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[ssokolow]

Lubuntu sees supporting legacy hardware as one of their primary goals. That generally means taking a conservative approach to new technologies.
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I'd expect it'd only be seen as cost-effective at the enterprise level for companies that already happened to have PXE-based device-provisioning workflows...

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Because it integrates so well with Cargo, Rust doesn't even include parts of its standard library in the standard library. (I always like to point to...

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No, you missed his point. He was talking about laptops where the USB ports and DVD drives required to access your 100 USB sticks or M-Discs are broken...

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That's why I said "secondary devices". In my experience, the only time people have a touchpad that's not built into a laptop as the primary...

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The original and primary purpose of gfx-rs is to be a portable Rust API wrapper for graphics... basically to Rust and the GPU what SDL is to C and the...

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Given that that the MPX (Multi-Pointer X) extension is in mainline X11 and Microsoft offers tech demos for similar multi-mouse functionality, it really...

[ssokolow]

Agreed. My main concerns are that and nag messages.

For example, years ago, I ripped out the update notifier used by Lubuntu and replaced...

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If both the caller and callee are written in Rust and using the Rust ABI, then the compiler will verify that correct behaviour is preserved, no matter...

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Years ago when I needed it, I remember seeing desktop extensions which could force arbitrary application windows to appear as tray icons rather than taskbar...

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Sending specially crafted random data to a program/driver/etc. to try to trigger bugs nobody knew about....

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Yes, but Google did discover that the NSA had been tapping the private fiber-optic lines between their data centers without any kind of information request....

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"support for running the compositor on multiple GPUs" sounds more like it's providing a Wayland-era equivalent to spanning a Xinerama desktop...

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It's perfectly strongly typed... it's just that numeric literals have types inferred from what you use them with unless you add a type suffix to them....

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To be honest, as long as you've got at least 1024px vertically, I think the proper response to a widescreen monitor is better tiling support in your ...

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However, if there are insufficient constraints to pin it down to a specific integer type, it will default to i32 because that's generally the most performant...

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Yeah. While English's grammar is pretty clean and regular, the Norman Conquest, the Great Vowel Shift, and using a writing system with too few symbols...

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Two points you didn't mention which should be mentioned to be more fair to Rust:

1. You don't usually need the : i32 because i32 is what untyped integer

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Let me guess. Frozen Bubble is one of the two games written in Perl?

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*nod* I only unblock Disqus temporarily on specific posts and have uMatrix's cookie-blocking and a user-agent randomizer to help out. My plan is to write...