duncesplayed

This is what I don't get. Rewriting COBOL code into Java code is dead easy. You could teach a junior dev COBOL (assuming this hasn't been banned under the Geneva Convention yet) and have them spitting out Java code in weeks for a lot cheaper.

The problem isn't converting COBOL code to Java code. The problem is converting COBOL code to Java code so that it cannot ever possibly have even the most minute difference or bug under any possible circumstances ever. Even the tiniest tiniest little "oh well that's just a silly little thing" bug could cost billions of dollars in the financial world. That's why you need to pay COBOL experts millions of dollars to manage your COBOL code.

I don't understand what person looked at this problem and said "You know what never does anything wrong or makes any mistake ever? Generative AI"

I think it was just a joke about how Apex Legends is a bad game.

Play on an offline physical chessboard and the game will let you do anything you want.

Unfortunate title, but it's a good video and some good thoughts from both Linus and AC.

Interestingly, this video is just 2 years after Linus and Alan Cox had a bit of a blowup that caused AC to resign from the TTY subsystem. And even more interestingly, the blowup was specifically about the very topic they're discussing: not breaking userspace and keeping a consistent user experience. Linus felt AC had broken userspace unnecessarily, was too proud/stubborn to revert the change and save the user experience. AC felt Linus was trivializing how easy "just fix it" was going to be and threw up his hands and resigned.

I was curious if they were still on good terms after that, and it's nice to see that they were. For newcomers to Linux, Alan Cox used to be (in the 1990s) the undisputed Riker to Linus' Picard, the #2 in command, ready to take over all of Linux at a moment's notice. As we got into the 2000s, that changed, and this video (2011) was from the middle of a chaotic time for him. In 2009 he quit Red Hat, then joined Intel 2 years later, then quit shortly after that and has just a few years ago stopped kernel development permanently.

What kind of rube works in the same country they live in? I met a lot of WFH workers when I visited Thailand, and not a single one of them was working for a company in Thailand.

You're saying not your circus, not your apes?

Two of the top answers here are missing from that list and, to be frank, that list does not really contain any useful information. For example, where do I see on that list which clients can display images?

The "tooling" argument is kind of backwards when we're in the kernel. The package manager is not allowed to be used. Even the standard library is not allowed to be used. Writing code free of the standard library is kind of new in the Rust world and getting compiler support for it has been one of the major efforts to get Rust into the kernel. Needless to say tools around no-stdlib isn't as robust as in the user world.

Yeah it's easy to forget that Steam is good only because we have an extraordinarily principled person overseeing it. If something ever happens to Gaben or he loses control of it, it's going to turn into the flamiest garbage dump of shit you've ever seen. Monopolies are almost always bad.

No, that would be "too egotistical" (in Linus' own words). But he can have his friend who runs an FTP server completely ignore his wishes to have it named "Freax" and name the directory "linux" instead.

Unfortunately toner gives you cancer. (If anyone sits close to a laser printer, know that Ultra-Fine Particle levels fall back to background levels within 1-2 minutes after printing. Maybe take an extra-long poop when printing). For someone who doesn't print very often, probably the cancer risk is not very large, though.