caramelcream

Compiler Explorer is such a wonderful tool. It made examining and comparing compiler outputs so much easier and now pretty much everyone interested in optimizations is using it.

This serves as a great illustration of the "women are wonderful" effect, which was featured on HN the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175754

It's not unusual, HN's front page ranking algorithm is heavily biased towards new submissions.

>If I were starting an IRC channel for a free software project now, I would put it on OFTC, which has a real governance model with elections and - mysteriously - also manages to be drama-free.

I'm not sure if it's completely drama-free. During the community meeting on the future of FSF's presence on IRC[1], someone shared these logs:

https://irclogs.thegrebs.com/oftc/2021/05/01

https://irclogs.thegrebs.com/oftc/2021/05/03

https://irclogs.thegrebs.com/oftc/2021/03/30

I don't know anything about the context of these exchanges, but nevertheless they make me worry about their moderation policies.

[1] - https://www.fsf.org/events/community-meeting-on-the-future-o...

Wider adoption results in a healthier ecosystem. Also, don't forget that most of FOSS developers are employed somewhere and surely they want to use FOSS at their jobs.

Summary of the article: Republicans bad, Democrats good.

It's a shame that partisanship makes it impossible to notice certain issues. The article completely ignores the erosion of journalistic standards, censorship on social media, "woke" takeover of academia and demonization of white males.

It's not a surprise that the situation keeps getting worse.

Articles summarizing the drama:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resign...

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover...

List of projects that have left Freenode: https://gist.github.com/siraben/df534c378de7adc8e5dca05956f0...

Live statistics: https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/

Note that those chips are application-specific, so it's not quite the same as Apple's or Amazon's migration to ARM.