And they’re all going to raise their hands in dispair when they get hacked, scammed, exploited, or sued.

There’s quite a few nice apps for Lemmy. I’m using Connect for Lemmy on android and it’s wonderful.

I found the most effective way to get a nerd into ham is: mention that ham radio is in the criteria to become an astronaut. Suddenly they’re doing the study courses all on their own. Granted, they have to already be a nerd. ;)

For the non nerds, the prepper angle seems to work with some.

The thing you have to deliver is the “why”, not the how. If they’ve decided they want to learn it, they will.

No.

C is going to be around and useful long after COBOL is collecting dust. Too many core things are built with C. The Linux kernel, the CPython interpreter, etc. Making C go away will require major rewrites of projects that have millions upon millions of hours of development.

Even Fortran has a huge installed base (compared to COBOL) and is still actively used for development. Sometimes the right tool for a job is an old tool, because it is so well refined for a specific task.

Forth anyone?

The rewrite-it-in-rust gang arrives in 3, 2 …

meow

This article is written as though it is targeting FOSS newbie or something – a weird mix of jargon and simple language designed to overawe someone.

Their VCS is at least as interesting as SQLite :)

I’ve got it on my three windows machines – all of them required for various work tasks where Linux doesn’t make sense. Been using it in that context since circa 2012 when you still had to install it with the KDE on Windows installer. I was actually surprised to see an automated update on windows. Very nice!

I don’t have time to work on KDE anymore, but perhaps drop me a current donation link?

Just saw Kate update for me on my windows machine today. New welcome screen and some pretty significant UI updates. Keep up the good work!

Oh hi, this is me too. Since 1.0alpha ;)

Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It’s so close to being critical mass :)

2009ish

I am old, so this tracks ;)

It was designed from its very start to be used for numerical computing. So the language it built around it and it sort of excels in that use case.

This used to be the holy bible of numerical methods, if you want to see some sample code: https://s3.amazonaws.com/nrbook.com/book_F210.html

Don’t get me wrong. There is still a time and a place for Fortran. And this will also likely always be the case for C++. But I’m not sure it is entirely wise to choose it if you’re creating a new project anymore.

I’ve done a bit of C++ coding in my time. The feature list of the language is so long at this point that it is pretty much impossible for anyone new to learn C++ and grok the design decisions anymore. I don’t know if this is a good thing or not to keep adding and extending or whether C++ should sail into the sunset like Fortran and others before it.

If the Kindle is a tablet, then yes. If the Kindle is an e-reader, then no.

I don’t think Kobo has that option. I just toggle on my wifi hotspot on my phone though and that works just fine.

Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.

Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money

Articles like this always tend to overlook the fact that Bell Labs wasn’t unique in its time. And other companies had very similar labs running. A famous example is Xerox Labs which invented the computer mouse and graphical windowing, among other things.

Google had this vibe too, prior to going public.

Weirdly enough, .Net works relatively well on Linux (at least the core components). Parts of the framework are even various degrees of open sourced.