Tuesday, April 28
Daily News Stuff 27 April 2020
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Tech News
- More on the SMR hard drive fiasco. (Serve the Home)
The drive manufacturers hid the fact that they were using SMR because it has a bad reputation - because it is bad.
- QT 6.0 is coming. (Phoronix)
No further word on the future status of open source releases. Rumour has it that they may be going to a paid-first release model, with the open source release on a seven second delay in case it says something rude.
- Sometimes it pays to be 37 trillion miles away from everyone else with a ping time measured in fortnights. (New York Times)
Just to be clear, Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is Hitler with a head tilt.
- The billions of SpaceX Starlink satellites being launched on a daily basis now come with tinted windows as factory standard. (LiveScience)
Astronomers complained about how bright they were, so they, well, painted them black.
- Why aren't more developers using Rust? (ZDNet)
Seriously? I know more than two dozen programming languages and reading about Rust's borrowing mechanism gave me a migraine the size of Kansas.
- I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a server.
Well, sort of. In an LXC container. To run Redis. Because 18.04 comes with Redis 4.0 and if you download and compile it yourself you don't get a handy startup script.
Monkey Video of the Day
Lexx Video of the Day
This piece - I think it's titled Escape, and first plays when our, um, heroes, escape with the Lexx - starts out unassuming, but having seen the series this ranks right up there with Heroic Action Please from Slayers as signifying that the bad guys are about to get blown up real good.
In the case of Lexx, the bad guys, their entire planet, the rest of the solar system, and sometimes one or two of the nearby stars as well.
In the case of Lexx, the bad guys, their entire planet, the rest of the solar system, and sometimes one or two of the nearby stars as well.
Possum Video of the Day
Disclaimer: Florida is flatter though.
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I think we should tell all laid-off journalists that Rust is the best language to Learn To Code.
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Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, April 28 2020 01:22 AM (ZlYZd)
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Rust's memory model in practice is much more readily comprehensible than Rust's memory model in its documentation. It has the same problem as Wikipedia math articles and git manpages—the only people who understand it well enough to explain it don't remember what it was like to be new enough to need it explained.
Posted by: Jay at Tuesday, April 28 2020 03:20 AM (0jVI9)
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Reminds me of the old MacOS developer docs - 20 volumes, each of which was written assuming you'd already read the other 19.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 28 2020 12:10 PM (PiXy!)
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