WhatsApp is owned by Meta, try playing up the anti-American angle?

I could see having lights on a somewhat sophisticated timer. Like having bedroom lighting that simulates dawn, fades on etc. Maybe making a thermostat a little bit more sophisticated. I’d like to live in a world where I could trust the power company to tell me when electricity is abundant and scarce but we’re gonna have to win Civil War 2 before we get that. My toilet and faucets do not need any digital technology at all.

I cast ANGRY UPVOTE

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.

and really disappointed with his visit to a therapist.

Roundup is an herbicide, not a pesticide.

Which Candy Kong though? The one from DKC, the one from DK64, or the one from the animated series above?

That was my first throught, followed very closely by “WHY was that even in that movie?”

Someday you’ll try that over SSH once.

Once.

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

I wonder what went through the mind of that hamster as it sat there for 3 days with its face stuck to the wall. Like that would FUCK UP a human. We made a whole damn movie about the guy who got his hand trapped under a rock that one time.

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.

“just stick a pot on the board bro, it’ll stay at 1.49284762340598 ohms for 9 or 10 nanoseconds after leaving the factory.”

Shut. Down. Madagascar.

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.

I was teaching flight school by the time I was 23. I started studying the books at 14 and started flight school in earnest at 16. It’s called teaching adolescents to do shit.

Actually no, I was figuring on having adults present to raise, educate and care for the children, but under strict orders to not introduce them to superstition.

If I recall correctly, it was installed questionably, drew too much power and caused a fire.

I’m not meaning dump 20,000 children alone in the left half of Wyoming, I mean, keep them with their parents, hire teachers, teach them math and science and…basically a history that replaces a lot of “and they believed their gods said” with “the ruling class decided they wanted to”. What happens to children when they are raised in a functioning, supportive, nurturing society that does not contain religion or superstition?