With the understanding that generated code for X may never be mergable given the limited resources.

Yes, and that may eventually lead to a more generation-friendly fork to which those desiring said friendliness, or just more features in general, will flock.

I think everyone would appreciate if these people using LLMs to spit out these PRs would fork things and "contribute" to those forks instead.

It's a fairly simple matter to reject a PR. And a nice-to-have if they update their contribution guidelines to reflect their preferences.

It's also a fairly simple matter to respect the time of the maintainers of software you want to contribute to - by, for example, talking to them before dumping 16,000 LoC in a PR and expecting them to review it.

Unless, of course, it has nothing to do with actually contributing and improving software.

Global warming was understood for almost a century by 1980

We do not know whether work time and space are continuous

What we know is that we use mathematical models based on the continuity of work, time and space (and on the discreteness of matter and electricity) and until now we have not seen any experiment where a discrepancy between predicted and measured values could be attributed to the falseness of the supposition that work, time and space are continuous.

Obviously this does not exclude the possibility that in the future some experiments where much higher energies per particle are used, allowing the testing of what happens at much smaller distances, might show evidence that there exists a discrete structure of time and space, like we know for matter.

However, that has not happened yet and there are no reasons to believe that it will happen soon. The theory about the existence of atoms is more than 2 millennia old, then it has been abandoned for lack of evidence, then it was revived at the beginning of the 19th century, due to accumulated evidence from chemistry, and it was eventually confirmed beyond doubt in 1865, when Johann Josef Loschmidt became the first who could count atoms and molecules, after determining their masses.

So the discreteness of matter had a very long history of accumulating evidence in favor of it.

Nothing similar applies to the discreteness of time and space, for which there has never been any kind of evidence. The only reason of the speculations about this is the analogy made with the fact that matter and electricity had been believed to be continuous, but eventually it has been discovered that they are discrete.

Such an analogy must make us keep an open mind about the possibility of work, time and space being discrete, but we should not waste time speculating about this when there are huge problems in physics that do not have a solution yet. In modern physics there are a huge amount of quantities that should be computable by theory, but in fact they cannot be computed and they must be measured experimentally. Therefore the existing theories are clearly not good enough.

Umm SpaceTime is likely NOT to be fundamental or continuous

https://youtu.be/GL77oOnrPzY?si=nllkY_E8WotARwUM

Also Bells Therom implies no locality or non realism which to me furthers the nail on the coffin of spacetime

That presentation is like all the research that has been published in this domain, i.e. it presents some ideas that might be used to build an alternative theory of space-time, but no such actual theories.

There are already several decades of such discussions, but no usable results.

Time and space are primitive quantities in any current theory of physics, i.e. quantities that are assumed to exist and have certain properties, and which are used to define derived quantities.

Any alternative theory must start by enumerating exactly which are its primitive quantities and which are their properties. Anything else is just gibberish, not better than Star Trek talk.

However, the units of measurement for time and length are not fundamental units a.k.a. base units, because it is impossible to make any physical system characterized by values of time or length that are stable enough and reproducible enough.

Because of that, the units of time and length are derived from fundamental units that are units of some derived quantities, currently from the units of work and velocity (i.e. the unit of work is the work required to transition a certain atom, currently cesium 133, from a certain state to a certain other state, i.e. which is equal to the difference between the energies of the 2 states, while the unit of velocity is the velocity of light in vacuum).

There's a pitch clock now? So much for the Jamie Moyer rule that "the game doesn't start til I start it."

It's been around for a few years now. Games went from averaging around 3 hours to averaging 2.5. The long tail of 3.5-4.5 hour games were basically eliminated. The only time that happens now is if you get extra innings, high pitch counts, and lots of plate appearances that don't end in outs -- in other words, longer games are long because they're good!

Occasionally an old head will grumble about it, but even the old guys tend to be pretty happy about the pitch clock.

personal notes become cryptic team notes when you leave. If something ought to be team knowledge before that, it needs to get translated into a form that more people can easily read.

Because he's not either of those things. He's a self serving tyrant. He has no philosophy of governing the state because he doesn't care about governing the state.

I wish more people would realize this. There is no plan behind what he is doing. The only thing that guides him is his psychopathic impulse to do harm.

Has there ever been an empire that committed suicide at the height of power?

All of them. "Height of their power" is a retrospective take.

Doesn't mean their death was by suicide, though.

Lots of them, though it's usually through unwinnable wars. See Kaiser Willhelm II, Napoleon, Imperial Japan, etc.

I don't think he designed alpha centauri.

A democracy has to protect itself from coup attempts

You think of elections as coups? Fair, but those peaceful coups are the essence of democracy.