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[jacob]

They will come as soon as they finish editing their .mouserc to set the cursor's new coordinates....

[jacob]

Momentum-wise, Rust is doing perfectly well I think. No-one says it's for everyone or that it's the silver bullet that solves all programming problems....

[jacob]

It depends on the benchmarks. True, LLVM is still trailing GCC in terms of optimisation, but when the same C/C++ benchmarks are compiled with Clang (which...

[jacob]

I tend to agree as far as games are concerned. However there ARE some FOSS games that also have great gameplay/graphics/mechanics in their own genre....

[jacob]

What language is better than Rust? Rust with SIMD support!!!

[jacob]

Of course I know that. I also know that Google can change that whenever they damn please and that using Google Docs means giving out any information your...

[jacob]

BUS1 would get my vote.

[jacob]

There already is logind (part of the systemd suite), which manages seats and sessions, and PAM, which provides an authentication API. The actual login...

[jacob]

Is that enough for an accelerated desktop / MS office? I'm not talking games......

[jacob]

Thank you very much, Devuan devs. By pulling all the VUAs out of the mainstream community and locking them in a corner, you help to remove one of the...

[jacob]

If you don't care one second about privacy, confidentiality or lock-in then yeah, I guess it is....

[jacob]

I remember about 10 years ago, when XFS was considered dead (like JFS, Reiserfs etc.). What a spectacular comeback!...

[jacob]

No. Apple fans will say wow, none of the apps I paid big $$$ for work any more, but it's Apple who is doing that, so it's, like, totally awesome! F*ck...

[jacob]

Very interesting results. DragonflyBSD is finally putting up a fight!

[jacob]

Yeah. RH deprecated the prospect of one day using a tech it never used to begin with. That totally shakes the world. However, lest we forget, RH also...

[jacob]

https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html

[jacob]

If we don't have to work in the mines, it's largely thanks to the vision of Richard Stallman and the development efforts of Linus Torvalds, plus the millions...

[jacob]

That's very subjective. To me, Ruby looks like a bastard child of Python and Perl. Although there is no question that Ruby's blocks are much better than...

[jacob]

The answers were in the previous posts if you cared to read them. In summary:

1. It's licence. Of course the licence is not bad by itself....

[jacob]

You're missing the point. I'm not talking about data loss. If there is a crash before a commit, you WILL lose data, with or without COW and with or without...