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People then concentrate more on avoiding errors than getting things done.

> US can just print. How does that work? All the world’s economy is just equal to the US paper? Really?

I suspect you don't touch Go code.

> I've yet to see numbers on the probability of losing access to my email on Gmail vs another provider.

This is a great point. People often act as the other providers are 100 percent reliable without any numbers to back it up. Grass is always greener on the other side. To be fair, Google’s customer service is non-existent though.

I misunderstood your comment. Yes, CLA's make it possible to change the license. I guess CLA's won't work for GPL'd software.

GPL mandates that all derived software must carry the same license. No need for CLA, as I understand it.

AWS, GCP have assurance that they won't need to pay for their Linux infrastructure. What is it if it wasn't for copyleft licenses(GPL)?

I feel copyleft licenses look more favourable at this point of time. What’s the value of more free/business friendly licenses if you can’t guarantee that the same license will apply for all the future releases? Looks more like a bait and switch policy.

Apple should not be at fault! As simple as that.

Wow. That looks neat. Thanks for the link :)

I want to learn more about linkers and loaders. Can someone tell me if this is still relevant today? Any other books that are more recent?

> ChatGPT makes mistakes and is usually dumbish, but is also flexible and cheap.

People wouldn't mind it if the keyword `dumbish` has been all along there.

Physical materials(Filters here) can change the wavelength but not the frequency. So it's still the same UV/light band. You can't change that.

Thanks for the link. As I understood it, it's just the support for the syntax that is mandatory.

> Variable length arrays with automatic storage duration are a conditional feature that implementations need not support

VLA support is mandatory in C23? I'd like to know the rationale behind this decision. Can you provide any references? Thanks.

> I see same thing in India where *analysts and experts on twitter opine how Netflix has totally failed in India due to lack of local content and poor execution.

That’s really true whether you believe it or not. However, it appears that Netflix seems to have understood this point. They are adding crazy amount of local content recently. Almost every notable local movie that has been released in the last year is available on Netflix now. Suddenly Amazon Prime has disappeared from the scene. That’s not the case some two years ago.

> for 90% of population Netflix is too expensive

There’s still nearly 140 million potential customers according to your calculation. You seem to underestimate the vastness of India. And more notably the people in India are crazy movie goers, from poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich.

Why in this particular time frame? Just before the performance reviews?

I still scratch my head why it’s not installed by default on Windows.

IIRC, Google tried to use Go for their Fuchsia TCP stack and then backtracked. Not a systems programming language for sure.

Thanks. This helps even more. I need not go through all the packages. I'll get a fedora account now :)

Thanks. The link seems to list relevant links and repos. I'll see how I can help now.

Is there some place where I can see all the packages that need to be fixed and raise a pull request for any package? Maybe, I can help with some fixes during the holiday season.

> it would really be more complicated in C if a and b were actually strings or lists

You don't event need strings or lists for that. Just imagine bigger numbers for a and b. Arbitrarily long integer addition is not a native language feature in C.

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There is no hope to redeem the Web of these banners :(

I think he's tracking his ideas about this project in github tickets. IMO, that's a good first step. Whether he'll do something about those tickets or not is a question that comes later. Let's see what he'll do.

Thanks. I didn't know it. Microsoft is still a monopoly on desktop OS, even after this anti-trust investigation. To me, that's weird. Anti-trust didn't work?

I don't know how the US anti-trust works, but I'm wondering why hasn't Microsoft ever been investigated about being a monopoly in desktop operating systems?

Great, you get goat meat when you order mutton in the Bay Area? Here where I live, people sell mutton (sheep/lamb) even when asked for goat meat. I don't know why but people here always prefer goat meat to mutton.

You're only counting the negatives. Even with all those negatives, Google has a net positive effect on the web/Internet, IMO.

> Absolutely. There's a lot of great open source software.

>...but that's not 'open source winning', that's just 'people like free stuff they don't have to pay for or make any effort to get'.

That's the most cynical take I have ever read about opensource software. I think you're measuring the success of opensource software by only the amount of software that you have to buy. IMO, that's not fair. Does the software that you buy today exist without opensource software? In a hypothetical case where your commercial software was built without any opensource software, do you think the price of that software would be the same as it is today?