Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. It's no better than C++ for memory safety, it just has a more annoying compiler.
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  2. I could see this coming when I was a kid and they had that stupid Eliza the therapist program. I knew one day they'd try to replace people with machines. Apparently a lot of others foresaw the same thing and made movies warning everyone and they got ignored as fantasy. Unless there's a conspiracy and the movies were made to make people think it was impossible for as long as they could to boil our froggy legs. Either way, it's been brewing for decades and we're all screwed if we don't all collectively reject it.
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  3.  @sunderkeenin  I disagree regarding technical merit. There's technical merit to learning how to properly use C++ and the various *_ptr<> types along with when to use move and forward and r-value and l-value references and their semantics, especially if you already know C++ and/or C. Moving to a completely new language because it makes false promises and looks like Perl barf is just a massive waste of time.
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  4. I completely disagree with your stance on the EFF. I don't think they're at all being weirdos or wanting children to look at adult content. The issue is one of free speech and I'm an absolutist on that particular subject. You made an awful lot of comparisons of apples and oranges, but adult content in its printed form is not going to enable a school shooting or drug use. Another thought that immediately came to mind is that an in-person identification check involves some clerk looking at a tiny card for two seconds and promptly forgetting what they've seen. A check on a website will result in your information being permanently stored in a database that will be cracked in three months and sold around the world losing you money or job opportunities or even personal relationships. Where most disagree with me, and I'd imagine no one will see this because YouTube keeps suppressing my comments, is that I don't think there should be an ID check in-person either. I take more of an Amish stance on rearing children where while they're underage they shouldn't be out of adult supervision. If they're in a store that sells adult content, a parent or adult guardian should be present to prevent them even handling such material from any shelf, let alone to buy it. You do have the right idea when it comes to internet usage and at home it shouldn't be openly accessible from any device that you allow your children to use. I would argue that until they're an adult they shouldn't have more than a JitterBug as a cell phone. Not the newer "smart" phone style versions, but the flip phone with a black and white matrix screen. Tablets with wi-fi and no ability to access the internet through any cell tower so you can restrict access with your home router. As for the talk on religions, I take the stance that Catholicism is a cult. Prove me wrong. However, that said, I'm not a Christian either, and while I respect most Christian denominations, I see a lot of modern day corruption in the various sects. Maybe you agree, or maybe not, but I think Judaism is quite possibly the only true religion that hasn't been corrupted. I would argue that Islam was corrupt from the start, as a converse to that argument. Quite frankly, I'd be shocked if even one person agreed with this comment in part or in whole. I have a somewhat unique stance on a lot of things as I've discovered the more people I've talked to in the world.
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  5. For competent developers, development time isn't nearly so big a factor as people think. Generally, if you've been in the business for any length of time, then you've either built up your own libraries for doing things or you use specific libraries that someone else wrote. It's only for the newbies that the language's standard library really matters in most instances.
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  6. @monkev1199 Trademark, not copyright. And the rules are even more nebulous and longer lasting. A company could keep a trademark for hundreds of years, they only need to fight tooth and nail to keep it and it's theirs. That said, KDE has proven time and again that they align with the mentally ill crowd, so they'll likely allow it. Of course, when they prove that they're biased by not fighting it in this instance, another party could make use of it and use their intransigence as a means of taking away such a trademark.
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  7. Being old enough to remember the internet in the 90's and 00's, I feel this deep in my soul.
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  8.  @mmstick  He's just patronizing them because he's scared of the cult. Few more years and the hype will die down and people will be onto the next big thing: Corrosion.
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  9.  @anonymousalexander6005  No, delusional is thinking that a language can prevent all bugs.
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  10. I'd be surprised if any of the documents are actually important. Although, this does lead me to a point I've made before regarding how people get lazier and lazier. When you've got LaTeX to write proper documentation, so many people choose garbage like MarkDown instead. Humanity gets weaker by the day and I can hardly wait until I get to leave this stupid planet.
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  11.  @hawkanonymous2610  And again I'll point out that unless you're a newbie you'll either have written your own libraries or know which ones to use to accomplish tasks equally as fast as programming in Python. It's just a matter of your experience level.
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  12.  @Spractral  And it's already been proven that Rust can't prevent all bugs, nor can it even prevent that subset of bugs. But you just try to tell a Rustacean the truth and they'll call you delusional for daring to speak the truth.
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  13.  @shurizzle  The problem with what you're saying here is that if you have to squeeze through a C ABI to get Rust working, you've eliminated some of the Rust functionality in the process. A lot of people complain about type safety and other such extraneous fluff, and you lose that if you interface with a less restrictive language.
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  14. In what way would they make their lives worse? For a baseline in this conversation, do you consider murder to be wrong and would you consider a government preventing the people from indiscriminately murdering others to be a necessary action of government? If you can honestly answer those questions without caveats and your answers are yes and yes, then we can talk further as I would know that you're a conscientious human who's only been misguided. If you have caveats or the answer is no to either, then I would have to disregard you as not being a human. Attempting to squirrel about the definition of murder is a caveat as we all intrinsically know the definition.
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  15.  @anonymousalexander6005  None of those bugs will be fixed by using Rust. Again, bad developers exist everywhere and use every language. Moving to a new one won't fix bad programmers, only better education can attempt to do that.
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  16.  @terrydaktyllus1320  He's saying that the generative "AI" programs violate copyright law. While they don't necessarily copy outright, it's difficult to make a case otherwise based on how much the output matches certain inputs. If I drew a picture of Mickey Mouse, I guarantee you that Disney would win a case against me for copyright infringement even if it looked as primitive as Steamboat Willie, and if they went after the generative "AI" use they'd likely win there too.
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  17. I think you're being a tad bit naive when it comes to Apple products. Of course, I do know that you use their products, so you might be a bit blind to their problems. As far as the future is concerned, I'd love to be able to print my own processor designs, not FPGA but actual lithography on silicon wafers, because that may be the only way going forward to actually trust the computers we use at a hardware level. Not everyone can do everything, but if we could get morally good and trustworthy people to produce the hardware that we use, we might be able to trust what other people produce.
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  18. Censorship is evil and the people perpetrating this kind of garbage are fascists. In the past I was somewhat reticent about contributing to open source projects, but now I'm downright adamant that I shouldn't. Anyone that hates me for believing that murdering babies is wrong doesn't deserve my help or anyone else's. The same goes for those that want to mutilate and abuse children.
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  19.  @mmstick  Right, so no group should ever be described as a cult? How about the people at Jonestown? Or did you not mean to make such a false statement and maybe you'll realize that it's only an outside objective observer that can really tell you that you're in a cult? Because you are, and it's not just the cult of Rust.
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  20.  @mmstick  Says the cult member who chants the mantra that their language of choice will fix all bugs, despite that being technically impossible. But you go on and appeal to those emotions of the fear of bugs with your lies.
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  21.  @4eyesleo  It's actually longer than 70 years, but I keep pushing the idea that we should go back to 1791 on copyright law and limit it to 14 years.
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  22.  @typingcat  No, that's both. If you write something new that doesn't modify existing GPL code, you really do get to choose the license. Realistically, if you never modify existing projects that have that viral license, then no one can ever force you to use that license.
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  23.  @cavalieroutdoors6036  And exactly how they put people like you and me in furnaces. In other words, the ones claiming that we're the fascists are the ones who are themselves fascists.
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  24. You didn't need to say it, I already knew you don't read the comments on YouTube. That's okay, I'll still comment for the algorithm because we need more conservative voices in tech.
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  25. That is a great multiplier.
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  26.  @Mavendow  And almost succeeded if not for a rogue MS employee. Weird, no?
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  27. I want Haiku on my system of Nintendo 8-bit computer.
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  28. And yet again I find myself pointing out that newbies will not be competent in using C and will have an increased development time. This is who Python is aimed at. With more experience comes using either your own libraries or those that you have learned to use and development time is reduced. Go ahead and ask your mother to write something in C and offer no help.
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  29.  @mmstick  You're interpreting his statement incorrectly. He's ribbing them because they claimed that updates would come faster if Rust was used and they were clearly lying. A few more years and he may remove it from the kernel because it's not only not living up to the hype but actively hurting kernel development.
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  30.  @josephp.3341  Depends on what you're writing, but some compilers are not as good as they should be at optimizing poorly written code. Even just the difference between calling a function with two arguments versus a struct with two members can cause wildly different results.
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  31.  @mytech6779  Completely agreed. The bare minimum for a CS course should be a language like C with some assembly sprinkled in. I would of course accept Pascal, Objective C, C++ and any other such language as a substitute for C, but C is the best choice, unless we're talking about inline assembly, then Pascal.
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  32. Ordinarily I like Nicco, but everything he's said against Lunduke has been wrong.
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  33.  @gruntaxeman3740  This really speaks to your lack of knowledge. C isn't limited to the terminal. I and many others use it to write GUI apps and have for decades. Not to mention all of the games written in it throughout the past 40 years. Monolithic binaries aren't really a good thing. Forget RAM usage, which will likely be lower in a monolithic binary, but startup speed will be significantly worse. It's not difficult to load all the libraries you'll need in the background while the main program starts up and presents an actual usable interface to the user. Learn better design.
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  34. Indeed. I keep trying to correct people on what to call it, because it's definitely not AI. I refuse to use this new made-up term of "AGI" for what should just be called AI.
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  35.  @generic694  Maybe, but they're not necessarily improvements either. Every single one that's been recommended to me was inferior to what it was intended to replace with the only "enhancement" being that it prints messages with multiple pretty colors. The one that really irks me that people keep pushing is ripgrep, and it doesn't correctly handle PCRE as claimed.
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  36.  @Acetyl53  This is why I still predominately write my programs with C. I care about the user's time. I've read through both Intel and AMD's optimization manuals multiple times and they actually help with more than just writing better assembly, but writing better code in general.
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  37. One thing I saw that I do take objection to with regards to their test is that of using trees. The implementations can vary to the point of degrading performance a noticeable amount. I didn't see if they used hash tables too, but those can be excessively different in implementation as well. I primarily use C myself, but not for environmentalism reasons, but because I want to save my users time when they use my software. I'm not surprised about Python, because I use it fairly often too, but I am surprised about JavaScript. Yeah, I use that on occasion and it's slower than molasses in a freezer, but I would've expected that all of the work that has gone into optimizing the various interpreters would have meant it would perform better than it did. At least now there's some degree of quantification of how much the other languages suck.
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  38. @TheDZHEX You're not unique in that. YouTube is just trying to sow discord. However, your viewpoints are just as repugnant and wrong as their censorship is.
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  39. Quite frankly, I'd love it if we could stop calling things AI which are most definitely not AI. I'd like to see the end to the term "AGI" for that matter.
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  40. But C++ already has the good ideas that Rust stole from it. Everyone claiming that any feature from Rust should be incorporated into C++ just doesn't know the language.
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  41. We already have the tooling, it's just a matter of the Rustaceans to stop lying and/or learn about it.
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  42.  @alomac8976  It's actually spelled tetanus, but yeah, it would definitely be a better name.
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  43. It's not just one country, it's going to be the whole world.
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  44. This is at least a small part of why I'm developing my own language. It's a first step in that direction and eventually I'd like to get into designing hardware. There are some preexisting open source chips that could be expanded upon as ideas, but absent funding it will take many years. I do still have a day job after all.
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  45. Completely agreed there, and I love that idea. Pretend to comply, then don't.
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  46. They already do on a regular basis. Just put one toe outside the line and they'll devour you.
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  47.  @rasputozen  Yeah, that "promotional period" is exactly the point at which they violated copyright law.
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  48.  @rasputozen  It's more that it's an inflated amount. If a book costs $9 to buy and a million people download a copy, then they can claim $9M in damages. Extrapolate that to 50 different books a million times over, and it was almost assuredly far more, then you start to see where they come up with such a bovine excrement number. In reality, most people that would partake would either buy a copy for themselves after previewing it, or they would never have bought a copy. So the amount of damages isn't realistic, even if it's based on real world usage.
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  49. You must be on a worse computer than my potato. It only takes me around three or four hours to compile each new version. Of course, I delete the whole archive each time so I don't have to put up with the bloat hanging about, and it took me 10 minutes to write this comment while I was waiting on `du` to show me the current usage. For the source folder where I've got the `git` repo, it's "only" 19GB for the version I'm currently on, 1.77.0 compiled on 3-17, and the binaries take up 3.2GB. I don't remember what GCC uses up, but since it handles more than one language it's not so easy to quantify, but it still uses up less space than that and compiles significantly faster. I don't do incremental builds like some developers, so compile time matters more to me because things aren't generally cached.
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  50.  pluto8404  It's possible that the NSA is lying. After all, it wouldn't be the first time they lied and got civilians killed just to justify a budget increase because they "can't do their job without it". However, it's also possible that because there's so much data they can't adequately analyze it for threats in a timely manner. We'd likely need some insider information to make a proper determination on that.
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  51. Except that's not what they're supporting. If it was merely about their right to exist then there'd be no problem, but it's really about their "right" to call for the genocide of Jews in Israel.
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  52.  @adambester3673  And now that I've seen both of my prior posts censored, I'm going to state once again that it's entirely on the left that rights are suppressed, such as the right to free speech.
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  53. Well, he didn't get rich off of others contributions, he got rich because he was talented and companies hired him to continue his work which helped the community. His management of the project, guiding it towards a particular goal, made Linux what it is. Without him, it's likely that none of the other contributors would have mattered, or if they did it would've been for a less significant work. I wonder if open source would be what it is today if not for his project and the popularity that it gained. Certainly GNU didn't help the cause and their kernel still isn't a thing.
