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waterTanuki
·anteontem·discuss
A more plausible explanation:

People were told for years they can't use Rust for their new projects because it hasn't been "proven" in industry yet. So the option was to sit back and wait (chicken and egg) or move to rewrite a bunch of projects so that it could actually be "proven". Not saying this is the only reason why it happens (every language has its Zealots) but it certainly makes more sense.

Due to the explosion of new programming languages over the past few decades your options are to either aggressively expand wherever possible or die out because you're not "proven".
waterTanuki
·anteontem·discuss
> but it's still a singleton instance, so where do you run it? Most hardware doesn't give you enough uptime for what you need here, because what you actually needed was a re-architecture for distribution / failover / whatever, and while you could ask your LLM to do that you aren't going to run your bank on the result.

If only we had a way to solve these issues with tools capable of running Rust programs in that way. I guess every company that needs distribution / failover has a mainframe sitting in their office nowadays huh?

https://k3s.io/

https://kubernetes.io/

https://aws.amazon.com/

https://www.erlang.org/

etc.
waterTanuki
·anteontem·discuss
if only we lived in such a world
waterTanuki
·anteontem·discuss
> The philosophy behind [Rust] and the language itself is really good. I just don’t want to use it.

That's all that needed to be said. He only makes himself and the rest of the Zig "community" look as petty as some of the worst Rust people with the surrounding remarks. Why does anyone need to care what a few randoms think of a language? Either it gets used or it doesn't.
waterTanuki
·há 9 dias·discuss
not for these reasons alone but let's not pretend like they didn't factor them in at all
waterTanuki
·há 9 dias·discuss
Here's an easy one:

Their CEO is a megalomaniac who brags about "killing people"[0] and can't string together coherent sentences on live television[1]. Did I mention it's backed by Peter Thiel who is openly and actively trying to tear down the world's oldest constitutional democracy in favor of a technocratic oligarchy[2]?

[0]: https://youtu.be/G5gC_fParbY?si=isXSwbgUsdsQyGFD

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3sGymV6kY

[2]: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/porta...
waterTanuki
·há 9 dias·discuss
Or just keep it in Spain? It's not exactly a developing nation. Can they simply not build a server and find people willing to take care of it?

Ghana can host their own IT infra. Why not Spain?
waterTanuki
·há 9 dias·discuss
I sincerely hope people taking the side of the LLMs get everything they ever asked for.

When $llm_company begins asking you to open your wallet to fix every vulnerability, bug, or other breaking issue, instead of the guy in Nebraska doing it for free because someone mentored him, will the economics change? Probably not.
waterTanuki
·há 9 dias·discuss
Provide specific examples of AI providing something novel. Eliding something from a vast dataset that would take humans longer to analyze is helpful, but not novel.
waterTanuki
·há 9 dias·discuss
> But seeing this pre-emptive enslaving of a new artificial lifeform is heartbreaking. Its not just Japan. I really don't blame Japan. The US and others are doing it too.

I don't know how else to put this but it sounds like you're suffering from AI Psychosis. A bunch of floating point numbers in a file does not have a conscience, cannot feel emotion, and has no morals.

The entire point of AI (or even the mythical non-existent AGI everyone keeps insisting will be around "soon") was to make life for humanity easier, and as someone who uses these tools almost daily, my life isn't improved at all, neither that of my colleagues, family, or friends n=~30.

We were promised unlimited abundance, freedom from labour, and all of the fruits that come with it. I 100% support this court decision and hold that any and all progress sans contact with an extra-terrestrial lifeform should be attributed to the humans it belongs to
waterTanuki
·há 10 dias·discuss
The issue isn't lack of documentation, it's the policy itself. If it's not supported by google it shouldn't be published under their name. Simple.
waterTanuki
·há 18 dias·discuss
In the README

> This is not an officially supported Google product.

Why was this project published under an account named "Google Workspace"? Google seems to want to have their cake and eat it too, same with the cli creator.

If you want to publish a project under open source and you are the sole creator/owner -> do it in your own time, under your OWN individual github account. Nothing good has ever come from ceeding control of these things to giant corporations who only care how much it will increase their profit next quarter.
waterTanuki
·há 20 dias·discuss
Anthropic was very much willing & involved in U.S. military contracts before the falling out with the DoD. OpenAI is actively involved.

https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-o...
waterTanuki
·há 20 dias·discuss
Did anthropic bar the use of any of their models behind an ID process back in April?
waterTanuki
·há 23 dias·discuss
> After some more back-and-forth, Kilpatrick asked bluntly whether the flag being set to FALSE on consumer chips was a silicon-level limitation or a firmware policy decision — since one is permanent and the other is potentially reversible. Limonciello’s reply effectively closed the chapter. “My apologies, but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic,” he wrote.

Too many people downplaying this as a simple business decision from AMDs side but the response here is what really makes this a story.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.
waterTanuki
·há 23 dias·discuss
Something I don't see mentioned in this article is the nation-wide adoption of a universal transit-payment system: IC Card (Suica is only one of several companies, but often used colloquially to mean train card). This makes it so easy to board any bus/ferry/train without worrying about setting up 30 different accounts each with its own card system.

I've lived in Japan for 4 years now and it was a bit of a culture shock travelling to Germany where I had to have a different pass/app for the various buses and trains. The U.S.'s public transit buildout is slow but happening, and I worry it's falling into the same trap. I'd like to see a federal bill requiring all private/public transit to use the same universal payment scheme accepted in Japan in order to get federal funding for their projects.
waterTanuki
·há 23 dias·discuss
The goal of this puzzle appears to be to get more people to talk about the issue and push for change. In these things, you can have either popularity or nuance but not both. The average American can't even read, let alone understand the nuance or complexity in how gerrymandering "actually" works.
waterTanuki
·há 24 dias·discuss
The map looks off. No way the American Southwest has 3 meters per cm cubed of fungal density in such an arid region. Plenty of desert.
waterTanuki
·há 24 dias·discuss
> I also think your characterization about hobby/production fall short. My fastAPI and rails codebases anre definitely not a hobby.

That's not what I said?

What I said the was the line between hobby/production is use of the tools themselves. Doesn't matter if you use them via a terminal, VSCode extension, or an external app.

Line between editor/IDE is the former requires downloading extensions but the latter bundles them in the final application.
waterTanuki
·há 25 dias·discuss
You're right, the meaning has become pedantic so I'd put forward a new term because the line between editor and IDE is blurred... but there's still a vast difference between editing on vscode vs IDEA or Goland.

ILE? Integrated Language Environment. The former caters to a specific language ecosystem. Text editors are polyglots by contrast.