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I still don’t accept the fundamental core point of the arguement which is that rust necessarily makes it impossible to commit certain errors. Rust has its rules as such as only programming language does but that doesn’t mean that mistakes are impossible.

The vast majority of errors are logic errors not memory leaks in standard functions.

Also isn’t this supposed to be some horrific monsters that comes from a neighbouring galaxy that occasionally wipes almost everyone out.

Canonically the impulse engines at least on the Enterprise D can achieve a top speed of 0.25 c. This means that when they’re being “cautious” and moving at one quarter impulse, they’re still moving at an insanely high velocity.

I’m completely confused by why they seem to think it’s impossible to have coding errors in rust. I’m also confused as to why they seem to think that errors are actually a problem. You get them you fix them. Who cares about what language you do it in.

This stinks of somebody who’s been in the industry for about 2 years and now thinks they’re hot shit.

So there is apparently a problem with languages such as JavaScript and the solution is to use languages such as TypeScript.

Wut?

I mean not with GitHub but I do the same thing with mega scans. I have a lot of rocks in my collection.

Unfortunately some users are just about bright enough to work that one out.

Animals would be preferable. I reckon a chipmunk would be able to understand the instructions, it’s only humans that fuck it up that bad.

Because who else would raise a support ticket because the first name field doesn’t allow emoji? Or ask for a Braille language option, it’s still English Karen, it’s basically just a font, and there’s no point anyway without a braille output, just putting the dots on the screen isn’t helpful. That one got closed as it “won’t fix” since there’s no one in the organisation who’s blind and it’s mostly a hardware problem anyway.

You definitely used a lot of words there. I don’t really think you said anything, but you certainly used a lot of words.

If it isn’t, it never will be.

Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.

I have one of the originals and it definitely wouldn’t run anything other than Linux.

I would be interested if there are any raspberry pi owning non-Linux users. It would sort of seem like the two would go together.

Because it doesn’t have that kind of access to the file system. It can pull and push files from the system but that’s it. It has to interact with the file system via an API, it’s not got direct access.

Given the tendency of these systems to randomly implode (as demonstrated) I’m unconvinced they’re going to be a long-term threat.

Any company that desires to replace its employees with an AI is really just giving them an unpaid vacation. Not even a particularly long one if history is any judge.

What’s this version control stuff? I don’t need that, I have an AI.

- An actual quote from Deap-Hyena492

For some reason YouTube keeps pushing me to watch Contact, I’ve no idea why?

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

As much as I would love to go over to a purely Linux system there just isn’t the support. I would not relish the prospect of trying to administer 5,000 laptops, and 300 desktops without the benefit of active directory user groups. Even with all of the messing about that Microsoft has done with Entra, it is still a far better mass device management platform than anything available on Linux and Apple haven’t even tried.

No the keyboard is important. There are so many truly awful keyboards out there that have no travel on the keys.

I absolutely cannot stand the keyboard on the MacBook air. It’s so incredibly cheap and it appears to be made out of the same material that they package luxury chocolates in.

Doesn’t Starfleet have the ability to remotely control vessels? It’s been done in the past where the ships been taken over and the crew have remotely shut down weapons and shields so they can gain control again. Presumably that works over any distance, so Starfleet could just deactivate a rogue vessel from Earth.

You’re not really a proper old person unless you are offering Werthers Originals and blue ribbons at every opportunity.