The billionaire tax is an experiment, they did put the bar pretty high to measure how many families will relocate (that's super easy to track); once that's measured, it's easy to build a model to adjust this threshold to whatever is advantageous for the state and keep things in balance this way, where the outflow is carefully measured and weighted against the tax threshold. The "hard part" was just getting this to pass the vote; then they can adjust this threshold anytime as voters have already approved it. What isn't measured is that billionaires create jobs "around them"; and, implicitly, jobs will be created somewhere else; unfortunately this model will not measure that.

I’m not convinced billionaires “create jobs” in any meaningful numbers.

Sure, the companies that made them wealthy do, but the billionaires themselves? Doubt.

So if the only consequence of this is that the billionaires flee to Texas, with its regressive taxes, and take the wealth inequality and corruption that goes with them… I’m not seeing that as a bad thing.

Depends on the billionaire. If it's someone with a large chunk of a large company, each billion dollars represents hundreds of skilled people employed to do something. If a state is hostile, then why not move that activity? And that's before the direct lobbying at a federal level.

They are neither competent enough nor incentivized to perform this optimization for the benefit of the state.

I really like to see those old dmesgs, quite amazing work supporting this in OpenBSD (at the time)

You still see interesting efforts today. Here is a dmesg from a Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 booting 7.9 (released in May this year) that appeared on bugs@ just a few weeks ago (also, note who the person is that responds to that message):

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=178663407424547

You of course also have the absolutely insane luna88k support [1] and I have myself been looking into getting my hands on a landisk [2] box as the Hitachi SuperH CPU is fascinating (I only knew of it from old arcade boards and the Sega Dreamcast).

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

[2]: https://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html

As always with the french government: don't trust the numbers they give you.

pretty much the worst of both worlds: a non-working viewfinder and a terrible camera.

you should never discuss your personal life at work or with your coworkers.

It really depends on your workspace. At a lot start ups people would find it strange if you never shared anything about your life.

Yea this I agree,

Flying OceanGate.

This is a slippery slope, and I will stay away from Codeberg, because who knows what they'll ban next.

And that's a slippery slope fallacy.

They banned all LLM assisted projects.

It’s not a fallacy if it actually happened.

Did you even read the blog post or the ToS changes? You're either misinformed or lying. Banning projects that « mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools » is not the same as banning « all LLM assisted projects ».

Well we don’t know, do we?

Because the ToS helpfully doesn’t explain.

Does LLM autocomplete break the ToS? What about pre-LLM autocomplete? What about code written by LLM but reviewed by humans?

Also, the spirit of the community is clear, given the preamble and the provided moral basis for the decision: they don’t want any LLM usage at all.

I don’t think the slippery slope is a fallacy. If a group makes a change in one direction is it not more likely that they will continue making changes in that direction than if they had not made the initial change?

looks like a doom level

Doom cannot have hallways above or below other hallways without teleport hacks.

But you could do it in Quake.

Or Descent. Pity the fool who hits the map key mid-multiplayer fight.

For sure, I'm glad we have those emulators, real hardware is hard to find or expensive or faulty. Having emulators helps a lot.

Would be amazing to implement a JIT in hercules (would make it 10x faster potentially as fast as z/PDT which implements a JIT); good timing as IBM is retiring z/PDT!