I meant popularity. My brand new Win11 laptop freezes or crashes all the time. My relatives laptops too. It's slower every year, even on high-end hardware.

"New" Windows laptops have always crashed unless you carefully purchase your units carefully and generally remove any manufacture trash installed with them. Consumer laptops are especially bad. Meanwhile I've purchased and supported thousands of business grade laptops with a much lower rate of incidents, but they are typically more conservative with the cutting edge hardware and have better bios/uefi support.

Maybe a hardware defect.

I’ve been running windows 11 on a couple of pcs for at least a year and never seen it crash once.

Recommend using an AME Wizard playbook to decrapify it

https://revi.cc/

https://atlasos.net/

based on AME Wizard

https://ameliorated.io/

"AME 11 Official Ameliorated Playbook for Windows 11. Cutting the tumor out of your OS."

What they do. There are long-term goals and short-term goals (convenience etc.) Society pressures you into having long-term goals even if you don't do anything about them.

How can you get around Rust's lack of a stable ABI?

The same way as in other ecosystems that lack it, compile everything with the same toolchain.

And then you have to recompile everything every time you upgrade the toolchain.

Which is what you already have to do in Rust anyway, as the compilation hashes are bound to the toolchain.

And the bit before it:

> The results indicate that certain listening habits differ significantly between the neurotypical and ADHD-screened groups. The ADHD-screened group reports significantly more background music listening during less cognitive activities and while studying, compared to the neurotypical group.

I don't think it's an interesting conclusion, so maybe the GP is looking for something more substantial.

I dont know what other conclusion to a study like this one could possibly want. Either ADHD affects if you like listening to music when doing other tasks or it doesn't.

Isn't Idris basically Haskell with DT?

At the language level...sort of?

Idris is strict, unlike Haskell. As of Idris 2, it also has a substructural type system which tracks how often terms are used, which is kind of Rust-y and can allow for better runtime performance by ensuring that proofs can be erased (IIUC).

But besides just being a language, Haskell is a whole ecosystem. It's not an amazing ecosystem, but it's good enough for serious work. Idris is not and may never be. A fully-supported Dependent Haskell would be huge for dependent types in practice.

> Idris is strict, unlike Haskell.

"The next Haskell will be strict." — Simon Peyton-Jones

Ted Kaczynski argued that such a system is unsustainable long-term.

Fortunately, he had the much more long-term sustainable solution of driving a truck full of explosives into a building. Over years of doing this, we will find that bomb trucks will provide green energy and joy to all the poor.

I think you're thinking of Timothy McVeigh.

Haha, absolutely correct. I suppose the crucial difference in sustainability is using trucks as bombs or just bombing without.

Haha even though I do not agree with his prescriptions or actions, I do think he made a somewhat cohesive description in relation to what you said initially.

In the spirit of the article, do you think it's possible for someone to hold similar views to him and not commit violence?

Well, there’s the hordes on Twitter (which is where I got the bananas thing from) and apart from the Zizians they’re a bit harmless. So there’s that I suppose.

Well you can agree with the description and not the prescription. You can't derive an is from an ought after all.

I generally agree with the Buddhist description of reality but don't agree with their conclusions about what should be done about it.

HK, what do you mean when you say 'can't derive an is from an ought after all.'

I can read a meaning in that but I'm not sure if I'm understanding it the way you intend or not.

Descriptions cannot directly lead to prescriptions. Values come from you (the subject).

'Junk food is bad for your health' is a description, but who is it that decides that health is more important than pleasure? The prescription 'Don't eat junk food' is rooted in a value (e.g. that health is more important than pleasure), but you have the freedom to simply reject that value. How much moderation we should have is subjective.

Slow and usually pointless for minor updates.

Gentoo? Compiling big packages takes ages.

More than 20 years, with a single-core Pentium 4, it could take indeed something like 3 days of continuous compilation to compile an entire Gentoo distribution, in order to have a personal computer with every application that one might want.

However, already after the appearance of the first dual-core AMD Athlon64, 20 years ago, that time could be reduced to not much more than a half of day, while nowadays, with a decent desktop CPU from 5 years ago, most Gentoo packages can be compiled and installed in less than a minute.

There are only a few packages whose compilation and installation can take a noticeable time, of up to tens of minutes, depending on the chosen options and on the number of cores of the CPU, e.g. Firefox, LibreOffice, LLVM.

There is only a single package whose compilation may take ages unless you have an expensive CPU and enough memory per core: Google Chromium (including its derivatives that use the same code base).

Not Gentoo. The system I'm suggesting is one where you replace the linker with one which accepts a platform agnostic assembly code with similar semantics to C, and perhaps some additional tools for stack traversal to allow the implementation of garbage collected languages and exceptions. Compiling would be fast because the code you distribute would have already had optimisations applied to it in a pre-compilation step. It would also be automatic in the same way the present linker system is automatic.

I can effortlessly compile Debian packages on my phone.

With some limits of course. I can't compile Chromium even on my laptop. But most of stuff - I can.

Newton is not responsible for gravity because he didn't create it.

Nevertheless, as an entity with mass Isaac Newton was complicit in contributing towards gravity’s tyrannical effects. In fact, his corpse continues to exert a gravitational pull to this day. /s