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  54.  @yellingintothewind  I disagree wholeheartedly. They took over everything that existed back then because they had a viral license. Contributions came from outside of GNU, but got sucked in.
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  55.  @yellingintothewind  You might not understand the way I mean that, but projects that were started elsewhere and funded either by the developer or someone else ended up getting pulled in because of the viral license. It wasn't like they just slapped it on, but they manipulated people into using it. It can be hard to quantify such subtle manipulations, but think of how an abuser acts and you get an idea.
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  56. I don't know, Rachel Dolezal would beg to differ on the ability to choose one's race. As for sexuality, what are genderfluid people anyway if not people who change their sexuality on a whim. I still say that no one is born any which way, with regards to sexuality, and it's all a matter of choice, but I'm likely part of a small group in that area.
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  57. Technically 10. However, C was stable at 10. So what's their excuse?
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  58. Depends on what you mean. You can write C and compile to wasm and that would certainly run. You could also transpile to JavaScript. Or are you going to be picky about the target of compilation and require that it be an actual executable binary, because in that case, strictly speaking, nothing runs in the browser.
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  59.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Since most of my posts get either shadowbanned or outright deleted, I'm going to have to agree with you.
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  60.  @justanothercomment416  This is a textbook example of why we should reject these projects and make our own.
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  61. @TheDZHEX Apparently reading comprehension isn't one of your skills. If it were you would've paid attention to the fact that I find censorship as repugnant as your views. It only makes it mildly funny that they censored my previous post.
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  62. @rexsceleratorum1632 I know how the technology works, it's not AI. I know a lot of people think that neural nets are accurate representations of how brain tissue works, but it's a shadow of it at best.
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  63. An extremely apt way of describing the situation.
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  64.  @nephatrine  If you live in an area where P is outlawed, then the mere consumption of it can get you whipped in public or even executed, and that includes the completely pedestrian stuff. It has happened and continues to happen in various countries around the world.
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  65. I've never seen so much goalpost shifting before Rust came along. Apparently leaks aren't unsafe in their world. Funny, because intelligent people used to consider all violations of memory constraints to be unsafe, and a leak is most definitely a violation.
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  66. Right, so eschew what little advantage the language does have in favor of writing better code. You might as well be writing C or maybe even C++ at that point. At least if you're as competent as you seem to be claiming you are.
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  67.  @emperorarasaka  That's the idea, and I actually agree with you, just that I would adjust the limit to be only 14 years as the law was originally drafted.
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  68. Maybe someone with sanity should build a Git host that focuses on technology and ignores political ideology. Maybe with a filter system similar to Imgur where the "bad responses" get pushed to the bottom and hidden behind a button, except the moderator would have to be sane. Yeah, I know, humans will corrupt it and degrade the experience eventually, but for at least a few years we could have a great place to congregate.
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  69. You probably won't read this even if YouTube doesn't delete it, but as someone who has been learning Rust over the past two or three years, I can tell you that it's not a good programming language. Every feature that they tout as being so much better than C was already in C++ and done with a better syntax. If you write idiomatic C++ then it'll be just as safe as Rust yet more performant than Rust. However, C++ makes it easier to write this code and is easier on the eyes. Constructors in Rust are basically constructors in Object Pascal, except it resembles Java a bit more because of the jagged usage of memory handling functionality. The thing that Rustaceans don't seem to get is that not every pointer should be a smart_ or shared_ ptr. Just like when C# first cropped up, I hated this weak garbage of forcing an unsafe keyword on the users just to use code that makes sense. One of the key problems with Rust is that they added with syntax while C++ added with more code. Yeah, there were some dumb additions over the years in C++ to solve problems that shouldn't have existed in the first place, but they were generally well placed additions. First few that come to mind in case anyone does see this and asks, r-value references, attributes, lambda captures and arrow returns.
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  70. Indeed. If I didn't have to worry about using it for jobs, I wouldn't bother with Rust. The language itself sucks and doesn't actually fulfill its promises, but the absolutely toxic community and the language designers themselves only add to the reasons to not use it. Fortunately, I can give Go a big ol' skip because there's exceedingly few jobs for that. Not that Go is particularly woke, I just hate the excuses from the language designers over why they can't allow Allman style bracing.
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  71.  @MystycCheez  What programs do you use that you can't live without? Have you tried them with WINE and/or by using a VM? As far as usability, that largely depends on the defaults chosen by the distribution you choose, or your willingness to configure after the fact. I would suggest Mint or Fedora as far as ease of use, but if you are willing to give advanced configuration a try, I'd really suggest any distro which uses KDE by default and then just configure that.
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  72.  @sillonbono3196  I was with you until you made the false claim that kernel developers are lone wolves. If they weren't good at collaborating, then the kernel wouldn't be what it is today. If they didn't abide by the rules, then Linus would've smacked them down, and he has done so quite a few times. The thing to remember is that the core of the kernel is basically from fewer than 100 devs. Those are the ones that really count, not the thousands who develop single purpose drivers for a weird piece of hardware they bought at a flea market 10 years ago.
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  73. He does it for the comments, but it seems fitting since they suck so much that they shouldn't get their name pronounced correctly. I'm hoping he starts pronouncing Google as goGGle, because that would be funny too.
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  74. I've been saying this for years, but it looks like you're one of the few who agree with me.
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  75. @Digitalis-Nervosa Since YouTube keeps censoring I'll try again, but politeness doesn't make for a better society, especially when that politeness dictates that you bend to the whims of delusional people that need mental help that they'll never get in today's society.
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  76. The amount of anti-Semitism from the left these days is absolutely insane. I fear that the next world war may result in both Christians and Jews being sent to camps. If that happens, there are at least 1.5 billion Christians, but it would likely finish off the Jews. That's a scary thought, but the left would clearly like to do it.
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  77.  @etherweb6796  Definitely smacks of EEE.
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  78. While it would be insane to rewrite project X in language Y that it wasn't already written in, a completely new project using language Y might make some sense. Towards that end, it would be really cool if someone implemented the entire feature set of QB4.5 for modern PC's, but upgraded of course, and then wrote a completely from scratch kernel as a project. I know some people would point towards FreeBASIC, but that wouldn't have the same cool factor as using QuickBASIC.
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  79. I feel like there are too many incompetent developers these days that need it pointed out, but development time can be reduced with experience. You'll either have developed the libraries you need to aid whatever you do, or you'll use libraries that you've learned about. In either instance, a competent C programmer can do it equally as fast as an incompetent Python programmer, and still equally as fast as a competent one.
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  80. Exactly. It's the people that just want to cash in on a lucrative field but have no skills of their own. It's also partly a Harrison Bergeron Syndrome because if every developer uses Rust and is an awful developer, then they win.
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  81.  @matthiskalble3621  A) Memory leaks aren't safe. B) Rust doesn't actually provide safety. First, you have FFI which violates safety constraints. Second, there's still a bug in the compiler which allows lifetime violations.
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  82. Unless you're going for a weird metaphor of mixing up a canary in a coal mine with canard, I think you just meant canard. But otherwise, completely agree.
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  83.  @adambester3673  Now that we've established a baseline, how about answering the primary question of what rights you think are being taken away? Second of all, in what way do you think that your political opponents are oppressing you? Would you consider self defense a basic right innately shared by all living creatures and that removal of or inhibition of said right constitutes oppression? Would you consider it a right for children to be protected from mutilation of their minds and bodies?
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  84.  @anonymousalexander6005  That's an absolutely shyte take. Bad developers exist in every sphere and use just about every language. What you're describing is a bad developer and has nothing to do with the language and most of the programmers working on the kernel are top-notch. The best reason to use 20+ year old code is because it will have gone through many debug cycles and have a lot of bugs ironed out. Not every library will have that treatment, but you shouldn't shy away from all old code bases because of the few that do it wrong. And as it just so happens, ABI compatibility gets broken far too often on Linux because most people have the attitude of just taking the source and compiling it again. I personally hate this attitude so much more than the opposite. Oddly, the most stable ABI on Linux is the Win32 API provided by WINE.
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  85. And it's a wonderful feature that I use on occasion when not writing code which I've bound to <leader>s and <leader>S to turn it on and off respectively. However, what did Lunduke spell incorrectly in this video? Is it a title which was likely changed since the video was posted or is there something else I may have missed?
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  86.  @JodyBruchon  Since I know you use Windows, why not just use the Win32 API functions for extracting bits of an INF file.
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  87. Don't modify GPL code then. I intentionally choose not to because the license is a virus and I wish it would be replaced in the community with either the BSD or MIT licenses. However, if you write something new that isn't a modification of existing GPL code, then you do indeed get to choose the license.
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  88.  @derstreber2  He who must not be named, Tom Marvolo Riddle.
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  89. I'd love to see a response from him about this. If he says nothing, it'll be an actual instance of silence is agreement, unlike when the left declares it falsely.
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  90. No.
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  91.  @Hofer2304  A constitution would need multiple people agreeing. The best method is still the BDFL method, but I must emphasize that they must be benevolent. If they're malevolent, then nothing they do really matters and you might as well abandon the project.
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  92. I love that policy, but I'm still not switching from Slackware, at this point in time. If Patrick or any of the other maintainers ever exhibit any wokism and make the user experience worse or try to push wokism on the user base, then maybe I'll move to Devuan, or finally do LFS, one or the other.
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  93.  @keyboardwarrior6296  So regulating one type of speech is not abridging the first amendment? It sounds like you're saying that restricting someone's right to free speech is okay when it's speech you disagree with? If that's the case then you'll be happy to know that we already live in such a banana republic (regardless of which nation you live in because the US just proved that it's one along with all the rest).
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  94.  @keyboardwarrior6296  The Supreme Court has ruled that it most definitely is protected speech, and now you've stooped to slander. I neither have, nor do I want to expose any children to such things. It's up to parents to prevent their children from seeing such things and it's not incumbent upon me or any business to protect your children from your abuse and/or neglect. The government has no right to restrict speech either, and to equate speech to physical violence is at best reductive, at worst a sign of mental illness.
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  95.  @keyboardwarrior6296  You buy everything these days. It's called advertisement and it extracts value from your life. If you don't understand that then you don't understand what free actually means.
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  96.  @keyboardwarrior6296  The huge difference here, and why you're wrong, is that in the case of one the parent, who should be monitoring their child's usage of the internet or time spent in a store, has a choice to simply not look. In the case of the other the choice is taken from them. If you want to say that you don't think people should be free to choose their own path in life, then go ahead and spew that tyranny. Otherwise, hopefully, you'll realize you're wrong and maybe come around to the side of goodness.
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  97. Believe me, you're not the only one to notice it, and it's all leading in a very bad direction. The first not sees from a certain past period of time would undoubtedly put people like us in a camp where we can think very hard, and I see the current generation of not sees doing the same thing. It's only a matter of time before conservatism of all varieties has been stamped out by the left and everyone like you and me gets baked, and I don't mean a euphemism for doing drugs.
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  98.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Memes aside, I personally detest censorship. I would like to see the populace become more intelligent and be able to suss out scams on their own rather than have the government essentially deputize website operators. How about you?
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  99.  @terrydaktyllus1320  If you mean it should be up to the parents to impose that upon their own children, then I agree. If the parents aren't paying attention, the children can work around any measure that a website might use.
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  100. At this point I'll take just not suppressing it. I would say supporting is a step too far for most these days.
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  101. I'd tell you what I call my main branch in git, but YouTube would censor it.
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  102.  @muhdiversity7409  The funny thing is, Rene is an advocate of Rust. He just had some inflammatory titles that if you'd never watched his channel could be mistaken for him hating on it, but in reality he was not. He even regularly speaks out against using C. I certainly don't agree with that standpoint, but he is definitely no enemy of Rust.
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  103. No, don't thank Windows or Bill Gates. It's an accident on Microsoft's part. Thank the members of the WINE development team, and yeah, Gabe Newell too.
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  104. It gets worse when you consider that the Wayland devs are the maintainers for X and could've spent 5 to 10 years getting to know X intimately and then fix the thing they thought was a flaw and make the world a better place without such pollution. Instead they've been squatting on the project to keep X from ever being fixed and have forced it to artificially die instead of giving the users an actual choice. Before someone mentions it, I'll point out that forking it would not preserve the project and at this point in time it's too late to supplant Wayland. Besides, forking is an awful solution when the original project has such a great name.
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  105. You're half right. The KKK aren't a far right group and were started by Demonrats that were dissatisfied that their free labor force was taken away by Lincoln. I would use the correct word there, but YouTube deletes my posts when I do. It's weird because leftists use that word all the time, but maybe they have different rules if you're on a list of people they hate.
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  106. This would be really great if someone did something similar with a phone, perhaps with an x86 chip. AMD does make some rather efficient chips, and I wouldn't mind having a "phablet" style phone with a proper x86 chip. Would make for the best Linux phone ever.
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  107. Your entire post is based on false premises. You seem to have a disconnect in your brain about the differences between a library and a language. Your arguments about object lifetimes and string handling are entirely false as it's entirely up to the programmer how to structure those things. If you write garbage code or use a garbage library then you're going to have inefficiencies. So stop doing both. Rust is most definitely not number one when parsing text and ripgrep isn't even close to having feature parity with grep. By the time it does it'll likely be slower than grep, but I doubt the guy writing it will ever give it parity. Also, the point about defensive design patterns is just plain stupid. Rust requires you to write things defensively and annoys you about it if you slack even when it won't matter. C allows you to seek out other patterns that are far better and more efficient while Rust forces you to work harder to escape the patterns that its designers wanted you to use. Want to complain about runtime versus compile time validation, then you don't know C++ very well because constexpr and consteval exist.
