gedhrel
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- Comment on Henry Symeonis 1 week ago:
Wait until you hear why Cambridge exists.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 2 weeks ago:
Whilst it’s gotten a lot better in the -17 and -20 iterations, the fact that there was recently a doorstop book published solely on the subject of C++ initialisation semantics is pretty telling.
I really like what Herb Sutter’s doing around cppfront; I still wouldn’t use C++ unless I absolutely had to.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 2 weeks ago:
To add something to this: linux has avoided internal SPIs for a long time. It’s often lauded as one of the reasons it hasn’t ossified.
However, some subsystems have a huge amount of complexity and hidden constraint in how you correctly use them. Some of that may be inherent, but more of it will be accidental.
Wrapping type-erased shims around this that attempt to capture (some of) those semantics shines a light onto the problem. The effort raises good technical questions around whether the C layer can be improved. Where maintainers have approached that with an open mind, the results are positive for both C and Rust consumers. Difficult interfaces are a source of bugs; it’s always worth asking whether that difficulty is inherent or accidental.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 2 weeks ago:
You’re wrong, but it’s possible the article gave you that impression. Read the mailing-list thread.
It’s particularly worth reading Ted T’so’s contribution, which (considering his rude behaviour at the recent con led to a previous round of this nonsense) seems much more positive.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 2 weeks ago:
What’s in your mind does not coincide with the professional experience of Greg KH. You shoyld read what he had to say on the subject.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 5 months ago:
It’s around one in a million.
- Comment on Most Brits would vote to rejoin EU – poll 6 months ago:
There were a bunch of contributory factors to that outcome, but frankly the demographic skew was such that about half the change in opinion is down to more Brexit voters being dead than their opposites.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 6 months ago:
Have you seen pictures of the sub? What makes you think the wiring was all hidden?
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 6 months ago:
You joke, but watch this:
archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic
from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.
- Comment on What knot(s) should I use to secure this? 6 months ago:
Figure eight on a bight.
- Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. 7 months ago:
…unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.
The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.
- Comment on Why Git is hard 1 year ago:
It’s all the files. Content-addreasable storage means that they might not take up any more space. Smart checkout means they might not require disk operations. But it’s the whole tree.