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This isn't the death of open source. It's the death of the global village were everybody can freely roam and it's easy to interact. It's the resurrection of small, social, trusted communities. I hope this spreads to all of the internet.
This is definitely a microcosm of what's happening to the entire Internet.
Being conservative with technology choices and only using Node LTS has paid dividends lol
You can drop the library into your project as a single file and it'll still work without NPM. You can just copy it straight from GitHub, even.
The guy who threw the molotov should have called his Congressman, signed a petition, and paid his taxes.
I did this exact same thing for porting a compiler from one language to another with Codex. I run tests at every step, and verified that bytecode output was byte-for-byte identical. I was very impressed at the results, and this is coming from someone who's always pointing out issues with AI programming.
Yes, really.
My compiler runs on my computer and produces the same machine code given the same input. Neither of these are true with AI.
ahahahaha so many implications in this comment
My favorite benchmark for LLMs and agents is to have it port a medium-complexity library to another programming language. If it can do that well, it's pretty capable of doing real tasks. So far, I always have to spend a lot of time fixing errors. There are also often deep issues that aren't obvious until you start using it.
This isn't an ownership problem, it's a medium problem (and perhaps a legal problem)
It's worth noting that many, if not most, games on Steam don't have DRM. You can often just take the .exe files out of them and play. Sometimes you need a polyfill for Steam's client API, but that's usually it.
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I wonder what this guy would think of what I'm doing with poop.net
It got my hopes up that they had backed off so they could solve their problems before returning to subject the kernel to their language.
You don't generally need specific versions of GCC or Clang to build it I'm pretty sure.
Unreasonably good at writing compilers? Not in my experience lol.
Sometimes it's nice to know that something will run and compile reliably far into the future. That's a nice thing to have, and wide support for the language and its relatively unchanging nature make it reliable.
Yes, that is success. A pretty large degree of success.
If only Rust had a spec to do that with
Sure, but the reason tends to be that if you want something to run everywhere, C is your best bet.
Don’t spread FUD
Only in cryptocurrency and Rust do I see this kind of phrasing used.
Correct. C has a mostly standardized ABI, Rust does not. C has a spec, Rust does not. That matters in things like kernels.
That's how it feels to me. There are crucial issues, namely that there is no spec and there is only one implementation. I don't know why Linus is ok with this. I'd be fine with it if those issues were resolved, but they aren't.
What does this practically mean for Linux? Will core parts of it depend on Rust? How closely linked are drivers?
Rust in Linux always worried me because there is currently only one stable backend (LLVM) and only one compiler implementation that doesn't yet have a spec. I like that you can at least compile Linux with Clang and GCC, but there aren't even two options for Rust right now.
They want to make sure the runtime they depend on continues to be maintained. It's still niche and new, so its continued existence isn't as sure as something like Go.
VRChat is one of the most socially dysfunctional online platforms I've ever used
That explains the extra traffic I've been getting from Twitter.
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They're crazy outliers, and that's fine. The point of H1B is hiring talent outside of the United States, not hiring normal webdevs or commodity software engineers. A fee like that, where a large salary for an exceptional job would make the cost relatively small, brings the program back to its original goal.
If you just need a normal worker, there are plenty of CS grads and unemployed SWEs you can hire in the US right now. If you need a specialized foreign worker because he or she is not available in the US, then chances are you are going to pay a premium anyway; that's the point.
Anything that is funded by venture capital WILL become worse. You can complain all you want about things that don't have infinite funding having issues, but they'll probably just stay at the same level or get slightly better over time. VC-backend companies only get worse after their early peak.