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caramelcreamon Compiler Explorer

Compiler Explorer is such a wonderful tool. It made examining and comparing compiler outputs so much easier and now pretty much everyone interested in optimizations is using it.

caramelcreamon Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists

This serves as a great illustration of the "women are wonderful" effect, which was featured on HN the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175754

caramelcreamon The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot

It's not unusual, HN's front page ranking algorithm is heavily biased towards new submissions.

caramelcreamon Goodbye Freenode

>If I were starting an IRC channel for a free software project now, I would put it on OFTC, which has a real governance model with elections and - mysteriously - also manages to be drama-free.

I'm not sure if it's completely drama-free. During the community meeting on the future of FSF's presence on IRC[1], someone shared these logs:

https://irclogs.thegrebs.com/oftc/2021/05/01

https://irclogs.thegrebs.com/oftc/2021/05/03

https://irclogs.thegrebs.com/oftc/2021/03/30

I don't know anything about the context of these exchanges, but nevertheless they make me worry about their moderation policies.

[1] - https://www.fsf.org/events/community-meeting-on-the-future-o...

caramelcreamon You use more open source software than you think

Wider adoption results in a healthier ecosystem. Also, don't forget that most of FOSS developers are employed somewhere and surely they want to use FOSS at their jobs.

caramelcreamon Rechanneling Beliefs: How information flows hinder or help democracy [pdf]

Summary of the article: Republicans bad, Democrats good.

It's a shame that partisanship makes it impossible to notice certain issues. The article completely ignores the erosion of journalistic standards, censorship on social media, "woke" takeover of academia and demonization of white males.

It's not a surprise that the situation keeps getting worse.

caramelcreamon Ask HN: What is the current situation on Freenode?

Articles summarizing the drama:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resign...

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover...

List of projects that have left Freenode: https://gist.github.com/siraben/df534c378de7adc8e5dca05956f0...

Live statistics: https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/

caramelcreamon Google Replaces Millions of Intel's CPUs with Its Own Homegrown Chips

Note that those chips are application-specific, so it's not quite the same as Apple's or Amazon's migration to ARM.