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throw_a_grenade commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
jcranmer · 9 days ago
C currently remains the language of system ABIs, and there remains functionality that C can express that Rust cannot (principally bitfields).

Furthermore, in terms of extensions to the language to support more obtuse architecture, Rust has made a couple of decisions that make it hard for some of those architectures to be supported well. For example, Rust has decided that the array index type, the object size type, and the pointer size type are all the same type, which is not the case for a couple of architectures; it's also the case that things like segmented pointers don't really work in Rust (of course, they barely work in C, but barely is more than nothing).

throw_a_grenade · 9 days ago
Also you can't do self-referential strutcs.

Double-linked lists are also pain to implement, and they're are heavily used in kernel.

throw_a_grenade commented on Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass   core77.com/posts/138925/T... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
whatevaa · 19 days ago
Yeah, no, that's not how it works. Need to do it many times before something is not fun. Just look at computer games.
throw_a_grenade · 19 days ago
Well, the way my parents discouraged me from smoking was, they brought a pack of cigarettes home and let me have one. Was awful, never wanted to try it again. That was an important life lesson for me.
throw_a_grenade commented on Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass   core77.com/posts/138925/T... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
fastasucan · 19 days ago
Lets not teach kids to open plane doors for fun.
throw_a_grenade · 19 days ago
No, this is backwards. Fun is trying new things (I think it's evolutionary mechanism that ensure kids are learning by default), and once the thing has been tried, it's not new anymore, so won't be tried again. Best thing we can actually do is to channel that, as OP proposed.

If only we had cheap, multi-use inflatable exit ramps that deflate, fold and stow themselves after use. Which is not a thing, apparently.

throw_a_grenade commented on EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament   techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/mseri
aestetix · 23 days ago
Honest question. The EU was created as an economic and trade institution. How has it morphed into a wierd political institution, which NATO was already supposed to be?

The root question: how did an organization that ushered in things like the Euro become a body that decides whether Europeans are allowed to have personal privacy?

throw_a_grenade · 23 days ago
EU (and preceding organisations since European Coal and Steel Community) were created so that there will be no war in Europe. How exactly this objective is achieved is of secondary importance. It is economic institution, because someone calculated that this will be best shot, but if (or when) calculation credibly shifts (for example, that it would be better for them to be a religion, a feudal system, or a federation -- whatever), it will morph into something else.

I'd say that it has 100% fulfilled its primary goal that there is no military conflict between major European states for like 80 years and counting, which is longest period ever recorded and a historical anomaly. The means of how it was executed is obviously a matter of debate, mistakes were made etc., but we over here generally make love, not war.

throw_a_grenade commented on EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament   techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/mseri
johnwayne666 · 23 days ago
Does this already include the parliament's position based on a trilogue or will there be amendments before it's voted in parliament?
throw_a_grenade · 23 days ago
IIUC no, this is Council position before trilogue.
throw_a_grenade commented on EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament   techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/mseri
throw_a_grenade · 23 days ago
The crux is in those „risk assessments”, to be approved by authorities. IIUC those authorities will be able to designate e.g. Signal „high risk” and slap penalties unless they „mitigate” the risk. Hard to tell what will happen without seeing final regulation.
throw_a_grenade commented on European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft   defensemirror.com/news/40... · Posted by u/saubeidl
barbazoo · a month ago
That sounds like such a made up thing. Any source to back that up?
throw_a_grenade · a month ago
I won't be put in (public) writing, but it's a same thing as “no-one gets fired for buying IBM”. Sometimes it's part of a bigger international agreement, like, you buy food and we buy weapons or sth.
throw_a_grenade commented on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act   prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/... · Posted by u/pinkahd
1over137 · a month ago
Probably meant “et al”, Latin for “and others”.
throw_a_grenade · a month ago
inter alia, “among others”
throw_a_grenade commented on Skeena Indigenous Typeface   microsoft.github.io/Skeen... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
BigTTYGothGF · a month ago
> “We're so blinded by hate against Europeans we're going to repeat the limitation of another settler-originated technology just to make things different than everyone else.”

Of all the ways to interpret the article, this is certainly one of them, but don't you think it's a bit of a stretch?

throw_a_grenade · a month ago
Maybe a bit. I just got triggered by the newspeak.
throw_a_grenade commented on Skeena Indigenous Typeface   microsoft.github.io/Skeen... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
throw_a_grenade · a month ago
> The form of the ogonek derives from a mediaeval scribal sign, the e caudata, and in European typography it follows the conventional writing of that sign in how it attaches to various vowel letters: [pic]

> In North American indigenous use, positioning of the ogonek is informed by typewriter output, in which the backspaced sign was centered below the preceding letter. This positioning is retained in the typography of these languages [...]

“We're so blinded by hate against Europeans we're going to repeat the limitation of another settler-originated technology just to make things different than everyone else.”

u/throw_a_grenade

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