These things are pretty big and Philly sidewalks are narrow enough with just regular pedestrian traffic. Incidentally, I’ve only seen these things in relatively high-foot traffic areas too. This is just tech companies seeing what they can get away with, as usual.
This is using the fact that at 1g acceleration, one will quickly approach the speed of light relative to its starting rest frame and time dilation will give the astronaut a _very long_ life relative to that frame.
> This restriction is philosophical rather than technical. I get it though. TypeScript is a Microsoft product. Opening that floodgate would pollute the entire ecosystem.
> The new deal shows Microsoft doubling down on the strategy of helping individuals and corporate developers adopt open-source software, despite its heritage of distributing products that cost money
That is.....not the way anyone I know would describe Microsoft's history with the open source movement historically.....
GH still has its own login system thankfully, and I can't even sign in with Microsoft or link my Linkedin profile in any way (at least from Github.com; I'm sure there's a public Linkedin-developed Github App). I'll take what I can get.
They've been a great steward of GitHub. You people have no perspective. They've kept an insanely generous free tier - free private repos, free CI runners including windows and Mac! And no ads.
I too would have kept it "free" for the LLM learning corpus and the way to nudge developers towards own cloud services and infrastructure. Github Actions is the first obvious deviation from vendor agnosticism here. If it's about "they didn't make profit maximization at all costs a priority" then I agree.
What are you saying? It's not ok for it to be free because they're using that to encourage people to use their paid services? Uhm no shit.
And your comment about LLMs is even sillier. Not only did they buy it 5 years before LLMs became relevant, but there's nothing stopping anyone other than Microsoft from downloading all of GitHub. Look at grep.app for example.
Keep the "shit" to yourself, because I didn't say nor imply that.
> buy it 5 years before LLMs became relevant
GPT-3 is mid 2020[1], but I doubt the inter-departmental communication would've been strong enough to seriously consider a Github acquisition since 2017?/2018. These decisions take time.
> but there's nothing stopping anyone other than Microsoft from downloading all of GitHub.
Licensing. Not that they care about such details today.
My interpretation of events is as follows: Microsoft pivots to cloud, while strengthening their focus on developers and the ecosystem (like they have once successfully done with Win32 and later tooling & frameworks). VSCode fits this idea. The immediate goal of Github ownership was developer relations and to bring all this mass to orbit the Azure ecosystem. The machine learning trend happened to chronologically come right after. Github Copilot was the first experiment. Today it ought to be one of the major reasons to keep and expand the user base.
Not important to the technology, sure, but for someone curious about the bizarre public statements of AI companies (or EA-influenced crypto figures before them, like SBF), it does help to know who these people are and what they believe. Behind the new crop of bajillionaires that control some important aspects of our lives are some oddball philosophers (or cult/religious leaders, if you want to be less charitable). If you want the answer to "why are these rich and powerful people saying and doing these things" you need to look at who they're paying attention to and reading, even if you think their opinions are dumb or niche.
If technology companies were much less politically and economically significant, probably no one would give a shit about any of this stuff beyond forums like this.
I think there's no other way it could be. If you're not violent you get wrecked by modern pathogens and die, or become integrated somewhat into modern society and can no longer be considered "uncontacted".
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