I hadn't heard about the carrot disclosure stuff, but I hope this doesn't become a common thing. Just saying "I can hack you" with some purported output from a script is pretty useless feedback.

Geoffrey Challen, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, plans to offer a new course this fall in which he will teach students to develop software “without writing, reading, debugging, or viewing a single line of code,” he told me.

Is that meant to say reviewing? Either way, I can't see how this would lead to good results, even with a comprehensive test suite. Security? Scalability? Maintainability?

Have they taken out the AI generated papers? We know that training LLMs on LLM-generated text leads to an absolute collapse in quality, and we also know that AI has been showing up in papers so if they haven't, then this will be quite unreliable.

Figuring out how to solve a problem on an OS I’d used for a few weeks fortuitously solved a problem I’d created trying to solve a different problem on a different OS a few years ago. We learn by doing!

I loved this bit, I think everyone in tech has a similar story of some kind.

Sounds amazing, I'll have to keep an eye out for rhubarb amaro. Growing up, we had rhubarb growing in the garden, but I almost never taste it nowadays.

Ériu, Banba and Fódla are from Lebor Gabála Érenn, Ireland's creation myth, and they each wanted the whole country named after them (and still can be, poetically). This is a mythologised history, not etymology.

Also, downvoting someone you're debating with is extremely bad form.

The names Ireland and Éire both derive from Old Irish Ériu, which in turn comes from Proto-Celtic ɸīweriyū meaning "fertile soil". The Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland, Ivernia, also comes from this same root

Not sure why you're mentioning Ireland, did you think it was named after Kathy Ireland?

then unapproved by Lennart Poettering

No, you've misunderstood, here is a quote from your own source:

A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart

It was a reversion that Poettering rejected, the PR stands.