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  108.  @mmstick  I never said I wasn't skilled enough to use Rust, and in fact I do. However, you are apparently refusing to answer the questions I've asked of you, nor do you apparently understand what I'm saying. I have not argued any falsehoods, merely uncomfortable truths.
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  109. Well, I'm no longer recommending Mint to anyone who's looking to transition to Linux. Yeah, ironic choice of words. As a side note, I've never read OSNews and after seeing their homepage I don't think I care to.
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  110.  @kpcraftster6580  More people need to realize these basic truths.
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  111. @TheDZHEX It takes years to build a skyscraper, but only hours to destroy it. Also, exaggerations aren't lies, nor are incomplete statements abbreviated for time. He started working on it on day one, but it's going to take years and multiple R presidents to fully fix what Bidiot destroyed in hours.
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  112.  @NJ-wb1cz  It's definitely not raw text, and it doesn't matter which came first, it matters which is better. In this case, LaTeX is older and better than MarkDown.
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  113.  @NJ-wb1cz  It's literally not. It's marked up with special characters. I guess you must be a MarkDown lover who got offended at being called lazy, but fear not, you can reform your filthy ways and learn LaTeX.
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  114.  @NJ-wb1cz  There's no binary data in LaTeX, so your point is invalid if you're not going to equally apply it to both. In casual conversation, I'm not going to say asterisk asterisk This is bold speech! asterisk asterisk.
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  115.  @NJ-wb1cz  Yeah, sure, doesn't have to be interpreted. URL's are completely natural. Now that we've gotten the sarcasm out of the way and established that you're just a fangirl and not a serious person, I'll just assume that you're not someone technically minded at all.
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  116. He mentions that, if you actually watch the video. He's complaining because it's a step in the wrong direction. In case you don't understand, which is probably the case for most Apple customers, you are the boiling frog. First it's this, then they make it harder, then harder still, then impossible.
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  117.  @draoi99  Don't expect anti-Semites to know history or understand it.
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  118. I disagree that it was worth it. They only took as long as they did to stonewall you, and the same goes for those that don't even respond at all. I would suggest filing a lawsuit of some kind, but we all know how that would go, so it's not worth the money. Pretty soon, there will be only one recourse for taking care of this kind of evil, and I hate that they're pushing us in that direction.
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  119.  @wisnoskij  I'm not sure I get what you're saying. Are you claiming that you can't search the internet if ads are blocked? Or are you saying that the browser will not allow you to go to Google's website for some ideological reason? Hopefully you're not saying either because that would be incredibly dumb, but then I would need clarification on just what exactly it is that you actually mean here.
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  120.  @Spartan322  After looking at both C2 and C3, I'm inclined to say neither is an improvement over C. They've got some good ideas, but then degraded the language on top of that. For instance, C3 copying the asinine idiocy of using fn to define a function really irks me.
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  121.  @Spartan322  Apparently YouTube ate my last response, but I've been writing compilers for long enough that I know that context sensitive makes things harder, but not dramatically so. In fact, it's a whole lot easier if you don't use generators and instead write things by hand. Automated tools can be great, but in this case they're a scourge. They make really cool designs harder, as in the kind of designs that make a programmer's job easier.
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  122.  @Spartan322  And again, I disagree that it's a pain. It's only slightly more work in terms of lexical analysis, in the generic sense. In this specific sense, I had a longer response which was filtered, but any type will suffice to allow parsing of function names. In a language like C it's wholly unnecessary because you don't have constructors, but if the language in question used a different syntax for constructors then it wouldn't even mimic a function declaration/definition/call. Granted, that presents a few problems if you were to implement it in C++, since constructors and aggregate initialization function slightly differently, I think in my own language the solution I've come up with is adequate.
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  123.  @Spartan322  Somehow I'd forgotten that people called it that. I never neglect to use full type information when declaring and defining functions and haven't encountered that issue in my own code ever. As it turns out, recent standards have bypassed a lot of it by either requiring typenames or, as in the case of C++, allowing initialization with braces. This is actually the direction I went with my own language, although I had decided this many years ago. You also can't use parentheses like that in declaring parameters to functions in my language. So as far as I'm aware, you can't have such a problem even absent a function keyword.
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  124.  @Spartan322  I guess I'll have to keep repeating myself since YouTube sees fit to delete or shadow every other post, but I don't agree that C was particularly visually simple in the first place, especially with the current standard requiring void for an empty parameter list anyway. Although, I'd been writing my function signatures in that way all along anyway because I prefer the consistency. I do the same with C++ too.
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  125.  @Spartan322  Looks like I misspoke, but only slightly. It doesn't require you to use void when the function takes no parameters, but C23 requires such signatures to be interpreted as though you had. So if you define a function as void foo(); and try to pass it anything, the compiler emits an error. Though, I personally think that it should require the keyword instead of continuing with sloppy signatures and that's what I do in my own language.
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  126.  @unucellply4221  What's wrong with a little scope creep in your DE?
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  127.  @rusi6219  Yeah, far too many devs cosplaying as senior when they lack the skills to even be junior. Some of them even start companies and make videos on YouTube.
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  128.  @transcendtient  It's not disingenuous, it's just true. With experience comes knowledge, and that knowledge gives you abilities that those without experience will lack.
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  129.  @onlinealias622  And since you were too cowardly to directly address me, I'll tell you that it's not the same as those screeching "skill issue", because it's not a matter of skill. Even if you know all the right libraries to use, you could still lack skills and you could have all the skills in the world, but if you don't know when to use the right tool you'll still be a poor developer.
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  130.  @gruntaxeman3740  None of what you're saying makes any sense. Complexity is not a stumbling block for a developer that plans and organizes their code correctly. What limits of identifiers are you hitting?
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  131.  @transcendtient  No. Experience makes writing code easier in any language. If it doesn't for you then you might want to get an MRI on your brain because you may have a tumor. Also, Python code can still segfault and I haven't had a segfault in my C code for well over a decade.
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  132.  @transcendtient  You are literally ignorant to the fact that you don't have to write more code in C if you use the right libraries. Are you people really this stvpld that you think you have to rewrite everything from scratch when you use C? Do you not know that libraries exist so that code can be reused? Or is this just more of the Rustacean mentality where you think if it's not in the standard library that it just isn't possible?
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  133.  @gruntaxeman3740  If the code is properly written and modular then you don't have to keep 100k lines of code in your mind at a time. A single developer, if they're decent, should be capable of handling 1m LoC projects on their own. You only need to remember interfaces and there's no way I would believe anyone on here is working with an interface that has 100k functions. I don't know why 31 characters is so limiting to you, but that's really not a small amount and you shouldn't be writing function names that are a paragraph in length. If you can't name each section in three letters or have more than 9 sections, then you're not using C correctly. In which case, use C++ and namespaces.
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  134.  @transcendtient  I don't need to admit what isn't true. You're failing to read the qualifying words "if you're experienced". This tells me that you either don't natively speak English, or you just got off the shortbus. Either way, you're probably not a competent programmer anyhow.
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  135.  @Chaoktarukto  Try rereading what I wrote and use the ol' noggin to figure out why what you're saying is not equivalent.
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  136.  @Aim54Delta  I totally understand what you mean with trigonometry. I struggled with understanding sine, cosine and tangent. Even knowing that they're ratios didn't help because I couldn't figure out how to extrapolate a function to calculate them from that. However, I think as far as understanding C goes, it might help you to write a compiler, even if not for C. Learn how the constructs are transformed into a lower level and that should help. Maybe translate into assembly first.
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  137.  @RustIsWinning  Then use one of the open source ones. Besides, it's not like Rust can do any better than the decades old existing tools for C already. Plus we have other tools for dynamic analysis too, tools which aren't built into Rust or its compiler or its runtime.
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  138.  @RustIsWinning  There's always the original, Lint. Then you've got the compilers themselves. Or Splint, Yasca, Infer Static Analyzer, Moose, Sparse if you're working with the kernel, Frama-C, CppCheck, Coccinelle, SourceTrail, CppLint, PMD, Blast, CPAChecker and SonarQube. Those are just the open source ones and that target C and/or C++. There are more for other languages and more that are closed source. Granted, this is just what I found in a 5 minute search because I haven't needed to use anything more than the compiler to check my code in about 15 years now. I hardly ever make any typos, and those that I make are very easily spotted by the compiler and corrected in 1 second. Of course, you likely won't see this.
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  139.  @cdoublejj  Tell me where to sign up.
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  140.  @muhdiversity7409  If you're suggesting it's because of some of his recent videos which used a title that made him sound like he was critical of Rust, then I agree. For any Rustaceans who truly believe Rene dislikes Rust, watch his videos and read his comments and stop trying to attack people.
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  141.  @kpcraftster6580  Yep, been using it ever since it was Phoenix and was slower than molasses in February. Although, I didn't start maining it until Opera went Chromium and I still miss the old Opera.
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  142.  @DumbningKruger  We already have tools to check our code written in C, whether at compile time or runtime, and we already have techniques that we've been using for decades that prevent leaks and other equally important and much more prevalent bugs. All of our tools for C are stable and have been for decades. There is zero reason to switch things up now, but if there's any benefit to be had, they should just write their own kernel instead of trying to take over an existing one.
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  143.  @kussemeinkont  Can't enforce a bail agreement if you're not in the country anymore. Plenty of countries don't have extradition agreements with France too.
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  144. But if you restrict who can use your code then it's not open source. If you want to restrict who can use it, why even distribute the source at all?
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  145.  @rollinkendal8130  That's actually why I don't think of GPL code as open source, because it restricts you. Truly open source should be MIT or BSD or any other non-restrictive license. Again, if you want to restrict who uses your code, why distribute source at all?
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  146. If they'd only distributed a single copy then that would've been the end of it, but it was actually multiple copies while they only had one physical copy. Not that I agree with this law, but just that it is the law and that's why they're in trouble.
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  147. Loads of entitled people in the comments. The fact that the source is available, period, at least in a case like this where that's all that's needed to build it, is good enough for preservation efforts. Anything you get over and above that is icing on the cake, but should not be expected. That fact that so many think they're entitled to all of the work product of others and that they should be free to turn it around and profit off of it too is kind of sickening.
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  148. Hey now, don't go bashing Pascal. It's a great language that's very C-like in its philosophy. It just happens to be a bit verbose.
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  149. Personally, I'd rather there weren't any Python groups. Why can't we push more people towards good languages like C.
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  150. And I'll point out that only incompetent programmers will have that problem. If you have that problem, then don't use C.
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  151. Eventually I'm going to have to write my own because this is just getting out of hand. It feels like everyone is pushing me these days and I just may go over that cliff.
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  152.  @ruffianeo3418  First, a monolithic kernel is not a design flaw, it's a design choice. There are tradeoffs whichever way you take it, such as better integration and faster code with less memory usage that you can do with a monolithic design and can't do as well with a microkernel. Second, Linux hasn't been a purely monolithic kernel in so long I can't even remember when the switch occurred. You can load modules after the kernel is already running. You don't need to compile everything in, it's just a means of providing options generically. And there are plenty of user space drivers these days and if you use Linux on any kind of a regular basis you probably use some, probably without knowing it.
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  153. They'll still do it and continue to win. The people that have the power to stop them are doing nothing and all of us little people will lose.
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  154. They do. There are several fork projects that use Firefox as a base. IceWeasel springs to mind first and you'll have to look up an exhaustive list on your own.
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  155. I've seen very few projects tout being written in either C or C++ as a selling point over the past 25 years, and most that have are more recently created and intended to attract the anti-Rust programmers. Java was always a garbage, trendy language, so of course there were far too many projects that touted being written in it. Rustaceans are just the new Java users, but with a lame pun as their group identifier. That said, it almost sounds like you're confusing the language breakdown tool on GH as being something other than what it is.
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  156.  @justanothercomment416  Indeed, and it's why UEFI and TPM exist. They want to lock open source out of computing. Eventually we may need to develop our own chips and boards just to have a computer that we actually own instead of one they "let us use".
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  157.  @josephp.3341  That presumes that Rust is a good language. If you're even a little bit into language design, you'd realize it's garbage.
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  158.  @sniglom  Memory leaks aren't safe. So certainly it's violating memory safety to leak memory. Of course, Rust doesn't even provide memory safety because of both FFI and the fact that the compiler still has a bug with regards to lifetime management that allows lifetimes to be extended beyond the life of an object.
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  159.  @linuxforpunks  I don't know why anyone would want tabs anywhere else, but it'd be nice if you could customize it with some sort of built-in configuration thing. I was thinking about it the other day, but why isn't the user interface fully customizable. They could just use JavaScript to configure it and keep that in a separate VM to prevent it from being hijacked by websites, then you could write whatever code you want or drag and drop preexisting elements where you saw fit. Just imagine if the whole UI was a canvas and you had resizable, rescalable, and even reprogrammable elements to put wherever you please.
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  160. Why do you think that?
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  161.  @LinuxLightHouse  Agreed. I demand the freedom to be wrong even if I never am.
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  162.  @dynfoxx  Clang, LLVM is the backend.
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  163.  @dynfoxx  No, because you called LLVM the compiler. The backend doesn't do compilation. At most it converts IL to a final binary format, but the compilation has already been done by clang at that point.
