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That conveniently ignores the part where it refers to a fracturing where every part is hostile towards each other and unwilling to cooperate on anything. It's not a neutral term, it really is a rather offensive term for everyone from the Balkan today.


It's a historical reference to the events that led to World War 1.


No, it is not. Etymology and current use are not the same thing.


Understood, I will happily edit it out


This page really does not like playing nice with reader mode, making it near impossible to read unfortunately.


"Fueled by greed". It would be trivial to say no to AI companies because dollars are dollars, it doesn't matter who pays them, and prioritizing literally all of humanity instead of "five companies" is a choice that every single supplier could make, but decided not to. This problem was 100% manufactured by suppliers.


It would be equally "trivial" to say no to personal compute as well. So maybe the problem is manufactured by all of us.


A dollar is a dollar, and suppliers chose to screw over the world for not-even-profits: they would have sold the exact same number of chips if they changed how they prioritized delivery while making sure everyone got chips instead of just a handful of industries.

So, no: it's nothing like what you replied with and that was a rather dumb thing to say.


Some firms don't understand how to do data management, and if we draw the venn diagram of those and the ones that ban sqlite, it'd be pretty close to a circle.

Yes, databases could have any extension. No sane dev team would accept code that doesn't use an object extension for a sqlite database.

Yes, databases can contain PII but no sane product manager would go "yes, that's a good use of sqlite".

Yes, you can trivially copy database files, but no sane product needs to in the same way that no sane product should require folks to just clone the db just to do some work.

Pretty much every reason a company has for banning sqlite is a red flag for working there.


If you're not modifying data, whatever system is using the data doesn't need a database at all, it just needs a data export.


I am so confused. There's already a native version of LaTeX... it's... it's LaTeX. Why would a Rust implementation need to match KaTeX instead of properly implementing a real (and modern, so unicode-out-of-the-box) TeX engine, that LaTeX (which is a set of convenience macros) then trivially runs on top of?


Btw, the unicode-out-of-the-box version of LaTeX is called LuaLaTeX and ships with TeX Live.


I think you'll find XeTeX (with XeLaTeX because no sane person uses plain TeX except for package authors of course ;) predates LuaTeX by almost a decade.

(Something I ran into in 2008 when I was writing a multilingual book and heard about LuaTeX, only to find out it was still extremely incomplete and was roadmapped to not be done until 2012. And I couldn't wait 4 years)


600 comments and yet no one's questioning the math, just running with "4GB" even though the fsevents log literally says that the file is the result of an unpack operation?

The file might be 4GB but the transfer sure as heck wasn't, so what are we even talking about? How much data is actually transferred? Can someone just grab that weights.bin file and zip it up with max compression and report a more realistic number that we can do the math with, if the number is even worth doing the math for?


And yet, still no touch screen.


It'd be nicer if the hex coloring actually matched the "ascii" coloring as well. Orange on the left but green on the right does not help find things.


Copilot, probably?


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