barelysapient

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Founder and full stack developer.

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Open source projects: Virtuous - https://github.com/swetjen/virtuous Daggo - https://github.com/swetjen/daggo.

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Comment · 1 day ago
That's the case right now--but what might a customized model tailored only for a narrow set of OS functions behave like? I suspect its achievable with a lot less compute.

Now is that a desirable product? Would it succeed on the merits in the marketplace? Maybe it would...

Comment · 2 days ago
mtgox all over again.
Comment · 4 days ago
Amazing. Is something like this available now, or in the future, for hobbyists? Happy to pay retail prices.
Comment · 8 days ago
Or might it be when a cron job runs?
Comment · 9 days ago
Right, and that's a good question too. Since its a foundation, its probably fair to assume that a fair number of management are there due to financial contributions by their sponsoring corps.

When that's case, the priority might become on renewing financial support. Keeping the personality happy is seen as a way to keep the funding stream.

Comment · 10 days ago
Ugh. Love Railway.
Comment · 10 days ago
it's a good point. I wonder if we'll see a PHP fork and rewrite in rust. like tcrs. given the recently issues they would seem to benefit the most...
Comment · 10 days ago
I wonder if that isn't a side effect of how its structured...

When a corporation sponsors the language, such as Java, Go, .Net, there's an inherent economic component which acts as a forcing function.

PHP being a foundation sounds nice. But consensus wasn't strong enough to affect the key outcomes.

Comment · 11 days ago
This might be the nail in the coffin for php.
Comment · 17 days ago
Or corruption.
Comment · 17 days ago
We all stand on the shoulders of others work. Designers use fonts, engineers tools, etc.

To make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

Comment · 18 days ago
I wonder if they're paying less than the 70s?
Comment · 18 days ago
I've been very happy with FireFox.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes.
Comment · 2 months ago
Poor judgement, open ai

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