Program a video game
Program a video game
True. How could it be a free market if corporations are not allowed to form a cartel and agree on a price for a product that is literally vital for many people?
Does GDPR apply to stackoverflow? Since my data there probably does not identify me as a person?
Or crush them. Depending on hardness.
Trump is too unironically placed next to two important persons from US history here. Ethically questionable.
Prevents nuclear annihilation
The maintainer is a human that needs to eat every day, and not just whenever their services are needed. So at least, the sum of money would need to be a few times higher than whatever labour the fix takes.
But then, the maintainer’s ability to fix these bugs doesn’t come from nowhere. They worked on this project for likely a long time, which would also need to be taken into account when agreeing on a sum.
Further, this would be business to business. And those contracts often include the value that the client gets out of the software. So if Microsoft makes billions from this open source library, then the maintainer’s - as a business - should receive a payment that reflects this for the fix.
All that implies that a few thousand is not nearly enough. Maybe 100k and the maintainer would budge.
The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.
Such a great piece of art displaying one of the many issues with stack overflow.
They’ll probably cancel that feature well ahead of your death.
Yeah but the last requires you to explicitly distinguish between the two cases.
Unfortunate.
How old is he again? Will he die soon?
Oh nice! Does this exist for EU as well?
It is enough if his name appears just once. Modern language models take more than just the last few characters as context.
mysql_real_escape_string
Copilot is just an LLM trained on all GitHub code. Hence it gives you random stuff from some open source code bases.
That thumbnail is more like arse technica