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I'm not being sarcastic when I say that Apple should copy Windows Update, I have no idea how they have got this far without a method to add small patches outside monolithic OS updates.

Knowing the properties of neutrinos is essential for building the neutrino bomb, the most ethical weapon possible.

It's a broken idea, throughput über alles isn't true of an interactive system, latency matters. There's a calculator app I use every now and then. Linux always thinks it's a good idea to swap it out since I'm not using it all the time, which means that every time I want to calculate something there's lag as it's swapped in again.

That American AI companies waste money like that is a good argument for them being vulnerable to leaner companies.

Sweden cleared $2.5M in profit from their participation, about the same as the previous edition, all the increase was eaten up by the US taxing the teams and higher costs. That's not nearly enough money to sell out for.

And you can't do what Google doesn't want you to do. That's a nice ad blocker you have there, shame if we removed support for it.

The problem is that those developers are also going to forget to update the ignore-by-default .gitignore to allow files, so there will be missing files. And they won't see any problems, because it works on their machine.

The world is too mutable for it to exist as a decentralized system, you can set up all these permascrolls and enfilades and tumblers and stuff. But someone is going to see profit in making two-way links one-way or altering the permanent record, so they will. Not to mention what happens just by entropy, servers will get turned off because companies go under or people lose interest. You could make it everybody's problem with something like IPFS, you still would have to solve spammers exploiting the commons.

And it only makes sense for a place where documents are approximately equally popular. If the canonical Harry Potter contained links to all places referring or citing it, it would be one overloaded document.

And then the whole micropayments thing would make it a non-starter, since that have failed badly just about every time it has been tried.

Some people are actually interested in programming, coming and bleating about LLMs making all the finer points of it unimportant is as clueless as a manager coming here and telling us that syntax is unimportant because he has programmers for that crap.

If you don't care, don't go around in programming threads telling you how it doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter to you, because you prefer to be ignorant about the details of programming, and you have found tools that let you live in ignorance, good for you. But some of us do care, and are going to continue to do so.

A couple of examples what's missing from C from a low level perspective: Multiple return values (why can't I have a function using more registers than rax or the stack to push back more values?), sane varargs, stack manipulation (an enabler for coroutines and a lot more)

Generally, in an ideal low-level language I wouldn't expect to be hampered because the language is designed for a notional abstract machine that doesn't have things like an actual stack and contiguous RAM.

C isn't an iota more fundamental than say Modula-2. It's just more popular. And C is very bad at being a low level language. There are plenty of things that you can express in assembly that you just can't do in C. And then the platform ABI won't support it, since C can't support it, and it hampers other languages that don't have C's limitations.

That wasn't what it seemed like at the time. Amazon didn't post profits, sure, but they sure as hell weren't a giant money suck either, they didn't need billions in financing to run their business. There were a lot of Amazon bears, but they were concerned about the high valuation, not about them going broke (since even the most pessimistic bear can read a cashflow statement).

This isn't SDL_gpu, that is part of SDL3. This is SDL_gp, an external lib which builds on the former.