I guess that's my point - the author is already using Qt which has so much included, but are still including two large header files in the project just to output a ~12 line XML snippet
Qt is terrible. Since a couple of years they want a login just to download the code required for a build and I really have zero desire to get a bunch of marketeers that are wondering if I'm ripe for the plucking yet just because I've decided to fix some bugs in open source code.
IMO Qt is amazing. No login is technically required to download anything, especially code.
The official SDK installer GUI does require a login, but you don't have to use it in order to download or use Qt at all.
Not only can you download all the individual components that the GUI fetches via download.qt.io yourself, there's also third-party installers like aqtinstall, as well as many different OS package managers that provide Qt binaries.
It's not a coincidence that all those articles and tutorials urge you to use agents to spend tokens and write more agents that spend more tokens and talk to even more LLMs, and write even more agents and wrappers... I don't know to which end. Probably to spend tokens until your wallet bleeds dry, I guess.
Agents and wrappers that put you deeper into LLM spending frenzy is like the new "todo app".
Note that if the claimant is a big player, Google is happy to only clarify how high is it supposed to jump. If they file a claim usurping your copyright, you can do diddly about it most of the time. But if little people are trying to assert their rights, no, no can do, you can't prove that you are you.
And why should you, one of the little people, be able to prove anything at all? If a big player sues, Google is going to have to pay a staggering amount of money, thus they obey. If you sue, its lawyers will drain you financially by protracting everything they can, so you don't actually sue. If they take your claim, the content they take down stops bringing the sweet advertising revenue.
I wonder if it started with a more innocuous "jeez, it feels like we are in the matrix and it all went bonkers", you know, just a tongue-in-cheek remark people rightfully make when they read news. And then chatgpt just putting on its tinfoil hat.
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