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Bowes-Lyon
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- Popular tech blogs do not promote products because of the goodness of their hearts, but for money.
Placing an article in a tech blog costs between $20,000 and $30,000, depending on the blog’s reputation, and everybody can do it.
So, it is not that the tech blogs are particularly enthusiastic about the Glasses; it’s more that Meta is throwing money left and right to promote them.
- Why is this here??
- Never give your real email to anyone, always use aliases.
For Apple users the „Hide My Email“ feature is invaluable. A short look in my settings tells me that right now I have 171 active aliases.
- Linus has a point – it was garbage.
I’m happy that Linus takes his job seriously and catches such things even under tremendous stress. We are lucky to have him; he once again saved our collective asses from a lot of pain down the road.
The tweet was prejudiced and manipulative. The bottom part of the email was cut off, not revealing additional context. The focus was put on „Google engineer“, which is totally irrelevant. People here in the chat repeat that the developer is „Chair of the UNIX-Class Platform Specification“. So what? Why is this relevant at all? Apparently, even „Chairs of this and that“ still have a lot to learn.
Another point: I have seen many such „helper“ functions when dealing with LLM-generated code. Was this particular code LLM-generated? I don’t know for sure, but it certainly looks that way. So the headline could easily have been „Linus rejects LLM-generated garbage.“
Once again, we are lucky to have Linus, whatever his communication style may be.
- I strongly dislike the spin of the headline – „Linus told a Google engineer that…” as opposed to „Linus told a developer that…”.
What is the headline implying? That Google engineers are gods? That Google engineers don’t make mistakes?
Also, reading through the code, Linus does have a point. I’m with Linus on this one.
- Not sure if I understand you correctly, but aren’t you describing the FindMy network?
- Laptops in coffee shops should not exist.
- > a standalone native executable for plakar / ptar.
Great, that is exactly what I was missing! Thank you for your great work.
- Thanks for replying. Maybe I misunderstood something. The way I saw it, I can not use plakar without having to install Go first (the dependency). And that bothers me a bit.
Let me explain my reasoning. Suppose I made an .ptar archive today, put it on a USB stick, threw that in a vault and forgot about it. Ten years down the road I want to restore that archive. But the .ptar file alone is useless without the plakar tool. So I have to install plakar first. Ideally plakar should sit on that USB stick, right next to the archive, ready to be installed. But plakar is dependent on Go, so I have to hunt Go first. And who knows what the state of Go will be ten years down the road. The .ptar file that I made today may end up unusable ten years later, because Go evolved in some unpredictable way.
- Great work! What I feel skeptical about, is the fact that plakar is not self-contained, but has a dependency. That gives me a pause. What I’d love to see is one single binary that I can just install and use.
- This! Every. Single. Sentence. So true!
- Why do I need to register or login for that?
- > Please. Don't. Ever.
This! I hate those messages. If I abandon a cart, then there is a valid reason for that. Your pestering and badgering will not make me change my mind. It only makes me annoyed and resentful. Most likely I will not consider your online shop again.
- 2 points
- My sentiments exactly.
- Now is the time to post garbage on Twitter.
Is there a project on GitHub or somewhere that I could clone?? (smiling face with halo)