That’s the last three words of the article. The author didn’t miss the connection either.

I always wonder when people repeat something from the article or ask a question that’s answered in the article: did you not read it or did you just want to start a discussion about this connection and are somehow constrained in the number of words you can write per day?

Testing superscript syntax: 10^-9

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Nuance? On my internet?

Twitter (now “X”)

I hope things like this will take off: https://cooltech.zone/tangara/

It’s not magic, but there will never be a life saving treatment that ruins you financially here in the EU. And travel insurance is dirt cheap here as well.

Because you emigrated and get this live saving essential service for free?

Thank you!

Do you have a link without paywall?

My point was that packagers should use straight up VCS and run all build tools instead of relying on partially pre-built tarballs uploaded by the upstream maintainers.

It does? I guess I never looked inside that build directory.

Why compile to a Makefile? You’d end up with automake gunk all over again. Just use cmake or so, where the declarative language replaces the Makefile entirely

That was my immediate reaction here: one of the reasons the xz backdoor was possible is that nobody is going to question the idea of shipping a tarball to spare users from having to touch Autotools.

Of course I wouldn’t think of manually hacking together Makefiles since I come from languages that have either the One True Build Tool or a standard for packaging and defining build backends.

I think the author’s aversion to build tools trying (and apparently failing) to make everyone’s life easier is more a statement about how much C/C++ have suffered from not having a standard for packages.

I don’t actually. All stuff I care about is on code hosting platforms

I have a pixel 6 and notice some lag in scrolling. Could it be that you don’t use srcsets but instead huge screenshots no matter the device screen?

It’s competitive because as you describe, it’s better than all other available forms of Internet access.

I used web sockets exactly once in an interactive piece of software. It worked perfectly fine with over-the-ocean latencies, which are higher than Starlink.

It’s a non-problem.

How do slightly higher latencies impact any of that?

You don’t even notice those unless you play a FPS. Last I checked, pwning b00ns in CS isn’t vital to a good education.

You can just immigrate normally. It’s not that hard for Americans.

I frequently reboot, so for me, something like SteamOS’s a/b atomic update process would be ideal: no instability, no forced reboot.

Qt is exactly why I’m so sure. They made sure that there was a legal agreement that Qt would always stay open source or else they’d get the ability to make it available under a BSD license: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/

That’s a project that understands the entanglement and doesn’t allow itself to be taken over.