My thing is: it doesn’t have to be rust. Rust is a means to an end: a guaranteed stable at compile time package with extreme memory safety (by default).

There are plenty of other languages that can do this. But, bluntly, if we did a real evaluation of the most popular C packages, even many of the well written 30+ year old ones would suffer from bugs and safety issues that literally cannot happen in rust.

It’s not an attack on C. It’s not an attack on the old guard. It’s just a better tool for the job!

And Hitler was Austrian, never had a nuclear family, blue eyes, or blond hair.

I work with closely with a Dutch coworker. There’s no way that isn’t true. I’m fact, I’m fairly certain that’s probably one of the tamer variations.

If only they could have known in advance that the man who constantly screamed that he was going to deport all the migrant workforce, fire most of the federal workforce, and slap tariffs on any country that refused to capitulate to his every whim would hurt the economy!

Trump can only dream of this, according to reliable sources.

But the tariffs also pay the tax cuts that allow rich people to spend more and to invest more.

No. That assumes the US cannot operate on a deficit. It can and will. We don’t “fund” tax cuts unless someone responsible is overseeing the budget.

Not to mention, every billionaire has their money in the market somehow, they don’t have Scrooge McDuck gold piles. Inflation and market losses erode their money just like it erodes ours. Perhaps even more.

We saw how the stock market had nothing to do with the actual economic situation during Covid. While all indicators went down, stocks still went up.

COVID resulted in a marked recession for the global economy, and the US was no exception. But people still had money and spent it regularly, so it didn’t freefall the entire time and at times had rallies. The US stock market is mostly run by a series of competing trading algorithms with tight guardrails these days, for better and for worse. Generally though it does mean that modern nose-dives rarely result in true crashes.

The things Walz has accomplished in his time in Minnesota is actually remarkable, especially given Minnesota’s traditionally libertarian/purple local politics.

Literally the only attack Republicans in Minnesota have is his handling of the George Floyd protests and his COVID response, and those are weak and they know it.

Under him we here in Minnesota got dozens of extremely progressive policies put though, our social programs have dramatically expanded and are extremely well funded, corruption has been rooted out, and our economy is booming. The Minnesota DFL under his leadership have gained a ton of ground as well, where nationally the DNC has given up a ton.

No, he isn’t a great orator or debater. But as a politician and policy maker he’s a rare combination of progressive, well respected, and effective.

Oh my God! It looks like a giant…

If I’m reading this right, yes. Vulkan calls extension, extension translates the call and addresses the GPU directly in PTX.

Makes sense to me, CUDA itself isn’t extremely optimal. It was supposed to be the easy button to get fast parallel code executing on Nvidia GPUs but has mostly failed at both of those objectives.

For optimal you really have to get into the PTX language, which is perhaps a half step above Assembly.

But this really doesn’t help AMD, Intel etc’s position. They still have to do their own extensions and optimization. But would be nice for programmers to be able to consolidate on Vulkan for both ML/Gaming workloads.

It doesn’t. The extensions they’re using are Nvidia specific.

Yep. Will actually make plant based and lab based alternatives competitive, and as they’re allowed to gain market share, become cheaper.

Literally an advertisement. For an unreleased product. Yuck.

I vote to the death.

Me too. I adore The Culture. Consider Phelbas is going to be an extremely difficult adaptation, and it’s one of the less approachable books in the series in my humble opinion.

It’s a version of VSCode with deep AI integration. I’ll say, it’s pretty good from a workflow perspective. But I just use Avante to similar effect.

Probably!

Everyone at work is using Cursor these days, except for me using neovim and my emacs loving coworker. When we present during pair programming our coworkers go nuts over watching our workflows and trying to figure out if they can do similar things in Cursor lol.

Personally I just use Linkwarden. I’ve been meaning to make a PR to get the auto tagging working on PDFs, maybe someday.

Here’s the scolding Linus SHOULD have given Hellwig MONTHS ago.

I said it before and I’ll say it again. Martin was wrong, and got treated fairly. He threw tantrums and stirred drama instead of acting like a maintainer.

But. That didn’t make Hellwig right. He wasn’t right. He was way out of line and over his skis, being hostile for hostilities sake.

Unfortunately many rust programmers already have a sour taste in their mouth regarding Linux development, which is a huge loss for the progress of the project.

You ever seen the dictator warlords constantly wearing miliary gear with too much polish and a thousand made up medals?

That’s why.