I don’t buy that at all. If you read about Apollo, and before that, you’ll see that simply this stuff is hard and many times you have things “half-assed” and just take the risk. Another case is the Space Shuttle…

With that said I think Boeing has been too unreliable for manned space flight. I don’t trust much the “we’re just taking time to gather more data” and this to me is the bad part about private companies: they have no compulsion to be truthful to the public.

Great, I’ll be a bit absolute and say that if a corporation doesn’t want to use my GPL code I see it as a good thing, corporations tend to be soulless leeches.

I was caught by surprise and for some reason this joke clicked so much that I laughed for a while. Kudos

Same for me, but still no shipping for my country, so I just bought a used T490 which will serve my needs for 4 years and then I’ll go for framework; hopefully they are still kicking by then. If shipping was available I would for sure have gone for their 13’’ laptop even though it’s much more expensive and powerful than I need for personal use.

Thanks for your answers. I wasn’t able to get what I wanted to work but that’s because the device used broadcast for discoverability which doesn’t work through subnets. I pivoted to something else

Or perhaps it will come from the right? Undefined behaviour is the magic word

Religion is the word you’re looking for.

This is per capita for sure

Typical hackers

Screw that, go check the original definition of hacker. Those who do bad business with computers are “black hats” not “typical hackers”

To me it feels like people romanticising their hobbies/escape activities. If they started doing it as work soon enough they would have lots of pain points and stress. Sure you don’t have CVEs or libraries to update but the deadline for that chair or cabinet you were commissioned is coming and you can’t just get the damn thing right. At the same time you have another customer complaining that you need to check some other stuff you’ve made that isn’t working right … see where I’m going?

I know a lot of people in the trades and they have very similar or analogous pain points as me in software.

Doing it as a hobby though? It’s amazing. I don’t really need a car anymore but I’ve been learning how to fix mine and it has been great

Meh prom is not that special. If I knew I would have rather spent my time programming or playing

I wrote loads of firmware in c++ and some on highly constrained boards. You’re just stuck in the past and spewing bs

That’s because Rust solves lots of issues caused by C, of course they are going to twist that knife and use it as a selling points. Humour is not bad, I’ve done lots of C and C++ and am not bothered a bit by it.

It doesn’t reduce the importance of the language at all, just sheds some light on safer languages, Rust or not.

Steve Jobs was an awful person, the brand was already cracked

It’s exactly the people that can have a choice who should be helping those who can’t, don’t you agree?

The fight for open software and hardware wouldn’t be made by going around paraplegic people and bothering them about it, but by discussing it with the vendors and legislators.

This was not a success. With that said it doesn’t mean there weren’t good things, from what I read they did a whole lot of things well. People seem to be unable to understand they can coexist.

Librewolf. If all else fails I’ll pop my old Emacs config and browse whichever websites I can there

That’s a very good way of me leaving Firefox behind…

That’s because it doesn’t : ) He is the top level engineer/manager for releases and technical consultation but there are many more engineers “under” him leading and moving the pieces into place.

Hey man why the rudeness? We’re just trying to have a conversation …