atherton94027

Curious, could you give examples of how you've been able to double your productivity with AI?

What would they be giving up? DoorDash?

By most aspects the world of 1990 didn't change that much from today's world, with the exception of having computers in our pockets and some advances in medicine.

Yeah I mean I could also say "there are no CVEs written in PERL in the kernel ergo PERL is safer to write than Rust". Given there's close to zero .pl files in the kernel, I think we can all agree my assertion holds

Are these proprietary drivers owned by American or Asian companies? There are many alternatives to Qualcomm nowadays

But you need to control for lines of code at the very least — otherwise you're comparing apples to oranges

86 race conditions compared to what baseline? This is a bit meaningless without benchmarking against other kernels

Sure this could happen but that seems like a very last resort. The only reason the US economy is still competitive is tech stocks so cutting off ~35% of your income seem like it would cause a lot of downstream effects

Wouldn't a database give you better consistency guarantees in that case? NFS locking semantics are a lot more complicated than just a `SELECT .. FOR UPDATE`

This a bit of a hollow article and kind of misses the point of Rob Pike's rant. This is a guy who care deeply about computing. He spent the first 20 years of his career working at Bell labs, building things like utf-8 (an amazing idea that everying easier for anyone who doesn't speak english!) and plan 9. Pike does not like resource wasting (part of the reason they built Go was to replace Python at Google) so yes, his point makes sense in that context

I'm confused, is EBS eventually consistent? I assume that it's strongly consistent as otherwise a lot of other linux things would break

If you're thinking about using NFS, why would you want to distribute your locks across other machines?

Yeah it honestly feels like the problem here – it's a common pattern where someone tries several times at a promo, then transfers to another team and gets promoted immediately.

Waymo cars have been proven safer than human drivers in California. At the same time, 40k people die each year in the US in car accidents caused by human drivers.

I'm very happy they're moving fast so hopefully fewer people die in the future

There was a special law (that his party voted for btw) that added sentencing enhancements for the specific crime he did iirc

> No, your security failure is that you use a package manager that allows third-parties push arbitrary code into your product with no oversight.

Could you explain how you'd design a package manager that does not allow that? As far as I understand the moment you use third party code you have to trust to some extent the code that you will run.

Seems like you and a few other posters are making the article's point – that Perl's culture is hermetic and that new programmers would rather learn Python, Ruby or Javascript rather than figure out which sigil means what.

It's just very non-obvious what the code does when you're skimming it.

Especially in a dynamic language like Perl, you wouldn't know that you're passing down an integer instead of a function until the code blows up in a completely unrelated function.

There was so much complexity hidden behind "do what I mean". For example, scalar vs array context which was super subtle:

  my @var = @array  # copy the array
  my $var = @array  # return the count of elements in array

I think it's unlikely to change because most likely the content was not available for legal reasons, not technical. That's why for example when they re-release some shows they have to switch out to completely different music – the rights were not cleared in the first place and it'd be a huge hassle to go back and negotiate with every rightholder

> normal servers have 7 year lifespans in many cases fwiw

Eight years if you use Hetzner servers!

A quick search for "linux local privilege escalation" in the CVE database (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=linux+loca...) shows 25 results just for this year, so clearly these are very common.

So basically we have two issues here:

1. either focus on security even though these changes don't really improve the threat model

2. or allow disabled users and anyone who uses accessibility features to use GUIs

If your system is already running malware, why wouldn't the malware use a privilege escalation exploit (which are relatively numerous on linux) to access your data rather than some X11 flaw which depends on their code getting started by the user?

Isn't Wayland funded by Red hat though? And Mir was funded by Canonical iirc

> On the topics it does cover, Rust's stdlib offers a lot. At least on the same level as Python, at times surpassing it.

Curious, do you have specific examples of that?

It's a cultural difference – french culture prefers correctness over politeness, whereas in the US people prefer to "keep the peace" by not emphasizing mistakes.

It shows up a lot in engineering discussions if you have french colleagues too.

The problem is that many of these clean room reimplementations require contributors to not have seen any of the proprietary source. You can't guarantee that with ai because who knows which training data was used

It's interesting because you can still find interviews of Larry online how Perl is the first postmodern programming language but for perl6 they came up with a very top-down, modernist project

Very impressive to see Chuck Moore still going at it at the age of 87. I hope at that age I'm able to handle the minutiae of programming!

I'm just giving context as to why VB6 was much better than C++ back in the day for building windows apps. VB.Net and C# didn't exist in the halcyon days of 1998

If you dig into the paper, on page 3 they find out that their null oracle approach (ie without actually freeing the memory) increases run times erratically by 12 to 33%. They then mention that their simulated approach should handle that case but it seems unlikely to me that their stats aren't affected. Also they disable multi-threading – again for repeatability – but that will obviously have a performance impact.

Methodology seems kind of dubious:

> We introduce a novel experimental methodology that lets us quan- tify the performance of precise garbage collection versus explicit memory management. Our system allows us to treat unaltered Java programs as if they used explicit memory management by relying on oracles to insert calls to free. These oracles are generated from profile information gathered in earlier application runs.