felbane

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[–] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Not for the same cost per gram as good ol' Horse Electrolyte™! Talk to your Ivermectin dealer today!

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 19 points 2 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 39 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

So uh, what do you think the Cl in NaCl stands for?

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 15 points 1 month ago

Username checks out.

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