I'm excited to see what comes of OxCaml the next few years.

If my timelines are correct, the FSF ousted RMS before ChatGPT came out.

They actually re-appointed him to the board in 2021, also before ChatGPT came out: https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-...

ChatGPT came into the picture long after the open source issues we’re talking about were apparent. AI companies are making it even worse but solid advocacy in the 2010s or 2000s would’ve been helpful.

There is zero political will in Congress nor Whiteouse to bail them out.

They're fucked.

OpenAI needs to grease some palms via crypto, just like the numerous shady characters receiving (non-J6) pardons.

Or they could try to keep Republicans in power despite the voters not wanting them, like those that got J6 pardons did.

I should probably ask what experience do you have writing hardware drivers for the Linux kernel, but it's pretty obvious the answer is: none. I actually burst out laughing reading your comment, it's ridiculous.

My anecdotal experience interviewing big tech engineers that used Rust reflects GP's hunch about this astonishing experience gap. Just this year, 4/4 candidates I interviewed couldn't give me the correct answer for what two bytes in base 2 represented in base 10. Not a single candidate asked me about the endianness of the system.

Now that Rust in the kernel doesn't have an "experimental" escape hatch, these motte-and-bailey arguments aren't going to work. Ultimately, I think this is a good thing for Rust in the kernel. Once all of the idiots and buffoons have been sufficiently derided and ousted from public discourse (deservedly so), we can finally begin having serious and productive technical discussions about how to make C and Rust interoperate in the kernel.

When you say "base 10", is that "10"-er written in big endian or small endian?

It's as if there's a convention of sorts to how we write numbers (regardless of base).

If you don't state endianness in your exercise, one should assume the convention is followed.

That makes no sense. The value of two bytes as a single number is strictly dependent on endianness, and there's no "convention" that can be assumed.

You're saying you believe every Linux driver actually is a glorified while loop?

I guess it makes sense you're having trouble hiring qualified candidates.

He's arguing most drivers are mostly event driven --- which is true, trivially.

Nowhere did he argue that. What he actually argued--poorly and offensively--is that it's "pretty obvious" that bronson has no experience writing Linux hardware drivers.

That's remarkable, since his comment says nothing about events.

Still, it sounds like you're saying that Linux drivers are more than glorified do loops spinning on IRQs, right? If so, then I guess we agree.

This news story was read by investors and leadership inside of Microsoft.

That wouldn't have happened if they hadn't derided whatever idiot decision makers thought it was acceptable in the first place.

Derision is legitimate way to change behavior when other avenues fail.

A reasonable person that's acting maliciously can be reasoned to stop their behavior.

An unreasonable person that's acting in good faith cannot be reasoned to stop their behavior because they are stupid.

If after attempts to reason with the unreasonable fail, it is not an insult or ad hominem attack to explain the person is acting stupidly.

This line of reasoning is genuinely stupid, it deserves to be derided and mocked.

You can draw a straight line between these "mistakes" and these people violating traffic laws in such a way that they kill other motorists abiding by all traffic laws.

By your reasoning, I can burn your house down and kill your family, and it's absolved by apologizing.

What you don't understand is suicidal empathy eventually corrects itself with extremely violent vigilantism. And when (not if) that happens, you'll be begging for the state to come in to restore order, but they will be unable to. The state has already ceded legitimacy by not performing their duties, and what you're left with are violent gangs and warlords.

Dark triad sociopaths view this as a way to cease power. What they miss is real power comes from groups of armed individuals, not from a ballot box.

Making the same administrator error 17,000 times is not an accident.

Administrative error is when it happens once. Not 17e3 times!

This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. I call people out when they say this for the abuse of language and for being a time vampire.

Practically, it's far easier to simply ask this at your next all-hands when they are source for questions about AI. To make this a meta: use ChatGPT to ask this as a pointlessly-long-worded question to evade HR/marketing from filtering the question until it's too late ;)

If they had done this to Cassius Marcellus Clay, these criminals would simply be dead for their gross violation of civil rights.