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Is there current generation LLMs do this? I suppose I mean "do this any more than human developers do".


...what a remarkable thread.

Although it will stop erupting any time I get on a plane headed there. Same for Iceland.

...If they pay a large enough bribe.

That adds extra unnecessary complexity. The code is written in C. There are C compilers for all CPUs. So just call the C code from <other language that's not JS>.

Well, a project has scope.

Looking at the repo, it started as postgres-in-the-browser. An abstract interface with C and wasm as targets is just more scope.

But it looks like the hard part of patching postgres to librar-ify it is already done agnostically in C.

So you just need to ctrl-f for "#if defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__)" to impl those else branches and port the emmake file to make.


All designed either in England or Italy though..

Nobody was using Linux to host a web site in 1995. So much history being rewritten in this thread.

Well, I was and I know plenty of others that did the same. Slackware was 1993. By 1995 we even had Red Hat.

In 1995 NCSA was running just fine and from December onwards there was Apache. I had the first commercial version of the cam software out (which ran on SGI) and a year later it ran on PCs as well.


You were hobbyists, which was a tiny group compared to ISPs, where Sun’s hardware dominated. IBM and HP were competitors but they were less successful with ISPs. Were you in the US or Europe at the time?

You and your friends were probably hobbyists, hackers or small hosters. Datacenters (remember Exodus?) were full of Sun hardware, racked up & labelled with the ‘hot’ startups of early dot-com.

FreeBSD was fairly popular for hosters as well, from what I recall.

What's going on with the brain of any particular person is a point in a very high dimension space. What doctors call conditions are regions in that space. The definition of those regions has something to do with understanding and helping the humans and their families, but also something to do with the doctors making money. In the US Healthcare system nothing can be paid for unless it is in service of treating a "condition". Slightly odd that an article in The Economist doesn't mention this.

Related: doctors will refuse to test you to see if what you're suffering from is a particular condition unless that condition actually has a known treatment.

We test for plenty of incurable diseases.

It's a common pattern. If you're in their service area compare both the food served by, and the employment practices of In-n-out Burger (private) vs McDonald's (public).

Micron had infinite brand awareness in the electronics industry long before they made SSDs. Heck they don't even use their own name for those products. They've been a memory vendor for more than 40 years and they're the only vendor with US domestic memory fabs. Something tells me their future will be just fine. Disclosure: Micron stock holder.

Every low end IoT box made in china will be 'encouraged' to use CXMT aided by state subsidies. This will shrink the market for market price DRAM. When the AI bubble pops DRAM makers will discover the importance of diversification.


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