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Bit dubious about how some of this hangs together. One detail that stood out to me: > They removed mounting screws, disconnected the servers and put them in laundry bags — 20 bags …

I think pretty unlikely: there is enough pub density that it's unlikely that removing that requirement nets 10 minutes of saved journey time from all the furthest destinations.

Probably because they don't want to self-host Windows or MacOS servers when they can pay someone else to do that for them (or Linux ones, I assume that is within their wheelhouse f…

Their policy doesn't cover upstream, it's only for the Gentoo project specifically. It's clearly infeasible for them (or Debian) to try to control what their upstreams do, especial…

Interesting article, seems more balanced than Andrew Kelley's one that it links to. The thing I still think is wrong: why are Anthropic rewriting a Javascript runtime from Zig to R…

They don't really "just get to say" that. Declaring yourself bankrupt is a fairly major thing that will have long-term consequences. It clearly isn't desirable to do casually, we d…

You can't really tell people that they just can't be bankrupt though. What are they supposed to do if they have debts they can't pay but they're not allowed to declare bankruptcy b…

Alpha Centauri was such a fantastic game. And even though it encourages you to move forward with technology, the tone has this unease about what you're doing. There's a lot to be l…

I don't know anything about Adobe's model - I have (pretty happily) never bought anything from that company. But the two are not very similar, and I don't buy the argument that you…

> What do you even mean by "works", specifically? It runs and accepts people's payments, which means you're not on the front page of the newspaper (not in a good way). > ... becaus…

Sure, and then he can afford it, because he's making over $1M/year revenue on this sim, and taking a very reasonable 5% off the top of that. So it blunts the profits a bit at that …

Because you know that the current one works. If you have a bank running on COBOL (or whatever), you've had that for 30+ years now, so while it might have bugs, you know what they a…

> its hard to evaluate how much trust can be put in a project of this complexity at this early stage. I don't know, I'm not finding it hard to evaluate that at all. I've had bad en…

You misunderstand. You could run one of these things on a mainframe, because it's a zero-downtime machine - you can swap out parts of them as they run. But fundamentally it's a sin…

I would certainly vote for Vimes if he stood.

Surely better than this engineer having to pay $100k upfront which would likely mean he never made the game at all. 5% over a million seems pretty reasonable to me. I guess it'd be…

I have some familiarity with the bank situation, and while a lot of them are on some very old systems (maybe COBOL, maybe something else, either way they want off it) the cost of a…

Yeah I was thinking exactly this. Also I don't think it can reach my dryer. I am happy this kind of thing is being worked on, I just don't think this is gonna be it - they really t…

Nice find. Can't help but feel this is one of the subtle traps hidden beneath the advice that contexts aren't supposed to be stored. I know it's not always that easy, of course.

Right but as they mentioned, at least then they are communicating with a human about it, not going back and forth with a machine which they clearly do not enjoy.

Sure, that's only made worse by the suggestion here to not install any version of it at all.

Not quite accomplished, if it's creating text on the pull requests that looks sufficiently human-like, but you're still worried about the quality of the code and that the submitter…

It's also kind of pointless. Almost immediately, something will be installed that will require installing the .NET runtime, maybe multiple versions of it. If the argument is to try…

I like the idea, but I don't really see why this would change the 'Builder' population. Gamers would love it (I have a Windows 10 install around for gaming, I'd take this in a flas…

I wouldn't describe the 2019 final as infamous? Other than us all sitting around shouting "What on earth is a super over?" I don't remember it being very controversial. It was cert…