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Internet services have been centralised into a few ISPs and a few websites everyone visits

Were any made about 2025?

GP: "it didn't write a C compiler, it copied other compilers. Writing one from scratch is a lot harder."

You: "but look! It wrote a C compiler!"


A great many companies publish proprietary code to GitHub private repos. That is how GitHub makes money.

It's not about copyright or anti–copyright — it's about how you will get fined 500 million dollars and go to prison for life for downloading a song, but a big company can download all the songs and get away with it for about tree fiddy. It's about the double standard.

And then Anna's Archive downloads all the songs, with the intent to share them with the companies that were allowed to download them anyway, and gets the USA to shut down all aspects it can reach.


It's not about following the law — it's about avoiding penalties in practice.

Did they get penalised? Is anyone getting penalised? No? Then there's no reason for legal to block it.

And remember when you put the GPL license on a project, that's only worth your willingness to sue anyone who violates, otherwise your project is public domain.


Maybe changing the type of the variable to int was the better solution?

Including the words "top" and "bottom". In my language, if(x) is the same as if(x==bottom), and 1<2 resolves to bottom. Take that.

Google's revenue comes from Google's ads, not other people's ads, and they already know when you open your emails. They should block remote loading, to ensure their ad platform works better than other people's.

What I read between your lines: "I don't want to think about the code at all. It should only compile if it has no bugs. I don't like rapid prototyping. I feel stupid when people other than me feel they can program effectively with fewer safeguards."

What I read between your lines: "I'm sooo tired of this strong-typed wankery. I shoot and only then ask questions."

P.S.: nothing personal, just playing the game.


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