JetSetIlly

> Personal computing is increasingly under threat by government and big corporations, we all need to be vigilant and fight back.

This is a very important observation. This is fundamentally about personal computing and the power to control the hardware and software we use for our work.

I recently reread "What The Dormouse Said", by John Markoff. Superb book that describes the tension between the developers of prototype personal computing on one side and distributed computing on the other. Interestingly, the need for distributed computing was motivated in part by early artificial intelligence research.

What we're seeing today IMO, is the reemergence of distributed computing. We saw it first with storage but we're now seeing it with compute itself. Given that excellent personal hardware has been available for several decades, it seems like madness to change course.

The process is often as valuable as the end result. Sure, you didn't crack the problem, but you gained enormous value in the process. I consider that a win.

Yes, there are definitely trends in which sectors sponsor F1. Most famously perhaps, the tobacco companies. Cryptocurrency was in vogue for a few years. Now it's AI companies.

Is the FIA code available for the teams to inspect, or is it just a binary blob they have to install?

> That is only "nicer" as it allows to evade taxes. (Which some may consider nice)

Card only business can definitely evade tax too and many do.

Maybe not, but the process of creation and the final result will be of interest to other creators. Like any hobby it might seem strange to outsiders but it will be fascinating to those who are part of the scene.

It's more about installation location for me. For these types of projects, I don't even install it. I just clone, build and run from there. I have no idea where the bash script is going to put things.

The albums he did with Jon Anderson are worth a listen too I think.

Similar to Discord's migration from Go to Rust. The measurements and reasons they gave were true but even by the time of the migration, Go had already moved on and improved. They were using an old version of Go.

Rust might be the right choice for Discord, I've no idea about that, but the problem is that the blog post lives on and influences people to this day.

> The problem isn't this weird gaslighting attempt that we just haven't let Claude in our hearts and souls yet which you seem to have determined is inevitable (spoiler alert, it is not),

I don't believe it's inevitable and in fact, I'm thoroughly against the use of tools like Claude.

My reference to "different stages of acceptance" was only to indicate that people have embraced these things to varying degrees, and it that it seems to be this difference which is causing conflict in discussions like this. (I doubt I will ever fully accept it. A lot needs to change for that to happen).

I didn't really have the "five stages of grief" in mind when I wrote it.

> This is not okay.

Agreed. The way to address it though, is through calm analysis and reason. The emotional language from both groups is not helping.

If there's one problem with Claude et al, it's that it's all happened way too quickly for people to keep up. We're all at different stages of acceptance and I think that's what we're seeing manifest in the various discussions.

> As a long-time open-source maintainer, I find all the second-guessing and armchair psychoanalysis here (not just in this comment, all over HN) about Tridge's motivations, state of mind, and so on incredibly off-putting.

Much of the language from both groups is incredibly off-putting, frankly. Tridge in his blog post describes people as "foaming at the mouth"?!

The rhetoric around this has gotten way too emotional from both groups.

I'm glad I'm just a hobbyist.

Ferrari have long worked with third-party coachbuilders such as Pininfarina. I'm not sure how much autonomy Ive had over the final design, but if it's anything like the relationship with Pininfarina, etc. the design would have been a collaboration.