AIX is a niche OS, and sadly, because it had potential. Since POEWR9 systems can run Ubuntu Jammy (or later they claim), AIX is caught in competition, though anyone running POWER9 ought to be running AIX and keep Ubuntu in a VM or partition, eh?

PowerPC is pretty much the only modern IBM platform my little brother does not program in. And he is unapologetic, claiming he's busy enough. This I doubt.

Since the lowering head count and firing stuff was explicitly stated in the announcement, the sad claims of some subterfuge are more Marxist-analog complaint, class warfare at its heart.

IBM wants to shed employees that do not appear, to management, to be the best allocation of resources towards new and different goals. Wow, when you put it hat way, it seems to dastardly and intended to cause maximum harm to society and humankind. Or not. I vote for not.

But this is /. and so is a haven for the Marxist theories, the refuge of those failed, failing, or suffering any indignity such as unmet want, denied desires, or perceived injustice.

Be aware you are wasting your negative mod points. You failed to understand the /. faqs, or you're just trying to be mean. Confession, I do the latter too often.

Plus, IBM owns RedHat. So that's probably something. Then again, maybe that is the hyper growth software and services bit that they want to keep.

That's amazing, frankly.

I wrote a simple bash script the other day to handle a video encoding queue, with this line:

if [[ $(date +%s -r "$file") -lt $(date +%s --date="1 min ago") ]]

It's running on Debian 12 but to imagine that if it were running on Ubuntu it would have failed?

Wild that this wasn't caught as soon as the dud utility shipped in a distro. I would have expected somebody's scripts to have failed, they ran it under bash -x and thought, "Oh, boy," then off to file a bug.

I like the idea of using Rust and the idea of Software Engineering. But together.

We heard a while back about Google making a nondestructive book scanner that used puffs of air to turn pages and multiple cameras with stitching algorithms.

Is there a home version that people can recommend, product or build plans?

I have at least a hundred out-of-print books, some on taboo subjects, that I'd love to be able to scan and lend out privately.

Frankly this would be a good item to lend around; I'd only need one for a few days a year.

All you need is an OS written in assembler.

Being memory safe is an advantage, because, some things are better left forgotten, some things are better left where they lay.

Technically, they can't get an old date.

And IRL ya might not want to. You should always update. Upgrades are desirable but optional.

To be fair there's a common way to compile Lua to JVM bytecode so it's likely just a Java front-end, not using the basic interpreter.

Back in the day there was a craze to port Lua, Ruby, Perl, Groovy(!), to run as Java front-ends. Not many got put into production outside of Lua.

However the real point here is that it's now "tell me why I shouldn't use Rust" time.

Moving ABI might be a reasonable objection for a small team but Cloudflare has over a hundred engineers on this so it's not a problem.

They get speed and memory safety in exchange for learning "The Rust Way". Seems like a good engineering tradeoff.

IMO Rust is still for the top 20% of engineers so Java's "solid middle" is still quite safe.

I thought that until I learned that they need weekly maintenance tending.

Somebody would need to build an automated battery watering system for homeowners who go away for a long vacation and forget to water their houseplants.

At some point it's too Rube Goldberg to be usable. Now, a few square miles of grid-scale ... somebody could make a business case where land is cheap and sun and water are plentiful.

Do I have to put out a hit on a whistleblower who exposes my illegal business scheme?

if your PC meets the Windows 11 Hardware Spec.