felbane

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[–] felbane@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

So you're saying Rust is the TOOL of programming languages.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Point of clarification: DAC is copper, AOC is fiber.

A lot of 10G equipment will support 5G/2.5G SFPs as well, so it can still be beneficial to go 10G on the core equipment.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

There's that awful dad joke that foggy was talking about; Use it as inspiration for your exasperated sigh.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Signing every message should have zero effect for people who don't use PGP; they'll just have a cryptic block of text at the bottom of the message you sent.

It's overkill to ship your pubkey with every email. Most people just publish to a trusted keyserver and call it a day since pretty much every client worth its salt can look up your pubkey directly.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One way they could increase the housing supply is by severely taxing corporate ownership of single-family homes (and possibly low-occupancy multi-family homes like duplexes).

Give it a grace period, say... 3 months (to cover the cases where a bank forecloses and is sole owner while the house is auctioned), then charge like 95% tax on market value every quarter.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ted Ts'o was way out of line in that conference and was clearly channeling his inner ca. 2001 Torvalds.

I think Rust is a better path forward for a majority of the kernel/driver code maintained currently, but it is definitely going to take time for it to gain a foothold. I also think there is some condescension on both sides that is completely unjustified and needs to stop.

The hardline C devs that don't want to learn Rust need to accept that at some point they will have to either adapt or pass the torch, and that no amount of whining or bitching in public forums is going to change that.

The Rust devs that are getting upset because people are "attacking" their favorite language need to accept that there will be substantial and impassioned resistance to making broad language changes to a set of projects that have existed for decades. It would be an uphill battle for any language to try to supersede C in the kernel; this is not a condemnation or attack on Rust or its zealots, it's a matter of momentum and greybeard stubbornness.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

In fairness, "I don't want to maintain bindings for a language I never intend to use" is a perfectly reasonable position.

The typical answer here is for the language evangelist to implement and maintain the bindings, and accept the responsibility of keeping them in sync with the upstream (or understand that they will be broken for however long it takes for another community member to update them).

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

omg dude you can't just ask about white collards

alternate joke: I guess you could say it's a white collard crime?

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Username checks out.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

This is not always true. Some tablets are extended release and if you break them apart the timing is thrown off. You get a higher dose initially, and the dose doesn't last the intended period.

A family friend learned this the hard way when they were breaking a seizure preventive tablet in half to make it easier to swallow; they'd often have a recurrent seizure about an hour or two before their next dose time.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree with you completely, and I'm glad the game exists. It's just objectively the worst video game I've ever played.

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