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by dralley 2y ago
>In particular, the DMA maintainer didn't want rust code in their DMA subsystem. That sucks, but it means you need to relocate your dma bridge code out of their subsystem The code was never in the DMA subsystem. At no point was ther
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by dralley 2y ago
>Even now with Hector out of the picture, there’s still no suitable path forward for rust in Linux The suitable path forward is to submit the patch series like normal to Linus, where it will be merged regardless of CH's NACK. CH is
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by dralley 2y ago
Most people can use the internet without having a message board of people devote themselves to persistently harassing you for the "lol" value.
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by dralley 2y ago
There was plenty of indefensible behavior in the Actix debacle, but the reason it blew up was because the maintainer was genuinely wrong and was being a jerk on top of it. The sequence of events was: 1) Issue found by Shnatsel 2) Issue clo
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by dralley 2y ago
States are not "sovereign". We don't have the Articles of Confederation anymore. States do have certain powers, but not as many as even e.g. Canadian provinces have.
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by dralley 2y ago
You still have to make the stance clear. Avoiding conflicts and dealing with them are two different things.
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by dralley 2y ago
If users of other init systems don't want to make the substantial investment in maintaining support for those other init systems, then their complaints weren't worth much.
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by dralley 2y ago
Wedson had been working in the kernel for 4.5 years!
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by dralley 2y ago
Ted gave that rant 6 months ago, and it was in fact unreasonable if you look at the details of what they were discussing. You're trying to use Marcan's ragequit to ex-post-facto justify Ted T'so when it's literally the
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by dralley 2y ago
>The distinction in this particular case is that Rust tried to "downvote" a lkml discussion to get code merged. You're attributing to "the Rust community" an imaginary offense that did not actually happen that wa
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by dralley 2y ago
Kernel devs more than almost everyone else are well aware that even the existing C toolchains are imperfect.
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by dralley 2y ago
The kernel is not exactly known for being drama-free, and this drama didn't start with "Rust people", it started with Christoph.
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by dralley 2y ago
OP said "As long as this is not delivered" There is nothing to deliver that would satisfy this argument. Pretending like the disagreement is about a failure of the R4L folks to do "enough" when in fact there is nothing
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by dralley 2y ago
Many of them have, in fact, done all of those things, and have done them over a time horizon measured in years. Many of the R4L developers are paid by their employers specifically to work on R4L and can therefore be considered reasonably r
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by dralley 2y ago
At some level this is just concern trolling. There is nothing the Rust developers could possibly do or say that would alleviate the concern you've just expressed. You are asking for something that is impossible. What could they possi
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by dralley 2y ago
>In contrast to the parent: yes, the presenter says „you don’t have to use rust, we are not forcing you“ but he fails to address the concern that a change they introduce would error downstream and someone else had to clean up afterwards.
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by dralley 2y ago
They're not "forced to use Rust". They are maybe forced to work with Rust developers of whichever subsystem needs to be updated, but that would always have been the case with the C developers of whichever subsystem needs to
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by dralley 2y ago
And spent 28 billion dollars (more than the entire State Department budget) paying off farmers for the contracts they lost because of the trade war.
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by dralley 2y ago
The most likely replacement for Linus as BDFL is Greg KH, who is also friendly (if anything, friendlier) towards R4L.
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by dralley 2y ago
With all due respect I question how much experience you actually have with Rust. It's nowhere close to being as difficult a language as you describe. Rust got popular in part because it made systems programming easier, simpler and mor
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by dralley 2y ago
FWIW, there are plenty of backchannels through which discussions about this stuff can be had that aren't the public mailing list. My limited understanding is that those discussions have in fact taken place and the R4L people aren&#x27
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by dralley 2y ago
AMD's Linux drivers are pretty good. I get better performance playing games through Proton on Linux than I do playing the same games on Windows, despite whatever overhead the translation adds. The only really annoying bug I've ru
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by dralley 2y ago
>This is the author's second Cybertruck crash in a month. JFC
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by dralley 2y ago
Is a system that has been working fine for 10 years more, or less likely to have a mission critical bug than a system rebuilt on 4 month old code? HN tends to think a lot about what's good for what's good practice for hyperscalers
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by dralley 2y ago
> What, you're running 2.6.20? What a hoot!!! We like to kid. You're not serious? You are? You work at the local nuclear plant? The local nuclear power plant is hopefully not connected to the internet. It shouldn't be sur
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by dralley 2y ago
People are acting like this is some long-term position. There's no evidence of that. AMD didn't give up on the high end permanently after the RX 480 / 580 generation. What AMD does need right now is: * Don't cannibaliz
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by dralley 2y ago
You CAN upgrade RHEL (or CentOS Stream, or Alma, or Ubuntu) every 3 years if you want. Some people do it. Nobody forces you to live out the entire lifecycle on one release. Some people appreciate having the option to pick and choose when
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by dralley 2y ago
Pour one out for the poor engineers that will be saddled with maintaining that commitment. Doesn't sound like a fun time.
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by dralley 2y ago
>Also of note: these 137 hijacking attempts resulted in 1 fatality. By contrast, in each of those years 55,000+ people died in car crashes. >People are terrible at judging risk. And nuclear power is judged, fairly or unfairly, by Cher
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by dralley 2y ago
>Rubio assessed the agency, decided to keep 300 people and let go of the rest. With all due respect this is a complete joke. Rubio has been basically cut out of the process and is along for the ride. And no, the President can't uni

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