Every time Rust takes forever to compile something, I picture in my mind it checking every possible edge case and buffer vulrnability I didn’t check and suddenly I’m a lot more okay with how long it takes.

Reminder that Linux’s decision to write an entire kernel in C and not a mix of C and assembly was just as controversial back then as Rust vs C is now. The pro-assembly programmers used many similar arguments as the anti-Rust programmers (it’s bloated, it’s too high level for the kernel, it has a complicated compiler, it’s just a pointless abstraction over what’s actually happening at the processor level, it’s not mature enough, if you were competent in assembly you wouldn’t need to use C, if assembly is too difficult for you then you shouldn’t even be developing a kernel, etc). Now Linux is hailed as one of the pioneer software projects that led the switch from assembly to C for kernel level code.

If even senior C developers can and regularly do write critical memory vulnerabilities that can give attackers remote code execution as root, then I’d say it’s indeed already broken.

Honestly playing a competitive game with AI is kind of like playing with a child who hasn’t grown out of the making up random rules phase.

“Rock crushes scissors, I win!”

“Nuh uh! My scissors are actually a ray gun and disintegrated your rock!”

Because AI doesn’t actually “understand” the concepts it’s using the same way humans do. Nor does it know what winning or losing is or even the concept of a game itself. All it knows is you told it to prioritise reaching a certain state (try to “win” the “game”) so it will do whatever it can to reach it without regard for if it makes sense or not. AI at its core is just statical analysis and prediction of what a human might do given the prompt.

Found the real life Feng Huang!

Of course it does for the private contractors raking in peak profits!

“We don’t need TCAS on commercial airliners because any colisions are the pilot/controller’s fault”

Except that’s literally the reality with computers. Everything evolves and things go obsolete. I’m sure the COBOL and Fortran programmers were pissed when the kids started using C too.

Obviously it’s because China and North Korea, being totalitarian dictatorships, have made suicide illegal and punishable by death!

(I have literally met someone who thought that suicide is punishable by death in China. Like if you try to kill yourself and survive they’ll finish the job for you.)

I know it’s impressive and all but I still get the heebee jeebees from a humanoid robot.

I want the robot uprising to look like HAL, not Terminator.

IMO every distro should have a rolling release option. Kind of like how OpenSUSE has the normal version and Tumbleweed. You have normal version for when you need the OS to work (you’re new to Linux, it’s your main personal/work computer, it’s a server, etc) and then you have the rolling release option for when you’re willing to give up stability for the newest versions of everything as soon as possible.

China has a really high population so the total count numbers are going to seem high.

The second column tells you that it’s a whopping 0.6% of China’s population while every other country is between 2.7% and 8.5%. Guess which country is the 8.5%

I know I’m reading too much into this meme but just houses is not enough. There also needs to be easily accessible and comprehensive mental health/addiction treatment because those are pretty big contributors to homelessness, and especially housed people becoming homeless. From reading some of the accounts from the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver for example, people actively looking to get clean are being told to wait months before treatment is available, and people routinely overdose and die while on waitlists for rehab.

And if we take yet another step back, the even more important step is to address what exactly causes people to fall into addiction in the first place. A lot of the time that cause is related to the exploitative and soul crushing existence under capitalism.

Just the fact that financial crimes over a certain amount are punishable by death in China (and people have actually been executed for them) says a lot. It’s a law that literally applies only to the rich because a normal person would never even get to glimpse the amount of money required for execution to be on the table.

Sorry to say it (and as much as i like C) but C is already on the path to inevitable obsolescence. Everyone is learning Rust now and fewer people are learning C. Maybe not soon, but definitely eventually. Linux can join C on this path to obsolescence or it can pivot to a language that still has a clear future.

Rust will go obsolete a some point too when the next next generation of languages come out. And software projects using Rust will have to switch languages again to stay relevant.

Don’t forget that languages like COBOL was once state of the art but was replaced by… C.

That’s just the computer circle of life.

So we should be researching safer psychoactive drugs that don’t affect the body as much /s

Isn’t this already common knowledge? No one is drinking alcohol because they think it’s good for you.

People: drink alcohol to help them survive being exploited under capitalism

WHO: “best I can do is tell you that you’re going to die sooner”

Also, I don’t know if anyone’s researched this, but I’m 99% sure the stress chemicals your body generates from being a wage slave and living paycheck to paycheck your entire life are far more carcinogenic than alcohol. Maybe that should come with a label too.

As far as I remember, the US interpreted “their end of the deal” differently than NK did.

And they will do it again. And again and again and again.

Deals with the US aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

Yes it’s a good thing, but the US is utterly devoid of honour and trustworthiness and there’s no chance they will actually follow through with denuclearizing their own arsenal, so this proposal is meaningless and no country should take it seriously.