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by cbmuser 11mo ago
They’re not going to fall to the wayside, we’re eventually getting Rust support on these. It’s just a bit annoying that Rust proponents are being so pushy in some cases as if Rust was the solution to everything.
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
Nobody wants to play games on Linux given the small userbase compared to Windows. Yet people work on it. You could make this argument for so many usecases but apparently people just enjoy bashing retrocomputing here.
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
> Who is still using these machines? Genuine question, not trolling. Well, there are so many things were you could argue about the relevance of a userbase. If the size of a userbase would be the only argument, Valve could just drop suppo
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
I assume it was a management decision to adopt Rust in APT similar to the decision to switch to the Rust version of coreutils.
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
> In an ideal world, the people who care about niche systems step up to help Rust target those systems. I’m actually the person who added the m68k target to the Rust compiler and was also one of the driving forces of getting the backend
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by cbmuser 1y ago
The electricity mix in France is still way cleaner than in California: - France: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/5y/yearly - California: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map&#x
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by cbmuser 1y ago
It's not planned for i386 to avoid breaking existing i386 binaries of which there are a lot of them.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
»Venerable Linux distribution Debian is side-stepping the Y2K38 bug – also known as the Unix Epochalypse – by switching to 64-bit time for everything but the oldest of supported hardware, starting with the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie&qu
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by cbmuser 1y ago
It’s probably more related to the fact that EV subsidies were cut in Germany at the end of last year when the government ran out of money. You’re only getting a tax discount with BEV, but no purchase discounts financed from taxes.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
But Cellophane is already used for food packaging.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
Have you ever heard of Cellophane?
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by cbmuser 1y ago
No one was ever harmed by incorporating plastics. And id your body can’t make any use if it, it will leave your body through the digestive system.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
»We like plastic because it is lightweight and not biodegradable.« Depends on the type of plastic used. Cellophane is a plant-derived plastic that can be used for packaging and it’s biodegradable.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
They still need conventional power plants for backup which will make the life-cycle electricity emissions of the whole system much dirtier.
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What's New in the Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Release(blogs.oracle.com)
2 points by cbmuser 1y ago|0 comments
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by cbmuser 1y ago
The problem is simply that managers at Google think that designs have to change all the time. The idea that a design is perfect does not exist at Google.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
»32-bit x86 is extremely not called “x32”; this is what Linux used to call its x86 ILP324 variant before it was removed.« x32 support has not been removed from the Linux kernel. In fact, we‘re still maintaining Debian for x32 in Debian Port
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by cbmuser 1y ago
Thanks for the update. I think one important issue that also needs to be resolved is adding the GCC git tree as a subproject in Rust's git tree so that in the end, it will be possible to build a Rust compiler with a rustc_codegen_gcc b
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by cbmuser 1y ago
> But Rust does support S390x? It's not a tier-1 target though.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
Well, the promise was that rustc_codegen_gcc would reach its goals very quickly which is why several people dismissed projects such as gccrs. But it turns out that rustc_codegen_gcc still hasn't delivered and it seems the project has f
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by cbmuser 1y ago
Yes, it was me that did the work on the Rust side. It doesn't work yet though as progress on the LLVM side is very slow.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
> The parent comment even included HPPA (PA-RISC) which almost makes me think they’re into either retro computing or they have some arbitrary completionist goal of covering all platforms. Yes, retro-computing is a thing. Wouldn't it
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by cbmuser 1y ago
I am actively maintaining all of these within Debian. Plus, there is a very vibrant community around the Motorola 68000 and SuperH CPUs thanks to the Amiga, Sega Dreamcast and many other classical computer systems and consoles.
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by cbmuser 1y ago
I am still waiting for any of the alternative Rust front- or backends to allow me to bootstrap Rust on alpha, hppa, m68k and sh4 which are still lacking Rust support. Originally, the rustc_codegen_gcc project made this promise but never ful
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by cbmuser 2y ago
No one cares about thermal efficiency. What matters is the economic efficiency.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Most EVs sold in China are hybrids and not BEVs. Hence they call them NEV = New Energy Vehicle.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Wind and solar power heavily depend on fossil backup plants which is why oil companies have long been proponents of the energy transition. The only technology that is actually able to get rid of fossil technology is nuclear power.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Fossil companies hugely profit from the anti-nuclear green movement that solely focuses on wind and solar. Because no matter how many wind and solar plants you build, they will never be able to provide baseload and hence you need fossil bac
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by cbmuser 2y ago
> This means that no country will want to buy F16s. This means that no country will buy any US-supplied military equipment. Trump has destroyed the trust in the US defense sector for years to come. Absolutely irresponsible action.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Renewables like wind and solar don’t provide baseload and therefore cannot replace conventional power plants. I wish people stopped comparing apples and oranges here.

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