You better believe is not just one user. Read the comments. We are thousands or millions. I‘m really tired of the shitty Keyboard. For a long time I thought it was my fault, now I know is not.

Seems you don’t remember much of that time. Let me refresh: “we are the dot in dot com”

They did bot compile the whole linux, mind you, just an absolute minimal kernel.

Doing a real compiler to be used by humans is difficult. Doing a compiler that “gets the thing done” is a different thing.

Nowhere did I imply it is production-ready. I said "working compiler" and by definition Claude built one since they booted up the kernel.

Have you ever seen Tsoding youtube channel? I’m sure Mr Zosin can very much do it in one week. And considering russian salaries, it will be like an order of magnitude cheaper.

Making a basic C compiler, without much error/warn detection and/or optimizations, is as a matter if fact no so difficult. In many Universities is a semester project for 2 to 3 students.

Everybody talks as Linux is the most difficult thing to compile in the world. The reality is that linux is well written and designed with portability with crappy compilers in mind from the beginning.

Also, the booting part, as stated some times, is discutable.

The reality is you can build Linux with gcc and clang. And that’s it. Years ago you could use Intel’s icc compiler, but that stopped being supported. Let’s stop pretending it’s an undergrad project.

Just writing a non-toy C preprocessor is non-trivial.

My question, which I didn’t still find anybody asking: how many compilers, including but not limited to the 2 most famous, were in the training set.

Certainly tcc. Probably also rui314's chibicc as it's relatively popular. sdcc is likely in there as well. Among numerous others that are either proprietary or not as well known.

In fact it is. And can be useful. IF you have quality controls in place, so the code has a reasonable quality, the LOC will correlate with amount of functionality and/or complexity. Is a good metric? No. Can be used just like that to compare arbitrary code bases, absolutely no!

As a seasoned manager, I have an idea how long a feature should take, both in implementing effort and longness of code. I hace to know it, is my everyday work.

And having TCC, GCC, CLANG and any other project lying around as cheat sheet, as the trained model, in some way, had.

In 2009 I worked with a triangulation system in a dense populated area. The precision of location was comparable in average to GPS (meaning sometimes better) when indoors, it was orders of magnitude better as GPS. That was 3G, some yeras ago… I assume today is much better, as the density of cells increased

I'd be very interested in more info, but am going to doubt this for now. Usually just the intra-day deformations of the terrain between the towers through hydrological activity should far exceed what GNSS can achieve.

It is just VERY VERY hard to beat the predictability of orbits.