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I am not sure what Filip's view on this is. But like to point out the article from Stephen Kell linked below which explains why C is an incredibly useful tool for systems programming and what dis…

This is a meme which is repeated often, but not really true. If you disagree, please state specifically what property of PDP-11 you think it different from how modern computers work, and where this af…

Putting Chomsky aside, LLM do not seem to teach us much. Obviously, they are good at language processing and for just being trained on language they seem to appear surprisingly "smart". LL…

Thank you for the explanation. I do not quite understand this though and I am also not a Chomsky expert. But I do not understand why "this forces one into the position that whatever a LLM is doin…

What hypothesis of Chomsky are you guys talking about? If it is about innateness of grammar in humans then obviously this can not be shown wrong by LLMs trained on a huge amount text.

I also do not use free software to then have to use something I do not like because the "this is the way the wind is blowing" (just becomes some parts of the industry wants something re-engi…

You would need to monitor all your dependencies (and their dependencies), compile new binaries for all supported platform each time their is an issue (which you likely learn about later), notify all y…

> > I am not complaining about what people do in their spare time. > Re-read your original post. You are absolutely complaining about what we do in our spare time. Then I am not sure how I ha…

It is certainly influenced by the features of Linux software. If Linux does not support this then this preserves a platform as an escape route where this is not possible and this substantially reduces…

I am not complaining about what people do in their spare time. If the blog post said "someone does this because he likes to spend his own time on it", I would not complain. I am complainin…

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Wow, this is annoying. I really like Xfce, but there are plenty of minor things which would need improvements. Instead of fixing all these minor things, they waste a lot of their donations on a rewrit…

I do not think it is difficult compiling against versions by using a container.

You call into dynamic libraries so that you do not need to recompile and distribute new binaries to all your users whenever there is a security issue or other critical fix in any of the dependencies.

Your implied claim that WG14 doesn't is incorrect, as you have been told before.

alloca is certainly worse. Worst-case fixed size array on the stack are also worse. If you need variable-sized array on the stack, VLAs are the best alternative. Also many other languages such as A…

It is on my list (also as a proposal to WG14). Sorry, I am a bit too overloaded currently. (If people want to help with such improvements - with either time or money, let me know.).

Again, you are not even addressing the argument I made. I never said CO2 emissions are not an issue, I said comparison of the results between a completed transition and and ongoing transition is obvio…

You are repeating talking points without understanding. First, there are different prices which also change in time. Also, the price households pay does not relate to generation cost. But even the wh…

Please cite studies instead of making random claims. You again just repeat your rhetoric. But let's first agree that you CO2 emission comment was an invalid argument before we go on to discuss o…

This is not about technical possibility, but about economics. The cost of nuclear is capital cost while operating costs are small, you want to run your plant at maximum capacity.

You are not addressing my comment and again instead switch topics and resort to rhetoric ("deeply irrational", "most expensive", "worst"). You should also say which pri…

I agree that one should have phased out coal faster instead of nuclear. Also with nuclear one needs dispatch-able power because demand is also variable and one does not use nuclear for balancing. But …

Yes, and Germany's emissions for electricity production were double the amount a decade ago and are dropping as coal is phased out. So renewables do work. 1) Once the transition is complete it wi…

The truth is that you need to set the decline of CO2 emissions to the progress of the transition. If you do this, you will see that emissions decrease accordingly to the rollout of renewables. If Ger…

Thanks for confirming my comment about the intellectual level of this debate.

I see you edited your comment. But the CO2 emissions between a completed transition away from fossil fuels (France last century) and Germany (still ongoing) can obviously not be compared. With the rol…

All you are discussing the wrong points. All your conclusions rest on the assumption that nuclear is the more cost effective solution, but this is not true (and we could discuss this). You did not not…

Your arguments are calling it "VERY stupid" and "insane". That says all about the rationality of your position.

Whether there is a real problem with high electricity was not the question, but whether it is caused by renewables vs. nuclear.