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  164. I admire your optimism even if I don't share it. However, what I really want to discuss is your pronunciation of Mozilla like you're trying to say mozzarella. Is that intentional? I kind of hope it is because they deserve the insult given their politics. I'm starting to suspect that maybe the reason YouTube is only allowing me to have 360p is because of my political viewpoint and not because I'm using Firefox since I've heard from numerous others that they don't have that limitation while also using Firefox. If this is true, then some things may need to change, and I don't mean the browser I'm using, at least not yet.
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  165. That's because they're just intelligent enough to know not to say precisely what they mean, which is to exclude all straight, white males. It makes them more difficult to sue and next to impossible to catch in a lie because they don't lie with their mouths, but rather their actions.
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  166.  @gargamel3478  I assume they learned the wrong lesson from how `git` works. Of course, even if that's the case, the database is too large and there's undoubtedly far too much duplication of effort. They should be more discriminating with what goes into it and prune stuff as needed. Here they could learn something from `git` such as branching, but maybe with the branches not all being necessary locally to have a complete picture of the most recent view of the database.
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  167.  @Turalcar  I'm not talking about the borrow checker, though if you had problems with that for a year or two then you weren't writing good code in the first place.
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  168.  @mmstick  Are you claiming that none of those are also issues in Rust? Some of those can't be fully addressed even in Rust and if you think they can then you need to go back to school. Also, what do you have against operator[]? Are you objecting to the fact that you can overload it or are you disliking how it's used in various containers?
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  169.  @mmstick  Ah yes, pick one that's not an issue due to actual language, but library design. That could be easily remedied even in C++ by either using a different library or they could merely change the behavior of the standard library. Do you want to address the language level problems instead?
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  170.  @mmstick  No. What a function in a standard library does is not a flaw in the language. It's a flaw in the library design. The standard library is not the language. Also, you still haven't said what you have a problem with in regards to operator[]. Is it that you can overload it at all? Or do you have a problem with how the function works in the various points of the library where it's used? If you've got some novel third avenue of complaining about operator[], then what?
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  171. I'm pretty sure everyone who can verbalize their thoughts are acoustic, unless they're using an amplifier, then they're considered electronic. Of course, we get into a gray area with recordings of acoustic instruments, but I suppose as long as there's no amplifier before it's recorded it still makes sense to call it acoustic. Now this is all to say that you clearly meant to accuse him of being autistic and that's rather bigoted of you, but I expect nothing else from those that preach tolerance and acceptance.
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  172. This way that you feel about quantum computers, is the same way I feel about them, but also the same way I feel about AI and Rust. It's all hype and it doesn't hold up to the promise.
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  173. What's really wild about this story is that I've got a copy of that very sketch sitting in my video folder ready to cue up, and that is the very sketch he referenced. Instead of forking such a project, it'd be awesome if we could just replace it instead. Maybe force scientists to actually learn how to program by making them use the language that all of Python's best libraries are written in, C. Of course, even using C you can still mitigate your need to think about your code, but who's going to teach scientists those methodologies.
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  174. It's the hype and it not being able to live up to it. For some people, all of the lies just piss us off.
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  175.  @bm1259  Sure, there are many undelivered promises, and that's at the very least annoying. The community around it is exceedingly toxic. But above all else, it's just an ugly language that doesn't provide anything over above the languages which existed before it. If anything, it has an inconsistent syntax that looks worse than C++. Something I keep seeing a lot of lately is a sort of movement to use only the parts of C++ that somebody likes and finds useful while writing programs in basically the same way as C. While I think it'd be better to embrace more of the C++ style of doing things, especially if you make use of classes, it's not a method that's entirely without merit.
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  176.  @uxel-g9y  Not everyone wants to use a 500mb static build and if your builds are smaller then you're not actually including everything needed to run it as I've discovered with quite a few static builds on my own system. There's always a dependency that gets left out. You might think it's worth it for one or two apps, but not everyone has a terabyte sized drive in their system, and if every app is static that adds up. Truthfully, if you were a responsible programmer, it wouldn't matter if every user had terabytes of space, that's still a lot of their space that you're wasting for your own vanity. Also, C and C++ are not the same language and have been largely incompatible without massive compromises for the better part of 25 years. So stop grouping them like they're the same.
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  177.  @Bokto1  Complete with animated graphics in the terminal. Only thing it needs is a selectable color scheme so we can have dark mode without modifying the code.
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  178. The thing I don't get, why is there so much anti-Semitism in this country now? Every time you talk about Jewish concerns there are tons of comments from these people.
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  179.  @bakters  You have far too much hope for me to agree, but I wish I could share in that optimism. I've seen enough of history to know that things are leading down a very dark path that it's likely humanity will not come back from, but we most assuredly won't even if they do.
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  180.  @bakters  The printing press was a technological advancement that caused change. We haven't had such an event to cause this change. What's happening now has been going on since before I was born, it's just that it has been accelerating for the past 20 or 30 years. As far as I can tell, people have only recently been waking up to reality. Scant few believed the warnings, but the slippery slope is indeed real.
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  181.  @adambester3673  In other words, you can't even answer the primary question of what rights are being taken away, because you know that statement is a lie since no rights would be taken away by your political opponents because it's only your side that does that. The left takes rights, real genuine rights, and I can name them.
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  182.  @adambester3673  And since my last post was apparently filtered I'll state it again in another way, there are no rights that the right is going to take away from you, but there are plenty of enumerable rights that the left will take away from us. The sides are not equal or even on the same coin. The left is demonstrably evil.
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  183.  @dan-bz7dz  The only way all people of any given religious affiliation would have equal rights there is if Israel was the one state solution. But I'm going to assume you're brain damaged since you don't recognize the genocide of whites in South Africa.
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  184.  @RohithkannaDuraiswamy  How did previous developers deal with it then? Did they merely read the code or has the documentation been deleted? If the former, then again, I'll state that they're asking for another developer to take time out of their busy schedule to assist the Rustaceans in their task of taking everyone else's place. If they can't read C, then that's on the Rustaceans, not the kernel devs.
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  185.  @DevanandPA-vq1yj  I must've missed that, but that's not so bad as long as you are good at spelling.
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  186. I'll take the bait and correct you with, WINE Is Not an Emulator.
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  187.  @pgtmr2713  Now I can't tell if you're serious, because it's not an emulator, it's a translation layer.
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  188.  @YadraVoat  You may have found the single legitimate use for NFT's.
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  189.  @gruntaxeman3740  I think he's got a point here. If it still works, it's still valid. The fact that people want to throw away everything just because it's not the latest and greatest is rather shameful and wasteful. This is why so many modern pieces of software suck, because modern programmers think you can just throw more RAM or CPU at it and solve the problem inherent in the code. That's the Rust way of thinking. Don't be like Rust devs, be like C devs. Keep what works.
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  190.  @gruntaxeman3740  No language is fully self contained and monolithic in functionality. Although, C comes pretty close. However, C is still the most efficient language on balance, as in balancing both user and programmer time. You can write inefficient code in any language, but modern programmers seem bound and determined to do it with all of them.
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  191.  @gruntaxeman3740  Apparently you've never heard of a library. You write code once then use it in multiple projects. As far as more lines of code, no, not even on a per project basis because we have this thing called code reuse. If you can't write your code efficiently, then it's you, not the language. Also, as far as launching a new process, the scripted language didn't just stay running and wait for a new script to be called, nor do such considerations matter as much when the OS caches things. This also largely depends on the web server in use, but secondary CGI programs that are more likely to be cached are smaller things like C programs, not whole interpreters for scripted languages that then have to load a script and parse it.
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  192.  @gruntaxeman3740  Sounds like you've never worked on anything at all. You're really starting to sound like a Rustacean with all this nonsense.
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  193.  @rancidbeef582  That's probably why those on the left keep saying it, because they know that if they say it we won't do it, but they will, and it'll enable them to push us all into camps before they get rid of us once and for all. When the left tells us what they're doing by accusing us of doing it as they do it, we really should believe them and start doing it so they don't eradicate us.
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  194.  @Leonidas04052  Then you still don't get what's happening.
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  195. One problem with that statement is that nearly all of the correctness checks are compile time only. It really boils down to the competency of the programmer, even in Rust.
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  196.  @alexpyattaev  Which is why I qualified that statement with "nearly". People use UB like it's an insult or a detriment to the language, but really it's just to allow for platform specific behavior and optimizations. Generic solutions, like what most languages come up with in an effort to avoid UB, tend to be slower. If anything, UB in both C and C++ actually gives them leeway to solve problems in better ways.
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  197.  @alexpyattaev  There's nothing inherently unsafe in undefined behavior. It just puts more burden on the developer to make it safe. In fact, you can write an entire program that avoids all UB and still does useful work and it won't guarantee that it's safe. You can even hit multiple points of UB when writing your program and it could still be safe in a portable way.
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  198.  @alexpyattaev  Some elements of UB can be used to determine information about the platform. The portability is a manner of determining how the UB works to guide compiler flags for how your program should proceed.
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  199.  @alexpyattaev  No, you look at the output. For quite a few non-standard behaviors you can write a simple program that generates output based on what the compiler does and use that output as input for the next phase of compilation. On Linux systems a lot of this can be handled using a configure script.
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  200.  @alexpyattaev  Well, it wouldn't help you with the compiler miscompiling, but if the compiler optimizes away a null pointer check, then it's a bug in the compiler. I think you may have inferred something from what I was writing that I definitely wasn't saying.
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  201. The quotes make me wonder, whose definition are you using?
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  202. Ditto. Overpriced, shiny gadgets made for morons. A fun fact I keep bringing up, the same year that Steve Jobs died, so did Dennis Ritchie, who unarguably contributed significantly more to the computing landscape, yet hardly anyone even knows who he was.
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  203.  @JodyBruchon  If you're not on Windows then I'm confused as to why you'd need to parse INF files. I'd assume it was a typo for INI, in which case I wouldn't classify them as Windows files since it's just a file format. But if you're on an embedded platform, I'd just use C for all of it. That you can run shell scripts makes me wonder how powerful this device is because most embedded platforms I've dealt with had no shell nor OS. Hopefully you've got a personal library of code you've been building up or know of one. There's probably a couple dozen hundred INI file readers in plain C on GH, if you're feeling lazy.
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  204. Agreed that the Win32 API is the most stable API on Linux and I've even taken advantage of that a few times. About 5 years ago I would've said X was, but Wayland is slowly squeezing the life out of it and supplanting it everywhere so it's not such a clean target anymore. I would suggest that the only reason to use WINE to run old software is for games. Libre Office is good enough, so unless you need compatibility with MS Office formats I'd just use that. I've been playing Unreal 1 using WINE and it works better than it did on my Win98 box from 20 years ago. After I get tired of playing it again I may install UT. I have a native installer somewhere for UT, but last time I tried it 20 years ago it didn't quite work and WINE more than likely will.
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  205.  @terrydaktyllus1320  It used to be based on merit. Write good software and your software gets used more than others. Now it's based on how much kissing of the derriere of the rainbow brigade that you do and if it's not enough then you get DDoS'd off the internet. This has given us inferior programming languages and inferior programs with massive quantities of propaganda pushing them over better languages and programs, and people on the right being silenced for dissenting to the rot. Surely you understand that a meritocracy is a superior system that we desperately need to go back to.
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  206.  @googIesux  It's not the only jurisdiction that has made it illegal to collect rainwater. Look to any leftist controlled city, county, state, and you'll see tons of such "laws".
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  207.  @BenQ.-ys4kp  I've been learning it for the past 3 or 4 years and let me tell you, it's not a good language. I keep watching videos on it and they're nearly all filled with lies. They allude to or insinuate that it'll prevent every error and then sea lion on you if you call them out on it. Fact of the matter is, the types of errors that the language tries to prevent aren't actually prevented wholly by the language nor in combination with libraries that you'll inevitably have to use if you don't rewrite literally everything in Rust. The biggest source of errors is failure to check user input and it doesn't actually make that any easier. If a Rustacean tells you that memory misuse is the biggest source of errors, they're either spreading propaganda or being facile because that's only how things end up when you fail to check user input. If you want a few examples of what's wrong with the language, look at strings, lifetimes, constructors, mutability, references. Certain keywords irritate me, but I'll admit that that may just be a personal opinion. Things like fn, let, pub, impl, mut. I abhor Java-style singular use keywords like pub and fn. If I have to use a keyword to declare a group of functions as public, then it should allow me to collectively refer to those functions instead of requiring that I use pub for every single function. I just hate function keywords in general. Look at C++ lambdas for an example of doing it mostly right. No keyword at all, though I do have issues with the array of captures component. If anyone tries to claim anything about "the most vexing parse", I'll point out that you can and should use braces to invoke constructors in C++ now and that eliminates that weird self-imposed problem. I say now, but it's been since C++11, so it's not exactly a short time and in fact has been usable since before Rust existed. Anyhow, if YouTube doesn't shadow or delete this and you do happen to actually read it, I'd suggest C if you don't already know it, and just ignore newer languages, but if you must have classes, operator overloading, templates and RAII, then sure, go for C++.
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  208.  @sigurdss4  I disagree. I've used a lot of programming languages, and I feel like Rust's designers went in a completely wrong direction with nearly everything. The way I figure it, a programming language's job is to get out of your way and let you do the work you need to do, but Rust constantly gets in the way, even when you use it the only way you can. I think the biggest part of the problem is too much and too inconsistent of syntax.
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  209. LGR has a video on his channel.
