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"Sowing dissent among your adversaries is very effective"

Yes it is, and some countries have become very good at doing that

Do you ever wonder how Anthropic or OpenAI can release a new state of the art model and then a few months later there's a Chinese open model that's nearly as good?

They're trying to build a moat with legislation, using fear over 'safety' as an excuse to ban these open models

That's exactly what it looks like to me, I guess it's time to re-evaluate those open models.

Is this a signal that open models are becoming good enough for a lot of people?

Yes, the vi family of editors is just as valid a choice as emacs (and have arguably been the better choice for longer, it's just that personally I could never get on with modal editing)

yes, stick with emacs even when the next shiny new editor appears and begins it's inevitable descent into becoming bloated and slow

"Coffee break is over, stop thinking and get back to work."

Best of luck to this project. They seem to be targeting developers who are frustrated with Apple and Microsoft which is probably a large market.

And the opinionated aspect is also a positive since there's often decision paralysis for many people new to Linux.

it can consume more of your RAM

Many such cases across all aspects of society.

It helps to just write games and then over time an engine will emerge from the common code you carry across projects.

Starting from a checklist of features for a game engine almost always ends in wasted effort

No need to damage the cameras, just place some balloons in front of them.

"do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago?"

No, because five years ago was probably the high point of online speech restriction. A time where people were banned from platforms like Twitter and Facebook for expressing political opinions or stating scientific facts

"coupled with a complete lack of _hard evidence_ to back up their views"

Didn't Casey Muratori write a proof of concept windows terminal to highlight Microsoft's substandard implementation? And Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade+ developing his own programming language and funding the development of a game. Seems like they are backing their views.

You wouldn't be leaving Claude Code, just trying something new. If you don't like it just resume using Claude.

This is a completely unexpected turn of events that no one could have possibly foreseen.

Share this article on LinkedIn and you'll have countless managers talking about how they initiated a company wide policy to convert all Python scripts into Lua using Claude

"The LGBTQIA flag obviously"

"It's clearly the national flag"

Do you think there is a level of guilt amongst some working Americans? A case of "I shouldn't be earning this much money for this little work"

Out of the anger inducing frying pan and into the group-think fire.

The culture within the npm/js community has mainly been one of using the package manager rather than "re-inventing the wheel", as such the blast radius of a compromised package is much greater

Since this requires some files from the original Civilization how do people obtain legal copies of the game? It's not available on Steam or GOG

(Or am I being hopelessly naïve by asking such a question?)

This together with Valve's work on Fex may mean that Android users will be able to install Steam on their devices

A less cynical interpretation of his actions would be that he's never shown to be motivated by money and is working on technology that interests him and that he can make an important contribution to

Careful, we live in a society which has taken a side in the nature vs. nurture debate and if you're deemed to be on the wrong side of that then you'll be accused of being a nazi

I thought this article would be about preventing your glasses getting steamed up when cooking

Additionally SDL3 is also C and the most recent version of the Box2d physics library was rewritten in C

Some people would rather have a pen knife than a Swiss army knife.

C++ has many things, and that is why many programmers want to stick with C