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@mcc Yeah, that's actually the case. But Rust doesn't have to be better here because most of the languages that ARE good about "here's what happens in your hardware" are niche as fuck, so there's no real pressure/competition on C, Rust, C++, etc. to actually provide materially better guarantees about what goes on in the hardware.

So it has sort of stagnated over the last 30 years. Unfortunately.

@mcc I'll probably never stop using C, but I'm convinced that most of today's software engineering challenges can be explained by the fact that the PDP-11 was basically a stack of squirrels in a trench-coat trying to do math on an Etch-a-Sketch.

This is before we get into the issue, which people in language design seem to call out frequently, that the "metal" C is "close to" is in fact a 1970s PDP-11, which the computer you will be running your actual C on differs from in several important ways

The power of Rust is not that it is "close to the metal" but rather that it is close to the compiler backend. Rust doesn't attempt to make you frame your code in a way that the hardware will execute well, but rather to frame it in a way that the LLVM optimizer will optimize well. This is the correct decision since your C code after all will be processed through that same optimizer before it touches anything resembling metal

new rule. .999... is no longer equal to 1. henceforth it is equal to 2, for sufficiently small values of 2.

vintage computer festival east photos

Look at this transgender seagull my employee oonagh made for the shop

I'm sure I'm not the only EU citizen wishing all Americans who are out on the streets today a better future. Fighting for not just your own democracy but for all of the rest of us too.

Thank you.
Stay safe!

#USpol #HandsOff #Democracy

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#uspol #HandsOff #Chicago #ilpol

Getting ahead of the market...

#uspol #HandsOff #Chicago #ilpol

Wow, had a lot of response to the mallard mother photo. I’m not a professional photographer and I don’t know how to sell anything. I just like birds and showing birds to people.

Idea: YouTube channel called "Will It Build" where I just check out various popular FLOSS projects and follow the build instructions.

Would probably attract 3 viewers and 17 strong opinions

I just made this silly but accurate thing. I'm silly too and i love it, but also i'm serious in my silliness.

@hannah

My sign kept blowing over in the wind so i went The Incredible Machine mode

Leaving this in the guest bedroom bedside drawers like it’s a Gideons’ Bible.

@kate you know some enterprising Italian is figuring out how to export directly from San Marino to the US

0% tariffs on San Marino. Come import…from beautiful San Marino. 🇸🇲