The goal of every professional right-winger is to attract the patronage of rich men- classically getting hired by Heritage or Cato, or maybe Human Events or the Washington Times, but now bootstrappable through influencer work. Remove the funding and incentive and organized conservatism evaporates.
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The goal of every professional right-winger is to attract the patronage of rich men- classically getting hired by Heritage or Cato, or maybe Human Events or the Washington Times, but now bootstrappable through influencer work. Remove the funding and incentive and organized conservatism evaporates.
I decided to be a responsible adult and broke things up into 7 functions to be executed consecutively.
Then I wrapped 3 steps of them in a bootstrappable function.
Now I'm checking whether the whole thing runs including the bootstrap, and if that works I'm gonna write a meta-function.
Then I wrapped 3 steps of them in a bootstrappable function.
Now I'm checking whether the whole thing runs including the bootstrap, and if that works I'm gonna write a meta-function.
Me, while nesting functions within functions within functions: maybe this isn't a great idea.
April 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I decided to be a responsible adult and broke things up into 7 functions to be executed consecutively.
Then I wrapped 3 steps of them in a bootstrappable function.
Now I'm checking whether the whole thing runs including the bootstrap, and if that works I'm gonna write a meta-function.
Then I wrapped 3 steps of them in a bootstrappable function.
Now I'm checking whether the whole thing runs including the bootstrap, and if that works I'm gonna write a meta-function.
Who would be subsidizing them? The default is that if a business is bootstrappable, i.e. you can scale it without taking tons of outside investment it's profitable. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to grow the business.
December 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Who would be subsidizing them? The default is that if a business is bootstrappable, i.e. you can scale it without taking tons of outside investment it's profitable. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to grow the business.
It is ridiculous to think that world creators are what are going to "start" the economy. This is not bootstrappable from the outside without it getting quickly toxic.
December 17, 2024 at 2:06 AM
It is ridiculous to think that world creators are what are going to "start" the economy. This is not bootstrappable from the outside without it getting quickly toxic.
Bootstrappable builds could transform how we verify Linux supply chain integrity. Unlike reproducible builds, they eliminate the black box problem by starting from a tiny seed and building everything up—ensuring you know…
https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/
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https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/
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August 20, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Bootstrappable builds could transform how we verify Linux supply chain integrity. Unlike reproducible builds, they eliminate the black box problem by starting from a tiny seed and building everything up—ensuring you know…
https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/
#opensource #Linux
https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/
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hype is eternal, but whenever the thing happens it will probably seem surprising. we actually have no idea what is required for it and there's no strong indication it's not achievable or bootstrappable with what we have on hand
January 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
hype is eternal, but whenever the thing happens it will probably seem surprising. we actually have no idea what is required for it and there's no strong indication it's not achievable or bootstrappable with what we have on hand
I'm pretty sure industrial civilization can now, at least, given how much more we know about efficient solar. Even before that, with an *immense* exertion you could build a nuclear reactor to get power--they're definitely bootstrappable with fairly limited technical sophistication.
November 9, 2024 at 9:19 PM
I'm pretty sure industrial civilization can now, at least, given how much more we know about efficient solar. Even before that, with an *immense* exertion you could build a nuclear reactor to get power--they're definitely bootstrappable with fairly limited technical sophistication.
yay and his amazing "Reflections on Trusting Trust" was the grand inspiration for #GNU Mes and to start implementing the Full Source Bootstrap in #Guix! Thank you so much Ken!
guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023...
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#bootstrappable
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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down — 2023 — Blog — GNU Guix
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February 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
yay and his amazing "Reflections on Trusting Trust" was the grand inspiration for #GNU Mes and to start implementing the Full Source Bootstrap in #Guix! Thank you so much Ken!
guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023...
#reproducibleBuilds
#bootstrappable
guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023...
