rust was literally written as a systems programming language to take a similar place as C. i’m not sure of the restrictions you mean

you realise the olympics used to include poetry and art, right?

consultant for large enterprises in australia, and i literally can’t say i’ve ever seen anyone running anything other than RHEL and amazon linux (so… RHEL) in production… unless we’re talking not for profits, and then that’s been a bit of a mixed bag

carrot man in melbourne, australia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/12/melbourne-fitzroy-carrot-man

bested by intels euv chips

source? last i heard intel received an euv tool from asml but certainly haven’t produced anything with it - that’s slated for next year earliest, and until it hits mass production all numbers are just marketing

intel and apple aren’t aiming for the same things - apples chip designs arent generic. they target building an apple device… which means that it will run an apple device incredibly efficiently - gpu vs gpu m series chips are fine, cpu vs cpu they’re among the top of the range, and at everything they do they’re incredibly efficient (because apple devices are about small, cool, battery-saving)… and they certainly don’t optimise for cost

what they do better than anyone else is produce an ultralight device made for running macos, or a phone made for running ios - the coprocessors etc they put onto their SoCs that offload from their generalised processors

you wouldn’t say that honeywell is “bested” by intel because intel cpus are faster... that’s not the goal of things like radiation hardened cpus

i THINK they’re saying that they sublicense a library to do encryption in order to talk to WhatsApp and that it’s this software that they won’t be allowed to be included in GPL-licensed software because it may be that in the future that implies a release of source code?

this doesn’t seem unreasonable as long as you can create a facade or abstraction that’s NOT GPL-licensed to interact with WhatsApp that then interacts with your GPL code?

or i could be misreading entirely

“replace” is, as always, oversimplified… the job of programming will likely change for sure. programming languages will be built around AI generation, and programming will become prompt creation that looks at the big picture rather than the minutiae of code: just like it did when we stopped coding in ASM and started coding in higher order languages, or scripting languages, etc

australia and canada are among the top 4 uranium producers in the world, and australia has huge reserves that we just don’t mine because we have relatively expensive labour: our uranium is a byproduct of iron and other mining operations… i’d bet you’re not talking about australia when you said “rather not be dependant”, so ramping up our production is a clear, albeit more expensive option

i’m kinda hoping the “whoops our bad” from countries that suspended funding results in an apology of far more humanitarian funding than would have otherwise been given… not that it’d make up for it, but if Israel’s idea was to destroy the UNRWA then strengthening it and making sure that will never happen would be a fuck you i guess

… the president made remarks about Israel's military response to Hamas being "over the top."

worth noting though this is not like a “you sort it out” thing or anything… it’s basically a tax

the tech sector is in a bit of a jam right now…it’s actually pretty hard to find work