I had pixel 7, broke a screen and got a pixel 8. Apart from desktop, which I dont use, I haven’t noticed almost any significant day to day difference between the two.

I agree to some degree, but I think the issue of age verification is beyond this point. Yes, Linux users tend to be much nerdier and reactive than the general public. But they are the ones who use linux in the first place. Whether they gatekeep linux from others is another story, but the devs should know their audience by now - and hopefully care. And what’s more - a lot of idealists (I wouldn’t call them autistic, though that may be a factor) hate systemd in the first place. They already dont use it or don’t want to use it. So the ones that do, I argue, are more mainstream. I am one of them. I don’t want to go back to sysvinit and write a script for each new service. I also know that this doesn’t end here. Today they add the field, tomorrow, some mainstream browser will depend on it existing and the frog will be boiled. Now it is not an API, but it’s added in case anybody needs it. So you didn’t even have to add it. And they didn’t add a gender field in case anybody needed it, for example. Yes, Linux community would probably start arguing about that, but not nearly as much IMO. I think this is far more mainstream issue than you give it credit, honestly.

That is not the point. If it was so logical to add, why add it now, when you know it is controversial? The devs are aware of the controversy, they have made a political decision to do it this way. At the very least, they could’ve handled it with more care - as sensitive matters should. Turning a blind eye and pretending this is business as usual is very insulting. To me at least, and I’m sure to most who care. If you do this during “the surveillance state paranoia”, you have to be aware you are contributing to more of it.

I agree with everything. Compiled, GC language was weirdly missing. Also, I think that exceptions are not a particularly good error handling solution. But it’s weird to have a GC abstraction and goroutines built-in, yet not have support for any other abstraction for programmers. Just seems not well thought through language from the start.

True. But I would argue it makes more sense comparing python to rust than go to rust. Scope of use cases for python is more similar to rust. Other than that - sure, you can compare Haskell and x86 assembly too, though it would be of little use.

I’m not proficient enough in Go to say how good or bad it is, but I have tried it in the past and it made and immediately not like it. Verbose syntax, no null safety or any error handling, no templates at that time, people literally copy/pasted the code of containers for different data types and did find/replace on it. The only feature that was kind of convenient is goroutines. For my money, Kotlin and even Java were more modern looking and would prefer them to go any day. Also not apples to apples comparison, but far more similar than rust.

Is it just me or does comparing go and rust make very little sense? Other than being popular and relatively new, they have almost nothing else in common. Rust is multi domain language design to be as versatile as possible, very intentionally limited with a set of carefully chosen constraints. Not intended to be particularly easy or quick to use, by design. Go is very clearly web-biased, centered for backend, microservices, not universal by design. Syntax very C like, verbose, feels low level, but actually batteries included. Really, the only thing in common with rust is that it is very popular with developers, but again for very different reasons. People who like rust often hate go and vice versa. You can tell by the comments in this thread too.

True, not much of the claims have been validated. But regardless, they’re saying they are releasing the product within a month, so if it is only hype to attract investors, they are either too late or they will be delaying the launch of the bike. Cause, the truth will soon be revealed.

They claim it lasts for 10k or more cycles. Lithium free and good across a wildly bigger temperature range than li Ion. Density beyond the best of li ion. 400Wh/kg. They will supposedly start delivering the first bikes with the battery next month. More test results next Monday. A lot of bold claims,some substantiates with these current tests, some apparently deliberately not. Like density could easily be determined if they only weighed the battery under test. But regardless, the truth will be revealed soon enough. I am enthusiastic, but I’m not investing, so I have nothing to gain/lose. We shall see.

That makes sense. It would only work if scarcity is not artificial, but naturally limited resource. Sort of like how worst thing that could happen to a country is they find oil.

I mean - I get all the jokes and everything, but wouldn’t this democratization of coca generally be a good thing to the world? At least it might be good for countries that now have a problem with illegal coca production. I don’t actually have enough info about that industry, but I would like to hear some opinions from people more familiar. Would the “democratization” of coca be a net benefit? Even if not legalized fully? Would it leech money from cartels/mafia?