In our current legal system, copyright is the basis for me to be able to set requirements on how my code can be shared. I do not care that I own it, I just care that it is shared under the conditions I set.

Without being able set these conditions, I would not open up my code.

As a developer, you hold the copyright to your code. When you make it open-source, you grant a license to use the code and the resulting program under certain terms.

This is a contract. If you copy my code without following these terms, then that’s theft.

The Internet Archive’s use complies with these terms for all open-source licenses. These AI companies do not. In particular, here’s a quote from the MIT license, which you will find in a similar wording in all open-source licenses:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

https://mit-license.org/

In effect, what this means, is that when you copy my code, I demand that you also copy the license text along with it, so that anyone else looking at this code knows the permissions I grant and the terms I require.

And now guess what these AI companies are doing. They copy my code and reproduce substantial portions upon a user asking, yet they do not include my license terms. They violate the contract under which they obtained my source code.

I suspect you don’t realize how shit that is, because source code is so abstract.
It’s like spending hundreds of hours painting a great artwork and then deciding that everyone should be able to give a copy to everyone they know, under the simple condition that they inform those people that they have this right as well.
And then comes along a company and sells my artwork for money, without informing their customers that they can pass it on for free. That’s, plain and simple, a criminal operation.

The sock with the unsecured ends looks like an album cover. 🙃

Was gonna say this has some strong [email protected] vibes, but it’s already been posted there. 🙃

Hmm, interesting. I always write Markdown unformatted, so where I put the asterisks in myself. So, that’s a decent reality check, I guess.

If they wanted to make a specific part of the command bold, that still wouldn’t work.

Could underline the part, I guess, like this:

ls -la
   ###

(# starts a comment in shell syntax, so doesn’t get run, in case someone pastes the whole thing.)

I mean, Markdown was specifically designed to be convertable to HTML. So, it is structurally rather similar. It’s basically just a bunch of aliases for a subset of HTML tags.

Having said that, it is also designed to be plain text. You don’t have to convert it, and even when you do convert it, there’s a good chance that what you’ve written in plain text will look fine in converted Markdown as well.
For the purposes of this meme, I would certainly group it with plain text.

if you know how to write decent C, you’ll have a much easier time of understanding PostgreSQL internals, for example, while if you’ve learned React, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether or not that’ll actually improve your HTML skills, for example.

I mean, there’s also a much more mundane reason why C comes up more often: It doesn’t use a runtime environment, so a library written in C can be called from virtually any programming language.

For the longest time, if you wanted to write a cross-language library, C and C++ were pretty much your only choices.
Rust is now entering that circle and I do think, it will start showing up in lots of places, too.

But perhaps another reason why mastering C is more educational than mastering other languages, including Rust: C hardly abstracts from how the hardware works, so you’re not just mastering C, you’re also mastering hardware.

Other programming languages ultimately get executed on that same hardware as well, even if lots of abstraction layers are in between, so that knowledge still keeps being relevant every so often.

Nope, it is quite a literal Fallout 3 reference: https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-whats-happening-inside-fallout-3s-metro-train/

Figured out why cross-compilation for Windows wasn’t working. So, now there’s release binary available for that, too.
Completely untested, good luck.

Cross-compiling for macOS is prohibited by Apple, so even more good luck to you guys. 🫠

Yeah, I thought the blog post was gonna be about horror stories, because even the greatest senior/architect/whatever will push absolute garbage into your codebase, if they don’t have the time to familiarize themselves with how the code actually works.

Even if it’s some isolated component, if they implement it without explaining the what and why to others, then no one else can maintain or debug that. And you do not want to rely on your super important guy to have the time to fix things when production grinds to a halt.

One time I was in the next town over where they have a grocery store chain that I can’t normally shop at. So, I figured I’ll get the big shopping cart and grab everything that looks interesting.

Went through the whole store and in the end, I stood at the checkout with a pack of cookies and some vitamin tablets. That almost felt worse than walking out without buying anything. It felt like I was insulting their product selection.

Although, to be fair, it was absolutely terrible.

Apparently, both ways of doing it exist:

To make chunky peanut butter, peanut pieces approximately the size of one-eighth of a kernel are mixed with regular peanut butter, or incomplete grinding is used by removing a rib from the grinder.

https://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Peanut-Butter.html

Personally, I figured, it could be bad when you don’t grind them fully, because you might end up with very large peanut chunks still left, but I guess, that’s kind of answered just before the previous quote:

Peanut butter is usually made by two grinding operations. The first reduces the nuts to a medium grind and the second to a fine, smooth texture.

So, I guess, you just do an incomplete grind for the second grind…

Hmm, yeah, that is interesting. I’d say every native German knows “nix” (as in nothing). Maybe 10% would be aware what a “Nixe” is (female water spirit).

Personally, I wasn’t even aware that there’s a male version. I could’ve guessed what it means, when used in a sentence, but if you asked me without context, I probably would’ve been too thick to figure it out. 🙃

“Nix” is in the dictionary. It’s a colloquial version of “nichts”, not a misspelling…