Being on Team Words Mean Things is difficult these days, particularly when multibillion-dollar companies put out breathless press releases saying "By using our massive language model, whose training data includes every version of GCC ever released, and having it autocorrect its own output by testing it against GCC, we managed to make a C compiler that mostly works for only $20,000 in a week and gosh I have so many feelings."
I mean, what the fuck are we even doing here.
@mhoye actually, I think it's worse than that? They didn't even build gcc. They built a linux kernel compiler. Running it on any other source would continue to reveal ways in which it is unlike gcc.
@mhoye I'm re-reading "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" and nodding so hard that my neck is starting to hurt.
"At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and productivity, not merely for their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority."
That's only the opening paragraph.
Great news everyone thanks to significant advances in modern algorithmic analysis I am personally able to outperform a warehouse full of specialized GPUs by five orders of magnitude with a single ARM core for one one-millionth the cost in 0.1% of the time by training the "cp" command on only the GCC source and then compiling the output of that program with GCC.
The resulting compiler - which I'm calling "mhoyecc", or as I've taken to calling it, mhoye plus cc, passes 100% of GCC's tests.
@mhoye bonus points if you pipe stuff into sed 's/gcc/mhoyecc/g' for just a small amount of extra power
@gabrielesvelto Whoa man, that's crazy talk. I can't just pipe a codebase through _sed_ and pretend it's mine, I'm not that waterfox guy.
