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Google's Android Team is backing an effort to introduce Rust as a second programming language in the Linux kernel. Linux is 30 years old. I'm sure there's some rust in there already.
I know Rust is "safer" than C/C++, but it really does make me wonder, "what's in it for them?"
It's sad that I've become so mistrusting.
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From what I've read, Rust constrains how pointers are used, among other things. Having to interwork with code written in C will surely compromise its safety features. Maybe they're hoping that this will result in a slow rewrite using Rust.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's sad that I've become so mistrusting.
I never noticed!
/s
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I know Rust is "safer" than C/C++, but it really does make me wonder, "what's in it for them?"
It's sad that I've become so mistrusting.
It you were the only one...
It is not sad, it is the logical reaction
The sad part is that there is not enough people willing to do something against it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Linux is 30 years old. I'm sure there's some rust in there already.
It's open source. Time to throw it out entirely and start from scratch!
I've heard there's that young BSD thing. That might be worth a look.
Or perhaps we should migrate to TempleOS.
Kent Sharkey wrote: "what's in it for them?"
Shiny!
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Despite my sarcasm above, I think Rust is something that will bring benefits. It really does seem to me (from what I have seen of it) to enforce better memory safety. This is surely a good thing.
Who will the losers be? The BSDs, perhaps. They are already losing mindspace (both end user and developer) compared to Linux. This will only accelerate the disparity.
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A logical change, given the discontinuation of the iOS and Android Cortana apps The what?
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Strange. Timeline seems to me like an extremely useful data-shape visualisation tool, regardless of Android, iOS or Cortana. I.e. What was I working on at that time and what items relate to what other items in semantic and/or time terms.
Could it be that Microsoft are demonstrating a bit if a lack of imagination here? Nah, never.
Ever since WinFS, cool data modelling/visualisation tools have come and gone. It is Microsoft or the users who just don't get how useful they should be? Android and iOS are nothing to do with it.
Oh well, more opportunities for me I guess.
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It sent the data to MS. When I discovered the feature and alerted the company's ICT they quickly disabled it on all the machines. Knowing which tools are uses in which semantic order is a serious privacy concern, especially for corporate environments.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: It sent the data to MS.
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Knowing which tools are uses in which semantic order is a serious privacy concern, especially for corporate environments.
Oh I agree about feeding everything back to Microsoft being a security risk. As you can probably tell, I see the cross-device syncing possibilities as being clever but secondary to the benefits that a time/semantic visualisation tool can provide in and of themselves.
This is why it seems to me that Microsoft is missing a very important trick: They've got a useful and clever feature that can be integrated into local search and they are throwing it away. A feature like this would have allowed them to implement a time-based 'nearness' local search function so that users could ask questions like "what else was I working on when I worked on X?" or "what projects, files or records are associated with Y?".
Stuff like this really shouldn't be predicated on Cortana or on data going to Microsoft. It's not really (or should not be) just about syncing technology.
Of course, W10 sends a load of stuff back to Microsoft for the 'convenience' of its users. This is just one example amongst many.
One would have hoped that MS would allow corporates to set up their own servers for this sort of stuff. One might even have hoped that a domain account would near-automatically send data back to a domain controller, not to Microsoft.
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Quote: Windows 10’s Timeline feature is going away
They could use the inertia and get rid of some other "features" too
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For the first time, I clicked on the timeline icon (accidentally) and thought; wow, that's completely useless.
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Complexity and over-provisioning are the biggest causes of cloud waste, a new report argues. "Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?"
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Name:Wreck flaws in TCP/IP have global implications. But why shouldn't I have a light bulb that connects to my bank account?
And a fridge that connects to my car and my stove and my thermometer?
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"We are stronger united!"
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While I imagine I will be long dead, I suspect I will also be grateful that my brain can't be hacked right now. But 50 years in the future? A 100? It'll be a whole new brave world, for those getting cyber implants. 
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That would be the Internet of THINKS, No?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If being hacked was the only trouble / danger...
Facebook, Neurolink and the insane amount of morons waiting for it to volunteer.  
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I dread the day when Brainfuck evolves into a real language...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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These five programming languages may fade into obscurity over the next decade, but the profound influence they've had on modern development should not be forgotten. And by "dead" he means, "I don't use"
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In other words, his intellect is so 'dead' that he can't use words correctly.
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Quote: 5 dead programming languages
Quote: These five programming languages may fade into obscurity
Words don't mean what he thinks they do.
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Who needs spelling? Who needs meaning?
Vayg fraizs dowil.
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But not as badly as they failed Chris Tozzi. (Or should that be 'But not as bad as Chris Tozzi failed words'?) 
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