The maintainer is a human that needs to eat every day, and not just whenever their services are needed. So at least, the sum of money would need to be a few times higher than whatever labour the fix takes.
But then, the maintainer’s ability to fix these bugs doesn’t come from nowhere. They worked on this project for likely a long time, which would also need to be taken into account when agreeing on a sum.
Further, this would be business to business. And those contracts often include the value that the client gets out of the software. So if Microsoft makes billions from this open source library, then the maintainer’s - as a business - should receive a payment that reflects this for the fix.
All that implies that a few thousand is not nearly enough. Maybe 100k and the maintainer would budge.
The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.
Such a great piece of art displaying one of the many issues with stack overflow.
Linux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in “kb”, but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The “kb” would be 1000 bits.
They’ll probably cancel that feature well ahead of your death.
Yeah but the last requires you to explicitly distinguish between the two cases.
That title took me a minute to parse
Oh nice! Does this exist for EU as well?
It is enough if his name appears just once. Modern language models take more than just the last few characters as context.
mysql_real_escape_string
Copilot is just an LLM trained on all GitHub code. Hence it gives you random stuff from some open source code bases.
Funnily enough, the picture raises my respect for Elon Musk. But I am surely not the type of person who he would respect.
Looks interesting. Except for the fact that an instruction is modified after execution, this is quite simple in the end. Unless I missed something. But yeah, self-modifying instructions makes loops really hard.
If you want fast file sync between computers, use syncthing
Yep. Semver is so much more useful than the marketing versioning which many projects do.
Compiler courses are typically master level.
Oppenheimer even had 80 gigs, if I am not mistaken.
Trump is too unironically placed next to two important persons from US history here. Ethically questionable.