toys_are_back_in_town [comrade/them, she/her]

You’re not wrong but you’ve got the wrong target. I don’t need to be told this.

Thanks for that perspective.

I’ve never been able to prove anything and I think there are still good people doing good work in their employ but I can’t help but feel like modern Canonical is an op to make desktop Linux worse.

The update tiers of “Ubuntu Pro” are really gross and probably the final nail in the coffin for me.

I’m one of those strange people who compiles all their own software and trusts nothing, but I still need to know what to recommend, y’know, sane people. I tried the Ubuntu variants out recentlyish on an unused machine and found myself making so many changes and finding packages surprisingly stale, I just I couldn’t recommend people switch to this… I guess I’ll give Fedora a whirl.

I’ll let them answer. There are reasons to pick one package management team over another.

to be fair they named it way before those people made fedoras cringe

It’s named that because Fedora is the community spinoff of Red Hat, which has a fedora in its logo.

Can I honestly ask why you choose Fedora over other distros? I have no sway either way because I’ve simply heard nothing in particular about Fedora in years. So, I’m curious why a Fedora user is a Fedora user.

Hey what if you had a personal assistant who couldn’t do anything right and was always slpurnned out of their mind on halucinogens?

i’d be okay with this if they were human tbh

you weren’t trying to do anything but be a scold, and you should look in the mirror and grow up

you’re only adding toxicity

please

do you think you’re helping, posting a smug comment like that on a dead thread?

You’re god damn right I am. But my patience for trying to bring people up to my level has more than worn thin because of arrogant thought terminators like I originally responded to.

Sorry about the friendly fire then, I guess. You seem to realize that in C++ you still have to think about lifetimes, only the compiler doesn’t really hold your hand. I thought you were the ASSHOLE who dismissively declared that Rust programmers don’t know how to write a linked list, without realizing that the problem is that C++ programmers usually don’t know how to write C++ either. And that’s why everything is on fire.

But you had to make more presumptions about my assumptions, and throw in a “nobody uses” because you genuinely have no idea how much my software is used, lol. So long as it keeps humming along you’ll never have to.

I interpreted your comment as being dismissive of understanding basic memory safety because no jobs care about this.

I thought it ridiculous that people don’t care that their programs explode. I guess it changes your mindset when your service going down isn’t a matter of costing the company money, but affecting real people.

But maybe you weren’t being sarcastic?

oh okay you’re actually stupid

wow

I am blown away that even in a socialist space people like you are obsessed with employment, and not with whether your program actually functions.

bring back smoking to boost productivity, it worked for Commodore right

I’m not sure if you’re making a real point or if it’s something you heard is complicated but never looked into why. You almost never actually write a linked list. There are usually way easier ways to have a potentially infinite list, but more often you will write your code to operate on blocks of arrays of known size for performance reasons (cache locality, etc) or safety reasons (memory exhaustion, etc), or the linked list is hidden away in a queue implementation (which again you usually want to make bounded).

Most C++ programmers don’t actually understand lifetimes or even basic memory safety.

Most programmers don’t know when they should be using a linked list or something more cache-friendly.

Most software is really bad.

If I can get away with it, I’ll bang something out in Python or whatever I’m required to do something in for the task at hand, and I’ll absolutely know 10 ways my program can break, but if I need speed AND reliability, it necessarily takes effort from me, the programmer, to tell the computer exactly how it has to go down. And then Rust usually lets me say what I want to say.

rust is quite annoying

skill issue

and is only useful in very specific circumstances

huh? about the only place I can’t use rust is on microcontrollers, and it’s kind of a pain in the dick on mobile (just use kotlin lol)

I hope you’re joking. This mindset has had terrible consequences, such macho bullshit needs to go.

The Zionazis will find your mistakes before you do. So have the computer check your work as much as possible.

also, separate comment, what are you generally building? if you’re writing Go because it’s network code, you might want to look into Elixir. It’s GC but the behavior of BEAM is more soft-RT friendly due to its history in telephony, you might be more at home there

have you like, tried Rust?

comrades pls don’t think Rust is bad just because the bad guys have realized it’s good

Mostly dead reckoning i.e. knowing where you started, your acceleration, and the equations of motion. It’s actually still how most missiles work, AIUI few have the ability to receive time signals from a satellite while in motion.