Every feature has a cost and port to a different architecture has a huge cost in ongoing maintenance and testing.

This is open source. The maintainer isn’t refusing a port. The maintainer is refusing to accept being a maintainer for that port.

A person is always free to fork the open source project and maintain the port themselves as a fork.

If they ever seize your computer, they can probably also tack on computer fraud charges

One effect of widespread books is we don’t have poets like Homer. We don’t develop the memorization skills like they did in the past.

And that’s ok.

We can use the bandwidth for other stuff.

Congratulations, you rediscovered commercial software - where you are legally obligated pay to use software.

Look at photography.

You have both - the point and shoot people and the ones that use photography as a craft.

And I am seeing that with LLMs as well. You do have craft people that find joy in figuring out craft the perfect one shot prompt or create a system that coordinates a bunch of agents.

That is also craft, but like photography, craft with a more capable tool.

> He used to hold long book club style readings of his books among the prominent literateur in his times to exactly impinge in their minds that what he writes is clever and not gibberish.

My was so clever, that he had to verbally harangue people into finding his writing clever.

This kind of rhetoric is counterproductive. Telling people that package thieves are just misunderstood, is going to get people to do the opposite of what you suggest.

And if you do so, one of two good outcomes will hopefully happen:

1. You find the result is bogus

2. You learn something new and update your internal model of the world.

And much cheaper.

It seems a really weird target for Iran otherwise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246295

I think it is more like photography.

The case law is that a camera can't own a copyright, but a human can, even though all the pixels were produced by the camera with very little involvement at the pixel level by the human.

Then you can feed them into another service.

No. Your tech experience was an aberration.

For almost all of history, including recent history, tech and military went together. Whether compound bows, or spears or metallurgy.

Euler used his math to develop artillery tables for the Prussian army.

von Neumann helped develop the atom bomb.

The military played a huge role in creating Silicon Valley.

However, to people who grew up in the mid to late 90s, it is easy to miss that that period was a major aberration. You had serious people talking about the end of history. You had John Perry Barlow's utterly naive Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace which looks more and more naive every year.

Then use another LLM to produce code from that spec.

This would be similar to the cleanroom technique.