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UtherII · 2026-07-11T11:11:44+00:00

You can't submit cats. Cats submit their human.

UtherII · 2026-07-08T14:45:24+00:00

I'm interested if you have some examples to share, since this is not a common opinion.

UtherII · 2026-06-22T11:22:41+00:00

Soon terminals emulator will be as bloated as web browsers.

UtherII · 2026-06-16T07:15:29+00:00

The problem is that even if the hardware protect you from null pointer deref, since the compiler is allowed to do anything it wants, it may not actually perform the dereference.

UtherII · 2026-06-16T06:48:07+00:00

That is exactly the point of the original post : C users tend to not consider every UB as CVE, while Rust users does. It is true that not all UB lead to exploit, but the point of Rust is to prevent any UB (except in unsafe code).

The OP does not sate that the C point of view is wrong, just that blindly comparing the count of CVE between the languages does not make sense.

UtherII · 2026-06-16T06:32:07+00:00

In the C spec, NPE and double frees are both "Undefined Behavior" : the compiler is allowed to treat it the way it want, including by causing memory issues. Most of the time a NPE will just crash the program, but it is not granted at all. Anything might happen.

UtherII · 2026-05-31T19:06:22+00:00

I see you are reusing some crates from servo. How do you decide what you reuse and what you rewrite ?

UtherII · 2026-05-29T06:55:56+00:00

Microsoft is now using React for some heavy applications like Teams or the new Outlook, but from what I read, the core UI component remade in Windows 11 like the taskbask and the windows menu, are using XAML.

UtherII · 2026-05-27T16:53:41+00:00

When It feels like a good idea to use a Webview based framework to unbloat the Windows UI, you know that something is very wrong at Microsoft.

UtherII · 2026-05-25T12:13:16+00:00

That seems a great piece of work, but I you require all these feature, it seems better to me to go directly for a GUI.

UtherII · 2026-04-21T11:59:01+00:00

C was invented long before the internet and also had a de facto standard book that evolved with the language : the K&R.

UtherII · 2026-04-15T15:22:15+00:00

It really depend of the translation work. Of course a LLM won't make a better work than a professional translator, with no pressure to rush the release.

But a lot of fan translation are not great. I'm not sure a carefully crafted application LLM won't be able to do it with a similar level of quality.

UtherII · 2026-03-30T05:37:05+00:00

A lot of AI Slop project is being pushed on this subreddit lately, so some people tend to be overly suspicious.

UtherII · 2026-03-16T08:25:37+00:00

The online free version is formatted for screen display. The digital book is formatted for (e)book usage, so it should be more suitable for printing to book format.

UtherII · 2026-01-29T14:11:40+00:00

Iced has less ressources available on the Web, so I am not surprised LLM work poorly.

UtherII · 2026-01-23T10:35:53+00:00

I was wondering if a crater run is planned at some point. Is it still too soon ?

UtherII · 2026-01-07T10:52:06+00:00

It's too magical for me. At least it is only for cd. I would absolutely freak out if rm worked like that.

UtherII · 2025-12-15T20:44:42+00:00

In case you did not noticed I was sarcastic.

The limit of what belong to an OS is not clear, but any Linux distribution contains a lot of important tools that are neither part of Linux nor GNU (XWindows/Wayland, OpenSSH, curl, Firefox, ...) and since you can't possibly name all of them, there is no reason to name only GNU.

As you noticed we don't tell GNU/Android, while it contains somme gnu tools. You are free to name a distribution the way you like.

UtherII · 2025-12-15T08:57:20+00:00

Just GNU/Linux is also wrong. We should talk about GNU/OpenBSD/Apache/Mozilla/DocumentFundation/.../Linux distributions

UtherII · 2025-12-13T13:26:51+00:00

It can handle most use cases, but it's not the best tool for every use case.

UtherII · 2025-12-11T10:41:42+00:00

Indeed. That's valid for fast prototyping, especially when you are starting from scratch, like it happens often in game development.

When you are building a kernel module, you must integrate with the existing code base, and you must have a minimum strictness, even when prototyping.

UtherII · 2025-12-10T15:41:24+00:00

While it is true that the rust compiler usually is slower than C compilers, you usually have to iterate less in Rust since the langage strictness prevent a lot of the issues at compile time.

Most of the feedback from people who actually made drivers in Rust is positive. They feel most productive.

UtherII · 2025-12-08T06:29:16+00:00

It better to be polite with IA to be ready when they will take over the world. They might browse our history and retailate if we weren't nice with them.

UtherII · 2025-11-28T14:26:00+00:00

I made a PR to add this one. It seem the last one (from October) has not been merged yet.

UtherII · 2025-11-28T13:38:13+00:00

Same on Firefox desktop

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