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This. The discussions on this site are typically oblivious to this fact. I am desperately trying to persuade a corporate client to adopt version control and here people are talking about Rust. It's like we are living on different planets.

Surely you realize that the codebase behind the language powering 60% of the web is a bit more complicated than an experimental JS runtime?

Talked to my clients this morning and persuaded most of them to shut down the services and wait for the patch. For most of them it's cheaper to lose a day of work than to pay for recovery. Scary to be in a situation where you have no fix/workaround in sight.

Exactly, and you need to start turning a profit before the end of that runway. Even if that means running code that is suboptimal.

This is the right way to deliver software.

Produce working product first, validate the idea, stabilize the business, start generating profit, and then you can start optimizing your costs.

In fact optimization is by far the easiest part of the process because there are many system programming experts on this HN thread who consider these optimizations to be trivial.

Who are you and why should we listen to you banging on the drum?

Memento mori.

You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.

We are reaching levels of pettiness never considered possible previously.

Source?

There is a very good open source conversion tool called "Calibre". I use it all the time to convert my, erm, security backups of books I own.

What is "good code"?

If you ask your boss, it will most likely be whatever spaghetti code which ensures the contract gets signed on time.

The boss doesn't care if the developer needs 10000 libraries for the submit button.

Butcher worker protections and quality of life across all industries to (hypothethically) benefit a single one?

No thanks.

Why do you feel grinding insane hours would be beneficial to AI progress?

It is a comment on the absurdity of orbital data centers. Mountaintop data centers sound absurd, but are more feasible and efficient than orbital ones in nearly every aspect.