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Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Programming@programming.dev•Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
16·29 days agoI have witnessed companies make this exact mistake before - they have a legacy system written in $LanguageA that they either cannot find developers to maintain, believe is badly written, or does not support some new feature they want to implement (or some combination of the three) - and decide to solve this by taking the existing codebase and porting/transpiling it to $LanguageB (which is more modern, performant, is easy to hire developers for, etc) - without actually rewriting or rearchitecting anything.
What they are actually doing is substituting one kind of tech debt for another. The existing code that was poorly written and/or not well understood is now just bad code written in a different language. Fixing bugs or implementing new features now takes just as long, if not longer to account for the idiosyncrasies of how the code was ported.
And now this is being done by AI with even less oversight than usual? Recipe for a maintenance disaster.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Gaming@lemmy.zip•Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% markEnglish
20·3 months agoPersonally any game that requires a rootkit in order to play is not a game I’m interested in, from either a gameplay or a security point of view.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What the heck is this stain by my window?
14·4 months agoAs others have said, 100% a leak.
I would advise to stand on a chair or stepladder underneath the ceiling and check to see if it is still level. If you see an obvious deformation around the stain, this will be being caused by water pooling on top of the ceiling plasterboard. In which case, once the leak is sorted, you will likely need to drain the pooled water, cut out the damaged section, replace it, then replaster and repaint.
We had exactly the same issue in our last house. It was in a difficult to see spot hidden behind our kitchen cabinets. We only realised the severity of the issue when the ceiling boards gave way and fell on my head.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment ratesEnglish
8·5 months agoThere are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’…
I dunno, I reckon ‘DRAL YAES’ goes harder
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Linux@programming.dev•Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how
9·6 months agoI’ve switched both my laptop and desktop over to Linux (Bazzite and Fedora respectively) in the last 6 months.
The last time I tried to daily Linux (over a decade ago) I ended up switching back eventually, but this time I really don’t think I’ll need to. All of the games I play most often work perfectly, the dev tooling is even better than it is on Windows, and the hardware compatibility side has been completely flawless.
Gone are the days of having to hunt down obscure Linux drivers for your touchpad or webcam. Everything just works out of the box.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Gaming@lemmy.zip•Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’English
12·6 months agoHot take: Nintendo peaked with the Wii.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?
2·8 months agoBecause, unless you’re driving a forklift, the point of a vehicle’s rotation is in line with the rear wheels, meaning you can take turns at a much more acute angle when reversing than going forwards. Which makes backing into spaces much easier.
Notice that most of the half-assed parking jobs you see are generally people who have driven forward and left the car parked at a diagonal half out of the space, because getting the vehicle lined up in that situation is more difficult.
Well, I’m currently writing a service and frontend, both in C# (Blazor for the UI), and using docker-compose to build and deploy them to a Raspberry Pi running Linux. So not only cross-platform, but cross-architecture as well.
This is not a new thing either. Since .NET Core was released almost 10 years ago, it has supported cross platform development.
2017: covfefe
2025: cvefefe
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsEnglish
351·10 months agoOh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
I think you may have Europe confused with Japan.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"
2·11 months agoWe refer to it as kew-bee-cuttle
Our cat ushers us into bed when it’s near bedtime. If one of us is playing games late or otherwise up past midnight she will literally meow non-stop and chase us into the bedroom, it’s mildly annoying sometimes but very sweet haha. Then she’ll spend a few minutes with us in bed making biscuits before buggering off elsewhere, job completed.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
World News@lemmy.world•Tesla sales are tanking in EuropeEnglish
18·1 year agoI have a Model 3 at the moment. I’ve had it for almost 5 years and it’s generally been great - cheap to run, quiet and comfortable on longer trips but still fun to drive on back roads.
Recently it had its first major breakdown, and although Tesla service did manage to take care of it, it’s got me browsing for new EVs - but now, buying a Tesla is not the foregone conclusion it once might have been.
First, they have been making some truly stupid design choices in their latest facelifts (deleting the indicator stalks and gear selector).
Second, their CEO has now gone completely mask-off fascist.
Third - after a few years for the competition to catch up, we now have genuine alternatives from other marques which are just as good if not better EVs than Tesla’s offerings.
I think my next car will likely be a Polestar 2.
I decided to set up Fedora on my new laptop as it was either take a chance on that or spend like 3 hours debloating a Win11 install.
It’s been over 10 years since I last tried dailying Linux, we have come a long way in that time. Everything just worked out of the box. No fucking around needed.
Even relatively niche stuff like my thunderbolt dock and the laptop’s fingerprint sensor was picked up. And, thanks to the investment Valve has been putting into Wine and Proton, pretty much every game I’ve tried has worked with no issue.
Next time my desktop is due for a clean install I’ll definitely be doing the same there.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party appEnglish
26·1 year agoNot at all.
Lemmy is overwhelmingly militantly anti-Tesla, which is understandable considering who owns it, but it does mean that users tend to interpret any neutral or factual statements (basically anything that is not outright criticism) as having a pro-Tesla bias.
In this case, all I am stating is the fact that this specific change currently only affects corporate users. That could of course change in the future.
There is a rich history of cloud based data providers pulling the rug from under users with no warning. Look at what happened to Nest users when Google took over.




You are assuming that they have a personality to begin with.