@WhoIzDisIz @PixelatedSaturn Even then it can produce utter nonsense. Do not trust!

@WhoIzDisIz Explanation: Even then it can produce utter nonsense.

@Max_P @stewie410 This is just wrong. Taking a stand against things like this causes change for the better in the long run. Rails will survive without DHH, like Linux survived without Reiserfs and MySQL survived after Larry Ellison. There may be some pain involved, but we owe it to ourselves to tread the better path, and make bad people just socially unacceptable.

@ajsadauskas @degoogle What we need to do is re-visit the GnuPG philosophy of building rings of trust. If one emerges with enough people proven to provide quality aggregators/summarizers then we can start to depend on that, or those.

@Deebster ``1992 was the year of the Linux desktop.''

I'll go with that...

@imecth @stuner @littleomid @uthredii ``Rust implies only 1 thing, and that's no memory leaks, assuming you don't use "unsafe" code. It's still very much vulnerable to logic bugs and has the same performance as c (GNOME) and c++ (KDE).''

Not only memory leaks, multi-threading generally is hugely safer under the watchful eye of the compiler.

It performs slightly better than C or C++; the compiler is able to make better optimizations thanks to deeper insight into the nature of given code.

@chronicledmonocle @cm0002 The real answer is that some people just want something to do.

The more philosophical answer is that after C (circa 1960) there have been lots of developments in programming languages, both translated and compiled. Rust is epochal in that it takes all the best features and has the right defaults based on 50 years experience. Most notably it is the first language which understands the code it is compiling, and is thus able to see errors and make deep optimizations...

@TheTechnician27 @kittenzrulz123 The idea that you can run Firefox on a system with 1GB of RAM is laughable. I had to upgrade my system to 16GB because running Firefox in fewer became too painful.

@ValueSubtracted For everybody's information, it was S01E19 Duet.

A good episode indeed.

@Cris_Color
I like Phoronix because it soaks up all the faux-techno nutters and I can get on with my life
@Sunshine

@fartsparkles 🎼 You were so lonesome, you needed a man 🎵
Someone to talk to, well I understand 🎵
That's only natural...
But why does it have to be me? 🎵

@Sunshine Clicking shows you a screen on a passenger bus showing a grub prompt, having failed to boot. Hilarious.

@ItsMyVault101 @codeinabox Where we're going, we won't need computers.

@chronicledmonocle @cm0002 ... given all that, it just makes sense to systematically rewrite everything that exists in C as Rust. Nothing to lose, everything to gain.

@terabyterex @cm0002 Yeh, two things I'm starting to really dislike about the #fediverse are epitomised in this post: the need for click-bait to get attention and the disconnect (double in this case) between the original source (a news site) and the appearance of matter in a generic information browser. This is almost as bad as embedded advertising.

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@Scoopta @cm0002 The point is that if everything was open Linux support would be so much better as we would understand the working of the hardware so much better, and we should do everything we can to discourage manufacturers from adopting this stance. FOSS has the great benefit that anyone in the world can improve it, and then share their improvements with everyone else. That makes a better world. Just better.

@andybytes @ridethisbike Have to say I really disagree with this. Life is too short. Pick one and stick with it, it will serve you well for many years to come.

@hopesdead He probably wants to smash Data's head in as that chair used to be his (see S01E01).

@MonkderVierte @Samueru_sama I don't think the standard (more like a guideline) is bad in itself: consistence of file-system use across applications is good for all our sanity. It is the assumption that all applications use it rigorously that is the problem. The word is SHOULD, not MUST.

@ValueSubtracted FFS will somebody just come straight up and tell us which episode we are talking about?