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dcpiton Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

Does US care about diplomacy anymore ?

dcpiton POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)

Stop showing off, guys ... ;-) About 30 years ago, I let my Atari 1040STF (8Mhz, no hard drive...) scratching a floppy disk all night long to render this very blob : http://csi.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/ak/immel/graphics/povray35...

dcpiton Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)

OK, nothing to do with Rust ;-)

dcpiton Make JDK source code UTF-8

Not so controversial. The vast majority of code is written in plain ASCII (and english), and I hope it will go on. Using non ASCII character in your code is a double failure.

Take an example: "trouvé" instead of "found" as a variable name.

1- You're right. Most people won't be able to type "é", "à"... with their keyboard. Working on that code won't be easy. 2: What is the meaning of "trouvé" ? How people could figure out that variable name ? Average coder will search for english named functions or variable.

Same things about domain names btw.

PS : I am french.

dcpiton Microsoft announces new supercomputer, lays out vision for future AI work (2020)

Supercomputer ? Does it run Linux ?

dcpiton Is OpenStack fighting a lost battle?

We used oVirt since 7 years. About 550 VMs (Linux and Windows Server). Works really fine.

dcpiton The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display

Mmmm. In French he is known as "Guillaume le conquérant". Never heard of "William of Normandy".

dcpiton Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter

yet.

dcpiton “Zero fucks given” in other languages

never heard this one before.

dcpiton Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Mouse ?

dcpiton Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to show they are serious about open source?

They could replace NTOSKRNL.EXE with vmlinuz.