That's amazing, frankly.

I wrote a simple bash script the other day to handle a video encoding queue, with this line:

if [[ $(date +%s -r "$file") -lt $(date +%s --date="1 min ago") ]]

It's running on Debian 12 but to imagine that if it were running on Ubuntu it would have failed?

Wild that this wasn't caught as soon as the dud utility shipped in a distro. I would have expected somebody's scripts to have failed, they ran it under bash -x and thought, "Oh, boy," then off to file a bug.

I like the idea of using Rust and the idea of Software Engineering. But together.

We heard a while back about Google making a nondestructive book scanner that used puffs of air to turn pages and multiple cameras with stitching algorithms.

Is there a home version that people can recommend, product or build plans?

I have at least a hundred out-of-print books, some on taboo subjects, that I'd love to be able to scan and lend out privately.

Frankly this would be a good item to lend around; I'd only need one for a few days a year.

To be fair there's a common way to compile Lua to JVM bytecode so it's likely just a Java front-end, not using the basic interpreter.

Back in the day there was a craze to port Lua, Ruby, Perl, Groovy(!), to run as Java front-ends. Not many got put into production outside of Lua.

However the real point here is that it's now "tell me why I shouldn't use Rust" time.

Moving ABI might be a reasonable objection for a small team but Cloudflare has over a hundred engineers on this so it's not a problem.

They get speed and memory safety in exchange for learning "The Rust Way". Seems like a good engineering tradeoff.

IMO Rust is still for the top 20% of engineers so Java's "solid middle" is still quite safe.

I thought that until I learned that they need weekly maintenance tending.

Somebody would need to build an automated battery watering system for homeowners who go away for a long vacation and forget to water their houseplants.

At some point it's too Rube Goldberg to be usable. Now, a few square miles of grid-scale ... somebody could make a business case where land is cheap and sun and water are plentiful.

Do I have to put out a hit on a whistleblower who exposes my illegal business scheme?

if your PC meets the Windows 11 Hardware Spec.

Reportedly that bug would have been caught if they passed the preexisting date test suite, but their attitude was 'meh'.

I'm not advocating for C but I am advocating for Level I software engineering. Rust doesn't fix this.

Breaking updates is one of the worst positions to be in. Press coverage is a poor substitute, though it's good that it got some.

I want all the comforts of a modern life but I also want to stop all industry because I heard that energy is bad and I want to feel good about that and also I don't know how anything actually works that I believe is essential in my life.

(anybody remember the Greenpeace campaign to ban chlorine?)

> You're still gonna ego post to YouTube .... amirite?

Is it ego or people trying to make a buck and the other platforms failing to achieve a meaningful monetization mechanism?

Even Rumble, which bills itself as a platform for the deplatformed, only pays out to Paypal accounts, from which the deplatformed have been deplatformed.

It's tough to not have infinite VC money to buy warehouses full of hard drives. But subsidized platforms exist for other reasons - surveillance, now AI training, propaganda, censorship, etc.

It's also tough to say if that's worse than the legacy demon-controlled Hollywood media empires. But they did serve their stuff up with a smile.

The summary makes him sound like Jean-Ralphio Saperstein.

Never heard of his baller product, tho. Does he think everybody has?

VC's will seed it and buy the politicians and thus government contracts will fund it. The direct gains will be privatized and direct losses will be socialized.

Same way SpaceX spanked NASA and ULA. Just competent management and the drive to build rather than punch a clock.

As much as I dislike this form of National Socialism on principle, the best case a State can make is that it needs the capacity for sovereign production of defensive weaponry.

A State is sovereign to the degree that it is not reliant on other States for defense against aggressors.

So let's wait to cancel these contracts after most of the others are already off the books.

Without disagreeing on your principles, you could do this with a $3 numeric .xyz domain and the free DNS tier at Namecheap.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.namecheap.com%2Fdoma...

There's probably noone building a prototype network app who can't swing $3 and run the ACME client.

The people who make money on certs really hate distributed ideas like DNSSEC and DANE and its successors.

There are Ethereum domains too now but Ether gas is way more than $3.

Same. I made the bonehead move of upgrading the firmware on a large TrippLite UPS which forced Java applets instead of HTTP and of course Eaton abandoned it with haste so now I have like a Fedora 14 VM just to change its settings. Which is such a pyramid of stupid decisions.

Yet it keeps on trucking on a lonely VLAN and replacement batteries every several years are quite cheap.

Not really - John Bolton just got indicted for sending Top Secret NOFOR documents to his AOL address. The report says Iran hacked his computers but without further detail.

Betcha several other Boomers in this category still use it for similar scenarios.

Probably a good investment by foreign intel with a recurring dividend in Metamucil ads.

I was at a local Indian place the other day for some lunch off-hours.

In the 20 minutes I was there they had three tables going and four takeout orders.

The idea that they are losing money on every order is silly. They wouldn't participate.

Even if they're breaking even (doubtful at $4 per samosa and $16 for chickpeas and rice) they can get better pricing on their inputs in larger volumes.

If they do better as a business by catering to an affluent crowd that doesn't want to go out then that's good for me because they'll stay in business.

I would probably need to be laid up in a full body cast to order delivery for myself, but whatever.