All you've done is show that rust is defective by design. You wanna know something funny? Facebook is now a lot better than the sewer this place has become. That's pretty bad. I'll probably delete my bookmarks to here and another two tech sites - you're known by the company you keep, and I really don't need to hang around with a bunch of libtards and right-wingers and people who are still stuck somewhere at the turn of the century.

I'm not into nostalgia, nor "point-scoring" infantile debates. I have way better things to do, and was just coming here and another site to waste a bit of time between checking off items on my TODO list. Think next time, I'll go fly around town at 8k 100" wonder. Something you will never be able to do.

It's most definitely both an error and a bug - or are you now adding to your stupid prior claims by saying that leaking memory shouldn't be classed as either now? Put that on your resume and watch everyone refuse to hire you.

Another poseur who passes himself off as an expert is back trolling. Same advice I gave you before - get a job, dude. A real job, with a real paycheck.

Also, even though I'm closer to 70 than 50, I plan to go back to work on a new startup in a few months - already have two domains reserved for it. What are you doing with your life? Nothing, I see. And you'd shit yourself if you had a computer with half mine's specs.

Just upgraded this past month to a 100" 8192 x 4320 video wall - what have you got? A shitty laptop. 128 gb of ram (looking for a motherboard with 256gb-1 tb of ram for a future upgrade). What have you got? Whatever came with your shitty craptop. boo hoo. Get a real job.

As for me, I've already done a few things on this week's TODO list - including a visualization chart for a presentation to some doctors in less than 2 weeks, and some social workers next month. Fun times. Just taking a break here, but frankly most of the people here belong on "That 90 show" reboot - you haven't progressed much since. Seems all tech sites are infested nowadays. Must be the nature of the beast (tech users in general).

And if people actually follow the complaint process, they get money. Just search for the woman who got $10,000 when an update she never accepted hosed her machine. Problem is, most people are big talkers and tiny doers. They get mad, then they go away grumbling.

Wrong. Depends completely on the terms of the contract. For example, you want a lower insurance rate on your car, even if you own it outright, thre insurance company will agree if you install a spyware device on your ODB port to monitor your driving. Your mortgage can come with all sorts of caveats that you have to obey if you want a mortgage, including installing cameras if you're in a high-crime area. There's plenty of examples.

If you leak memory, other programs that access that memory thinking it's now free will crash when your shitty program re-accesses it. Happens all the time. Do you actually have any experience?

I'm saying for field work and dev work there are far better options than a laptop. And if you're doing something else, you can make do with a tablet or smart phone, like everyone else. Did you fail reading comprehension in school to so twist around what I was saying?

I swear, slashdot is now so full of wannabe poseurs I'm thinking even Facebook is better. You've got a bunch of unemployed "experts" who spend their days trolling, another bunch that is so busy trying to score worthless points on differences without a distinction, and others who haven't evolved since the previous century. Or quote websites as if that is more valid than first-hand experience.

So no, I'm not buying into it

Same as I won't buy from Hikivision, even though they've got really cheap stuff.

There are different types of apples, but they're all still apples.

This is an excellent example of people wasting time arguing about a distinction without a difference. It might be entertaining as a form of mental masturbation, but ultimately buggy code is buggy code. Leaky memory is unsafe memory.

How is a smartphone not portable? If you need something better, get a desktop and do it right. Even if you need to drag a mini pc in it's case to a job site - just make sure they have spare screens, a keyboard, and mice.

If gamers can drag their full-size rigs to lan parties, certainly IT pros can be arsed to drag a box to a job site instead of an inadequate laptop. I've done it. I'm sure others have as well. It's not hard to send an email to ask them to confirm that they have a spare screen or two and a mouse and keyboard handy. (or just bring your own mouse and keyboard - I for one wouldn't want to use a cheaper one than I'm using).

And how is memory safety NOT related to leaks? Code that leaks memory is by definition is unsafe memory. Use it at your own risk, and pay the price in crashes.

How is that NOT practical advice? You want to do serious work, get a desktop and multi-monitor setup. For everything else, get a phone, like the rest of the world.

Problem with this approach is that too many people make unfounded assumptions regarding behaviour, instead of continually checking their assumptions against reality. It's not just programmers that do this - everyone does to a certain extent.

It's why, when I come up with a solution to a problem, I continue to think about it until I am satisfied enough that it warrants taking action. Being a bit of a skeptic by nature, this approach has really paid off in saving time, money, and other resources. "Good enuff" is no longer good enough in my books, because when it comes time to make improvements, you're stuck with crap that can't be re-used.

It's like computer hardware. Do you buy stuff that's "good enough" for today, or do you try to future-proof yourself? All my networking is Cat7, all my video cabling is rated 4k+ (one older cable snuck into the mix and cost me 2 days disassembling and reassembling my video wall), all the USB2 cables use USB3 extensions because USB2 cable extensions fail too often, especially for printers and web cams with higher data rates (it would really help if the USB standard had included error correction from the beginning), and max out the ram and buy way over-spec speed ASAP (was kind of hard during the chip shortage) because ... turns out 6 months later I needed 128 gigs of really fast ram.

I also don't buy parts off Amazon. You never really know what you're getting into, and I want to support local businesses, because if nobody does we won't have that option in the future. That too is part of being cautious and aware of long-term consequences of the "quick, easy, cheap" solution that in the end causes more problems than it solves.

Gee, we're into redefining terms. Mitre disagrees - memory leaks are a big part of their CVEs. If memory leaks, an application can write to memory that it supposedly released, that another application now holds. That's a pretty good definition of unsafe memory.