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Compiler Explorer is such a wonderful tool. It made examining and comparing compiler outputs so much easier and now pretty much everyone interested in optimizations is using it.

This serves as a great illustration of the "women are wonderful" effect, which was featured on HN the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175754

In case anyone is wondering what "Prodigy" (mentioned in the article) was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)

It's not unusual, HN's front page ranking algorithm is heavily biased towards new submissions.

>If I were starting an IRC channel for a free software project now, I would put it on OFTC, which has a real governance model with elections and - mysteriously - also manages to be…

Wider adoption results in a healthier ecosystem. Also, don't forget that most of FOSS developers are employed somewhere and surely they want to use FOSS at their jobs.

Summary of the article: Republicans bad, Democrats good. It's a shame that partisanship makes it impossible to notice certain issues. The article completely ignores the erosion of …

Articles summarizing the drama: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resign... https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover... List of projects tha…

Note that those chips are application-specific, so it's not quite the same as Apple's or Amazon's migration to ARM.