I think this will be very successful. The Rust community seems very hellbent in achieving success at all costs, this includes making every software permissively licensed, while a lot of foundational software is still copyleft. This will likely trigger Gresham's law soon, and the fact that the community is pushing the security argument forward, which is very difficult to measure, is also very powerful, whether security may be a legitimate concern or it's a think of the children situation.
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lvass commented on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ docs.carbon-lang.dev/... · Posted by u/samuell
It's become a pet peeve of mine, but for the love of God, if anyone with input in Carbon is scanning this, what can be done to use "func" instead of "fn" as a keyword?
That all-consonant keyword always makes it seem like I'm reading Hungarian notation when reading Rust for instance. An other options I've seen for instance in Pony, "fun", is already an English word with a completely different meaning.
Even the "function" from Javascript seems fine to me.
I use emacs' prettify-symbol mode to turn every language's function keyword into ʩ. Don't think I incurred in God's wrath just yet.
Wow, just did this myself. The difference between Firefox and Chromium was depressing.
I'm getting >100 FPS almost consistently all the way up to 1,000 in Chromium, FF barely made it above 500 before dropping below 60.
Probably not a completely fair test, I've no extensions etc. on Chromium and only use it for the odd stubborn website, but that was quite a lesson in their comparative performance.
For me it was stable 120fps on firefox at 2200 and 60fps at 3200, using 200W in my RX 6750XT.
Chromium hit below 60fps at around 4000 and below 30fps at 6000 but used my integrated intel GPU all the time.
Well, that depends. Very inefficient code tends to only be used when absolutely needed. If an LLM becomes ten times faster at answering simple prompts, it may very well be used a hundred times more as a result, in which case electricity use will go up, not down. Efficiency gains commonly result in doing way more with more, not more with less.
Indeed, that is a common occurrence that called Jevons Paradox.
I think this is a uncharitable take. I don't feel at all that the maintainers have this level of disdain for non-free OSes. Just type C-h n and you can see work done for non-free OSes (e.g. "'NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription' now included in "Info.plist" (macOS).")
I don't think there'd be pushback on bug fixes. I think it's only new features that would only exist on macOS that get pushback.
>I think it's only new features that would only exist on macOS that get pushback
Not even that anymore, it seems. https://xenodium.com/emacs-send-to-aka-macos-sharing-merged-...
lvass commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
> "YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content [...] It's not social media."
Aren't "sharing platforms" and "social media" the same thing? I understand a long time ago there was a dream that people would produce and share as much content as they consume, and that is what social media was supposed to be in reference to, but that imagined world never happened. Social media, as used to refer to any practical service in the real world, has always been about one-sided content being shared to a mostly consumer-only audience.
> increasingly viewed on TV screens
Are people digging old Trinitrons out of the trash, or what? If you try to buy a new "TV", you are going to get a computer with a large monitor instead.
>Aren't "sharing platforms" and "social media" the same thing?
Meta claimed in FTC v. Meta that they are indeed the same.
lvass commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
Based on the history of the tech industry, Linux adoption should be kept at this level and advanced no further. This is already the sweet spot for the "year of the Linux desktop," which should be celebrated by experts, technical users, and the sufficiently motivated.
Once the unwashed masses start coming in, the software and its interaction patterns pander to the lowest common denominator and the quality of the medium degrades.
How exactly is Linux becoming popular going to make my EXWM setup suck? To be fair, if it does get a large market share, some company is probably going to take MS's role and make a distro that sucks but many people use. But that shouldn't be an issue to existing users unless they take over something like a major DE and you insist on using that for some reason. For IT people, having the possibility of running a decent shell and sshd in most desktops would be terrific.
lvass commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
Why not use Win 11?
For video games as of today, SteamOS presents double digit performance gains on average over Windows, running Windows games on Steam Deck and similar platforms.
I guess the OEMs (Lenovo in this case) still don't want support calls about why their game (anti-cheat enabled, fortnite, etc) won't run on their new Legion Go S.
Although you may very well be correct, Epic and Lenovo aren't owned by the same entities in paper, and putting it this way is uncalled for.