I feel the biggest advantage about GitHub over other platforms is that many tools that integrate with a software project platform are GitHub first, others later.

Tooling support can be miserable when you had something in BitBucket, GitLab, and non-existent if isn't those top 3.

I won't put it as "just another tool". AI introduces a new kind of tool where the ownership of the resulting code is not straightforward.

If, in the dystopian future, a justice court you're subjected to decides that Claude was trained on Oracle's code, and all Claude users are possibly in breach of copyright, it's easier to nuke from orbit all disclosed AI contributions.

Kinda reminds me of a quote attributed to Bjarne Stroustrup:

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses"

I feel there are no absolutely "good" systems, only the ones with added compromises over time. Battle scars on a beautiful body.

How does one tell a "well-meaning" request from an attack?

By the volume, distribution, and parameters (get and post body) of the requests.

There is no PIX in Portugal, or places other than Brazil.

What they have there is a Brazilian person receiving payments from another Brazilian person, only through Brazilian accounts, all happening remotely in Brazil(at least for now)

What they have is a payment gateway that integrates the Portuguese and Brazilian payments by doing a transfer at each side.

It's the same thing as buying stuff from China with PIX, but the gateway is more hidden from the Portuguese accounts.

Cash is a hassle. It requires everyone to have change. You need to count the money, the cashier needs to count the money and store it. The line behind you gets longer. The end of day close-out process is longer.

Brazilians also generally don't like to walk with cash in their pockets. Only politicians usually do it, but in their underpants.

The pros is that cash is analog, no battery, internet connection or digital system needed to process it.

Also theft/robbery.

Not that Pix isn't a risk, being forced to do bank transactions at gunpoint is a thing now, but anyway.

I clicked the story wondering if the speed of light has changed since the late 90s.

Apparently not.

It’s still speed of light in a medium, which is not speed of light. Electricity over copper it is 2/3 iirc.

speed of packets over copper I think is actually faster than fibre

It seems to depend on the cable type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_veloci...

HFT firms have entire infrastructure that runs very close to the speed of light, beating the competition that runs on antiquated copper.

There's no competition that's running on copper -- even competitors without latency sensitivity with still be running over fibre because that's just the baseline infrastructure in datacentres, transatlantic etc.

Of course, yes, the HFT firms will be using also the standard tricks of microwave towers, shortwave radio, weather balloon etc, to beat the fibre route.

I don't think the switches connecting to any real exchanges support this

~200,000km/s is the speed of light in fiber optics. Electromagnetic propagation in copper is more like 99% c.

The insulating material significantly decreases the propagation speed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_veloci...

It would be neat if we could take a hitchhike with it.

Probably only Project Orion would be able to catch up to its current 60kms/s speed by October.

Given it's passing retrograde (is that even the right way to say that?), would that make it easier to catch up and intercept?

Assuming you don't want to do anything but fly by or smash into it

With Microsoft opening Windows's kernel to the Xbox team, and a possible macOS-iPadOS unification, we are reaching multiple levels of climate changes in Hell. It's hailing!

Vectorization unrolling?

In that case I advice using actual C3 vectors. They are a built in type that will use simd (or similar) under the hood if the compilation target supports it.