it's perceived as an engineering task, while deep down it's something far beyond that. of course, it wouldn't hurt if academics hadn't seen engineers as cross-eyed and bow-legged - their contribution would have otherwise lead to many interesting things.

this is beyond the average industry practitioner: their knowledge of theory and general theoretical intuition required to conjoin the ideas is insufficient.

coming up with a constrained, closed world, greenfield and limited-scope theory is the easy bit. figuring out how to patch all these ideas together to form a whole is thankless work that academics in general don't appreciate, and thus don't do.

this is enough to allure an immature academic, they think that if enough languages with these shining bits are amassed, then they will complement the matchsticks and putty in each other. not so.

i think that it's an attempt, in good faith, to stop people from putting edgy jokes in pronoun fields.

i always get fucked up after as little as 8 hours. 20 hours is crazy.
but there is a way to be productive on airplanes if your device is sufficiently small and your workload is independent of mild grogginess and internet connection

I would like to see the people who harped, upon hearing this opinion, that how i clearly "don't know rust at all". i wonder if this would change their mind, probably not.

A long time ago I complained about unwraps and panics being completely misplaced in libraries and application code because of the DoS surface they provide.

some people like what they do, and open source is much different from a typical corporate environment.
being able to do greenfield programming and take decisions to your liking without the constipation typically associated with business people is pretty refreshing.

d'uh. of course, I'll repost...

i use zsh and I'm quite happy (with autocomplete and highlighting mods)

In 2014, when most people on this website weren't online yet and the political ramifications of this wild statement were different than nowadays.
I am deeply disinterested in her bizzare, but ultimately not too harmful politics as I see actually malicious people as of 2025 AD daily and in-person.

i interacted with her for a bit and i hadn't noticed this. it doesn't seem like she's very vocal about this, if true.

lundukes, twitter cniles and other magical beasts typically only do it for the grift, a really stupid grift too because next to nobody likes c as a prior anyway.
'real' popular c programmers are actually really cool, see fabrice bellard and justine tunney.

true! they're so tasty on their own.

People who call all other architectures 'retrocomputing' are, in principle, totally right. It's a shame that so much of volunteer effort is spent to cater towards the 0.18%. While enthusiasts of rare platforms are welcome to keep enjoying them, it's unfair to make this someone else's burden.

Of course, I suspect none of the computers in the i386 category actually run a 386. It's much more likely that they're i686-compatible. x86_64, i686 and aarch64 are Tier-1 targets and constitute the 99.58% of all Linux users...
Including armhf/armel (Tier-2), the number goes up to 99.82%.

Unsurprisingly x86_64 is the most popular architecture, outnumbering aarch64 almost a hundred times. 32-bit variants of both (i386, armel, armhf) seem to be still standing strong, but perhaps not as firm as we would have thought.