I’m technically bi, but I don’t lead with that because it’d probably give people the impression that my attraction is balanced between genders. Totally fair to not lead with “trans” if you don’t want to deal with that.

If only they could listen to feminists and see the actual (self-imposed) problem

Eh, the backend’s pretty decoupled from the ISA, it’s the frontend of these chips that’s needlessly complicated.

We’re shit 😔

Google’s interests actually align with ours here. They want a good image compression format so pages load faster and they get more info from people instead of them bouncing. Besides the last part, we also want that, so it’s a win-win. Webp is legitimately a good image format.

Weird, all my software has supported it for years

What? Nova is a rewrite of Nouveau from scratch by Redhat devs to better support newer cards.

omg, it’s me!

Breaking: Democrats do something

If you wish you could do it in the past, why not do it now?

Water makes the curls coherent, everything else makes them incoherent, a reminder that entropy always increases. Also that makes it frizzy.

Specifically in the Linux kernel, the 2 big reasons to use it are memory safety (huuuuggee benefit) and that a lot of younger devs like it and thus it will attract their contributions.

The only reasons I can think of to not use it are that some people want their own toolchain and having multiple languages in the kernel adds complication. But tbh, none of that justifies banning Rust stuff that realistically wouldn’t have been written at all if C were the only option.

And then there’s the people who show up in Phoronix, HN, Reddit, and YouTube comments saying Rust is over-hyped without showing why it’s unfit for purpose and also trying to dictate what someone does with their own project. Perhaps it’s something to do with the representation of queer people and other minorities in the Rust community, because otherwise I do not understand why people would be sooo passionate in hating the Rust community like the group I described above is.

It matters to potential contributors. It’s also a floating signifier for a lot of things.

cargo cult

Who said anything about the CCP?

Headpat Nvidia person

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_b_59519811e4b0f078efd98440

I can trade some parts and organs that aren’t mine

Yeah, you wouldn’t. My point is that’s because it’s preinstalled, not because of any GUI/CLI advantage.

These things add up if you’re doing them all over a 1 million line codebase, by which point it’s incredibly painful to claw back performance if you need it.