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> But Rust does support S390x?

It's not a tier-1 target though.

Well, the promise was that rustc_codegen_gcc would reach its goals very quickly which is why several people dismissed projects such as gccrs.

But it turns out that rustc_codegen_gcc still hasn't delivered and it seems the project has fallen asleep.

Yes, it was me that did the work on the Rust side. It doesn't work yet though as progress on the LLVM side is very slow.

> The parent comment even included HPPA (PA-RISC) which almost makes me think they’re into either retro computing or they have some arbitrary completionist goal of covering all platforms.

Yes, retro-computing is a thing. Wouldn't it be nice to have Rust support on these platforms as well?

I am actively maintaining all of these within Debian.

Plus, there is a very vibrant community around the Motorola 68000 and SuperH CPUs thanks to the Amiga, Sega Dreamcast and many other classical computer systems and consoles.

I am still waiting for any of the alternative Rust front- or backends to allow me to bootstrap Rust on alpha, hppa, m68k and sh4 which are still lacking Rust support.

Originally, the rustc_codegen_gcc project made this promise but never fulfilled it.

No one cares about thermal efficiency. What matters is the economic efficiency.

Most EVs sold in China are hybrids and not BEVs. Hence they call them NEV = New Energy Vehicle.

Wind and solar power heavily depend on fossil backup plants which is why oil companies have long been proponents of the energy transition.

The only technology that is actually able to get rid of fossil technology is nuclear power.

Fossil companies hugely profit from the anti-nuclear green movement that solely focuses on wind and solar.

Because no matter how many wind and solar plants you build, they will never be able to provide baseload and hence you need fossil backup power plants.

> This means that no country will want to buy F16s.

This means that no country will buy any US-supplied military equipment.

Trump has destroyed the trust in the US defense sector for years to come.

Absolutely irresponsible action.

Renewables like wind and solar don’t provide baseload and therefore cannot replace conventional power plants.

I wish people stopped comparing apples and oranges here.

Gold is slated for removal from binutils for version 2.44.0, so it's officially dead.

Nuclear is much more important than wind and solar because it provides baseload and the plants last longer than 20 years.

I’m so tired explaining people what the capacity factor and baseload are and why wind and solar do not replace conventional power plants.

Germany has an installed solar capacity of 100 GW, 72 GW wind and some hydro and bio mass.

Yet there are 109 coal plants and 267 natural gas plants in Germany.

Comparing wind and solar with conventional power plants is completely pointless.

China is currently building 29 nuclear power plants in parallel and plans to issue construction permits for 10 reactors each year.

The country is expected to reach an installed nuclear capacity of 400 GW in 2060.

And, unlike wind and solar, nuclear power plants provide baseload and can actually drive an electricity grid.

Most EVs sold in China are actually hybrids which is why the category is called NEV, i.e. new energy vehicles.

Have been to any actual socialist country? Have experienced what scarcity means and what it feels like to be locked into your own country without a real chance of leaving until you reach retirement age?

Sounds like x86-64 is starting to lose some of it’s market share very soon.

Really a pity that Oracle killed off SPARC. They already had 32-core CPUs almost a decade ago but Oracle never really understood the value that SPARC and Solaris brought to the table.

I have lived in Norway for a year and it’s definitely not as bright as you’re painting it.

Rent prices are extremely high and apartments are quite small compared to other European cities.

Alcohol is so expensive, that Norwegians go on alcohol shopping tours to Sweden.

Trains in Oslo don’t run 24 hours, so you have to take long detours with busses at night or pay obnoxiously high rates when taking a cab.

No, Norway is definitely not the paradise you’re trying to make it.

Also, these people that left Norway weren’t against paying taxes. They were against the socialist government trying to rip them off with a completely unfair taxation.

China is also massively building nuclear with 29 reactors being built in parallel.

Source: https://pris.iaea.org/pris/worldstatistics/underconstruction...

Build more nuclear power plants since wind and solar do not provide dispatchable baseload and batteries don’t scale enough.

No other technology comes even close to the energy density of nuclear power.

> How many people eat McDonalds?

If you’re already starting like this it’s obvious that the following text will be non-scientific non-sense.

As a reminder: There is no such thing as “healthy food” and “unhealthy food”, there is just healthy and unhealthy nutrition.

Still baffles me that people think it would actually be legal to sell actual unhealthy food, i.e. poisonous food.

Also, “organic food” is just a marketing scam. If you think your nutrition is better off if you stick to nature, you’ve missed a large part of human history where people starved to death by the thousands every year because they exclusively relied on “organic food”.

systemd runs on billions of systems worldwide and everyone who ever professionally maintained enterprise servers understand what a bad approach the crude hack that SysVInit with its collection of shell scripts was.

The memory comparison isn’t really fair as SysVInit relies on external utilities for starting and stopping processes.

At the very least, SysVInit requires a shell for running init scripts which systemd doesn’t need for native service files.

> If every package bundles libfoo what happens there's a security vulnerability in libfoo?

That’s actually the key point that many people in this discussion seem to miss.

Multiple versions of a shared library is a pure nightmare if you actually care about security.

The compiler takes care of vulnerabilities?

There was a recent talk that discussed the security nightmare with dozens of different versions of shared libraries in NixOS and how difficult it is for the distribution maintainers to track and update them.

The main argument for using shared libraries isn’t memory or disk usage, but simply security.

If you have a thousand packages linking statically against zlib, you will have to update a thousand packages in case of a vulnerability.

With a shared zlib, you will have to update only one package.

> It statistically evaluated mobile phone and car movement data for Germany

How do you obtain car movement data if not by tracking cell phones?