- Slurm cluster
- MPI development
wewbull
joined 1 year ago
I think you're right to be suspicious. The XZ attack has showed that there are people and organisations out there that would love to get hold of a piece of trusted critical infrastructure like Nix. They'll go the long lengths to do it, manipulate people, and exploit the maintainer's desire to do the right thing.
And if the person can't stand by their critism and can only give wooly examples, then best to ignore it.
Honestly, without concrete examples of why this is a problem, I just wish people wouldn't do this. Open source projects aren't democracies. They are do-ocracies. People get "positions" by getting off their arse and contributing. Nix OS surviving doesn't depend on how many users it has. It depends on how many developers it has.
If critisism is coming from the developer base, fair enough. If it's coming from the user base then all they are going to do is stop the developers wanting to do what they do, and then the project is dead.
I know there was the poor choice of sponsor for one of the live events recently, but I suspect this has opened the flood gates for people to pointlessly criticise from any direction.
Yes. They should pass on all the things you've doing to the data harvesting overlords. Why the hell wouldn't they?
You have a way to do so, yes, but you actually have to do it and we know people don't. False sources can just make already believable responses more credible, despite them being full of rubbish.
The source is just as vulnerable to being hallucinations as anything else it tells you.
"I'm a dandy highwayman"??
100% of silicon chip development depends on it I'd have thought. Anything which needs clusters of compute power for simulation, rendering, data analysis, etc.
...because that would make Ctrl+C Cut/Copy and that would be really bad. It would kill whatever was running.
So, it becomes Ctrl+Shift+C and paste got moved in the same way for consistency.
I get the feeling this was the pragmatic winning over the perfectionist.
Indeed. Nobody is complaining that CM has 3 fingers on his hand, but twelvety toes.
Pretty sure they have duplicates of the hardware. That way they are not caught out by subtle differences in the simulation Vs reality.