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  210. I've been using their browser since before it was even called Phoenix, and I would gladly switch if every single one of their competition weren't Chromium based, but that alone actually makes it worth the effort to use FireFox. However, that said, surely I'm not the only one to not want what they're currently calling "AI" to be anywhere near my computing experience. Don't get me wrong, I've written a few neural net programs and experimented with them as toys, but people shouldn't use this garbage for serious work. It's going to lead to a lot of problems in the future if we don't cut it off. Truthfully, if it weren't for certain organizations requiring me to access the internet from time to time, I would have given it up years ago.
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  211.  @mytech6779  Everything is known to cause California to the state of Cancer.
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  212.  @82andymac  If it looked right when run through WINE I'd totally be using that as well. At least that is assuming that it would obey the media keys. I use Audacious right now because it's one of the few that has all the options similar to WinAMP but also obeys the media keys. It doesn't look too bad either.
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  213.  @Manley410  If you were old enough to use the internet back then, you'd get it.
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  214.  @Hofer2304  What I'm saying is that if the project is taken over by malevolent forces, then the only real option is to abandon it. This is why projects all need to have a BDFL, so that they actually get maintained and continue to be useful.
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  215.  @Hofer2304  Getting a group of cats to agree on a direction to move is just about impossible, and with some projects, that's what it's like if you try to organize them in certain ways. This is why the BDFL system is still the best for open source, but again I stress that the leader of the project must be benevolent. If it's an MDFL then the project is ruined, and if it's run by committee and that committee is taken over by a bunch of malignant personalities, you get Rust. A constitution would be much the same as running it by committee, only the rules would be more enshrined.
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  216. As they say, a broken clock can be right twice a day.
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  217.  @Sean_6008  Unfortunately for you, you're a broken word a day calendar. You won't be right for another 7 years, unless there's a leap year in 4 years, then it'll be 11.
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  218. Ditto. When I'm working for someone else I can be super fast, but when its for myself I bikeshed it all day long.
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  219. What you're trying to ask as a question is, who determines what the truth is? If those on the left get to determine truth, then we'll never have it again. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, but we don't need to worry about AGI acquiring sentience and deciding to wipe us all out, the technology already exists for a truly evil person to put the pieces together and do it now without any actual intelligence needed, and I don't just mean computer intelligence, but human too. You could literally fit the pieces together today even if you're a numpty, and believe you me, the people that would do it are definitely numpties. I know, it's futile to say anything because if YouTube doesn't shadow or outright delete this post no one will read it anyway and even should one or two read it, none will heed the warning inherent within, and even should one heed the warning they'll lack the power to do anything about it.
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  220. It's truly amazing to me just how many brain damaged peopled there are in this country who believe all the lies of the media. Truthfully, it's hard for me to think of you as media because you keep telling the truth, but I guess that's just a modern day thought based on their past history and it'd be nice if the MSM could be trusted again like they were 40 years ago. I don't think any politician has good policies for tech because none of them understand it. Their advisors are such awful garbage that they never hear any good policy suggestions. So if anyone thinks that voting for either of them will improve the internet, forget it, because nothing will change there or it will get worse, and it really doesn't matter which one you vote for because that'll be the case for either.
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  221. Two possibilities here, either it's the leftist mind virus eating itself, which is by far the most likely scenario, or, conspiracy theory, it could be influenced by closed source companies trying to destroy their enemy, open source, from within. Now, obviously, if you really hate Microsoft, then you're going to automatically assume the latter given their EEE initiatives, but unless you can find concrete proof, you should probably consider that it's the former. Occam's Razor, after all.
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  222.  @drownthepoor  I knew people wouldn't understand the point, but let's see if I can rephrase it so it's easier to understand. GNU then was basically the equivalent to the Rust Foundation now. They manipulate people in some subtle, and some not-so-subtle ways to get them to use the GPL, not that I'm saying the Rust Foundation wants people to use the GPL, but using their rewrite everything in Rust objective as a contrasting point. Once a project is stamped with the GPL, you can't just do whatever you want with it willy-nilly. Had the license of choice been BSD, MIT or some other non-restrictive license, or had they not gone after people with rabid lawyers, then things would be drastically different. Most would argue that the difference would be that nothing would be open source, I posit the exact opposite that we'd have a wealth of open source. Of course, people that are fully inculcated in the cult won't ever agree with me, like Rustaceans won't ever agree that Rust is the wrong choice. And more pointedly you won't see my response because YouTube will likely filter such a long response when I have neither clicked like nor dislike on your post. I guess we'll see in a day or so, or 5 months if I can expect a similar response time.
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  223.  @drownthepoor  I don't mean when building against libraries actually. I suppose their manipulations are so subtle that hardly no one can see it, but you'd be right in saying that they don't force anyone to use a particular license. If I had thought the propaganda would have done this much damage I would've been taking better note of examples throughout the years. I suppose it's too late now because the damage has been done and we're worse off for it. I'm only one person, so even though I see history repeating itself with Rust, I can't do anything about that either.
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  224.  @keyboardwarrior6296  That's a false equivalency. Religion doesn't corrupt children. Imparting morals on a child is a good thing.
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  225.  @keyboardwarrior6296  That's not even remotely correct, and doesn't connect as the flasher isn't selling a product, they're randomly attacking someone. It's almost like you think your false equivalencies make a valid argument.
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  226. I agree, don't cancel them, let them keep talking and show the world what evil PoS's they are. They claim anti-Semitism is on the rise, and it certainly is, but not from those on the right, it's from those on the left. But really, if it weren't for double standards, leftists wouldn't have any standards at all.
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  227.  @nandoflorestan  Whether anyone wants to or not, the idea is solid. Improve core components and everything that relies on them improves.
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  228. This is why I cover my cameras and microphones 99% of the time and never play games that require an internet connection.
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  229.  @zwerko  That's a lot of assumptions I'm going to ignore rather than take offense at, but I've often found myself with a stronger grip on reality than most people. I also seem to know myself as a person better than other people know themselves. You probably don't have children and/or don't remember your childhood and wouldn't understand this, but children are little sponges. They absorb all the information you give them, whether you realize you're giving it to them or not, and it's not always you giving them this information, especially if you foolishly let them watch TV.
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  230.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I agree with that so very much, and wish it could be applied in many spheres of knowledge. People should learn more about the tools they're using before they start trying to use them.
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  231. It seems like Bidiot and the Demonrats are hellbent on destroying the world. Russian programmers are some of the best in the world, and I suspect that the reason why is because they have shitty hardware, so banning them is definitely a stupid move. Most Russians, and especially those that are programmers, disagree vehemently with what their government is doing. So that idiotic sanction punishes them for zero benefit when they're not even guilty. The unintended side-effect, which might actually be a good thing, is that US programmers will be banned from non-US-based projects when they have to decide between keeping Americans and keeping Russians. The idealistic me would hope this leads to better programmers in the US, but the pessimistic me knows it'll lead to worse ones. Our only hope is that the EO is reversed by Trump.
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  232.  @goodfortunetoyou  Sounds fair to me, but then I don't play WoW or any such games. My best friend in high school played EverQuest, and it looked boring and lame to me, as have all the rest of the MMORPG's I've seen since.
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  233. I don't have to worry. There's no way that Slackware will ever get this garbage. Any addition of technology they call "AI" will be in individual applications and those I can probably just do without. I'm already looking to replace FireFox because they're pushing this garbage, but LFS exists.
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  234.  @JodyBruchon  More or less the same. If you can't get the normies to put in the effort, then it's kind of pointless. Every extra step required puts them off. It's really kind of disheartening.
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  235.  @Drowsy-All-Day  It's likely this comment will be censored in some way, but if not, you should know that the Palestinians do mean genocide when they use that certain phrase and if you study the history of the region you'll find that they have no valid claim for all the land they want. Modern day Israel started off by purchasing the land that they had and won all the rest in wars that were started by their neighbors just because Israel was predominately Jewish.
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  236.  @Drowsy-All-Day  Maybe not, but it probably should.
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  237. I would've said that FlatPak was a good runner up a couple of years ago, but now that I'm on Slackware 15 and it not only works but I've got several apps that refused to build from source which work as FlatPak's, I like it a bit more now. AppImage's are definitely the best though, because I can just plop it somewhere, chmod +x it and go. No installation, no fiddling or faddling, just run it right after download. Yeah, you have to trust the person that puts it together, but you have to trust a lot of people already when it comes to using any computer. You have to trust that all of the hardware manufacturers aren't putting in backdoors, which we now know they pretty much all do, and you have to trust the OS distributor, which for Linux you mostly can, and you have to trust each of the applications you have running on your system which may or may not be written by and/or maintained by anyone that has your best interests at heart. So unless you make all your own hardware and software, you eventually have to trust someone.
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  238.  @drownthepoor  You're describing one particular license. Look into BSD and MIT.
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  239.  @sillymesilly  No. Not tolerating contradiction is a very incorrect view. In fact, the lack of tolerance that the left has is a very bad thing. If you can't tolerate someone disagreeing with you, then you should be aware that your viewpoints are probably evil.
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  240. I don't understand why people still use Apple products. They have been restrictive pieces of excrement for at least 15 years. Shiny gadgets made for idiots by evil megalomaniacs. Oh sure, good hardware, and the software works well with it, but it still restricts you more than Windows, and that's saying a lot. Of course, I use Linux, but I also use boring and predictable hardware so I never have hardware incompatibility issues. Plus, you can't beat the freedom that Linux gives you.
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  241. You know what I miss, elinks. Back when Yahoo chat was a thing, that's what I used for nearly all of my web browsing needs. If, and that's a mighty big if, I needed a proper GUI browser for something, I would use Firefox, and at that time it really was the best browser. There was also a time when I would use Opera for all my browsing needs, before they swapped to using Chromium, and at that time, Opera was far better than Firefox. Like all things in tech, the more they change, the worse they get. I can't even use elinks now because it won't work at all on the modern web, and I can't stand to use any Chromium based browser, even Brave which people keep recommending. Firefox is the last browser standing as far as I'm concerned, and I'm getting to the point where I hate even that. If Ladybird doesn't drastically improve things over Firefox, I can't see switching to it. Ultimately, I may be forced to write my own browser from scratch and that's a multi-year project to even get something off the ground, unless the internet fundamentally changes. If we could get rid of HTML/CSS/JS, then the world and browsers would be far better off.
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  242. Have you not tried Blender for 3D printing designs? Also, what's the polite half of the planet?
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  243.  @Turjak_art  Do you really believe that? Because if you do, then you've been brainwashed quite thoroughly. If you don't, then you're just evil.
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  244.  @Mankepanke  Weird, because I see it more from Europeans, Canadians, Australians and Brits (they're not really European). Here in the US, it's less than half, they just happen to be super vocal.
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  245.  @j-twd930  I'd say that only around 48% in the west are such hypocrites. All the rest are intelligent.
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  246. And Embrace, Extend, Extinguish comes full circle. If Linus dies or quits, Linux is toast. Time to fork a pre-6.0 version and oust the zealotry from the kernel.
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  247. Some of the people under that FreeDOS video are complaining that you somehow got it wrong because they don't seem to understand that the initial state should work and not require fixes. The video even goes over everything you need to do to fix it and they still don't realize what they're saying. I'm inclined to think they're a bunch of Tim Paterson's. I get the arguments that people are making regarding whether it's even necessary, but the thing is, it should be part of the historical record, and part of that should mean unmodified. So the fact that they removed someone's name from an insulting comment is, in my opinion, a destruction of a piece of history. They probably had an intern upload it and they borked the encoding scheme, but modifying the historical record on purpose is just egregious. Non sequitur here, but it kind of gave me a chuckle when at the time of my watching this video the view counter was 8.3K views. Just a neat coincidence for a video on DOS.
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  248.  @chralexNET  You say that as if `gcj` and other native compilers don't exist. You're just spreading FUD like every other MS fangirl.
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  249.  @chralexNET  And yet, you dishpit, it still exists, still works and isn't the only example of a native compiler. Since you claim to not know what FUD means, you're either a liar and I can expect more BS arguments from you, or you were born this decade and don't know squat. If you want to make the absolute zygote argument that it won't handle the latest version of Java, I'll inform you that it's an open source project and could be picked up by anyone at any time but that yet again, it's not the only one and others are still being worked on.
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  250.  @chralexNET  Since YouTube keeps shadowing my posts I'll say it again in a different way for a moroff like you. Discontinued doesn't mean that it no longer works and as it's open source it could be picked up and continued by anyone to work with modern versions of Java too. You say you don't know what FUD is, but as you're an MS shill I find that statement dubious.
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  251.  @chralexNET  This probably won't stick either, but it's a tool that stops looking at discontinued and assumes that means you can't use that software, or that other pieces of software don't exist to do the same thing. Unless you were born yesterday, I don't believe you when you claim not to know what FUD means.
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  252.  @chralexNET  Go ahead and block me, it's not like you'll learn anything from anyone anyway. You're close-minded and refuse to take a valid point or do any research. As for combative, you already started down the path of violence by lying.
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  253. Peak performance is only better in long-running, poorly optimized codebases. Gcj isn't dead, it's just not actively being developed, and again I'll say that there are alternatives, of which Kotlin is a widely used example. Of course, the best advantage in any codebase is having a competent developer.
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  254.  @chralexNET  Disingenuous piece of excrement. I hope you really do block me because I can't stand people like you who denigrate older technology and refuse to learn more than one language. Not to mention the intentional misreading of what I write by focusing only on one piece of it. Do other people always have to do your research for you and find every instance where you're wrong before you'll accept that you're wrong? GFY.
