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The only one I'm going to get a boner over is the one that does all this for c# 🤷♂️I'm honestly a bit surprised MSFT hasn't pushed one out
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Amazing how programming languages designed like bath houses end up catching all kind of infected packages
Coming in hot
PhoenixmlDb XQuery & XSLT 2.7 for .NET:
• Schema-aware typing: validated nodes carry their XSD types
• W3C QT3 failures down from 427 to 257
• Hardened for untrusted queries & stylesheets
• Synchronous XSLT API for desktop & plugin hosts
phoenixml.dev/release-notes
This comes in a little too fast for my liking, having *just* released 2.6, but we needed to clean up a couple of things before getting the schema updates pushed into the repo.
Writing this down while it's fresh in my mind - I'm building an embedded XML/JSON database engine, and trying to find a licensing model for this kind of thing is the absolute trickiest thing I've tried to nail down
Oracle's licensing was suprisingly decent - "here's the zip file you jumped through hoops to get, build it to whatever 'edition' you need (split by transactions and replication), do what you like with it but check in with us before you go commercial"
If I could add one thing to the Microsoft Learn portal, it would be a comprehensive training course on MSBuild. It's easily one of the most complicated, feature-rich, and criminally underutilized parts of the development ecosystem.
Seeing enough disturbing news about Google Cloud randomly shutting down service/access to start seriously considering a vendor that DOESN'T do that. WTF
Taxes are for assholes
We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level.
Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens.
It will accomplish 4 things (at least )
1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization
Which will
2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption
Which will
3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x
Which will
4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like
At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally.
Thoughts ?