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...since Rust dev has already come into the kernel and is "blessed"
The Sermon on the Mount, take 2
When Jesus[Linus] saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him, and He began to teach them, saying:
Blessed are the c coders,
for theirs is the kingdom of Linux.
Blessed are the Rust devs,
for they will inherit the Kernel.
Could someone who knows Linus, ask if, when it's time for him to depart to the aforementioned repository* may we, the Linux userbase have a whip round/crowd fund for his body to be cryo-preserved, with the hope that sometime in the future, he'll be defrosted and re-animated to continue where he left off?
*when Linus enters the aforementioned repository, would that then become an instance of a "git" repository?
Nothing to do with the subject matter of the article - but for anyone wanting a 44 year trip down memory lane to 1980, Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 this week is the above mentioned book, about the siege at the Iranian Embassy in London, and the storming by the SAS
And given that (any) explosive ingredients were not detected at an airport - given the cross section of the the people carrying these, including a diplomat, then, that brings into question both the effectiveness of the screening/and the way those were defeated by this lot
"OceanGate, the manufacturer behind the craft, has previously faced questions over its design choices, its safety record and its adherence to regulations."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kk1g66n7o
Musk is not like that. Is... he?
On the other hand...
If you happen to come across orange coloured snacks like these, then go ahead...
Now then nice Mr Hungry Alligator, don't take what I said a few days ago literally and chomp on an orange coloured appetising snack that you happen to come across on a golf course... Even one that is a cheat.
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/09/06/musk_government_efficiency_trump/#c_4926576
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Commander-Cheat-Explains-brilliant-bestseller/dp/1472266102
The US and the rest of the world can be saved in the nick of time by the snapping shut of the jaws of a great big, extreamly hungry Aligator. Just need fate to arrange the meeting of said aligator and Trump on one of his golf courses in Florida, when Trump goes into long grass to retrieve a golf ball* - then again, this being Trump, if a ball ends up in long grass, he'll just put his hand into his pocket for another ball, thereby thwarting fate
*no, not one of those ones!
if Trump were to extend the brief to Healthcare...
Musk would lead the "Health & Efficiency" task force
Hah, now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it
You play the guitar[licence] on the MTV[Computer]
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Money for nothing and your chicks for free
Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it
With thanks to Dire Straits for the lyrics
I think the "usual suspect" system designers and their associate programmers would have already done their deed on this system, so closing the stable door after that horse has bolted will be to no avail. Too late to have stopped our data being loaded onto the 3rd party systems.
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May we expect "Agent Triple X" to post a reply to the above, from the 'other side" (KGB,not GRU). All we then needs is a "@JAWS" to complete the trio
old farts who don't want to learn new things holding back potential progress.
Indeed. And these old farts reinforce the adage "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", makes life difficult for the old farts who will learn new tricks as the job entails.
Two pivotal moments in my professional life have been when I was able to identify and fix issues in low-level system code, despite being employed in both cases as a programmer for business systems in unrelated high level language. I took the time to investigate, understand the root causes, located the sources, walked the code, located the bugs and fixed the issues, in unfamiliar languages. In one case, much to the annoyance of the old fart who was the original writer of the code. In the other case, I was a young whipper snapper, but was an old fart myself here, albeit one who does not finch in learning new tricks
Came across a mention of "how many r's are in strawberry" just this afternoon!
Catherine Bohart: TL;DR
No time to read the news? Catherine Bohart does it for you in TL;DR. This week - Elon Musk thinks there should be regulation around AI. Is he right? Can AI really change the world, or are we just training our future robot overlords?
SETI@home stopped sending out new work on 31st March 2020...
And some posts from someone who was working there at the time...
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