

and ever since, this approach has been a critical pathway for some billion dollar business probably. hooray

Nothing that was possible then is less possible or less potent now.

The narrative is not friendly to communities of people owning complex software by sharing work now, but neither was it then. If you believe it was all wrong, an incorrect formulation, then disregard it and do not despair to move on. If you think ESR got something right that nobody can see anymore, then your hope should be rooted in the knowledge of how much less than what's possible we are currently achieving

Why would it? It has optimized what it was built to optimize: this is the token-selling industry. Take note that the people hawking the dream of a gold rush are not actually mining but selling shovels

Is growth enough if technology makes our lives worse? Is a tower the pride of the civilization if a strong gust of wind could bring it down? It is before the gust, when all that matters is that the tower is tall rather than strong. After the gust, things are a bit more nuanced. Fingers are pointed.

The tricky part here is that you can't tell if a once-topmost part of the tower is sturdy until a great deal more tower is resting on it. Well, now a lot the economy is resting on little other than AI dreams. Your move, rational people.

Does it really keep rising? Many of my fondest memories of technology come from times past...

Matters less than it ever has. Everyone and their grandma is obsessed with appearances only right now. The winning move in that game is not to play

I've seen both films many times and I honestly never realized these two characters are played by the same person.

Yow! Well said.