That already exists in the BSDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ports_collection

that's the joke

The main problems seem to be that it takes a long time to build all combinations of USE flags and that users complain that volunteers are not working fast enough, causing annoyance of the maintainers. Can you explain how AI would help here?

ai can work test the options and fix the builds

You still need the hardware resources to do builds. And thanks to Slop Generator providers gobbling up alllllllll the RAM and storage they can get their icky hands on, it simply practically infeasible for everyone not affiliated with a tech BigCo.

Yep.

A dumb-as-rocks tinderbox can do the task of "build the thing in all valid configurations". Good luck getting the hardware needed to do all that testing in a timely manner on an -IIRC- 15K USD budget, or finding people to volunteer it in this economy. And good fucking luck getting LLMs to do the diagnostics, writeups, and -most importantly- shepherding required to get the bugs your testing reveals actually fixed in upstream.

Upstream not giving much of a fuck about whether anything other than Google® Chrome™ can be produced from Chromium is a big part of the reason it's being dropped from Gentoo. And yes, I 110% agree that Google is totally entitled to give zero fucks about non-Google users of Chromium. Gentoo is equally entitled to stop packaging Chromium.

Yup! Some examples: https://github.com/rexim/dotfiles/blob/6d5c9213c0bbf30bafd7c... and https://github.com/tsoding/panim/tree/main/assets/fonts

There is an older paper that also looks at gzip for ML: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09410

Video from tsoding where he implements the algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n39SbRPXKQ

I switched from brew to macports, and I have not experienced the first problem at all. In fact, I had more problems with brew, where some package needed to be updated that I did not want, and I caused a cascade of issues.

The second has also never happened to me. macports installs the packages into a separate prefix, and you just add that to the path, so I wonder how it could bork irretrievably.

Regarding instructions: for most packages, I found that just replacing `brew` with `sudo port` is enough, as most ports are available. And quite a few install instructions mention homebrew together with macports. I have not run into missing packages, but sometimes the ones that existed were a little out of date.

Idk, I think the europeans can do better than paying over 500 million dollars to manufacture none [0].

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artiller...

It does not have "Fair Use" directly, but things like parody or commentary are allowed to use portions of copyrighted work. There a quite a few paragraphs detailing exceptions: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_ur...

In ocaml (and I assume SML) it helps that the generic types have a `'` before them, so

    val map : ('a Box) -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b Box

I think naming conventions might help:

    (b Box[InType]) Map[OutType any](transformFunction func(InType) OutType) Box[OutType]

Same in Python:

    def map[U](self, f: Callable[[T], U]) -> Box[U]

vs

    def map[OutType](self, transform_function: Callable[[InType], OutType]) -> Box[OutType]

and Java:

    public  Box map(Function transformFunction)

vs.

    public  Box map(Function f)

Well climate change is happening whether wealthy people are hypocrites or not. Also there a lot of people in very poor countries (india, south east asia, africa) that are already feeling the effects and need to worry about it a lot.

I would actually say rich people can afford the most to not worry about climate change, because they can stave off the effects better than poor people (moving to colder climates, building cooling systems, or fleeing to mars [1])

[1] https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars

I think you missed the point of the parent comment. It wasn’t about rich people.

> Well climate change is happening whether wealthy people are hypocrites or not. Also there a lot of people in very poor countries (india, south east asia, africa) that are already feeling the effects and need to worry about it a lot.

no shit sherlock, poor people in those countries have been suffering from starvation, diseases and lack of basic necessities even before the climate change was a thing. For them, it's just another misery on top of their already miserable lives.

Nobody gave a shit about those people in poor countries 20-30 years ago, all of a sudden everyone is worries about climate change because Europe is burning. Had it been a monsoon flooding or a drought in South Asia, nobody in the Economist would even bat an eye, let alone publish an article.