syklemil

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They helped resuscitate Europe with the Marshall plan and helped keep us safe through the cold war with NATO. We have seriously had a good relationship for all of living memory.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the way things work in Norway and I expect in most other European countries is that you don't get a citizenship for just being born here, but if you're born and raised here, then by the time you're of school age you'd have lived here long enough to become a citizen, and unless your parents isolated you, you shouldn't have any problems with language requirements.

Basically the system here is "stay here for long enough and make a bit of effort for integration and sure you can become a citizen".

Of course, the far right loves to portray this as "unrestricted immigration" and make it harder for people to do that, or even live normally, get education and services for their kids, etc. And then complain when the result is people who feel that the system isn't working for them, or who have trouble because they're uneducated and poorly integrated anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

The context is that he wants to have fur and whiskers.

He's a child so he actually has no beard, but he's doing damage control and pretending it is merely thin, rather than the thick tiger fur-like beard he wants.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

You can give her limited sudo rights; even limit her to install and upgrade operations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I also get the im pression that the memes with German com pound words take off be cause English split all their com pounded words with spaces, so you get stuff like "chain saw" in stead of "motorsag" and so on.

We Norwegians who in stead make fun of people who write com pounded words with spaces (orddelingsfeil, wortteilenfehl oder so) don't really get their fascin ation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do like the idea of having an intent level character. And once we have that, we don't need AltGr7 etc (curly braces) to denote which level we're at either, the whitespace has all the information we need.

But ultimately I just use whatever is default for the language formatter these days. My own personal preferences on that isn't actually that important, and I find that's a common feeling once someone just works with the default for a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I think the first one was a GSM phone; the NMT ones were too expensive to be handed to kids. But it was before Nokia became dominant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Leaking isn't really the issue, though I suppose Rust helps with that as well. Its memory sales pitch is more about memory safety, which is not reading or writing the wrong parts of memory. Doing that can have all sorts of effects, where the best you can hope for is a crash, but it often results in arbitrary execution vulnerabilities. Memory _un_safety is pretty rare and most prominent in languages like C, C++ and Zig.

Rust also has more information contained in it, which means resulting programs can actually be faster than C, as the optimizer in the compiler is better informed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Rust is already in the kernel and Torvalds wants more, faster. He's being obstructed by C purists, who at this point are the people who should fork the kernel if they see anything but C as heresy.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

One rather obvious reason is that society has a lot of greybeards in general. The baby boomer generation was named that for a reason, and people have been living longer on average. Lots of countries are struggling with the demographic effects. There's no reason to expect that tech or something even more specific like FOSS would be exempt.

Another aspect here is that FOSS is still kind of new in society. There's just more people who have had the chance to age into FOSS greybeards than when those greybeards were young. (And they were thus likely to a lesser degree blocked by entrenched greybeards when they were getting started.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

To be a bit more generic here, when you're at government scale you're generally deep in trade-off territory. Time and space are frequently opposed values and you have to choose which one is most important, and consider the expenses of both.

E.g. caching is duplicating data to save time. Without it we'd have lower storage costs, but longer wait times and more network traffic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This needs some work to reconcile with how Trump appears to act towards the pretty poor Russia vs the wealthy EU, though.

Likely he's just personally uncomfortable with powerful allies, and would rather have weak & subservient underlings. That this would leave the US worse off seems to be a sacrifice he's willing to have the Americans make.

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