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Yeah I think it's pretty clear what's going on at this point.

Nah this is like once a week. Windows (post XP) crashes on me maybe once a year. It's much more stable than desktop Linux in my experience.

Some Dell/Intel business laptop. Nothing exotic.

I was forced to enable swap because it I run out of RAM without swap then 95% of the time my laptop hard reboots. Adding a ton of swap fixed it.

My next issue is that sometimes it just hard-freezes. Zero warning, under no load, I can't even move the mouse. Linux on the desktop!

Tool Command Language. It's a shitty stringly-typed scripting language from the 80s that took a neat hack (function bodies are string literals) way too far.

It's a bit less shit than Bash, but shitter than Perl.

Unfortunately the entire EDA industry has decided to use it as their scripting interface, which isn't too bad in itself - the commands they provide are pretty simple - but unfortunately it leads to people stupidly basing their entire EDA infrastructure on TCL rather than wrapping it in a saner language.

No not in the same way Tony Stark did. But Tony Stark is imaginary. Obviously nobody can build an electric car or a rocket in the same way that Tony Stark does.

Of all the criticisms of Musk this is the weakest. There are many way more valid ones... for instance:

• He's an arsehole.
• He straight up called that diver a paedo, and even paid a scammer to investigate him.
• The scummy lottery thing for votes for Trump. I don't care if it ends up being technically legal, it's clearly immoral.
• Selling the promise of FSD for hard cash when it clearly is never going to happen as he claimed. I still don't know why there's been no class action suit over that.
• Backing proper insane far right groups in Europe. These people are worse than Trump. I wouldn't say he is backing neonazis, but he's certainly in the vicinity.

Despite all that he clearly has a pretty good handle on engineering and is definitely involved. He's not just a figurehead.

I know right, people are multidimensional. You can downvote if that blows your mind.

Be thankful we got Javascript. We might have had TCL! 😱

Interesting footnote: the founding of Netscape occurred at the same time I was deciding where to go in industry when I left Berkeley in 1994. Jim Clarke and Marc Andreessen approached me about the possibility of my joining Netscape as a founder, but I eventually decided against it (they hadn't yet decided to do Web stuff when I talked with them). This is one of the biggest "what if" moments of my career. If I had gone to Netscape, I think there's a good chance that Tcl would have become the browser language instead of JavaScript and the world would be a different place! However, in retrospect I'm not sure that Tcl would actually be a better language for the Web than JavaScript, so maybe the right thing happened.

Definitely dodged a bullet there. Although on the other hand if it had been TCL there's pretty much zero chance people would have tolerated it like they have with Javascript so it might have been replaced with something better than both. Who knows...

Yeah Teslas were pretty leading edge at the beginning. Then they started doing weird stuff like removing stalks and making triangular trucks.

Falcon 9 and Starship are obviously futuristic too.

No.

Frankly I'm surprised they fund any of those in the first place. I would have thought F-Droid would be a bit less shit if it has actual employees!

Yeah this. Every company I've worked in does 2 week sprints with a kanban to organise tasks but beyond that it's pretty much normal project management; no faddy named models or anything.

Sure, but there are a gazillion forum websites already. I'd just use an existing one. The one D uses is the best I've ever used. I think it's actually written in D, which is a very niche language but way nicer than Ruby.