Thanks.
Never would have thought to look for hardware, with the name VAX had I not read that.
ycombinator seems like another interesting place.

Unfortunately that’s not good enough for my OCD brain.

What’s “Three pounds of VAX!” ?

Until the user-based authorisation system of the server puts you in place.

Ironically, the Govt. official is a resource they have enough backups for.

Can this now go to darkhumor@lemmy.world ?

You mean, “stop using nice and spicy original content made by a popular person, to create high ROI articles”?
In this world when you could have an article when <insert movie-actor/singer name here> sneezes in front of the camera, why would someone not capitalise on someone putting years of past experience and thought into writing an essay?

Googling and finding these options

Well, it’s not in that bad a condition.
All options (hopefully, because I didn’t check) that are applicable to any version of rustfmt are available using rustfmt --print-config default and you only need to use the internet in case you either did not understand the option from the name or if you are looking for an option not in your specific version.

It should have been as a configuration enforced as standard for every contributor.

That was most probably just another instance of oversight, I’d say.
The one determining which configuration went into the formatting configuration (or the one making the default one, in case there was no config file for the Linux project), might have just not thought of that particular implication of the option been set.

And then you find yourself on a journey to the centre of the Earth.

That’s nice.
Although I don’t understand how come an Architects drawing goes straight to a builder without a Civil Engineer in between.

Well, if it were at a gap, as would be expected of a normal staircase, it would have enough space for the door to open and for someone to enter it from the side.

I would not want to live in that room either way.

Because rustfmt does not have enough proper customisations.

I just started Rust a few days ago and after my code became >20 lines (following the docs, understanding the basics), I decided to look for a formatting tool for Rust.
I found out rustfmt, read :

Rustfmt is designed to be very configurable. You can create a TOML file called rustfmt.toml or .rustfmt.toml

and was kinda happy.

And since in cmake I use BreakBeforeBraces: Allman, I looked for a similar option.
Found out in the docs, it was not available in stable. inner-thoughts: How old is Rust? I already waited 4+ years before picking it up. Well, let’s look up the unstable features on GitHub.
There are 2 configuration options relevant to the functionality.
Both of them have enough parts where they don’t work, so they are useless even if I were to use the unstable version of rustfmt.
And it seems like either none of the people participating in that issue is good enough to make changes in its source code or the rustfmt team doesn’t want that feature implemented.

And if someone requires a reason for Allman style for BreakBeforeBraces:
The Allman style makes it much easier to identify block scopes without having to rely upon IDE features such as highlighting.

Now say the CLI tool is passed a string that has “-arg1-” inside it.

Yes, but it is also good to know why it is recommended.

They probably go: “Wow! No lice!”

Yeah, that kind of a condition would require the maintainer to patch the source of the non-updated program.
And that would be fine if there is just a little change, with an alternate function available but if the change requires changing the logic of the application, you are essentially expecting the package maintainer to do the software developer’s work.

The deprecation process is a good way to prevent this.

No, pacman -S firefox will not update your firefox.

pacman -Sy firefox will update your firefox and nothing else.

If you have done pacman -Sy once, then your list of packages and their versions gets updated.
From then on, using pacman -S <package> on any package, whether or not it was already installed, will now get the new version of it.

On the other hand, if you have not updated for long, then if you run pacman -Su to update, it will update nothing, because it looks at the old package list and compares it to installed packages and all of them match.
If you were to use pacman -Sy and then pacman -Su, then it would do the update, similar to pacman -Syu.
If you did pacman -Sy yesterday and then do pacman -Su today, then it will update up to yesterday’s packages and will ignore any updates from that point to today.

This can be considered analogous to apt update and apt upgrade.
If you run apt upgrade without apt update, you only upgrade upto the packages that you got until the last apt update.

If arch used apt, then in this case, the recommendation would be to never use apt update without using apt upgrade right after it.

I am comparing a 10 year old version of Office on Windows 10 with a version of LibreOffice I used in the same week on that same computer on Linux.

My conclusion of “Office has gotten worse” comes from comparing the ability of MS Office 2015 on Win 10 on a Laptop with Core i7 6700H with 8GB DDR4 RAM vs MS Office 2007 on Windows 7 on a Core2Quad with 4GB DDR2 RAM (oh and an old SATA2 HDD here vs SATA3 7200RPM HDD on the laptop) and observing that they are able to open about the same amount of files before starting to hang.
In fact, at that time, I decided to use the old Desktop PC for that particular work, because it was working better in general and was more productive despite me having to keep it off the internet.

I am no longer making that comparison, because I don’t use MS Office on my PC any more.

But I can say this, if I were making that comparison of LibreOffice of that time with MS Office 2007 (which would actually be much older), then LibreOffice would have lost.

No one should have 8GB of RAM in their pc in 2025 either

And guess what saved my old 4GB DDR2 computer from becoming e-waste, making me still be able to use it when I want?
KDE Plasma. Yes, it works well on a system which I wouldn’t even dare try installing Windows 10.

No, LibreOffice is way better nowadays.

And that is mainly thanks to MS Office having gotten way worse than before.

There is a long standing problem where LibreOffice becomes very slow when adding images. That hasn’t been fixed, last I checked.
But thanks to MS Office now being slow all the time and also taking up way too much RAM, meaning that opening 4-5 Word+Excel documents on 8GB RAM means you are constantly using the page file (my exp. with Office 2015 back then), LibreOffice’s problem is not a big deal any more.

Your experience might not match what I am saying, because I am comparing MS Office on Windows vs LibreOffice on Linux.

The differences can largely be mitigated at the operating system level.

Exactly. And that also means that they have to be mitigated at the OS level and in this case, the kernel level.
It would usually be fine if the system had nothing other than RAM and fixed storage, but anything else (as simple as keyboard drivers and stuff) and you will need to make the program accordingly. Maybe even SATA would require handling endianness.

Honestly, I thought that they already handled endianness, due to how many different things Linux works on.
But if it doesn’t then I don’t see there being much of a requirement.

For networking devices and such, I’d rather favour more customised solutions either way.

IDK, maybe he is washing the plates or sth?