See one could think this is exceeding the role of the state, but this is not because these things are detrimental to trust which is required in the democratic state to facilitate economic transactions and employment contracts.

I envy the environment you've worked before, because you definitely had a better experience than mine. My first job was working on a product -- not a prototype you see, an actual product with paying customers generating over 100k USD monthly for the company -- that was completely designed by interns from the ground up. Once we received a pull request on a part of the system that dealt with calculation reports that made snapshots of the relational db into MongoDB. This application was in PHP using an outdated CakePHP framework -- which was outdated for a good reason since it used to introduce breaking changes in minor releases (citation needed, but who's got the time these days...) -- and the merge request that once-employee left us to figure out how to merge was a single 400 lines function. You can extrapolate from it to infer the quality of the snapshots we were taking and you probably wouldn't land too far from the horrors we've seen.

So pardon me, but my experience shocks violently with your affirmation.I think you underestimate what the bottom 10% really is.

On the other hand this could open precedent in other cases, current and future, so it's an understandable position not to offer to settle preemptively just for a display of good faith.

It had this to say in the linked post:

  This led to the natural question: can gzip do language modeling? (...). Here’s some real, unedited output after priming it on tiny Shakespeare:

  gzipt --corpus data/tinyshakespeare.txt --prompt $'MENENIUS:\n' --length 200

  MENENIUS:
  'Though all at once canq

  MARCIUS:
  Pray now, nocamest thou to a morsel.

  LARTIUS:
  Hence, and
  I' the end admire, where G
  again; and after it ag .

The other is what thinking does, it tries to predict the missing sequence of tokens from a high entropy source, the prompt, in order to increase the likelihood of correctly decompressing the desired results from its weights.

Was this part of the agreement since the beginning or did they add this afterwards, and if so did they clearly communicate to you?

Let's take a project I worked on for a couple of years some time ago, it has this go.mod file: https://gitlab.com/nunet/device-management-service/-/blob/ma...

Is it just changing all instances of `github.com` to `proxy.golang.org`? Shouldn't `go build` warn about using third party proxies for dependencies? Should `go get` offer a flag to automatically use the proxy when adding dependencies?

I will take time to address you comment fully, there are lots to unpack, but I'd like to stop here and point out that comparing "absolutely some stuff" from today to the "average 2018 project" might be unfair. If you are going to compare the bottom of the pile of synthetic code, you should do the same with organic code of back then lest you draw an unfair comparison.

Alternatively, could we ourselves build an automatic mirror so there's a redundant supply provider that doesn't depend on a maintainer's choice of git forge

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434625