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  255.  @user-dc9zo7ek5j  Intercal. Interesting esoteric language, though my favorite is still one I can't name without YouTube deleting my comment. I'll abbreviate here as BF. Only 8 instructions if you use the standard definition.
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  256.  @atticusherodes6648  I can't see his lengthy response by default. Most people won't sort by newest, so it is censored. The only wiggle room you have here is if your reading comprehension is poor and you neglected to read the word "lengthy", but that still doesn't paint you in a good light.
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  257.  @BitsOfTruth  Yeah. Just set up your printer with `winecfg` and voila.
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  258.  @brianbergmusic5288  For a certain group of people, community really is just a shared userbase, and they love dividing everyone and categorizing them into buckets with 20 or 30 keywords. For real human beings, the ones who have passion for the project and care about it, that's where you'll find the real community. Just needs better organization.
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  259. I feel like the Internet Archive is what the Library of Congress should be. While they preserve a lot of things, they mostly hide it away in their vaults or require a physical presence to make use of the materials. I know, copyright law, but there should be some allowances made for the LoC. I don't know if they preserve websites either, and that's one of the most important things that the IA does which I also use them for. Although, I personally feel like our copyright law should go back to being 14 years. If that was the limit, then things would make more sense and the IA could distribute anything that was 14 years and older without any worry. For that matter, so could the LoC.
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  260. I won't speculate on all the ways that such a list of women could be used, but I can guess what the initial motivation was, and I'd bet good money that it was to be used as a wank list for someone.
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  261.  @mgord9518  Still, even though it is nearly always slower and more bloated, the FlatPak version of Xemu is the only one I've managed to get working. So it's at least got one positive in my book. Well, two if you count Halo 1 and 2 separately.
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  262. No. There's only one cure for that and no one will like me saying it, so I won't.
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  263.  @Gigusx  It doesn't take millions even if we're talking about decentralized networks. At most a couple of hundred people could accomplish it, but that's only for providing the infrastructure and only if it's decentralized. If it's centralized, it'll cost millions of dollars, but then you don't even need a dozen. A little of both and it wouldn't be terribly difficult. Just needs good programmers and people willing to put in the work. As far as restrictions, if I were running it, I'd only ban spam and scams and to make it easier on network activity I'd limit video to 1080p. Censoring people in what is effectively the public square is evil and if we correctly interpret the first amendment, then for any US company to do so is also illegal.
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  264. @TheDZHEX You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I approve of their censorship. Seems to be a common trait amongst leftists, that they can't read.
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  265. @TheDZHEX Sure, because you know what's in my heart. Although, it really doesn't help your specious point when you try and claim that Twitter still censors people the way they used to when they were run by raging leftists.
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  266. @TheDZHEX Apparently I'll have to say things multiple times because the left-wing trolls that operate YouTube keep censoring me, but no, the social media site you attempted to mention is not the same as it once was. There was significantly more censorship with the previous owners, as in a ratio of 1000% to 0. Also, you have no clue what you're talking about if you think I'd ever be onboard with censorship.
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  267.  @mytech6779  That's most Rust devs really. They lack the basic understanding of pretty much everything.
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  268. What abstractions would those be?
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  269. So you're claiming that C developers eschew Rust because they hate these features?
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  270. Ah okay, so it's really because you're part of the cult. Bend over backwards and obey or you're an impediment. Got it. If you want it rewritten in Rust, then go rewrite it. If that's not good enough for you, then too bad.
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  271. Well, no. Rust isn't the closest thing we have to fixing memory safety because it's not even the biggest problem. For starters, the study that MS published was their invalid assessment of their own software, not software in general which they couldn't do because they don't possess the source code to every piece of software. For seconds, better programmers is the only valid solution to the problem. If you write better code, you don't have problems. However, valgrind, compiler warnings and static analysis are good adjuncts to better programmers. No one is perfect, not even the Rust compiler or standard library developers. There have been real bugs that have been discovered that seemingly can't or won't be fixed which invalidates Rust's so-called memory safety. And in case you're curious, the biggest problem facing programmers is a lack of user input validation. Merely preventing out of bounds accesses in the simplest cases won't fix the lack of validation.
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  272. It's a shame such software that I used as a "kid" can't be open sourced and toyed with today. I still say we need a massive reduction in copyright lifespan. Also, I really want to play the original Unreal as a native build on Linux. If our copyright law were still as our founding fathers designed it, then every bit of the original Unreal would no longer be under copyright.
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  273. Object Pascal, no "ive". I've asked myself for years why that's the name, considering Objective-C had a more sensical name, but whatever, it's still a great language anyway.
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  274. Yeah, we don't want to become that which we have fought against. The left jumps on any conspiracy theory that makes them feel warm and fuzzy, we should be better than them. Also, the myth about Ada Lovelace is especially irritating to me, because it's almost always parroted by an idiot who wants to use it for some female empowerment slogan. Taking away the accomplishments of others is not the correct way to empower people. Besides, there are plenty of women involved in computer science that they can and should look up to, there's no need to lie about who the first programmer is to inflate egos. I kind of feel the same way about the story on who coined the term open source. It feels like a glory grab to put down men.
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  275. I haven't trusted Wikipedia on anything outside of the technical sphere for over a decade. It's been obvious that they've had severe left-wing bias for pretty much the entire time they've existed. Even things in the technical sphere have to be checked, and luckily for me, most of the technical information I glean from it can be checked by merely writing a program. If you need to use it for research of any kind, at most it should be a first stop and definitely should be quadruple checked against sources that don't cite WP. There's a circular dependency problem on WP wherein a journalist will create an article and cite WP while no such article exists or says something different and then WP editors will create or edit an article to back up the journalists and cite their article to "prove" the content on WP. It's rather disgusting and provably still happens all the time, yet leftists completely disregard the truth, so it gets ignored on the left, and people in the center who are ill-informed will fall for it every time.
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  276.  @lev3271  No one does. It's just that certain people have brainworms and think they need it. You can't fix these people because the worms have damaged their brains.
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  277. No disrespect to ESR, but I remember the term open source being prevalent before 1998. Ordinarily I wouldn't care but when someone tries to give credit to someone who doesn't deserve it because they've been infected with a leftist brainworm, I feel like someone needs to speak up. I've got some Linux distributions that are that old, I should look and see if there's some proof that they used that term in any of the pieces of documentation available. I suppose someone could look through .iso's on the internet archive too if they felt so inclined.
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  278. It's already been said twice, but I feel the need to say it again. They already are banning real scientists and real science.
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  279. Not every design decision requires absolute stringency. It's the equivalent of always checking bounds or always checking for a null pointer in internal code where the checks had already happened upon entrance to the library and no longer need the checks. Unfortunately, most compilers aren't capable of detecting when it isn't needed in heavily nested code and still require a programmer to know what they're doing and think about it properly and thus to give hints to the compiler.
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  280.  @jon9103  I only ever hear that slogan from ignorant fools, but since that's 95% of modern programmers you're in good company. I'm not even that big of a proponent of LaTeX, but you don't need to know and use every single construct available to make use of it, and even someone with a below average intelligence such as the two of you should recognize that fact. Personally, I hate the "Java mentality" that has become so pervasive in the industry and corroded the talents of most within the past 29 years. And were it not for his ardent support for a garbage documentation format and his utter ignorance of what plain text actually is, and your defense of him, I wouldn't suggested that you both could be reformed and made whole, but you have dissuaded me of that belief.
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  281.  @gug1970  Yeah, and my favorite e-mail client back then was Phoenix Mail, which eventually just died because of the naming conflict. Although, even if an old copy of it would still work, I've basically stopped using e-mail for all purposes except notifications now.
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  282. Let's put it this way, 40 years ago the majority of people hired were on merit. Not all, and no one would claim all, and he's not claiming all, but the majority. Now it's very few that are hired on merit because of quotas, which are themselves racist and sexist. Given that your post is edited I can't be sure if you meant "their" when referring to the community's repugnant ideologies or if you actually meant to call someone else's ideologies repugnant, but he's certainly not defending any repugnant ideologies. If you wish to make another edit and further clarify what you mean, make sure to respond to this and inform me of said edit.
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  283.  @RenderingUser  C is a systems programming language that is easy for beginners. You just need the right teacher.
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  284.  @RenderingUser  Why do you keep liking your own posts?
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  285.  @Spartan322  Strongly disagree. It's not difficult to context switch based on a token being a typename. It's mostly the same as using a keyword. Although, if your return type is a built-in type, then it already is a keyword and equivalent to that of using fn anyway, but without the redundancy. For a language that is dynamically typed, I'd say fine-ish, but even bash proves that's not necessary. You might want to argue that blocks of code could be analyzed differently if the compiler knows ahead of time that it constructs a function, but in a language like Rust where the last element of a block can just sit on its own, that removes one area of context sensitivity and places it elsewhere, and the compiler should know by the time it reaches the first brace that it's dealing with a function anyway, even in C.
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  286.  @Spartan322  I definitely do understand, but I write my parsers and lexers from scratch. If you're using rigid compiler construction tools, then it's more difficult. Why don't you give it a try, write a compiler from scratch. Let's say an enhanced BF language, something with variables and functions, and translate it into C. Might be too simple of a task, but I think you'll find that it can be enjoyable writing code and writing it all by hand is far more fun and a lot easier to do. Then write a simple BASIC dialect, but give it an editor environment like a C64, and stay within the terminal the whole time. If by the time you're done you don't understand what I'm talking about, then it might be time to retire or change fields. You shouldn't waste your time doing things you don't enjoy and/or don't feel rewarded by accomplishing.
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  287.  @Spartan322  If you've got any examples I'd appreciate you sharing them.
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  288.  @Spartan322  I don't think C was particularly visually simple anyway. Even when functions took no arguments, whether in C or C++, I used void to indicate that. The current standard for C requires the use of the void keyword anyway. But for what it's worth, I define a type for function pointer arguments every time that I can, which is generally every time. It makes it significantly cleaner to read a function signature that way. When I write C++, I prefer to put a `using namespace std;` at the top. If I need to avoid a standard name, I'll use my own namespace or just change the name in some other way since I always put using clauses after includes and never in headers. Of course, since my own language has modules, I don't need half of the coping mechanisms that I use in either C or C++. I still don't understand language designers that love clutter. If I import a module I expect that module to be immediately usable, not indirectly usable through a namespace or some other garbage. This is one of the rare times that I would commend Python for how its imports work.
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  289. I'm still using 2.10 on Slackware, and last time I was at my parents, I checked out what version Mint uses, and it's also 2.10, which I find absolutely weird. I never update, but I have their computer setup to do so and I would expect a more recent version with Mint. Maybe I'll get version 3.0 in a decade when Slackware 16 is released. :))
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  290. I love KDE. I've been using it for 25-ish years now, but I would never donate to them now. They're run by militant leftists who think countering truth with destruction is a valid response. Unfortunately, I may have to stop using KDE in the near future.
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  291.  @unucellply4221  I meant "your" in the generic sense. Technically, monopoly would be the wrong word, but I get what you really mean. Of course, if you want to try and team up and fork the project, there are quite a few developers that aren't raging leftists. I'd love to fork X and fix the flaws in the design, but I'd not be able to keep calling it X. This is one of those things that makes forking extra difficult because widespread adoption is worse when you have to rename a project. I would consider the Wayland devs to be akin to terrorists in this regard because they're project squatting on X while developing its direct competitor. I figure a similar problem would occur with forking KDE, but I've never been a fan of the name and would gladly accept a change. That probably won't make sense to you, but it's sort of a non-linear thought I had with regards to the effort involved in forking any project that you want to take out of the hands of someone evil.
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  292.  @mk71b  Stop paying your taxes.
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  293.  @phoneywheeze  The only way a system could work where the government does the verification is where you have an identifier that the website can check without giving the government any information other than that single identifier. A simple pass/fail where you're of age or you're not. However, we all know that it would be exploited by the government to gather even more information on the citizenry than they should have and I'd rather see no age verification at all, even with in-person purchases.
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  294. I've said it before and I'll say it again and hopefully people that watch your videos will read the comment even if you don't, but part of the left's goal is to control the language we use. This is why the white house (no respect there, so no capitalization), has decided for us what programming languages we should use. This is why they redefine words over and over again and demand that we use whatever words they want us to use and none of the words they don't want us to use. This is why they rewrite history and use the short memories of normies to get away with it. What we really need is our own open source initiative. Something that is intentionally to the right, politically speaking. Not leaning, but just on the right. They should vet people based on their beliefs, just as the left does, and ensure that only people who support the rights of a baby to live once it has been created, that support the right of a person to carry a gun to protect themselves from enemies foreign and domestic, that protect children from groomers instead of mutilating their mind and body, and any other morals you can think of that the left considers optional, if not downright antithetical to their agenda of dominating humanity.
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  295. That's silly. Everyone knows that the first computer bug was a lightning bug, sometimes referred to as a firefly. It took them so long to notice it because they thought the LED was blinking as it should and it was really a bug preventing them from knowing the machine wasn't working. Of course, LED's didn't exist when all this went down, so they were naturally confused about the whole process of debugging.
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  296.  @OhNotThat  Perhaps you don't really know what justice is, or maybe you haven't been paying attention to what's been happening in our courts, but the left is most definitely committing acts of injustice in an attempt to correct the injustices of the past. Putting someone in prison for political beliefs is never correct, yet here we are with thousands of political prisoners in the new banana republic of the disparate states of America.
