In the article linked as "statement", there's an image with a scale:

Damn, those pipes look useful. Can use them to send stdout from one command to the stdin of another, as you'd expect. But you can also easily send stuff to stdin from Rust code (and of course, easily read from stdout and stderr, too): https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/io/fn.pipe.html#examples

There are edible talers: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoggitaler 🙃

I guess, kinda? In my head, a Verein is definitely more of a hobby/socialising thing, but I do have to say that "club" certainly doesn't feel impactful enough. Like, Germany as a whole would fall apart, if you took the Vereine away.

For example, the Red Cross is an e.V. here. There's e.V.s that support the local voluntary firefighters (although those are also organized by the municipality). We've got big-ass nature preservation e.V.s that do really important work in suing awful corporations. Local sports organizations and orchestras and whatnot are also organized as e.V.s. And perhaps the most relevant in this community is the KDE e.V., which helps organize/assist the wider KDE community.

So, yeah, some of them definitely do work that one might expect from a charity...

It's easy to set up a cache, but what's hard is convincing your devs to use it.

Mainly because, well, it generally works without configuring the cache in your build pipeline, as you'll almost always need some solution for accessing the internet anyways.

But there's other reasons, too. You need authentication or a VPN for accessing a cache like that. Authentications means you have to deal with credentials, which is a pain. VPN means it's likely slower than downloading directly from the internet, at least while you're working from home.

Well, and it's also just yet another moving part in your build pipeline. If that cache is ever down or broken or inaccessible from certain build infrastructure, chances are it will get removed from affected build pipelines and those devs are unlikely to come back.

Having said that, of course, GitHub is promoting caches quite heavily here. This might make it actually worth using for the individual devs.

I also remember there being a tiny shitstorm when Google started proxying package manager requests through their own servers, maybe two years ago or so. I don't know what happened with that, though, or if it's actually relevant here...

For Rust, as I understand, crates.io hosts a copy of the source code. It is possible to specify a Git repository directly as a dependency, but apparently, you cannot do that if you publish to crates.io.

So, it will cause pain for some devs, but the ecosystem at large shouldn't implode.

It's gonna be problematic in particular for organisations with larger offices. If you've got hundreds of devs/sysadmins under the same public IP address, those 60 requests/hour are shared between them.

Basically, I expect unauthenticated pulls to not anymore be possible at my day job, which means repos hosted on GitHub become a pain.

But do they also randomly explode all over the place when you enter a room?

Interesting thought, yeah, but this method isn't going to be viable for mass production, possibly ever.

They produced 89000 nuclei per second.
1 gold atom weighs about 196.96657 u.
1 u is 1.66053906892 * 10^−27^ kg.

Therefore, we can calculate how much gold they'd produce in a year:
196.96657 u/atom * 1.66053906892*10^−27^ kg/u * 89 000 atoms/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 917.9905991879 * 10^-15^ kg/year

That's still basically nothing. If they ran these streams continuously for a billion years, that's when we'd get close to producing 1 gram.

And it won't really start scaling much either, since you'll always need to accelerate a proportional amount of lead to near-light-speed, no matter what you produce with this method. But yeah, maybe we'll find a different method at some point.

You have to think of them more like a club rather than a non-profit company. Their legal form "eingetragener Verein" does mean "registered club".

Basically, here in Germany, you can register a non-profit club and then you get exempt from taxes. And folks who donate to your club can also get that donation exempt from their taxes.