What do you mean by cycles? A ripple-carry adder needs to wait for the carry bits to ripple through yes, but there's no clock cycle involved.

Maybe they mean gate delays?

The JSON types are string, number, boolean, null, object and array. So how could the suggested code possibly work? Do you want JSON.parse to do arbitrary code execution like Python's pickle?

Bitbucket is okay to use, the main problem like with every Atlassian product is that it is dog slow.

How do you know what you were downvoted for?

I guess he was told because otherwise you don't know whether you said something inherently wrong or misleading or you hurt someone 's feeling.

That's the richness behind the upvote/downvote that also tend to create echo chambers because you soon learn what causes downvotes.

I've personally noticed downvote whenever I mentioned apple negatively.

Having a type safe generic ring buffer and such is nice

You definitely need discipline to use C++ in embedded. There are exactly 2 features that come to mind, which makes it worth it for me: 1) replacing complex macros or duplicated code with simple templates, and 2) RAII for critical sections or other kinds of locks.

Consteval is great for generating lookup tables without external code generators. You can use floating point freely, cast the result to integers, and then not link any soft float code into the final binary.

I have no reason to trust that the fork itself is competently maintained when the author did not even bother to write the announcement.

I'm generally fully in agreement that AI writing is bad.

But this is one of the few cases where it might be acceptable.

Author is not a native speaker; in an announcement that a known project is being forked for maintenance the occasional odd phrasing and possible errors in grammar could sound unprofessional.

I wonder if in such cases a better use of AI would be to try to write it yourself and just ask a LLM to revise instead? Maybe with some directive to "just point out errors in syntax and grammar, and factual mistakes. No suggestions on style"?

The author is Chinese and not a native English speaker. I will happily give them a pass on using GenAI to "write the announcement".

They explain why in their AI policy. It's an ethical stance. Of course they wouldn't notice if there aren't clear signs of LLM-ness, but that's not the main reason why they forbid it.

https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/develop...

Thanks for the clarification. Not that I agree with their stance (the exact same could have been said at the start of the industrial revolution) but I respect it nonetheless.

> the exact same could have been said at the start of the industrial revolution

The pollution caused by said revolution is currently putting humanity at a serious risk of world war and maybe even extinction so... maybe they had a point? I'm not taking a strong stance either way here, but worth thinking about the downsides from the industrial revolution, too.

It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings, it's only weird if you insist that project teams should be entirely amoral.

The main reason open source projects exist at all is because of people who started them with quite often fringe ideological leanings. Just look at the GNU project.

And fringe economical leanings, too. Just look at the GNU project: the firmware in printers is still of subpar quality, and GNU didn't really help to change that... and why on Earth would it, anyway?

> It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings

As long as they align with the correct (i.e. yours) values, of course. When they adopt the wrong values, it's not fine.

But it is fine. If I disagree with a project's values I'm not going to contribute to it, and they wouldn't want me there either.

There's still a line between values I disagree with and values that directly attack me as a person. The former is how many of us feel about some of our dependencies and most proprietary software we use, so it's clearly fine to some degree.