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This feels like it couldn't possibly go wrong.
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@Arantor Why do you think it'll go wrong?
Note that Ferrous Systems basically already wrote the specification … and got a slightly older release, 1.68, qualified for ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL 4, which requires having a specification. The qualification is only for the compiler though, not any libraries that come with it. I'm guessing some project-specific work is needed to qualify the libraries.
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@Bulb from the way they phrase it in that post, you could be forgiven for thinking as I did that none of that happened.
The goal of the specification team is to create and maintain the Rust specification.
The purpose of the Rust specification is to provide an authoritative resource for determining what source texts are valid Rust programs, and how such programs behave.
Seemed like it was a bit late to me to spec this out.
Though it does mention the Ferrocene spec and that they’re going to build on it, but it really does read to me like “well now we better write this thing formally”
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This is not exactly … recent… but I have to admire such decisiveness.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Seemed like it was a bit late to me to spec this out.
Though it does mention the Ferrocene spec and that they’re going to build on it, but it really does read to me like “well now we better write this thing formally”
It's very difficult indeed to write a worthwhile spec for anything without some implementation experience first. Even better if you have multiple implementations out there.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Bulb from the way they phrase it in that post, you could be forgiven for thinking as I did that none of that happened.
The goal of the specification team is to create and maintain the Rust specification.
The purpose of the Rust specification is to provide an authoritative resource for determining what source texts are valid Rust programs, and how such programs behave.
Seemed like it was a bit late to me to spec this out.
Though it does mention the Ferrocene spec and that they’re going to build on it, but it really does read to me like “well now we better write this thing formally”
It also is documented. They need to formalize the documentation, check that it covers the important edge cases and inline some of the newer documents (the RFCs) that were not yet worked into it, but the documentation is quite good, so it's not like they have to write that much of it.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
This feels like it couldn't possibly go wrong.
Nothing warning us that the zealots are about to become more insufferable.
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@DogsB this also crossed my mind but I was being nice about it in case I was wrong.
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They can't be trusted and they're comeing to get us!
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@DogsB It's not immediately clear from your post, of those mentioned in TFA, who exactly?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB It's not immediately clear from your post, of those mentioned in TFA, who exactly?
The Polish obviously.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB It's not immediately clear from your post, of those mentioned in TFA, who exactly?
The Polish obviously.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
I was being nice
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The Polish obviously.
They're unbearable.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I have to admit, this sorry saga has been unnecessarily funny. I hope Apple never caves.
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@DogsB I personally couldn’t give a shit about it either way (apple opening up iMessage, implementing RCS, or doing neither), as long as whatever they do doesn’t pave the way for spammers.
But I’m all in favor of “keeping the green bubbles” so the idiots can keep whining.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
so the idiots can keep whining.
They'll do that, regardless.
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@loopback0 Valve said, "Half-life free, not Half-life Three." And there was great weeping.
Hmm, don't click the "Play for free" button on the store page. Go to the game's own page, and click the "Add to library button". That works.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Valve said, "Half-life free, not Half-life Three." And there was great weeping.
"Half Life free
In the field artillery.
Call out your numbers loud and strong!"
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Updated Graphics Settings - Play the game the way it looked in 1998, but on a modern monitor.
Updated graphics settings were needed for that?
Fake edit:
Added an "Allow widescreen Field of View" setting to correct non-anamorphic FOVs, for widescreen and ultrawide displays.
Fixed fullscreen software renderer crashing on systems that don't support 16-bit color.
Okay, got me there.
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We tried that with the Finnish. They turned it into Death Metal.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We tried that with the Finnish. They turned it into Death Metal.
What else would killer whales listen to?
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We have to be entering the stage where there are more mario kart games sold than switch owners.
Also, most of the tech sites have gone to shit with black friday sales.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
most of the tech sites have gone to shit with black friday sales
I'm still not sure if Black Friday is a scam everywhere or just outside of the US. Still, I wish this shit would just die already.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
most of the tech sites have gone to shit with black friday sales
I'm still not sure if Black Friday is a scam everywhere or just outside of the US. Still, I wish this shit would just day already.
I keep a list of things to buy if they look cheaper on Black Friday. Usually they’re not but this year I’ve tracked the price too. I’ll report back if anything is cheaper.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I keep a list of things to buy if they look cheaper on Black Friday. Usually they’re not but this year I’ve tracked the price too. I’ll report back if anything is cheaper.
I've identified one thing which seems to be on genuine sale, a keyboard (as in electronic musical instrument) for my niece for Christmas.
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Math! Nothing good comes of it.
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I’m beginning to wonder if these hacking groups have branding strategiests.
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Celebrating 20 years of screwing people's machine in a scheduled fashion
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Celebrating 20 years of screwing people's machine in a scheduled fashion
Senior leaders of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) at the time spearheaded the idea of a predictable schedule for patch releases, shifting from a “ship when ready” model to a regular weekly, and eventually, monthly cadence. They tasked Craig Gehre, then a Security Release Manager, with developing the operational guidelines and overseeing the implementation of Patch Tuesday. This led to a shift from a “ship when ready” model to a regular weekly, and eventually, monthly cadence.
...but I repeat myself.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
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@jinpa they’re doing her dirty. I’m sure it took a lot of work to actually pull that off.
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@jinpa A worthy .
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I’m not surprised to be honest. Corporate climbing is more about been seen and heard than actually doing your job. Don’t frontload the corporate year with successes either. Wait until after the midpoint and clock them up over the next three or four months for maximum visibility.
On your next set of dice rolls put more points into looks and charisma too. Also luck. Better to be lucky than good.
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@DogsB I don't care about "progression" any more, because all next steps that way lead into 100% management. And no more money.
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I wonder what happened to Atlantis.
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@DogsB ... and nothing of value was lost.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I don't care about "progression" any more, because all next steps that way lead into 100% management. And no more money.
Some days I even consider less money if it were to involve less management and admin.
Fuck people. Give me more time to code.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Give me more time to code.
Speaking of which, I've just finished ripping out the code to interface with the old sensor hardware and have replaced it with the code to interface with the new sensor hardware. Which works in a completely different way that should be overall much better without the gimbal lock problems of the old system. Feels good!
Still needs a bunch more integration work.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I don't care about "progression" any more, because
... I'm only 5 years away from retiring!
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
: "that's astonishing - I never did more than 3 jobs at the same time, and that was too much work already."
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Probably implementing a taunt button.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
OHNO! WAH-HAMMA FORTEKEY SPEHSS MAHREN TOO HAS BEHN DEELEEHD TO LATE TWENTE TWENTEFOW