Posts by jwo

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

Objectively, you can write just as worthless code with Rust as with C, and since nobody wants to develop a quality metric for code, you may end up no better off than before.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

Hell Yeah, capitalism!

John Galt everywhere!

Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database

IBM has a history of forgotten products due to hapless marketing

Maybe take OS/2 and the Lotus Suite, all lost because IBM didn't how to understand what to do with it.

Guido van Rossum aiming to make CPython 2x faster in 3.11

A little late, no? I wonder if he has ever taken notice of projects like Stackless.

Project Reunion: Microsoft's attempt to tear down all those barriers it's built for Windows developers over the years

It's not even funny

The message sounds rather implausible, and there is less verve behind it than with the last projects, which were simply bogged down.

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

There is no enjoyment that wouldn't better be prohibited

Up with taxes, down with fun!

More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans

Thankfully, Britain has left EU by then, what means: It's an isolated problem.

What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse

Metres instead of fathoms? OMG how far has the Empire degraded that they started to use the French metre!