OpenSuse Leap or even Tumbleweed. After getting the media codecs up and running, and remembering to set you firewall zone to “home”, you’re pretty golden.

This is a great question. It’s like asking when a rock is too small to be a planet. I suspect there were be a definition eventually that mirrors the planetary definition – something like “spherical(ish) and clears its orbit”. The issue is that Mars would lose its two moons under that definition.

So we might end up with something like “moons” vs “natural satellites” and Mars will just have to suck it up.

Solipsists: Wow, how did I end up here?

You’re applying logic when logic doesn’t apply. Why would he tarriff Canada?

Does CTRL-ALT-ESC still work in Wayland (assuming KDE, might be desktop dependent)

MATLAB is basically a UI wrapper around Fortran’s BLAS and LAPACK – change my mind. ;)

Yes

print(eval(input(“Expression:”)))

Unsafe coding is best coding ;)

It’s that hacker 4chan again

Insist they index from 1. Like God and Fortran intended it. ;)

Probably the original data was per sqkm.

One of the last pure science probes we will probably ever see.

(Feeling pessimistic today)

Certainly, if I had said that.

It’s like the Brits trying to convince everyone else to switch to their electrical socket. Sure, the design is better for higher voltage and current, has all these extra safety features, etc. But you cannot dramatically shift an entrenched ecosystem for free.

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 …

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.

I keep my industrial CNC in a shoebox under my bed.