Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@icedquinn at this point I'm ~80% sure the first libc to surpass glibc in adaptation will be something written in Rust or the like. That'd be nicely cursed.

@icedquinn one of the funnier high effort shitposts tbh

@jokeyrhyme @nixCraft how could significant whitespace introduce invisible bugs? The entire point of it is that it's easily visible.
Only way I can think of is mixing spaces and tabs in indentation in a way that on some editors will make a block appear to have the same indent but not be treated as such, but Python 3 already thought of that:

> Indentation is rejected as inconsistent if a source file mixes tabs and spaces in a way that makes the meaning dependent on the worth of a tab in spaces; a TabError is raised in that case.

@pansocial @nixCraft the nice thing about a market ecosystem is that the companies compete with each other and so price=supply/demand works. Cheaper production does make them lower prices because that's how they stay competitive.

And I think you misunderstood what I meant by profit being net value provided to society. Revenue is receiving money proportional to value provided to the payers. Cost is spending money proportional to value taken from the payees. Profit is therefore proportional to the net value provided to society. It doesn't matter what they spend the money on, they had to provide value to earn it and the monetary profits they receive are only a reward for it.

@pansocial @nixCraft profit in this case is just net value provided to society. Yes, people whose work is no longer needed will need to switch to other jobs, that's what always has to happen in cases like this lest you have a system where people do work that is no longer needed just to continue to pull resources from society, effectively transforming from workers to parasites. Avoiding this is one of the reasons capitalism actually works unlike the alternatives.

Helping people switch to other jobs? I'm all for it. Trying to hinder progress that will benefit the whole of society just so the workers that it would replace can continue pretending to be needed? No, thanks. How did it go, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

As for automation not benefiting workers, that's absolutely not the case. Everyone wins when jobs get automated and their results become cheaper and more widely available. For those who lose jobs because of it it may still be net negative, but they're a tiny fraction of all workers across the system.

I checked because of this meme, proves true yet again.

The list btw: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/newest

Jesus, I knew nixpkgs were a huge and well maintained repository, but not that it's to that level, sorted by project up to date the top 6 repos are all nixpkgs, including 4 deprecated versions.

Arch and Gentoo users in shambles.

#Linux #NixOS