I was making the same argument just a moment before, using TIOBE. Now TIOBE is awful, but Rust is at rank #10 right now. I think this settles the older discussion as to whether Rust will prevail or not.

Meh, I don't really trust TIOBE. It's at best a very noisy signal. And languages can end up on there for unusual reasons.

That also means that ruby becomes less important in their (rails) stack since they move to Swift and Kotlin specifically. Quite interesting considering problem-man DHH ("why are people upset at me shooting at wolves and comparing this it to Roma and Sinti" - and even aside from the connection on his blog to humans, I don't think everyone agrees at gunning down wolves in the first place) is part of the Shopify bromance team.

In hindsight that also explains why they laid off so many ruby devs in the last two years. Now if only someone could have told the ruby core team that companies pursue their own interests ... perhaps then they would not have led to the fiasco about a year or so ago. (And prior to that, the silly 100k downloads restriction at rubygems, aka "after that point we no longer allow you to remove your own code", whereas Microsoft github has no such restrictions in place. What are these people smoking?)

> Advertisers value Amazon for its troves of shopping and streaming data that can be used to improve marketing precision.

Thankfully I don't see their AI slop spam, not only due to ublock origin but because I have now made it my mission to support all who wish to eliminate ads on this planet. Since greedy corporations such as Amazon never learn, the counter-movement must help make ads totally obsolete. The sooner the industry accepts and learns that pestering folks is no longer acceptable, the better.

It is a distinct physical object. Whether anyone stored digital information about it in a bit-wise manner, does not change that fact of a physical object being unique. The same book can not co-exist at the very same place and location and time in this universe. That makes no sense.

I thought we were talking about digital copies.

we may have been. the idea that two copies of the same thing are not the same object still applies. you can tell because if you own a PDF and I own a copy of that PDF, and I destroy mine, you still have yours.

Physical objects do not exist in a digital format. When I type the letter "a" is it not the exact same letter that you are using in your text? Even all the "a"s in this comment are identical, are they not?

In the physical world, no two letters "a" are exactly the same, not even printed ones.

Or do you suggest that all those letters "a" here are completely distinct from each other?

I don't think ownership works conceptually for digital stuff. There's no owning a letter "a" and there are no two letters "a" that are distinct from each other, unless you count the Cyrillic "а" which is completely different from "a".

Each of these letters "a" might be a different instance, but they are the same letter: "a". Similarly, two copies of a file are still the same exact copy. Just different instances of it.

Your comment is unique. Nobody before you has ever written a comment phrased exactly like that.

I saved a copy of your unique comment on my pocket supercomputer, including the letter "a". I didn't ask first; I just did it. It's fine because it doesn't really exist.

Now it's my comment.

I've noticed something interesting here. Sony claims it does not disown people because even when they purchased a physical hard copy, Sony still would own it. Naturally this is wrong - people could re-sell it if they want to and Sony could not remote-control anything else. But it is interesting that Sony TRIES to go that route now. I think the courts will have to make a very simple decision as to what ownership constitutes. IMO when there is a physical hardcopy, things have to stay as they are for decades - this is the only logical conclusion. So, Sony trying to prevent physical hardcopies, as means to dis"own" future sales, should be closed down by the court system. I'd even think legislation should change so that Sony would be required to make these as a copy. That could be as simple as on a USB stick for instance (does not even have to be provided by Sony, could be purchased elsewhere by the buyer). Sony's way to try to argue here makes no sense to me. We need better right to ownershiper by customers laws, in addition to right to repair laws in favour of the customers. These corporations bribed legislation to their favour - that must stop.

What's with all the line breaks?

Geocities had some nice websites back in its peak days.

LLM is just AI slop spam. To even want to compare it to geocities is weird. Have you been around back then actually?

To claim LLMs are similar to an independent web is also weird.

They always try to milk people. It is the same scheme:

1) offer services at comparatively high quality (or at the least not too low in quality) at a fairly cheap price, ideally flat rate 2) lateron increase it to milk the cash cows 3) profit

> That the USA is turning into the number #1 rogue country is also problematic. Trump is damaging everything here

Only in the minds of the far left is "Trump damaging everything", or is the US "the #1 rogue country"

Personally I support reindustrialisation, reinstating secure borders, and taking down totalitarian regimes that killed thousands of innocent people

> GitHub is still gigantic in both repos and minds, and its impact in the world of software development and collaboration in general has been enormous, and most likely it will continue to be.

Well - Microsoft worsened GitHub in the last few months with regards to reliability. The next corporate slayer move is to worsen it feature wise. GitHub will indeed most likely remain strong, but the outer shell has some cracks and that means people will be more eager to look for alternatives. It is also a problem that Microsoft has a say in open source projects via GitHub - I never liked that, and many others did not like that either, even more so with Trump acting in a political and ideological manner with his TechBros (who all have nothing to do with Epstein ... right? because what if some of them do ...).