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  297.  @NomenNescio99  Personally, I don't think it'll ever matter to them because it's not like they get money from you if you use their software. I've been using KDE nearly as long as it has existed, but I wouldn't contribute financially to them now that they're run by leftists. Eventually I'll have to either fork it or find a replacement that does everything I need because they're moving to Wayland only.
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  298.  @seancollins9745  It's either C or it's C++, not both. And those features are already in C++, and have been since before Rust existed.
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  299.  @JodyBruchon  I've not seen any inanity from Slackware, but it's not a distro for newbs.
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  300.  @gruntaxeman3740  I'll say it again, but you don't have to use the terminal for C. You can easily write GUI apps in C and I and many others have done so. Also, I've had my own library for string handling for decades and you really shouldn't used linked lists if you expect your code to be performant. Arrays use less memory and are significantly faster. If you truly require the order to be retained, then a sparse array is still a better option even if it's not quite as memory efficient. A lot of what you're complaining about tells me you're not very good at architecting and you're not up to date on your knowledge of C, nor of C++. YouTube seems to be shadowing more posts than usual under this video.
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  301.  @rndszrvaltas  That's a rather disingenuous argument. It's like you're saying that in C you absolutely can't use a library to accomplish these tasks. Like the argument is solely between what's in the standard library. C is far older than most of the other languages that are commonly in use these days and has tons of open source libraries to handle these kinds of tasks quite easily. If you really are a numpty and can't handle manual memory management, there are multiple GC implementations for C as well as many more multiples of arena allocators. No language currently has "proper" modules, and requiring someone to add namespace_ to the start of all the functions they use isn't a valid argument against C until I stop seeing so many people prepend the namespace in other languages. There's not a language in the world that returns arrays on the stack either. They either return a reference to some heap memory or they allocate space on the stack and pass a pointer to that space to the function when calling it. Again, string libraries exist for C in numbers beyond counting. It's almost like every opponent to C doesn't know that code reuse exists. Of course, you likely won't see this because YouTube keeps shadowing long posts, but on the off chance they let it through it needed to be said.
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  302.  @gruntaxeman3740  Reading this thread again, I can't help but wonder if your argument about ANSI C limiting identifiers was more disingenuous than I gave you credit for. If you're using ANSI C, then you're clearly going to be on a platform that's old and you won't be using anything else anyway. If you're on a modern desktop, you won't have that limitation because you can use an ISO C compiler. Although, I still question your naming conventions if 31 characters really is a limit for you, but that's not a valid limit for modern C.
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  303.  @gruntaxeman3740  Which begs the question then, why bring it up? Of course, it's ridiculous to suggest that C is intended for only one purpose. It is a general purpose programming language and people were just fine writing desktop applications with it in the past, and quite a few still do today. I also completely disagree that Java or TypeScript are well suited to writing desktop applications. If anything, it sounds like your argument is either based on misconceptions or it's being made in bad faith.
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  304. Interesting thoughts, though I don't quite agree that C is difficult to understand how it translates into machine instructions. Of course, I've written several compilers so it may be that I'm biased in determining what's understandable to the average programmer. Like when I see a member access of a pointer to a struct, I know what code is being generated there and when I see an if/else block, I can see the lea's and mov's that lead to that cmp followed by a series of jne's and je's and sometimes even with a lack of optimization a straight up jmp to lazily fall through the whole block. But yes, I definitely agree that Rust devs need to find a different religion.
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  305. I'm not so sure that a secure supply chain is really possible no matter how local the manufacturing unless you manufacture things yourself in your basement. Even then, if a state actor sets their sights on you, then secure may be impossible. Of course, in the future, we may all need to do something like that using homebrew electronics just to get privacy and security. If our society doesn't increase its overall intelligence level, this can't possibly happen, and I fear it never will.
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  306. I think fear of a real-world SkyNet is overblown. You don't need to worry about an AI like that existing because it likely never will. Humans just lack the intelligence to create an artificial intelligence. However, what you do need to worry about is the technology being used as a cudgel to beat people down with. Consider how cheaply and easily you can build a drone these days, and that it's relatively easy to incorporate a satellite transceiver and a camera. Then consider that it can be hooked up to a remote database running some NN software to perform image recognition and determine what is and isn't a human. Follow that thought through to its conclusion and you get what the real fear is, because the machine won't operate on its own, but humans are very likely to use it in that way anyhow.
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  307.  @libertarianspirit  It's interesting hearing these things from people that actually had to live through it, while the modern left in this nation is trying to run headlong into that wall and destroy everything and everyone while believing they're doing what's good and moral. If we had a meritocracy, half of this nation just might starve.
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  308. The only positive thing I have to say about this trend, at least I hope it's a trend and not permanent, is that we have a lot of redundancy in open source software. It's because Git took over for version control and was so easy to use that it became almost commonplace for projects to be forked over and over and over and over again. So now, we have dozens of projects that if they disappear, hardly no one will notice because, oh look, another fork popped up. Godot started going woke, and look, we have Redot and a bunch of other forks and even some new projects and there's always still the ubiquitous Unreal. And three weeks-ish later, we have newfound hope that people are actually waking up to the fact that woke is corruption.
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  309.  @timothygibney159  Except that Rust doesn't actually prevent all of those problems. Aside from needing an FFI for all the functionality it doesn't have built-in, which invalidates all of its supposed protections, there's the fact that there's a real bug in the compiler which still hasn't been fixed which invalidates those protections from a security standpoint. If you're a good programmer, you can use C and have safe and secure code. If you're a bad programmer, keep trying to learn how to write good programs by pounding your head against the Rust compiler.
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  310. Yes, but there's an agenda behind the push that makes that a useless line of attack for them.
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  311.  @mytech6779  I would've said 5 year olds, but that works too.
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  312. It feels like people are finally starting to wake up and see the truth. To recognize that the left is guilty of the racism of low expectations and that it's an absolutely evil way to run a world by.
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  313. Thankfully, the reason they've failed to win the war is because the norm is the exact opposite of them. Something like 95 to 99 percent of the population of the world makes up the norm. Sadly, they've had successes at various battles because 40 to 55 percent support their insane causes. If we could convince the floppers to stop flopping and support sanity, we could have a chance and the time to work on those that refuse to flop. Otherwise, to let those on the left win instead of deprogramming them is to let humanity go extinct. What's really insane, is that there are a not insignificant amount of leftists that would cheer for the death of humanity.
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  314. Text only command prompts are better than a GUI. You can accomplish so much with only the keyboard and your hands on the home row.
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  315.  @kras_mazov  I would argue that to be a leftist is insane, not merely nowadays but always was. It's anti-humanism because every policy they support goes against humans existing and being free and all for the "feels".
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  316.  @rollinkendal8130  But you're still not answering. Why distribute your source at all if you want to restrict its usage?
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  317.  @rollinkendal8130  So who makes the cut?
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  318.  @rollinkendal8130  That would be weird, although I wouldn't call it open source. But realistically, who makes your list of authorized users?
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  319.  @rollinkendal8130  Well, to be clear, I meant your restriction on people born on a leap year. That is indeed weird, but also it would be bigotry against a person who can't control when they were born. But in reality for your real projects, who would you actually not want using your code?
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  320.  @rollinkendal8130  So you'd say the same if someone was to deny service to someone for being black or Jewish? Or do you wish to use the dictionary and the correct definition and actually answer the question I asked, which is, who would you deny usage of your software?
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  321.  @MrBenMcLean  I could see such concessions causing problems, because one industry would scoff at their work being valued less than another industry, especially when you consider that software production requires so much more time, skill and education than movie production and infinitely more than music. Not to mention, if you try and nickel and dime it, the entertainment industry is so much more powerful that they'd either squash it with lawsuit after lawsuit, or they'd get a concession of 99 years that would lead to more concessions. Remember the slippery slope is real.
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  322. Except that they did eventually do the work themselves of understanding how the code works. Someone posted a comment under another video, might have been one of Brodie's, where they explained how everything worked. This was work that anyone who would hope to use the inode interface would have been expected to do on their own, regardless of language, and the developers of the inode interface rightly consider the code to be the documentation there. So clearly it wasn't some gargantuan task that couldn't be completed without the developers giving them extraneous plain English documentation, which invalidates all of their complaints and really validates what the original developers were saying.
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  323. That would be an interesting test, but implementations matter more there than with a language like Python which really only has one implementation. Some were better than others and you'd either need to test them all or write one from scratch. Also, there were quite a few BASIC compilers and they would undoubtedly perform better than the interpreted versions.
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  324. I used to recommend Unreal and Godot for anyone asking about game engines. If they wanted something that was specifically open source, I'd say Godot, but now I can't recommend most open source engines. Godot is now toxically verboten, and most of the rest are either abandonware or plain garbage. The only non-open engine I would ever recommend is Unreal, and it only doesn't fit the definition of open if we use the FSF or OSI definitions. Technically, the entire source is available to do with more or less as you please, just so long as you don't redistribute the source or your changes. Their licensing isn't particularly onerous, and it is the best engine. However, there are a few open source engines that people often forget about which can be used to create some really great games and have been used for such in the past and present and possibly future. I speak, of course, about the Doom and Quake engines. Doom and Quake 1 through 3 are all open source. Doom 3 runs just about everywhere and is as modern as most anyone really needs. I've been playing through the game again after over a decade of not playing it because my OG XBox had died on me, and my computer is a potato with no discrete graphics. So, for anyone considering making a game, if you want my recommendation for game engines: 1) Unreal 2) Doom 3. That is all.
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  325.  @IllusionDX  Yep, and I consider that a good thing because you have no ideologues who might screw it up. However, if you really insist on the latest and greatest technology that's constantly being updated, then consider my primary recommendation of Unreal. Sure, you have to pay them if your game starts to be profitable, but if you're making enough money to fit their licensing requirement for payments, then you're well enough off to be able to afford it. If you're releasing your game for free, then you don't have to pay them and you're good to go.
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  326. Exactly, they have all of the control and we're allowed none of it. That's what these people always mean.
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  327.  @RenderingUser  Cool new tools aren't usable yet. I still can't trust ripgrep to be consistent with how it outputs and it still doesn't correctly interpret PCRE's. It's not the only one, but if all you care about is fancy colors, then submit a PR for any of the tools you were already using to output in color with a flag.
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  328.  @RenderingUser  Read this slowly. If a tool doesn't do what I need it to do, such as in the case of rg, correctly handle PCRE's, then it is completely useless, no matter how fast it runs. You might as well ask me to search my files with echo. Of course, with the list you just gave, I'm probably talking to a teenager that doesn't actually work on anything real anyway. None of the tools you list are substantially different enough from what came before or will improve the quality of my life or work. I don't even use a file manager at all, so yazi certainly won't help me. Although, I can't help but wonder if the people behind it are children to use such an awful name. And modrinth, bevy and key echo are toys I have no desire for.
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  329.  @RenderingUser  Nope, just updated the repo and checked again. Still doesn't correctly handle PCRE's. Also seems to be slower than it used to be. If you don't get how yazi is a terrible name, then there's no helping you. And I don't call them toys because I have no use for them, but because they're recreational programs. That I have no use for them is a separate matter.
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  330.  @nullid1492  If you restrict yourself to writing code in such a way as to suit backwards compatibility in C++, then you're not really using C++. Same goes for Rust.
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  331.  @Spartan322  What do you mean? As far as I've seen, the Rust Foundation would rather go completely against the US constitution.
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  332. I decided against it years ago when games for the OG XBox needed patches that could only be acquired through their online service and which without would be left in a broken state. One game I had just froze at a certain point and without the ability to connect to an external computer and with only dialup anyway, I couldn't acquire and apply the patch. I have never forgiven them for that idiocy and will never.
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  333. I'm of the mind that people who work to suppress the rights of others should lose their freedom.
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  334.  @JPs-q1o  The fact that every inconsistency was shot down is enough proof for me that it was rigged.
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  335.  @Artekus  Their problem is criminals in the government, not criminals on the streets. Besides, their job is to go after the criminals, not force a citizen to do it.
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  336. Yep, already is.
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  337. It's probably because they went too far to the dark side, aka LISP.
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  338. There are only two possible courses of action here, and one of them we shouldn't consider even though it would be the most effective because it is evil. But boy do I ever consider that course more and more with each passing day when these terrorists keep ruining good things.
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  339. Just so long as it doesn't have spiders, I'd check it out.
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  340.  @mintoo2cool  True, everyone should just use Linux, but some people haven't fully broken free from the pen that their overlords have put them in. Eventually they'll stop bleating, whether it be because they've seen the light or the corporation has silenced them, but they will stop.
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  341. Native build of UT, yay!
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  342. I'm pretty sure I've played Doom in wireframe before. It's possible that GZDoom implements a renderer for that. If it has colored lines and sound, it might be how I play through it next time.
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  343.  @ruffianeo3418  As long as they implement their own infrastructure to support their language of choice, sure, why not. The problem with some languages is that they expect help in interfacing. There are many driver writers out there who just use C and don't need more help than reading the documentation or code to figure out how to interface with the kernel.
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  344.  @tomthegeek  The only distros I would avoid are those that push political agendas. Not that anyone would ask, but if you're curious I use Slackware.
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  345. If true, then that's a sad state of affairs. It wouldn't surprise me though, given the current state of technology.
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  346. @Digitalis-Nervosa Then you're the only one on your side who believes that way, because literally every single other leftist I've been able to converse with would rather I die for refusing to affirm their delusions. In the past the psychologists knew that you should not affirm delusions because that's the surest way to reinforce mental illness, and yet now most have abandoned their oaths and actively harm humanity as a whole by reinforcing mental illness.
