It's a very good container technology. I've been using it daily for years (since it originated as Singularity). It's straighforward, portable, and unlike Docker you don't need a docker environment (with a deamon, and a cache for overlays, etc etc).

I have to admit, as an old coder, even though Microsoft's been supporting WSL for some time, to this day I still find it a bit delightfully surprising when I discover a page called 'How To Install Linux' on a Microsoft web site.

Apple is using 'Max' and 'Ultra' in their own branding, for their ARM processors. They've been doing this for, what, two years? So why is Intel using the exact same word now?

I guess other words were just too ugly or tainted? "Super"? "Mega"? "Uber"?!?

I never liked Intel's names, honestly. We know processors have cores, no need to put that word in the name too...

Floating point errors are possible, but it's certainly not from IEEE 754. The standard was created in 1985, about 8 years after the launch of Voyager.

From what I understand, that's what he wanted!

I work for a medical research group. We have about 40 developers and 100 people on the research side (including students). We use almost only Linux desktops, and some Macs. Devs often spawn VMs on them, and other non-dev users can get VMs on dedicated CentOS servers we own. We write many of our own IT tools too.

I think we might have one or two windows desktops, for the graphics designer guy.

Woops. Replying ot myself. Just realized my code prints the filename and line number of the dbg!() method itself, not its caller. I shoudl have parsed caller[0] instead...

Did he Rust maintainers have to implement the dbg!() method, or could any Rust dev add their own? I know in Ruby I could have created my own:

def dbg!(x)
      STDERR.print "#{__FILE__}:#{__LINE__} #{x.inspect}\n"
      x
end

Just curious, don't know how flexible Rust is when it comes to extending the language itself.

I've read 4/5th of it at this point, I'll probably finish it this weekend. It's a beautiful nice fantasy story. No need to have read any of the other Discworld novels, either.

It's the story of a young apprentice priest in a extremely religious society, who meets the actual god of that society. The god has just re-incarnated into a small tortoise, and has almost no godlike powers left. And, the little tortoise can only be heard by the apprentice.

Personally, I love this diagram. I bookmarked it a couple of years ago and I like to show it to people. Climate change is pretty obvious if you hide all the series and then reveal them one by one in chronological order.

    http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html

(University of Illinois)

I've been made to click on tons of videos with poor content, or badly structured content. This one was pretty good, though. A nice overview of something I know little about, with good narration too.

Well, what about that lab? What do they do with Windows? I tried a quick Google search but all the results I got were related to cold fusion research and the infamous Pons & Fleischmann affair. That poor department, I bet it must be difficult for them to do proper research nowadays and get it seen in its true light, because it must be constantly drowned by all the (continuing) coverage of that fiasco!

Yeah, in science, it's usually rare to have serious development done on Windows, except for the occasional data acquisition station or for some control computer attached to a commercial lab apparatus. Just have a look at the Top 500 supercomputer clusters, most of them run a flavor of Linux or UNIX. I've worked for genomics companies and now I'm at a neurological institute, and all the heavy duty HPC pipelines are designed to integrate with such clusters, and the scientists themselves work on Linux desktops. We're shuffling terabytes of medical images back and forth, with large data trees on shared filesystems that are continuously updated by scripts in bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, and Java. If Microsoft had the power to force us to switch to Windows for everything, science would grind to a halt for 15 years while we re-code everything, and even then it would probably still not be as functional as what we have right now. There is great beauty and power in command-line processing, when done well.

Does anyone know of any big science project that's all done on Windows? Really, I'm asking because I'm curious. As far as I know, in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, medecine etc, any project that requires complex custom HPC pipelines are created on Linux (or UNIX). Windows? Never heard of one. But it might exist, I suppose.

Why not simply brick any device reported stolen? I understand it's done in other countries (or for other devices).

A slightly better way, IMHO:

    String.instance_methods.grep /sub/