Antidisenshittificationism.

It’s like the polar opposite of “Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.”

The 1.0 release helps a lot. They got a bit of a kick in the pants while Ondsel existed.

I mean, there is no photograph of a school bus with pegasus wings diving to the titanic, but I bet one of these AIs can crank out that picture. If it can do that…?

Cool, does it run on a Galaxy S10 series phone?

I have heard that Apple removed the headphone jack to kill compatibility with those Square credit card readers.

Someday you’ll try that over SSH once.

Once.

I have no idea why it is the way it is.

The sound bite I heard was “the unsafe keyword makes memory bugs greppable.”

Actual answer:

Rust is a relatively new programming language. Similar to C or C++ it compiles directly into executable binary code so it can be used for bare metal or low level operating system programming. It is thus relevant to Linux kernel development as things like drivers can and are being developed in Rust.

Compare this to the likes of Java or C# which get compiled to bytecode or a kind of pseudo machine code that gets run in a virtual machine, which has advantages for application development, or something like Python which is interpreted (or just-in-time compiled) at run-time, useful as an end user scripting language.

Rust is designed from the ground up to tackle some modern problems, a key one being memory safety. It’s a lot more paranoid about memory allocation and access and it’s structured around this. Older languages like C allow the programmer a lot more absolute control over the hardware, which effectively means the C programmer has a lot more footguns in his toolbox. Theoretically, Rust offers fewer opportunities for the developer to shoot himself in the foot.

Rust also comes with some really cool tooling. Compiler errors usually point straight at the problem and say something like “Shouldn’t there be a colon here?” The build system, called Cargo, is really slick in a lot of ways, handling linking, compiling, even library package management in a very automatic fashion. It’s real slick to work with.

As with anything, fans of the language can be a bit much; they stereotypically suggest rewriting everything under the sun in Rust whether it makes sense or not, and this includes the Linux kernel, which has caused some friction in the community; Linux contributors are often very accustomed to C and some don’t want to deal with anything else.

It was kind of complicated at my high school; Depending on if you were on a college prep or prison prep track they would or wouldn’t bother trying to teach the science classes that had math in them to you. The “going to community college or trade school” program I was on gave you an option of chemistry or physics but I ended up taking both.

Think up every swear word you know, because you’re gonna need them all.

If we keep it conventional, we could bring about a new dark age. It would have to go nuclear before we start wondering if the deep sea tube worms will survive. We can definitely end humanity unilaterally, we might need Russia’s help to boil the oceans.

72 hours, the average length of a special military operation.

I grocery shop every 2 weeks and at any given time I have a month of food in stock. because I live in a hemisphere with hurricanes.

Let me tell you a little bit about all those various file converter tools, be it ffmpeg, pandoc, imagemagick, whatever.

The majority of them can be used like this: magick inputfile.bmp outputfile.jpg. If all you need is this file in that format, that’s how you do it. They’re ridicluously capable, you can do editing and compositing and such with them and whatever. If you have a use case where you do that a lot, like you just always put a watermark on images or you always desaturate them or whatever, you can write a script, then just run that script.

They’re basically all like that. Fairly simple to use for basic format translation, shockingly capable if you want to write a script.

Then I suppose you’re up shit creek.

That’s gonna be fun for cases like c/trees. Someone somewhere will get the joke, someone somewhere won’t.

SLA printers would definitely benefit, provided these tiny LEDs can put out the required UV.

For some reason the megacorps have got LLMs on the brain, and they’re the worst “AI” I’ve seen. There are other types of AI that are actually impressive, but the “writes a thing that looks like it might be the answer” machine is way less useful than they think it is.

But what does the G in GNU stand for?