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  347. Do you need cups-browsed to print? Is it named that in the process viewer? Because I print every single day, and I see files for cups-browsed, but no such process is running, but cupsd is running. If I still have to worry, then this would be a package I'd update more quickly than normal. If I don't need to worry because cupsd and cups-browsed are two separate things, then whatever.
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  348. It's always good to have options, but I'd say that if you're using FreeCAD instead of Blender to design 3D printing parts, you might want to consider a change.
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  349.  @BenQ.-ys4kp  A lot of my complaints come from the language design itself. If you're not into language design then those probably won't matter to you. However, the syntax is worse than C++, and doesn't provide any benefit over idiomatic modern C++ programming techniques. I especially hate the whole lifetime dichotomy. Granted, by default C++ does require more typing there, but you can mitigate that and use better syntax and you don't have to worry about it as often. Though, one of my biggest complaints is all of the lies spread by Rustaceans about what the language can do. If you have an FFI for C, you've already defeated that argument. No one codes every application 100% from scratch. At some point you will need to call into some external library, and especially for a language as new as Rust is, you can't possibly avoid it.
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  350.  @BenQ.-ys4kp  It's really up to the programmer to prevent memory bugs. The compiler can only do so much, but both C and C++ have more extensive tooling outside of the compiler. However, it's not whether you can make use of the lifetime notation to prevent bugs, but the fact that for certain things you can't avoid using them, while in other languages you can do work in an area that you already know is safe without having to use such notations. For instance, if a pointer is entirely internal to your library, you really don't need to manage it as much because you know what touches it and when.
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  351. I keep being reminded that VBScript used to be a thing on the web and I kind of miss ActionScript, but only because of Flash games, not because it was a good language. Not to mention that every browser had a plugin for Java. Now, we only get JavaScript and it's quite frankly one of the worst languages in existence. Even VBScript was a better language. Can you imagine how cool it would be if we could easily write a program in C and "compile for web" and done? And please don't claim emscripten is that, because it's not.
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  352.  @zyxzevn  Even though emscripten is a horrible choice, it has shown us that C can work. Yeah, it would need some kind of local compiler and/or interpreter, but those have been done numerous times and it's just a matter of a browser incorporating one. Which is actually kind of my point. We need a plugin system for browsers like in the olden days so that multiple language runtimes could be used and efficiently.
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  353.  @collection6062  Is that a clean compile or cached? Clean, mine takes about 1.5 seconds. Cached, it takes about 0.1 seconds. Of course, that's how long the whole compiler and all of its source takes to generate the compiler binary. How long does your compiler take to build programs written in your language and can you run them afterwards?
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  354. Not that you'll read this, especially on a 10 day old video, but the thing I most object to is calling it AI. All of these NN-based learning models are incorrectly formed attempts at duplicating human minds, something that isn't currently within the technological capability of humans yet, if ever. I say incorrectly formed because that's not really how human minds work. I also vehemently dislike the hype train behind "AI", but I think artists need to chill out and get over it. Yeah, the technology basically just regurgitates what others have done before, and anyone that claims otherwise doesn't actually understand how the programs work. It's a bit like mad libs with significantly many more inputs and outputs and a lot more fine-grained control over how they interact, even the art generator programs. I doubt that there's much new art to be had in this day and age, but if there is, human artists with actual skills can still compete if they learn how licensing works. If you can't create something new and unique, then are you any better than the generative programs anyway. All that said, the only places I think "AI" programs should be banned are in automation systems for censorship and in writing programs. The former should be obvious as to why, but the latter is because a human still needs to check the correctness of that generated program and if it ever goes into a piece of software that manages real life machinery which can lead to a person's death, it will guaranteed cause someone to die.
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  355.  @VirideSoryuLangley  Leftists are the worst. I would even argue that if you're even a little bit for censorship that you're at least partly on the left as I don't agree that censorship is ever a right leaning thing.
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  356. This kind of nonsense is why I think we shouldn't have country specific TLD's. Itch is my favorite game distributor. They let you decide what cut to give them. How cool is that. And seriously, a TLD such as IO should be kept forever because it's just perfect for the internet.
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  357. I still don't know why people don't just keep using it as long as it works, because it's not as if they get any money from you using it. Although, that said, I definitely think that we need to find alternatives that aren't Chromium with modifications.
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  358. One possible excuse for Ubuntu is that decent and higher quality developers will do translations with separate files so they don't have to know how other languages even work, let alone what the names of things would be, and so someone could modify such a file separately and it wouldn't necessarily be caught unless someone ran the final binary. Granted, they should've taken that tiny step and not doing so is definitely a bad thing, but I wouldn't say it's an unforgivable error. That said, I don't use Ubuntu and the only Debian-based system that I have is my Pi. As for all the rest, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a vulnerability in some commonly used piece of software on Linux systems already. The quality of modern developers is receding and we're all the worse for it. That `xz` malware issue was barely caught by accident because someone was performance testing and the bad code wasn't efficient. One might be inclined to say that if all developers are degrading in quality then the malware writers are too, and that's mostly true, but also it's likely to be fixed with an update because their goal is to be undetected. Security people need to do better because it gets infinitely more difficult to catch exploits and they only need incremental updates.
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  359. How else are they going to sell new computers if they don't up the specs required to run the latest software. What the backend deals are that they have with hardware manufacturers I don't know, but it's quite obvious that they still have such deals in place.
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  360.  @nullid1492  Some immigrants can provide a boost, if they contribute to the economy in a positive way. However, those calling themselves refugees soak up all the resources and contribute nothing back. Those are the ones that we have far more of now than in the past and they do not boost the economy, they drain it.
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  361. Last I looked, euros were trading higher than dollars, so if that figure is indeed in euros, then the loss is quite a bit more for anyone from the US viewing this. Still, I don't recommend Godot anymore. If someone asks, I mostly suggest using retro game engines like the one from Doom 3, which is open source and usable in such a way that you can make a profit and not be required to share it back with the original developer. If you need editing tools, then Trenchbroom and Blender are both free and open source.
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  362. You know the old saying, all that's necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Well, I see a lot of people doing absolutely nothing. I also see evil flourishing. I'm hoping that that is about to change, but it's not a significant amount of hope because evil fights very dirty.
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  363.  @mmstick  And I think I've finally realized something about Rustaceans. It's not just that you're stupld and Iazy, which you most definitely are and explains the constant bigotry from Rustaceans, but you're unwilling to even learn. How many new features of either C or C++ have you learned about in the past 10 years? And before you try to make an incorrect argument, a) they are separate languages, b) they've had vast changes in the past 10 years, and more so in the past 20. I bet you'll say you've spent countless hours learning about Rust's new features, completely ignoring the fact that while you've only taken the time to learn one language I and other programmers like me have been learning 10. Furthermore, it's honestly kind of sad how much you expect to be in a language's standard library and how you consider that a deficiency of the language instead of learning about the third-party tools and libraries available to you. It's almost like you don't actually want to learn how to program, just "use" your computer like an appliance.
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  364. Disney didn't purge all activists and will keep pushing the agenda. The firings were merely a ploy to distract. KDE is run by some far leftists, so even though it's always been a better DE, don't contribute financially to them. I've been using KDE for nearly as long as it has existed, but once they go Wayland only I will have to switch because I've had it with the insanity.
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  365. @JohnSpiderMan99 If only we still had capitalism. How brainwashed you leftoids are continually regurgitating the propaganda like the useless idiots you are.
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  366. If they do that it'll corrupt the project faster. I'm not saying C++ is perfect, but it's still a better choice than Rust, and not infested with a mental virus.
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  367. Yeah, he keeps saying this and I totally disagree with his stance here. More importantly, in this particular case of Telegram, the government is attempting to force a citizen to do their job. If someone is distributing illegal content, and I still say only actions should be illegal, not content, then it should be up to the government to go after that person. Of course, while I think no content should be illegal, I'd probably still dispatch a person to the afterlife if they distributed CP of any of my children. But adult P should not be illegal or blocked because it's up to the parents to prevent their kids from seeing it. This is why I think a parent should be wise and only allow their children a JitterBug flip phone until they're 18.
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  368.  @mmstick  You don't need to tell me that you don't have the most basic and rudimentary of knowledge on the subject, I already know you're stupid. Running out of memory because you leak everything leads to invalid accesses because morons like you don't bother to check the return value of the allocator. However, even were you to check, merely running out of memory is already all on its own a safety issue.
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  369.  @PaulHosler  Only if you capitalize the B, but don't ever do that when describing those evil what people. Yeah, we're not allowed to refer to them at all.
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  370. I'd really like to know how they think they can enforce such a policy when the browser is open source. I have but to build my own copy from source with a patch generated by someone who knows what code to excise and I don't have to care what they think. And I say a patch generated by someone else because I'm certainly not going to bother reading through FireFox's code. If push comes to shove, I'll start writing my own browser. Also, while I would never advocate for violence, I can see why someone would take this personally as an act of aggression and a declaration of war on our rights. I can see where someone would think it's okay to preemptively use violence against a company that unilaterally decided to deprive certain users of their right to free speech. I personally believe that the right to free speech is a universal right and a private corporation attacking that right is just as wrong as the government doing so. Unfortunately for Mozilla, there are people out there that don't believe in peace, as I do, and just may physically harm them for attempting to deprive people of their rights. The left keeps pushing for a civil war more and more every day and I fear for the future of humanity because of it.
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  371. This is why I still prefer physical copies and if I can't get it physically I 99.999% of the time will not buy it.
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  372. This planet could literally support trillions of humans. We're nowhere near "soon" with regards to space, despite what the leftist city-dwellers would have us believe.
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  373.  @codahighland  It doesn't matter if we're talking about captcha or recaptcha, they're all security theater because a human can initiate the process of solving them anyway and set a bot loose. You claim you stopped the spambots, but for how long. I'd wager either not long, or they just got bored.
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  374.  @owlmostdead9492  And then you'd have people waiting things out so that nothing would ever make money. If I just have to wait 5 years to see a movie or play a game for free, why bother ever paying to see movies or play games. Then the studios think, why bother making movies or games if they're not going to make their investment back. The reason for it to be at least that long is so that investment happens and new things get produced.
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  375. Indeed. The people with the power to do something are doing nothing.
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  376.  @CommanderRiker0  Generally, no, they're on equal terms. Though, I would like to hear an explanation of C++ "now" having memory safety as opposed to since the 98 standard which is the first standardization. Using classes correctly with destructors that clean up memory as an object leaves scope is memory safe.
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  377.  @CommanderRiker0  I'm dubious of any study which proclaims C++ faster than C in any case based solely on compilers. As for pointers, you generally shouldn't use them raw in C++. If you need a resource remotely, then use a reference. It's technically still a pointer, but not one you manipulate. If the compiler is adding overhead for using std::vector and std::string, then that would negate the compiler argument, and otherwise it negates the pointer argument. Which is it?
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  378.  @ShaneBro  Plenty of mentally ill people really believe that their delusions are real, it doesn't make them so. In the past psychologists actually knew better than to play along because if you disabused someone of their delusions it was the first step to getting them healthy. Toxic ideology has infected the entire field and corrupted it in current times.
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  379. Exactly.
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  380.  @RustIsWinning  Just going to ignore my response to your other post? Refuse to acknowledge the truth?
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  381.  @RustIsWinning  I found that list with a 5 minute search. Why couldn't you? Why can't any Rustacean?
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  382.  @RustIsWinning  In other words, you're too lazy to look for yourself and incapable of doing any critical thinking. Got it. I've already told you, I don't use any of those tools because I write perfect code from the start. But if you do the research, they're there and available for all newbs to use. So lazy and stupid means Rust, diligent and intelligent means C.
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  383.  @shurizzle  I'm sorry, I didn't realize you have a learning disability. I'll say it more simply, if you have to use a C ABI to interface with Rust, you lose the advantages of Rust, and not just at the interface, but for the entire program. That means no more memory safety. Granted, it's a false promise anyway, this just gives you the final nail in the coffin.
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  384.  @defeqel6537  I'm already writing my own language. Have been for a number of years now, I just need to acquire the gumption to open source it and find a platform that's decent. I'm somewhat leery of "free" platforms, but after Microsoft bought GH, I said hellll no.
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  385.  @freedomgoddess  I specifically make a point of targeting C11 with my projects. You get standard threads and _Generic that way. Although, I still wish C had function and operator overloading along with C++-esque templates.
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  386. True, but such laws should never have been allowed. It was a blatant violation of our right to free speech. I would suggest that the US has been turning left for a little over a century now and if we don't recognize that and turn back before it's too late, we just may find ourselves ceasing to exist in the near future.
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  387.  @AlucardNoir  Yeah, but they should. It's a basic right of all sentient beings, and failure to recognize it is a huge part of the problem in other nations and why things are getting worse. Even in the US it's not fully recognized, and we can see what effect that's having.
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  388.  @AlucardNoir  You're wrong about there being no natural rights. They do exist, it's just a matter of whether our civilization recognizes and respects them is all. Of course, you're right about our rights ending where others' begin. I and everyone else has a right to do whatever we please as long as it doesn't hurt others. That naturally means that yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire is not something you have a right to do as it would hurt others. This is basic logic that anyone should be able to understand, but the left wants to control everyone and everything so they tamp these rights down as much as they can. I'll say it yet again, the fact that we haven't fought back is a huge part of what's wrong with this world and why it is corrupt. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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