From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BCD22130 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2024 22:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFA94368E; Fri, 5 Jul 2024 06:45:05 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1720125905; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=8EMIsBsqZCpkkeZkFUkk4TLgUDswL4cejs3h6E4HJ+k=; b=vB+rABXpiEFPelhb7QLM8A96830XvalMZ4yuydSXM6QgUQbZPAZTZP5EfFXDM1azKbaZGb L2AnM9KzvZ1hKtp9ue2Yzyh67vPW69WE0krMi84eg44vbTklL/PA0WoQ39JVF7sYc3JaTR cTpQkkqfbZPIn0le9EAaZPRPRcaM2t4= Received: from mail-43166.protonmail.ch (mail-43166.protonmail.ch [185.70.43.166]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A1A34368D for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2024 06:45:00 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1720125898; x=1720385098; bh=8EMIsBsqZCpkkeZkFUkk4TLgUDswL4cejs3h6E4HJ+k=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=wX+UOgW3Wf72mY7mLxZskDG69cX5e9gN4WuOYGUkpXAvTWGKNNve4I6c0A5315Cng oqeU6CdD8AYFfRTH/HoOFnCYPHh4z3pfrz5P1nmxngo8Xh7LR1cHbmRSFzQXmJ9kKB 2ExVhU6/LEN14tQirOYFP550byZ/DzrmhtoLFAQJPIPcMX5Pl29+PFwFxEXfCiZm1m /wrN82/g611F8BoXxVNP/3ubkQSykMOul35YUdhf0wYfAlBJA4geyJtMO2110u857j O2Y07umR7Uw1CKS+6ZE1+JfCRvYPEOoZctYVgnfvYAqdDK6ADDhDFHPl/3QBgQD8WK vGYvn5aSqcvaQ== Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:44:53 +0000 To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <93529CA0-7097-443C-999B-384BE6BD5683@canb.auug.org.au> Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: da60094df676fb11a6e5f89fb53707205227675b MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: 5KQSZQEB37L3FMP4ECV5FYV3XI4XABQN X-Message-ID-Hash: 5KQSZQEB37L3FMP4ECV5FYV3XI4XABQN X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via TUHS Reply-To: segaloco On Thursday, July 4th, 2024 at 1:34 PM, Nevin Liber wrote: >=20 > There are something like 28 million public repositories on Github. How ma= ny of them are abandoned (no commitment)?=20 > ... > -- > Nevin ":-)" Liber +1-847-691-1404 I do appreciate that, while yes there are a lot of abandoned threads on var= ious public source control providers, that those threads are indeed public = and could be picked back up by the right person in certain circumstances. = I've benefitted more than once from someone leaving something up, even if I= had to pay a bit of technical debt myself to get use out of it. While ent= ropy levies its tax over time, it's better than things disappearing into so= me black hole, never to be seen again. As much as I don't like the LLM trend, one application of the modern trend = of generative LLMs could be plundering the depths of all of this code (resp= ective of licensing of course) to dredge up hidden nuggets just waiting to = be discovered. Everything useful gets invented at some point, I have to wo= nder what's sitting in some abandoned repo somewhere just waiting to fit so= meone's use-case like hand in glove. After all, isn't that one of the many= reasons we go digging around in decades-old UNIX code still :) - Matt G.