Hemospectrum

What’s happened, of course, with FORTRAN is that it has become the lingua franca of the computing world. It is the one language that everybody understands to some level of detail — it is on every computer, in every country, made by every manufacturer — and one could learn to use FORTRAN reading books at every level of complexity, written in every language on the surface of the earth. It is universal, like the air we breathe, and I don’t think it’s going to be displaced for a long time to come.

"I met a traveler from an antique land..."

I suddenly understand part of why experienced programmers seem to find Rust so much more difficult than those who are just beginning to learn. Years of C++ trauma taught them to ignore the content of the error messages. It doesn't matter how well they're written if the programmer refuses to read.

The Anglo-Saxon migrations made England English, and then the waves of Viking invasions littered North Germanic vocabulary all over it. You can see it in doublets like skirt/shirt that aren't in other West Germanic languages.

Great when it works. Too many senders will only deliver to widely used hosts, and silently fail for anything outside their tiny allowlist.

Note that I'm not even talking about trying to send email FROM a self-hosted account, but trying to get someone else to send email TO such an account.

Rather than downvoting you, I will speak up to say I don't see what you're seeing. Spaces around hyphens, yeah, sure, but LLMs prefer em dashes, and even that is unreliable, because it's borrowed from habits that real humans have had for many years.

For me, the more important indicator is the content. I see reports of personal experience, and thoughts that are not completely explained (because the reader is expected to draw the rest of the owl). I don't see smugly over-the-top piles of adjectives filling in for an inability to make critiques of any substance. I don't see wacky asides amounting to argumentum ad lapidem, accomplishing nothing beyond insulting readers who disagree with a baseless assertion.

I think it's likely you have drawn a false positive.

It is not obvious to those who refuse to understand, and who preemptively reject case studies on the grounds that the numbers are surely fabricated.

If we took the same approach to other engineering, we'd be constantly tearing down houses and rebuilding them just because we have better nails now. It sure would keep a lot of builders employed though.

This is almost exactly what happens in some countries.

Intel Macs were always a second class citizen for Blender. There was a lot you couldn't do because the GPU drivers just didn't allow it.

They actually announced they were dropping support in February. Nobody noticed or cared.

Looking forward to my next long flight where I can watch movies about Bharatna Jones.

...Except on websites that override this to make those links open in the current tab, or just silently fail.

On the modern web, the menu is more reliable.

Does that cause any symptoms?

Tinnitus.

Servo has been in development for a decade

I was curious how you arrived at that figure so I checked the dates. Servo began in 2012 as a Mozilla skunkworks project, died off in 2020, and was revived in late 2023. If you simply subtract the "dead" period, sure, it doesn't look like it was going anywhere fast, but that's ignoring the multiple major changes in direction and the 5+ years during which Servo development was fully subordinate to Firefox development. It only became a fully independent browser development effort after the project was revived by Igalia.

From your link, emphasis mine:

permits the operator of a motor vehicle to turn such vehicle right at a red stop light after stopping

Quoting GP, emphasis again mine:

the driver glanced to his left and without stopping or looking in my direction, turned right across my path

The driver turned without stopping. That is explicitly and clearly illegal throughout the US.

This is one of those rules drivers are supposed to be trained on (and tested on) before being given a license, but it doesn't seem to stick.

The Wikipedia article notes that allowing turn-on-red became widespread in response to fuel scarcity. Fuel efficiency is dramatically higher in modern vehicles. Maybe it's time to repeal it after all.

If only there was public interest in public safety...

I would be surprised to see it high in the rankings before it establishes certain backward compatibility guarantees.

Are you perhaps referring to this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229793

You mean a borrow checker? That exists, but not for Odin.

Outright impossible. You see, the US is far more spread out than Europe. You need only look at a map to notice the insurmountable geographic barriers that prevent a Subway from being built closer to an apartment building. It simply can't be done.

Wait, sorry, that's trains. You're talking about sandwiches. Let me check my notes...

The citation is right there in the article:

source: i made it up

Rent can continue to go up as long as there is room (literally physical space) in whatever housing is still on the market. Ten years ago you might have been able to afford your own apartment. Now you need three roommates. Soon you'll need seven, and then fifteen, and that can just keep going up as long as that number of bodies can be crammed into the same lodgings.

This already sounds like every independent coffee shop I've been to in the continental US.

They could have represented dates as a simple int value

In standard COBOL? No, they couldn't have.

If they continued to carry any of the games that were singled out for removal by Visa and Mastercard, they would not be able to accept credit card payments for anything else in their store. This same drama has played out the same way with countless other online services.

Coriolis forces acting on the human vestibular system can directly induce motion sickness just from turning your head. If it turns out humans cannot acclimate through long term exposure, the only remedy is to increase the wheel radius.

Wizards wave their hands and say something like, "Whatever, space is an ocean."

The Expanse makes the observation that accelerating your ship at a substantial fraction (or multiple) of Earth gravity gives you that same degree of artificial gravity, only, you have to orient your decks the right way. Down is towards the engine.

Of course, this in turn makes Star Trek (and Star Wars, and Firefly...) look even sillier, because flying in a direction perpendicular to your deck layout means you need two magic gravity fields — one to cancel out the engines and one more to give your crew a place to stand.

HBO, wasn't it?

Even if we solve poverty, we can always turn right around and un-solve poverty. Something like this has happened in quite recent memory with a whole lot of other "solved" problems. Luckily, we can come back from that failure and solve those problems all over again, as long as we don't go extinct.

I'm continually disappointed they didn't decide to call it "reinstinction."

GP's lists fall somewhat short of explaining the two most important differences:

1. Kishoutenketsu prefers to introduce the primary conflict as late as possible, whereas any writer in Hollywood will try to introduce it as early as possible.

2. Kishoutenketsu prefers to frame the primary conflict as a difference in perspective that must be bridged from both sides, rather than outright competition between irreconcilable goals.

These differences aren't fundamental (you can find all the counterexamples you like, especially if you cite movies with twist endings) but they are encouraged by style guides and deliberately (or even subconsciously) prioritized by writers, to varying effect.

It's hard to tell which camp is more angry: the C# developers stating Microsoft is ditching its own ecosystem or the Rust developers unwilling to accept anything in this category not being written in Rust.

Is it really? I must be reading the wrong comments somehow. I've seen lots of Rust people express only brief and mild surprise: "Wait what? Oh, okay, that makes sense. Carry on." None of them are taking this as a death knell for Rust.

Meanwhile, the C# camp is erupting in a crisis of faith because Anders Hejlsberg has eaten something other than his own dogfood. They are outright grieving over this announcement with much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

There continues to be a vocal contingent of commenters (both here on HN, and elsewhere) who patiently listen to one side of the argument but put no stock whatsoever in what the R4L maintainers and contributors have to say on the subject.