It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.
It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.
Clickbaity title. The estimated time until Higgs field decay has been changed from 10794 years to 10790 years. Presumably there’s some tiny chance of it happening today, but practically we can just continue worrying about all the regular stuff that is about to kill us all.
I really don’t understand your use of “far left” here.
They don’t care, so long as those who dislike them can’t vote.
$20 per month would be enough to discourage me. It’s another relatively costly computer-related subscription and I already feel like I’m losing a battle to keep those minimal. There would have to be some very clear benefits for that price.
Tumbleweed surprised me with how it receives constant, up-to-the-minute updates yet somehow doesn’t ever seem to break.
It also surprised me with how much I like KDE. I had used it way back in the day when it was a bit complicated looking and ugly. These days Plasma makes the whole experience nice.
I have set up OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a couple of my machines with Windows 11 in a KVM virtual machine. Windows runs at a perfectly good speed in this setup, and I use it when I want quick access to proprietary software that only runs in Windows. It’s simpler and more reliable than messing around with Wine. It can be a little more complicated if you want to share folders between guest and host, but there are several ways you can achieve that.
Yes, in addition to MS Office, MacOS is particularly used by a lot of people who work in art or music, and none of the programs they use professionally for that will run on Linux. You can’t just go it alone with free software when all your colleagues expect you to use proprietary tools. And what people like about MacOS is that it is reliable for running these programs with a minimum of fuss, has a solid low-latency sound system (for musicians), and has easy access to Apple features like cloud backup. Imitating its desktop brings none of that.
So we know these things work on one person’s computer (theirs) but not on another’s (yours). Such anecdotal experiences are not a reasonable basis on which to judge any OS, positively or negatively.
To be fair, most of them aren’t as nasty as C++. But Rust certainly gives you a sense of security you don’t get with most other languages.
I’m no Rust expert, but in my experience the borrow checker is a pain for a bit, then you start to get a sense of what works and what doesn’t, and after a while it has taught you to write cleaner code.
As one of the other quotes suggested: fork the kernel project and rewrite it entirely in Rust
That’s not practically possible given the scale of the kernel. And doing a total rewrite is almost always a recipe for getting stuck and, if you ever create anything, creating something worse.
Replacing C with Rust in the upstream kernel is akin to replacing the engine in a car while it’s running or being used every day.
Almost all real-world software development is like this. That’s what we do.
They’re looking for something open-source. Draw.io’s readme says:
License
The source code authored by us in this repo is licensed under a modified Apache v2 license. This project is not an open source project as a result.
I haven’t been through the license to see what its restrictions are, but there must be a reason they give this warning.
I’ve changed the title from the auto-suggested one to the one in the article.
It’s grammatically sickening.
I wonder how plausible a complete Rust fork of the kernel would be.
It sounds highly impractical, and it would probably introduce more issues than Rust solves, even if there were enough people with enough free time to do it. Any change must be evolutionary if it’s going to be achievable.
All his life he has spent an unusual amount of time around animal corpses. Dead animals are kind of his thing.
If you asked “How will Harris be worse for the economy?” I doubt you’d get a coherent argument in response. Most Trump supporters repeat what they’ve been told.
Is the difference between “the effect of the mushrooms lasted several days” and “the mushrooms triggered a psychotic episode that lasted several days” any more than phrasing? The man has not shown a tendency to psychotic episodes at any time other than this one time he did mushrooms.
Some people love a challenge I guess. No disrespect to Haiku.