Great article listing many Rust issues.
To keep Rust viable for gamedev, it's important to address these, not deny them, on both language + library level.
godot-rust values pragmatism over purism, and deviates from common idioms where it helps ergonomics -- even if sometimes controversially.
in 2009, on totally homebrew software, The Pirate Bay served 20 million simultaneous peers on 10 servers (20 for the website) for $3,000 a month.
i wonder how much serving 20 million simultaneous users costs netflix. there are ~260 million total subscribers of netflix (of which a fraction are active at a time) and its total operating expenses (which is obviously A Lot More Different Things Than TPB) are ~$7 Billion a year.
the comparison isn't all that ridiculous. netflix is about 10% of all bandwidth, and bittorrent used to be >30% of all bandwidth - of which TPB tracked roughly half.
Lots of people in the Nix project: I would really like eelco to stop just doing things without discussing them with other members of the community
eelco: hold my beer
It certainly feels like a lot of things around the #NixOS situation that were set in motion some time ago, are starting to resolve themselves
radical education meta
"But how would we have <some technology> if not for capitalism?" is a misquestion, and you should not attempt to answer it. It is not relevant and will detract from the point.
We already have that technology. Abolishing capitalism does not require reinventing it. It can simply be used as-is, if it is needed. That problem is solved, and there is no moral imperative that says we should stop using it if we abolish capitalism.
What actually matters is whether a non-capitalist society could provide for people's needs going forward, and continue to improve itself over time, and *that* is the question to be answering. You don't measure that by considering work that has already been done.
My work on the #WordPress Gutenberg editor back in 2018, which was essentially to replace the date picker with a different component and then tweaking some accessibility related things clocked in at 111 hours.
It could have been a day's work in an optimal environment.
This mainly had to do with waiting for feedback and dealing with management and leadership issues.
The date picker was then replaced a couple of years later with a different component.
nixos, subtoot
That having been said, I am cautiously optimistic about how many people deciding to leave #NixOS are still open to returning to a hypothetical better community if it were to come into existence. This might end with a bit less collateral damage than usual for these sorts of conflicts.
nixos, subtoot
"All the people opposing weapons manufacturers must be from the US" is one of the more hilariously absurd takes that nevertheless seems to keep coming back. #NixOS
venting
Like, I'm fine with people newly getting involved in the conversation, but when it's so clear that this is a long-running situation, do your fucking homework first before commenting the same tired takes we've heard a hundred times before
Lot of "I don't really understand what this is about but I'm going to insert my opinion anyway" going around in #NixOS land lately
life advice real talk, latex gloves make an incredible difference in what dish soap does to your hands. like i've been using them for a couple weeks at this point and i don't even have dry skin any more
turns out not bathing them in degreaser for 15-30 minutes a day helps a lot. who knew lol but i wish i'd been taught and/or figured this out ages ago
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.