#reproducibleBuilds
#bootstrappable
Bootstrappable Fully Homomorphic Attribute-Based Encryption with Unbounded Circuit Depth (Feixiang Zhao) ia.cr/2025/1567
September 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Bootstrappable Fully Homomorphic Attribute-Based Encryption with Unbounded Circuit Depth (Feixiang Zhao) ia.cr/2025/1567
"Do you know how to make yoghurt? The first step is to add yoghurt to milk! How can you build a compiler like GCC? The first step is to get a compiler that can compile the compiler."
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Bootstrappable builds
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January 23, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"Do you know how to make yoghurt? The first step is to add yoghurt to milk! How can you build a compiler like GCC? The first step is to get a compiler that can compile the compiler."
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glancing through it - yeah, I could see that working as a holistic solution, for sure, though it'd need the whole structure for stability. yours is at least bootstrappable tho!
my fave uses a single irrevocable change to our money itself, but that also makes it basically impossible to enact 😅
my fave uses a single irrevocable change to our money itself, but that also makes it basically impossible to enact 😅
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
glancing through it - yeah, I could see that working as a holistic solution, for sure, though it'd need the whole structure for stability. yours is at least bootstrappable tho!
my fave uses a single irrevocable change to our money itself, but that also makes it basically impossible to enact 😅
my fave uses a single irrevocable change to our money itself, but that also makes it basically impossible to enact 😅
SmithForth dacvs.neocities.org/SF/ just made me realize that machine code is THE way to go. David just makes it so easy with the "xxd -r" trick to write machine code by hand. Combined with RISC-V, I think there's a good path forward for a very simple bootstrappable toolchain.
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February 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
SmithForth dacvs.neocities.org/SF/ just made me realize that machine code is THE way to go. David just makes it so easy with the "xxd -r" trick to write machine code by hand. Combined with RISC-V, I think there's a good path forward for a very simple bootstrappable toolchain.
Yeah, there’s a whole literature around neural nets as a degraded model of actual neurobiological systems that gets into the question of ANNs mimicking in a weak sense actual animal intelligence. (If LLMs are bootstrappable into human-like AGI, which I am very skeptical about, it brings into /
December 21, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Yeah, there’s a whole literature around neural nets as a degraded model of actual neurobiological systems that gets into the question of ANNs mimicking in a weak sense actual animal intelligence. (If LLMs are bootstrappable into human-like AGI, which I am very skeptical about, it brings into /
With Discord apps this is probably just bootstrappable to DM there. Depends on how old the Bluesky crew is i guess.
April 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM
With Discord apps this is probably just bootstrappable to DM there. Depends on how old the Bluesky crew is i guess.
Also ... what is the root goal here? If the goal is to have a fully bootstrappable compiler from independent sources then this is a perfectly viable path. If the goal is to do that + review the code at every step and understand it then you want to start building up proto compilers.
December 3, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Also ... what is the root goal here? If the goal is to have a fully bootstrappable compiler from independent sources then this is a perfectly viable path. If the goal is to do that + review the code at every step and understand it then you want to start building up proto compilers.
Wonder if it's like, easily bootstrappable as an open source movement. @wang.social I imagine you might have thought about a nodejs science stack before, is it like super hard?
May 11, 2023 at 11:58 PM
Wonder if it's like, easily bootstrappable as an open source movement. @wang.social I imagine you might have thought about a nodejs science stack before, is it like super hard?
August 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
August 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why | Discussion
Bootstrappable builds: how and why
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as 'FO [...]
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August 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why | Discussion
Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473868)
Bootstrappable builds: how and why
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as 'FO [...]
lwn.net
August 28, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473868)
August 28, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Bootstrappable Builds: как и почему они важны для безопасной разработки ПО
https://kripta.biz/posts/AEC42AA4-BFF2-4CAD-A2EE-2E1C52D8547C
https://kripta.biz/posts/AEC42AA4-BFF2-4CAD-A2EE-2E1C52D8547C
August 28, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Bootstrappable Builds: как и почему они важны для безопасной разработки ПО
https://kripta.biz/posts/AEC42AA4-BFF2-4CAD-A2EE-2E1C52D8547C
https://kripta.biz/posts/AEC42AA4-BFF2-4CAD-A2EE-2E1C52D8547C