> Would this be unethical if it was a human who heard rumors about a solution then attacked the problem, solved it and published first?

Yes.

Except that you then have to pay a "use tax" of 6%:

https://tax.idaho.gov/taxes/sales-use/use-tax/online-guide/

This is difficult to enforce, but it seems that "taking advantage" is strictly speaking just tax fraud.

Buttons etc. have direct binding. So even if your hub goes up in flames those will just keep working.

The automated stuff like "starting at sunrise gradually adjust the lights" might be delayed by 30 seconds. Annoying but hardly rage inducing.

Being a "failure" means it fails to meet its success criteria.

If you claim 10x and deliver 3x, that is a failure. The 3x may still be impressive or a gamechanger or ..., but it still falls short of its promises.

So what? Who cares about such a binary claims?

People making decisions.

Pay me 8x to get 10x, great. Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.

I have not seen reasonable claims that people are paying 8x the salary of a SWE to get those 2-3x results.

Directionally, that's why companies are getting rid of token leaderboards and imposing limits on LLM costs. There's a diminishing marginal return to tokens

That's true and it's also very easy to game.

There is increase in (not only perceived) value _somewhere_ - IMO depends on the organizational culture. At my work I found going over 100$ on OpenAI/Anthropic's API pricing does not produce any meaningful additional output. It might be much different in different companies.

Entirely different perspective: If I have to add a separate repo, then this is a red flag.

> Any serious project in this space supports as many distros as possible.

Wrong way around. Any serious product is supported by lots of distros. Distros curate their selection and if nobody bothered packaging your stuff, then your stuff is not good enough.

The US has it much easier not harder.

The average population density is pretty irrelevant here. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map.pn...

Lots of high density cluster and much easier geography (Switzerland famously has lots of mountains in the way).

So the question is "Why do US metropolitan areas not have 25gbit fiber for about $60/month?".

There are different notions of "reproducible". Nix does not automatically make builds reproducible in the way that matters here:

https://reproducible.nixos.org

It is still good at that but the difference to other distros is rather small:

https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/

How would "bit-identical" or "free of side effects" make an actual difference in practice?

Rollback is already very easy with filesystem snapshots. Configs are already tracked by etckeeper. New laptop: either copy the whole drive or the package list and dotfiles. Also, how often do you have to get new laptops for this to be relevant ?

That reads like blatant nonsense.

For a 5 (five) document library you added 3 (three) documents just to override a single response. Nothing at all is hidden and all three documents are in clear human understandable language.

This is not an "attack" or "poisoning" but just everything working as intended.

Because AI needs so much more power and in particular RAM.