Probably not a popular opinion around here, but here goes anyway: the fundamental problem is that unless your net worth is $100m+, there is no point being a do-gooder as any attempts to fix big moral hazards are only going to harm you more than it's worth.
So what happens when the datacenters need to upgrade (new hardware, or stupid enterprisey reasons like "must be new when replacing broken stuff")? Surely there remains a secondary market for the enthusiasts?
Sure, but, aim for the stars and you hit the moon right?
Like fundamentally who cares? For the purpose of an AGI benchmark I'd argue you'd rather err on the side of being more intelligent and counting that as less intelligent than vice versa.
I don't know what it is, but UI on Linux always feels too disjoint from the rest of the system.
It's a bit like how Windows 3.11 was just UI-on-DOS. I get the same feeling.
Don't get me wrong - I love Linux for all its CLI use but for some reason I've never been able to primary drive it without going insane after a week.
Windows just seems to feel more put-together and I guess that's because the kernel probably has hacks to support Office, and Explorer probably has hacks to support the kernel, etc.
The only other system I've felt this level of unity in is FreeBSD with its userland+kernel harmony.
Maybe I need to try a Linux desktop again as I haven't done it in ~10y but the other comment here about Fedora not feeling production ready doesn't inspire much hope...
The thing that always irks me about c++ is this sort of thing:
> Explanation
1) Searches for the resource identified by h-char-sequence in implementation-defined manner.
Okay, so now I have to make assumptions that the implementation is reasonable, and won't go and "search" by asking an LLM or accidentally revealing my credit card details to a third party, right?
And even if the implementation _is_ reasonable the only way I know what "search" means in this context is by looking at an example, and the example says "it's basically a filename".
So now I think to myself: if I want to remain portable, I'll just write a python script to do a damn substitution to embed my file, which is guaranteed to work under _any_ implementation and I don't have to worry about it as soon as I have my source file.
This is not low-quality digital output. This is value-driven generative AI.
Not automated. Generative.