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> Who knows what other ~/.config it modifies without warning

Me. My .config is git-versioned :)

> It exposes all your frontend source code for everyone

I hope it's a common knowledge that _any_ client side JavaScript is exposed to everyone. Perhaps minimized, but still easily reverse-engineerable.

Very easily these days, even if minified is difficult for me to reverse engineer... Claude has a very easy time of finding exactly what to patch to fix something

NPM is one big AUR, where anyone can submit arbitrary unverified code. The difference is that AUR is intentionally harder to use to prevent catastrophic one-line installs.

Is a "AUR" now just how we name unaudited software repositories?

Just to note, if we're talking about Linux Distributions. There's also COPR in Fedora, OBS for OpenSUSE (and a bunch of other stuff, OBS is awesome), Ubuntu has PPAs. And I am sure there's many more similar solutions.

Same in russian and polish.

> 2. Not deterministic

I understand why that's the case, and I believe this is the main hurdle for adoption of a tool like this.

> I had a little bug in the ASCII font, so the smiley face is frowning.

Happens to the best of us!

Three.js alone is ~400KB uncompressed.

Yep — Three.js renders the globe client-side. The 2.7KB scores server-side at the edge. Separate concerns.

> 40 months

Not counting from 1971s DARPA? Sorry I'm allegric when LLMs being called AI like nothing existed before it.

Could the "LLM" of 1971 DARPA produce working code that it translated from a legacy codebase to Java and this within a short timeframe? ;-)

You would need to go back to McCullough, Pitts and von Neumann in the 1940s if you wanted to talk about where it really got started.

The 1970s were a long, dark AI winter, thanks to FUD spread by Minsky and Papert. A lot of recent work could have been done back then despite the lack of good hardware, as seen in the other HN story where the guy trained a transformer on a PDP-11. But the whole field was radioactive after their book came out.

Doesn’t it all look like child’s play though?