For the curious: FIREBAT T8 Pro Plus Mini PC Intel Celeron N5095 N100 Desktop Gaming Computer 8GB 16GB 256GB 512GB DDR4 DDR5 WIFI5 BT4.2
Excessive language complexity? It's exactly what scared me away from C++ in the first place."A new State of Rust survey shows that developers would prefer to see compiler bugs fixed and performance improved rather than new language features added, however, their biggest fear is excessive language complexity."
Excessive language complexity? Oh dear. Second-system syndrome?
that one little thing slightly different than everyone else
. That pattern is not that different from Linux distros (one-dev-show forking Ubuntu into an entirely separate distro project just to run a customized version of Budgie by default).There are lots of different badges of these, that was just the first one that came up. If you search for "N100 16GB/512GB mini PC" on aliexpress it finds pages of them. They're all remarkably cheap. There are AMD variants too. The damn thing can drive three (!) 4K monitors. I mean... I guess that's what you can do when you can put 10s of billions of transistors on a SoC chip. Of course the really clever part is being able to mass-produce those chips in high volumes and at low cost. If it's retailing, with shipping, from shenzhen at $100-$150, then what on earth is the BOM? Granted the case and psu costs are going to be comparatively very low, but this must be some kind of record for the price of a brand new PC compatible computer. It even comes with Win 11 (bah).For the curious: FIREBAT T8 Pro Plus Mini PC Intel Celeron N5095 N100 Desktop Gaming Computer 8GB 16GB 256GB 512GB DDR4 DDR5 WIFI5 BT4.2
Depending on the seller, it may be that you will get a shipment of corn flakes in that box but no PC.Maybe they will come inside the packet of cornflakes soon.
as safe as the memory of "Joseph Robinette" & "Donald John" combined.Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)
Objective-C is a national security risk 🤪 https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/mastodon.social
If the common IO base is the only point in the system where you have to worry about if the code is correct, that seems like a small enough surface area to be manageable.
The NSA have said "make it so". Maybe I wasn't so far wrong thinking that they are looking at this to protect them from a coming cyber-war. Is this the end of the road for C, then?
To be fair, just use Emscripten (C,C++ -> WebAssembly/JS compiler) and run the output binary via the node.js VM.And from 2011, we have "safe-C"... who knew?
I can hear the *ca-ching* and see the dollar signs in the eyes of the AI oil salesmen.Don't worry, they're working on that right now...