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> Rust was designed to facilitate incremental rewrites of an existing C++ library Do you have a source for this claim? Rust is a fine language (though its advocates can be a bit be…

Correct. And if those projects exposed a C++ API, then rewriting them in Rust would be highly problematic, because Rust did not prioritize C++/Rust interoperability (for well-under…

> If it was written in C++, there's a good chance it was so for performance reasons. I agree. But imagine that games like Doom or Quake would have been unthinkable if they weren't …

> My observation is most people who suggest Rust alternative don't use Rust. This is a very condescending statement. In fact, for most software, when given the option of a full rew…

BTW, there are also other interesting, low-power RISC architectures that are used in millions of devices, but most people have never heard of them. For example: * SuperH [0], 32bit…

> What's the appeal of this compared to a cheaper and more powerful N150 NUC, or a used mini PC This is a very good question. The Pi 500+ is a beautiful product, but when compared …

> A source would be any kind of proof... I cannot give you proof for the line of political thinking. :) > ...having a monopoly in one country is a strategic advantage over other co…

> the EU has the ability to fine foreign businesses for being monopolies too. Specifically, the EU has no ability to fight foreign monopolies. Though, it has an ability to fine the…

What would be an acceptable source for you? Which was the last US mega-corporation that the US government broke up? It certainly wasn't Microsoft or Google. Allowing huge companies…

The reason governments no longer fight huge corporations or even clear monopolies is also due to heavy globalization. If one government destroys a monopoly (a global mega-corporati…

Nice article, but it was probably heavily machine-translated with little human intervention. There is a message that says "Code Language: JavaScript" all over the place, but the co…

> Apple is quietly but surely increasing its control on macOS. This is certainly happening. However, as long as you can still install your preferred browser with its own rendering …

> * Without an active OS development its only 1/2 of the puzzle.* And this is an unfortunate state of the general purpose ARM64 computing. This board, with 16 GB of RAM and M.2 slo…

From the article: Anthropic has been suffering from pretty terrible reliability problems. In the past, factories used to shut down when there was a shortage of coal for steam engin…

The problem is that AI can generate answers and code that look relevant and as if they were written by someone very competent. Since AI can generate a huge amount of code in a shor…

We will see more problems related to the attitude: "I know AI, and therefore I'm smarter than trilobites who coded this before the AI boom." I suppose there's a reason why kids are…

You must have confused Perl with another programming language. Perl has always been a memory-managed language with a reference-counted garbage collector. The link you posted doesn'…

> are there platforms that actually use 58 bits? The original article already contains a note that "Some more recent x64 CPUs use 5-level paging, which would increase this number t…

> Perl is not memory safe Perl is memory safe. > loaded with security issues for over a decade. According to CVE reports, it doesn't appear that Perl [0] is less secure than Python…

And according to "DuckDuckGo Hiring" page, the DuckDuckGo search engine still uses Perl 5 in their backend.

RIP Arc and Gaudi. There is no other way how to read this. Fewer competitors => higher prices.

About 16 years ago, Intel was considered an ugly monopoly that Nvidia didn't like [0]. It seems as if they have switched sides now. [0]: https://www.fudzilla.com/6882-nvidia-contin…

I would even say, that GEM itself saved the Atari ST platform from an instant failure. Apple Macintosh had an original Mac GUI, and the Commodore Amiga (developed by a former Atari…

I think the HTML, CSS and even JavaScript are the most stable and future-proof components of your stack. Your Rails backend, on the other hand, will experience far more changes and…