As a Flemish person, it's surprising to do how some of these still have variations in use today.
And it's disappointing how little I can find about these in Dutch.
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And it's disappointing how little I can find about these in Dutch.
Surely no law enforcement would overreach when given tools like these, right? Right?
Still seems very strange to label 64-bit processors STM32...
Number of binaries is kind of a meaningless metric, especially for a system that historically follows the UNIX philosphy of each program doing one thing.
Sure, a shell is complicated and a potential risk, and perhaps it's a good idea to exclude from the base system in this context.
But I'd rather have ls, tr and wc on my system than some bespoke, all-encompassing API service that has been far less battle tested providing similar functionality.
And like you rightly pointed out, these new binaries all contain their own list of dependencies which are pulled in at build time and need to be taken into scope as well.
That's not to say Talos or its approach doesn't hold merit, but I think it's a little disengenious to simply point at the number of binaries.
Your attack on systems programmers holding specific knowledge as holy while pointing to their ignorance about another bit of knowledge you consider more relevant seems kind of ironic to me.
However, it is missing a lot of features I've grown used to in (arguably more baroque) editors like Emacs, Helix and VS Code. Mostly stuff that builds on LSP.
When I last tried it (admittedly almost two years ago), it didn't have Rust syntax support at all and I couldn't get LSP (which has a plugin module made by the main developer at https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept-lsp) to work at all.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone tried it more recently and has had a better experience.
A new model that is designed to fit existing observations that don't match our expectations based on the old model, without it correctly predicting new unexpected observations, seems like a rather weak proposition to me.
But most of the time we just use Jellyfin. It's just better UX, even if it lacks polish. Stuff is in predictable places, in one app. I don't need to scroll past 2 full screens of generated lists with suggested content to get to my personal hand made watch list.
I'm fully ready to drop subscription streaming and go back to buying DVD or Bluray box sets to rip at this point.
There's reasons to want either, but as a heavy user of PWAs for a few online services / communities, I much prefer the former in most cases.
Look around the webring. You'll find statements like:
> "Feminism is without a doubt one of the key ideologies in perverting the Christian worldview. The rhetoric “patriarchy”, is a denial of spiritual fatherhood. I’d wager most feminists would admit they’d give up their man-like life in return for a loving father."[0]
And
> "What would happen if we got rid of the lower education industry? Kids wouldn't have anywhere to go during the day so many mothers would probably be forced back into the home and fathers would be forced to stay with and support their families. This would actually be really great for society."[1]
So: jikes.
After having read this post, I noticed the page had an old school webring footer, how nice!
Clicking on it however, I was greeted by:
> An invite-only discussion platform for Christian men. Christ is King!
Jikes...
Sadly not all on the mainline, but having worked in the embedded world, Linux is a massive part of that space.
They charge typically 10c for a single use bag, and 30c for a reusable bag[0] (which is much heavier plastic indeed). And people actually reuse the bags, or bring their own cloth bags, to the supermarket.
Additionally, single use plastics have been mostly banned and I can't recall seeing any (apart from straws, which were banned more recently) in the last 15 years. This was met with some grumbling early on, but people got used to it rather quickly.
[0] To give you an idea about how sturdy these 30c reusable bags are, I routinely use these to transport car parts (like brake disks & calipers, or suspension parts), fluids, power tools, or even lead batteries around.
I wonder how they will do this in the workstation and server space, I don't really see how they can do away with socketed CPUs.
I wonder if we will go back to slotted CPUs, with a SOM style board with CPU and memory being plugged into a motherboard/chassis that's really just an I/O back plane. How will multi Cpu communication look then?
I guess we already have memory being pinned to a NUMA node and connecting to others via a vendor specific interconnect, so maybe it's not that strange and different from today.
For this same reason (timing precision) you see that soldered DDR5 memory often reaches way higher speeds than what's available in DIMM or SODIMM form.
The difference is maybe that often times you can supplement your weekly food run with small trips to the corner store during the week.
I would argue the other way, as a European, I've been to multiple places Asia and the Middle East and everything is either the same size or smaller than in Europe.
I haven't been to Africa or the Americas, but I'd say from my perspective, that things in the US are just extra large.
When I'm driving on my own with my wife's car, I turn heating or AC off, and it makes a little difference, but not all that much.
> Sure it's not winning any range contests, we knew that when we bought it.
I mean, it is also far more affordable that a lot of the alternatives. I find that range is only useful up to a point. If you have enough range to meet your requirements, why spend so much more money just to get a bigger number?
In ideal conditions though. Have you driven it in winter in a colder climate? My wife has an older EV with 270km range in summer, but it falls to close to 170km in winter, sometimes less, when fully charged.
Fast chargers are convenient when available, but most of the time she uses slow chargers and charges the car overnight and/or seeks out a parking lot with chargers close to her destination.
She's upgrading to her second EV next week, which has bigger range (still not massive). For most trips with the kids however, we resort to my old fossil fuel wagon.
- My current car cost €13k, and is a station wagon that comfortably fits 5 and their luggage for any occasion. It's luxurious and quite fast for what it is. The cheapest EV that matches this in my market is around €60k.
- Modern cars, and EVs especially, are usability nightmares. No more buttons, everything hidden in apps and behind touchscreens.
- Modern cars, and EVs especially, are privacy nightmares. They are always on computers, constantly reporting back to the mothership. Mozilla did a deep dive on their terms and conditions, and all of them are horrible. Multiple brands admit to collecting and sharing details about sexual activity, genetic and health information in these legal documents.
- Long term ownership and servicing is a hard proposition currently. Batteries need replacing after a number of years (let's say 10 years, some will last a little longer, but many will lose significant range before that point), and the cost of replacement currently exceeds the value of the vehicle (sometimes even exceeding the price of a new vehicle). This is not an accident. Tesla introduced the "structural battery pack" with the Model Y, and others are sure to follow their model. Ostensibly to increase efficiency and lower the astronomical weight of EVs, in reality this is a thinly veiled attempt at introducing more planned obsolescence.
- Charging infrastructure is woefully underdimensioned in many locations, even for the current adoption rate.
I'm honestly waiting for the market and charging networks to mature, so I can just pay a company to convert an older vehicle to EV and sidestep all the garbage the car industry is trying to push on us with the current crop of EVs.
Sure, not at first. But how long has it been since most people interacted with a CD player now? Most teenagers haven't, ever.
Yet here we are, music is still being sold on CDs.
Not that I want to put the music industry on some kind of pedestal as a paragon of virtue in the digital age, but it's certainly odd and noteworthy.
> Now, since CSS was cracked, DVDs are, in practice, no harder to rip. But a company like Apple can't ship a DVD ripper in iTunes.
DVD quality is not really of sufficient quality for most consumers today, though. Meanwhile, CD quality continues to match or exceed modern streaming services.