Feyd

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You're just embarrassing yourself at this point.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

The only thing that is lacking for compatibility is drivers. If that's what you meant you should have said so instead of saying hardware needs to be designed. If that's not what you meant then you don't know what you're talking about.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago (13 children)

You’d have to design hardware specifically that’s compatible with Linux

What makes you think that?

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't assume that Java is only half as fast as C for every workload. It's probably a lot closer than you think in a lot of real world scenarios.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Everything that you said is correct, except the prevalence of the career advice. I would bet most people looking for their first job out of school don't even know COBOL is a language.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I wouldn't necessarily agree it needs to be rewritten. Hiring programmers that are willing to work in cobol would certainly be harder than other languages though, because you'll have a much smaller candidate pool and people would be unlikely to see learning cobol as a good career investment

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 33 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Java can be pretty damn efficient for long running processes because it optimizes at runtime. It also can use new hardware features (like cpu instructions) without having to compile for specific platforms so in practice it gets a boost there. Honestly, the worst thing about Java is the weird corporate ecosystem that produces factoryfactory and other overengineered esoteric weirdness. It can also do FFI with anything that can bind via c ABI so if some part of the program needed some hand optimized code like something from BLAS it could be done that way.

All that to say it doesn't matter what language they use anyway, because rewriting from scratch with a short timeline is an insane thing to do that never works.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So we're teaching the children that only high level art is worthwhile and they shouldn't even try to make at themselves because they suck at it and you can just generate it. Cool.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/flatpak-kcm/

Looks like its only optionally required by plasma-meta. I'm not familiar with it but it looks like a GUI for editing settings rather than something fundamental so I'd be surprised if uninstalling it is the source of your issues.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Every single one of these flows from wealth inequality.

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