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by dralley 2y ago
>IBM leadership will give it the RedHat treatment. The dinosaurs at IBM will shelve their IP, and sell it for parts. As someone working at Red Hat since before the acquisition, this does not match my experience of "the Red Hat treat
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by dralley 2y ago
It's going basically fine. If you're in engineering you would never notice the difference.
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by dralley 2y ago
It's been almost 6 years
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by dralley 2y ago
As a current Red Hat employee, I can say that they've treated us far better than the likes of Oracle or Broadcom would have.
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by dralley 2y ago
> Red Hat is still quasi-independent. Still lots of changes (probably most notably because of a lot of growth) but strategic Red Hat areas still seem to be pretty independent. Still broadly correct.
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Project Mu – Rust Implementation of UEFI(microsoft.github.io)
4 points by dralley 2y ago|0 comments
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Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight(theregister.com)
6 points by dralley 2y ago|1 comments
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by dralley 2y ago
Penetration into those domains has still been pretty brutally slow. AFAIK only Volvo is shipping Rust code, in 2 models of car, and not for anything safety-critical yet. That's not a demerit to Rust, just a testament to the conservati
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by dralley 2y ago
Inertia is going to keep C and C++ going for a while. The ship takes a long time to turn and it just started turning in the past couple of years. It's probably more accurate to say that individual ecosystems might become Rust-dominate
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by dralley 2y ago
Well someone already has, as per the title. But I would hope he at least stays on as a contributor.
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by dralley 2y ago
This isn't the Phoronix comment section. Linus has explained many times why he decided to go forwards with trying out Rust in the kernel. There's no need to turn it into a conspiracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by dralley 2y ago
It's a real shame that the drama led to so much real-world fallout. Even though I feel pretty strongly that Christoph was in the wrong in this situation, it's impossible to deny that he is one of the most prolific and experienced
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by dralley 2y ago
I think you've confused Zstd (which they were not discussing) for Zlib (the primary implementation of DEFLATE, which is most commonly used by Gzip) Gzip/DEFLATE is mediocre on most metrics relevant to compression but it's wid
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by dralley 2y ago
The comparison is against zlib-ng, not the OG zlib. So this is still very impressive. I suspect the results won't be quite as good on Aarch64 or other architectures though. zlib-ng has a pretty wide range of hand-optimized intrinsics
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by dralley 2y ago
Despicable and humiliating.
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by dralley 2y ago
Call your senators and reps constantly. Show up at town halls.
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by dralley 2y ago
Elon Musk is not a government employee and he is not their boss.
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by dralley 2y ago
Your understanding is completely wrong. There was no such request, and that concern was almost immediately addressed by spelling out very directly that no such expectation existed. https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux&#x2
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by dralley 2y ago
The patches did not touch the C side whatsoever, a fact that Linus was pretty vocal about in his berating.
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by dralley 2y ago
Sure, and that's ideal for the maintainers that are willing to do that (and there are several), but for the C devs that just don't care and can't be forced to care, this is a pragmatic compromise. Not everyone has to be invo
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by dralley 2y ago
> too low level for Rust or even for C++. I'd love to hear a justification for why this is a thing. Doing bit-banging is no more difficult in Rust or C++ than in C.
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by dralley 2y ago
It's made even less ambiguous by a later follow-up https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2cbxfvvsau5sobm3zo5ds...
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by dralley 2y ago
>It's not zero in return, why would Ukraine agree to that? Where is your source that it was zero in return? It is zero in return and that's why Ukraine have not agreed to either of the two versions of the deal. The vast major
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by dralley 2y ago
Comparing digital sovereignty w/r/t critical services are hosted to "The Great Firewall" is absurd. It's not the same thing at all. China and Russia blocking YouTube is different from making sure the entire EU gove
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by dralley 2y ago
>Keep in mind it was Ukraine that proposed the idea of offering their resources back in October 2024[0] The general idea, sure. They offered that in return for security guarantees or as collateral for continued military aid. That is not
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by dralley 2y ago
Ukraine wants Russia to leave. They want the war to stop, but they aren't willing to agree to any terms. They don't want a Minsk 3 or worse.
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by dralley 2y ago
>And yet an off the shelf drug purchased by medicaid is often hundreds of times more expensive than when retail buys it. Something is happening and people taking their cut aren’t dumb enough to have it appear as top end administrative co
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by dralley 2y ago
Not a European, but yes. The US is actively siding with Russia against Europe during the largest war in Europe since WWII, and using the threat of revoking access to American tech (Starlink) and weapons to force them into a terrible and ex
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by dralley 2y ago
Yeah but most PhD programs aren't the Manhattan Project.
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by dralley 2y ago
Yeah, it's hard not to see some truth in what Murray Gell-Mann said, which is that he spent as much time trying to come up with stories about himself as he did working. Also while breaking the rules might be fun, lockpicking desks &amp

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