it might as well be real
I’m not in these devs heads, but I guess that’s the point. Providing something that’s real enough (as a toy model, you’re not going to clean room blender with this…) to get the discussion started and see what we can do against that kind of practice which will definitely become a real threat in the future if left unchecked.
At least I hope that’s the intention rather than “lulz”.
This website was made by two devs quite involved in the open source community. If you don’t want to call it satire, suit yourself I guess (though it does present a number of satirical elements, look at the company names in the success reports: “definitely real corp”, “profit first LLC”…) but this is definitely not an AI bro company, and more of a warning and reflection on possible consequences of LLMs on foss software.
Here’s a link to their fosdem 26 talk that inspired the website and “service” : https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/
Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There’s no need to tell the children that.
Marcel Pagnol
It does, but it’s really not a good package manager especially compared to pacman. I have had it routinely break the path of some executables it updated, I always need to restart it after it closes the terminal when it updates it, and it sometimes just launches the updater of the app and you still need to click through the dialog boxes.
It is more convenient than having nothing, I guess, but it always takes much longer than a pacman update. And it sometimes fails for no apparent reason.
That being said, the person you’re replying to may end up having a nasty surprise if they keep doing pacman -Sy instead of pacman -Syu. That’s at least one problem that you probably wouldn’t have with Winget, admittedly.
No. If you write 11 in base b, bijective number system or not, that’s b+1, not b.
Textbook Microsoft move. Thanks for the link, that was an interesting, if disgusting, read. I loved in particular that they were difficult about reimbursing his travel. You’d think a multi billion dollar company would be able to pay for however much a plane ticket and possibly a hotel stay was…
That’s not the first time I hear something like that from a big company. I saw a talk by Matt Godbolt (compiler explorer) mentioning that NVidia took more than a year to pay him some contribution they said they would for the CUDA support. Can’t remember the figure, but it was ridiculously low.
Winget is such a half-assed effort. Updating the terminal? Terminal shuts down and you need to open it and run the update again. Updating something else? Maybe it’ll change the binary location and not update the path, just for fun (happened twice with LLVM stuff for me). This update failed for some reason? Try to run update again only to be told no updates are available.
Yeah, the feeling of “just needing that one perfect tool before I can do this” seems terribly common and I feel like it’s being enabled quite a bit in our society. If I just had the right editor/keyboard/notepad/fountain pen/jig etc, then I’ll be able to work on this other thing…
I guess Elon won’t be needing gamers’ services to max out his characters anymore.
Fucking AI taking valuable jobs away again.
He’ll try it right after he’s done tweaking his NeoVim config so he can finally start doing some meaningful work in it.
Helix and Vim/NeoVim? Muscle memory is overrated anyways.
prove it!
I tried really hard but I think I may have stumbled into the inconsistency of arithmetics instead. Oopsie daisy.
I read your meme diagonally, so I’m not sure I got it all.
Georg Cantor in shambles.
Just in to say, I know exactly what you mean, and I love the subject, to the point I did a PhD in pure maths. The whole “golden ratio” in nature, and a lot of other adjacent stuff, leaves me indifferent at best, and really irritates me at worst. It’s often cheapo mathy wank to feel clever when you talk to your friends. There is nothing wrong in being interested in it, but I’d hope someone into maths would eventually go beyond that.
I also am not a fan of several very useful branches of maths, like calculus, but it’s a tool you need to have. Some people love it though, and I scratch my head at it as much as you do, if not more probably, because I have had to use it so much.
There are probably as many reasons to find maths beautiful (or ugly) as there are people, but for me it boiled down to the fact that:
So to me maths provided a setting in which things worked and made sense, and you could essentially just enjoy an endless supply of puzzles in that setting, whose solutions you could formally prove.
Unlike a lot of maths nerds, I don’t necessarily think that that’s totally limited to maths though. I think most people do their abstract thinking and puzzle solving on whatever it is that they find beautiful. Or I hope they do, it’s a wonderful feeling. The formal aspect of proofs though (and I don’t necessarily mean computations), that’s the unique thing that can set it apart.
Chuck it down the drain and make another one according to my British friends and family.
Or is from England and cannot imagine that a good food culture can mean more than: “I like the taste of some stuff and everyone else in my country consumes food too.”
I’ve moved to England 5 years ago. I can confirm a worrying amount of people don’t care for food at all here.
Instead of a nice meal, when they want to enjoy a convivial moment, they burn shredded black leaves in boiling water, add milk to it to cover the terrible taste, and call that tea. And if you don’t ruin it in the exact specific way that they designed, they get angry (but they don’t understand why e.g. Italian and French people are so particular about their traditional recipes).
Send help.
I think the reason paw patrol is on there is it can be viewed as police state propaganda.
I never watched it, so I can’t speak for that, but I do know some people genuinely think that. I am thus not too sure that this is done ironically.
No. A geometric progression (u_n) with ratio r and first term a satisfies:
For every n, u_n = a × r^n.
Ratio r and first term a are fixed, exponent n varies. The sequence (u_n) does grow (or decrease) exponentially fast.
At least that’s what the English definition is, and in my first language as well. If there is one in which “geometric” means “power function”, I’d actually be curious to know.