Ah sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

Fedora Linux has been the most stable OS in my experience, having used Windows XP to 10 and switching to Linux before 11 came out. I can leave it on for literally weeks on end and the memory never randomly fills up, nor does it get more and more glitchy/crash prone as you leave it on, both of which I have experienced on Windows.

FOSS is not American. Foss belongs to literally everyone.

Good license. If you want to mod the game, your code will need to be open source (in theory), so there could end up being open source modding communities around them.

Why aren’t “alternate syntaxes” a thing? You can pretty easily just write code to convert between C-like and Python-like syntax. Why aren’t there IDE extensions that let you write in python syntax and automatically commit the standard syntax.

Microsoft: has town hall

Also Microsoft: “approved opinions only!”

Why would anyone bother writing it like that? That just seems like int main() with extra steps. Like does auto enable some compiler optimisation of the return type that I’m not aware of?

I think this is kind of a good thing, that way companies can’t sell old cpus to people who don’t know any better.

But the other side to this is that those new old stock CPUs just became e-waste when they could have been sold at a discount to people who could make use of them despite their age. Perfectly good parts containing precious natural resources and people’s labour getting thrown away because Microsoft said so.

fixes bug

bug fix uncovers code that was relying on the faulty behaviour to work properly

FUUUUUUUU

Microsoft: NOOO YOU CAN’T USE THAT CPU IT CAME OUT AN ARBITRARY AMOUNT OF TIME AGOOOO!

Linux: Haha potato chip go BRRRR

Every time Rust takes forever to compile something, I picture in my mind it checking every possible edge case and buffer vulrnability I didn’t check and suddenly I’m a lot more okay with how long it takes.

Reminder that Linux’s decision to write an entire kernel in C and not a mix of C and assembly was just as controversial back then as Rust vs C is now. The pro-assembly programmers used many similar arguments as the anti-Rust programmers (it’s bloated, it’s too high level for the kernel, it has a complicated compiler, it’s just a pointless abstraction over what’s actually happening at the processor level, it’s not mature enough, if you were competent in assembly you wouldn’t need to use C, if assembly is too difficult for you then you shouldn’t even be developing a kernel, etc). Now Linux is hailed as one of the pioneer software projects that led the switch from assembly to C for kernel level code.

If even senior C developers can and regularly do write critical memory vulnerabilities that can give attackers remote code execution as root, then I’d say it’s indeed already broken.

Honestly playing a competitive game with AI is kind of like playing with a child who hasn’t grown out of the making up random rules phase.

“Rock crushes scissors, I win!”

“Nuh uh! My scissors are actually a ray gun and disintegrated your rock!”

Because AI doesn’t actually “understand” the concepts it’s using the same way humans do. Nor does it know what winning or losing is or even the concept of a game itself. All it knows is you told it to prioritise reaching a certain state (try to “win” the “game”) so it will do whatever it can to reach it without regard for if it makes sense or not. AI at its core is just statical analysis and prediction of what a human might do given the prompt.

Of course it does for the private contractors raking in peak profits!

“We don’t need TCAS on commercial airliners because any colisions are the pilot/controller’s fault”

Except that’s literally the reality with computers. Everything evolves and things go obsolete. I’m sure the COBOL and Fortran programmers were pissed when the kids started using C too.

I know it’s impressive and all but I still get the heebee jeebees from a humanoid robot.

I want the robot uprising to look like HAL, not Terminator.

IMO every distro should have a rolling release option. Kind of like how OpenSUSE has the normal version and Tumbleweed. You have normal version for when you need the OS to work (you’re new to Linux, it’s your main personal/work computer, it’s a server, etc) and then you have the rolling release option for when you’re willing to give up stability for the newest versions of everything as soon as possible.