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Troy

@ troyunrau @lemmy.ca

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Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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  • Just Asking How to Apply

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  • In the desktop mode, after at least one post exists in the community, you can go into that post and some additional buttons will exist. Including one which allows you to invite someone to help moderate.

    Could misremember...

  • Netflix's Adolescence Is a Trojan Horse for Online Censorship and Surveillance

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  • Did they even watch it?

    The free speech absolutists are going to cause something far far worse than what is portrayed. But maybe that is the goal.

  • Boycott U.S. GOP/Heritage Foundation Donors to stop fascist coup in U.S.

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  • I really wish Uline wasn't in this group. It's so damned useful. Now I need to find multiple suppliers instead.

  • Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India

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  • You're applying logic when logic doesn't apply. Why would he tarriff Canada?

  • Casper's new hiding spot

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  • Thos ears...

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    Being a teacher

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  • Poor kid is just colourblind, undiagnosed.

  • (How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry)

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  • MATLAB is basically a UI wrapper around Fortran's BLAS and LAPACK -- change my mind. ;)

  • Is this the best place to donate?

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  • Yes

  • Why is my output not formatted as a string?

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  • print(eval(input("Expression:")))

    Unsafe coding is best coding ;)

  • (How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry)

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  • Insist they index from 1. Like God and Fortran intended it. ;)

  • They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt, 2017 edition

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  • It's almost like it is being read as a manual and not a warning.

  • That's, uh... that's decorative

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  • Tritanium -- is what, a portmanteau of Tritium and Titanium? I guess there's three elements with anium in the endings... What if Tritanium is an alloy of those three! Uranium, Germanium, and Titanium.

    Actually, it probably just sounded cool. ;)

  • Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

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  • I'll believe it when I see code written for it solving a real problem

  • DNA

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  • Or jerk off into it like in that documentary, Fight Club

  • Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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  • Chicken and egg problem strikes again

  • Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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  • I agree. And those decades of development come with huge advantages. Libraries. Patterns. Textbooks! Billions of lines of code you can cross reference and learn from!

    It's fun to bleed a little when you are tinkering. It's not fun to have to reinvent the wheel because you choose a language that doesn't have an existing ecosystem. That becomes and chicken-and-egg problem. The tinkerers fulfill this role (building out the ecosystem) and also tend to advocate for their tinkering language of choice. But there needs to be a real critical mass.

    It takes decades to shift an entrenched ecosystem. Check in ten years if the following exist in languages other than C/C++: an enterprise grade database, a python(/etc.) interpreter that isn't marked experimental, an OS kernel that is used somewhere real, an embedded manufacturer that ships the language as its first class citizen, a AAA game using it under the engine...

    Like, in the last 15 years, I'm only aware of a single AAA game that used a memory safe language -- Neverwinter Nights 2 used C# for part of the Electron Engine...

    Rust is the most likely candidate here, although you see things like Erlang being used to make some databases (CouchDB). People see Rust being used on some real infrastructure projects that gain actual traction (polars comes to mind). Polars is an interesting use case though -- it's simply better than the other projects in its particular space and so people are switching to it not because it is written in rust at all... And honestly, that's probably the only way this happens.

  • Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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  • Certainly, if I had said that.

    It's like the Brits trying to convince everyone else to switch to their electrical socket. Sure, the design is better for higher voltage and current, has all these extra safety features, etc. But you cannot dramatically shift an entrenched ecosystem for free.

  • Time to make C the COBOL of this century

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  • No.

    C is going to be around and useful long after COBOL is collecting dust. Too many core things are built with C. The Linux kernel, the CPython interpreter, etc. Making C go away will require major rewrites of projects that have millions upon millions of hours of development.

    Even Fortran has a huge installed base (compared to COBOL) and is still actively used for development. Sometimes the right tool for a job is an old tool, because it is so well refined for a specific task.

    Forth anyone?

    The rewrite-it-in-rust gang arrives in 3, 2 ...

  • NSFW

    rtbrtrtnty

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  • Grass finds a way