erminpour

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by erminpour 2mo ago
Rusty Shackelford :D
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by erminpour 2mo ago
Whether you like Rust or not, it's questionable as to why Canonical would push this so much and do it in such a cavalier way. Will this really make coreutils more secure? I doubt it, if anything there will be a river of new bugs. So,
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by erminpour 2mo ago
"You're coming at this with negative assumptions" not so much negative as skeptical. Everyone is pushing Rust and full rewrites, I'm still not convinced. "But either way I'm not volunteering, it's much eas
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by erminpour 2mo ago
Jack Welch's legacy
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by erminpour 2mo ago
"...it doesn't do any real work in parallel." I think this is the biggest selling point. Although, "with GNU ld you might have to wait several minutes of link time on every dev build." Meh, I might prefer to wait
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by erminpour 2mo ago
"We are rewriting the mold linker in Rust and adding linker script support so that mold can link essentially anything GNU ld can, including kernels and embedded programs." Legitimate question, why not just use GNU ld? Does link t
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by erminpour 2mo ago
"I think this is long overdue, given that many large programs have already adopted mold. It has been used in production for years." That's not a good reason to replace GNU ld with mold, I'm still skeptical about rewriti
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by erminpour 3mo ago
Yay, I guess? It's impressive that AI can build something like this, but do you really understand how all the components work? AI is really good an taking what we already know and producing something that works, but what about new inno
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by erminpour 3mo ago
"If we want more systems software to benefit from memory safety, we need better ways to reduce the cost and risk of migration." What about using CHERI or Memory Tagging? Rewriting an established and mature codebase seems like the
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by erminpour 3mo ago
I can image the moment Sir William Jones realized Sanskrit and Latin had a common origin. "Wait a minute...these can't all be coincidences." It's pretty mid-blowing.
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by erminpour 3mo ago
Even Computer Science graduates are having a hard time.
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by erminpour 3mo ago
"Is That a Bad Thing?" Is that a serious question? During the great Depression 48% of young adults were living with their parents.
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by erminpour 4mo ago
Thankless? People are straight up hostile!
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by erminpour 5mo ago
This used to be called "Programming by Coincidence".
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by erminpour 5mo ago
"As AI agents transition from simple coding assistants to end-to-end engineers" What a hype!
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by erminpour 5mo ago
"AI models are rapidly getting better." How many times are we going to keep hearing this? Give the horse the dang carrot! I'm so tired of hearing about AI.
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The Rise of the AI Script Kiddie
5 points by erminpour 6mo ago|2 comments