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So when the package arrives, how many pieces of faulty software needing to point at it will it be encircled by?

The whole point of the article is that they're not allowed to hold their event in York Redoubt anymore.

Suggest firmly enforcing any noise ordinances, etc. that apply to the new site in Shubenacadie.

It's a problem with the internal represensation of a C/C++ type alias called time_t, mostly. That's the thing that holds the number of elapsed seconds since midnight on Jan. 1, 1970, which is the most common low-level representation of date and time on computers. In theory, time_t could point to a 32-bit type even on a 64-bit system, but I don't think anyone's actually dumb enough to do that. It affects more than C/C++ code because most programming languages end up calling C libraries once you go down enough levels.

In other words, there's no way you can tell whether a given application is affected or not unless you're aware of the code details, regardless of the bitness of the program and the processor it's running on.

Well, in theory it could be an issue if there were three John Smiths or something all running as independents, but to my knowledge even these extra-long ballots have not produced an example of that yet.

If the bots are required to have paid transit passes and if they're confined to off-peak hours when the subways aren't full anyway, this could actually be a net win for mass transit: they're putting money into the system while consuming relatively few resources, so the bots can fund improvements that benefit humans.

A tracing framework, apparently.

These AI dev tools absolutely have a direct negative impact on developer productivity, but they also have an indirect impact where non-devs use them and pass their Eldritch abominations to the actual devs to fix, extend and maintain.

Sounds like the next evolution of the Excel spreadsheet macro. Or maybe it's convergent evolution toward the same niche. (I still have nightmares about Excel spreadsheet macros.)

It should, with careful and precise setup (all needed modules built into the kernel, everything locally compiled, USE flags for all packages carefully chosen to eliminate unnecessary dependencies), be the most targeted for the specific hardware it's running on and the specific workload it's doing—in other words, it would be carrying less cruft around. Fewer libraries to import, fewer branches to check during code execution.

In other words, execution time should be a bit better in return for spending more setup time. Benchmarks like this tend to only measure execution time.

Theoretically, Gentoo should be the most optimized, but they probably didn't want to take the time to install it.

Why do I have a feeling that a handful of people are going to suddenly become n-tuplets?

It becomes that much more difficult to survive a zombie apocalypse when the "zombies" are cute and fluffy and you really don't want to run them over . . .

(Also, I'm wondering if they're ever going to run out of cat-joke brand names. "Mewtube", yet.)