Zum Fernsehduell Selbst wer sie auf Ungereimtheiten anspricht oder beim Lügen überführt, dem begegnen sie mit weiteren Lügen, die sie im Brustton der Überzeugung vortragen. Sie negieren Fakten. Es gibt also gar keine Basis, auf der es sich mit ihnen diskutieren lässt. Mit dieser Taktik hat es auch Donald Trump schon ein Mal ins Weiße Haus geschafft, möglicherweise gelingt ihm das im November erneut. David Schafbuch auf @…
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"At once he fastened under his feet the immortal sandals of lovely gold that carried him, swift as airy breezes, over ocean and over boundless earth. The strong Radiant One began his flight; over Pieria he passed, then form the upper air dipped down to the sea and sped on over the waves like the seagull."
Homer…
Zum Fernsehduell Selbst wer sie auf Ungereimtheiten anspricht oder beim Lügen überführt, dem begegnen sie mit weiteren Lügen, die sie im Brustton der Überzeugung vortragen. Sie negieren Fakten. Es gibt also gar keine Basis, auf der es sich mit ihnen diskutieren lässt. Mit dieser Taktik hat es auch Donald Trump schon ein Mal ins Weiße Haus geschafft, möglicherweise gelingt ihm das im November erneut. David Schafbuch auf @…
"The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary #books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and discard?"
#RustLang is the perfect language for the "move fast, break things" era. No, I'm not implying it encourages you to break stuff. All I'm saying is that all these modern languages are specifically designed for that mindset. They optimize for corporate greed — nicely dressed as "valuing developer's time".
Developers aren't supposed to slow down and think things over. They should finish feature after feature, project after project, profit after profit. When things break, that's bad for profit. However, putting an effort to prevent things from breaking is not cost-effective.
People love to point out memory safety problems with C. However, there are two other important problems affecting C libraries — ABI and API stability. An uncontrolled ABI breakage means that existing programs suddenly breaks. An uncontrolled API breakage means that programs don't build anymore. Combine both and you're in a tight fit.
There are reasonably good solutions to both these problems. However, they require conscious effort, they require thinking — and that is costly. There are also cheap workarounds. If you link libraries statically, you don't need to worry about their ABI changes. If you vendor dependencies, you don't even need to worry about API changes. That's much cheaper for the company — though in reality, it just moves the burden down the line, to distribution developers and users, who end up fighting old, broken or even vulnerable vendored dependencies.
The problem with Rust and #Cargo is that it embraces these hacks into glorified 20M executables. Everything is linked statically, everything is vendored. You can move fast without actually breaking things — at least for the significant majority of users. To the minority, you always have the usual excuse — "we're sorry, we're just volunteers, we can't spend more energy on this, and you should get newer hardware anyway". Not that doing things better wouldn't benefit all users.
#Gentoo
Good bye #Bergamont Sweep N8 EQ Gent, hast ein Jahrzehnt halbwegs treue Dienste geleistet.
https://www.andreas-edler.de/blog/2024/05/good-bye-bergamo…
A deep look at the reasons behind the ongoing strike at The Long Beach Post, including layoffs after staffers voted to form a union (Ben Burgis/Jacobin)
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/long-beach-post-union-busting
Good bye #Bergamont Sweep N8 EQ Gent, hast ein Jahrzehnt halbwegs treue Dienste geleistet.
https://www.andreas-edler.de/blog/2024/05/good-bye-bergamo…
Most years, I made about $20 with #Smashwords and publishing wide. This year, I already hit that target in March! 🥳
Will I be able to beat my personal record of $50.78 in 2024?
https://www.smashwords.…