Oracle? Oracle owns Java, not JavaScript.

https://askubuntu.com/q/641049

TL;DR: it’s supposed to send email to an administrator, but by default on some distros (including Ubuntu), it isn’t actually sent anywhere.

Do you mean Dan Luu, or one of the studies reviewed in the post?

Yeah, I understand that Option and Maybe aren’t new, but they’ve only recently become popular. IIRC several of the studies use Java, which is certainly safer than C++ and is technically statically typed, but in my opinion doesn’t do much to help ensure correctness compared to Rust, Swift, Kotlin, etc.

I don’t know; I haven’t caught up on the research over the past decade. But it’s worth noting that this body of evidence is from before the surge in popularity of strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, and TypeScript. In particular, mainstream “statically typed” languages still had null values rather than Option or Maybe.

Note that this post is from 2014.

Partly because it’s from 2014, so the modern static typing renaissance was barely starting (TypeScript was only two years old; Rust hadn’t hit 1.0; Swift was mere months old). And partly because true evidence-based software research is very difficult (how can you possibly measure the impact of a programming language on a large-scale project without having different teams write the same project in different languages?) and it’s rarely even attempted.

Notably, this article is from 2014.

The ribbon that was introduced around… 2007, I think? Or is there a substantially different one now?

Most of those comments are actually just random people arguing about the merits of the experiment, not continued discussion with the bot.

Also, the bot is supposed to be able to run builds to verify its work, but is currently prevented from doing so by a firewall rule they’re trying to fix, so its feedback is limited to what the comments provide. Humans wouldn’t do great in that scenario either. (Not to say the AI is doing “great” here, just that we’re not actually seeing the best-case scenario yet.)

The user who submitted the report that Stenberg considered the “last straw” seems to have a history of getting bounty payouts; I have no idea how many of those were AI-assisted, but it’s possible that by using an LLM to automate making reports, they’re making some money despite having a low success rate.

None of the features discussed are aesthetic only.

Nope. It links to an explanation of what that poster is:

This is the UNIX Magic Poster, originally created by Gary Overacre in the mid-1980s and published by UniTech Software.

You don’t have to imagine it; you can browse the Linux Kernel mailing list!

That’s called a mailing list

/s

TypeScript is a language, and traditionally languages are considered separate from their implementations. When I first saw the headline I hoped maybe it meant a non-JS runtime for compiled TS, and I’m well aware of the difference. Yes, that would be a much larger undertaking than porting the compiler to a new language, but the headline doesn’t indicate how large a project this is, and Microsoft certainly has the resources to write a new backend (even a native-code one) for the TS compiler.

What’s wrong with the Windows one, and/or what’s better about Gnome’s or KDE’s?

What virtual desktops do you prefer? I don’t find Mac OS’s significantly better, and I haven’t spent much time with very many Linux window managers other than i3 (and that was years ago).

Actually, it’s pretty surprising to me that a small university lab is forcing a specific version of a specific OS on you.

I…honestly don’t know what you mean, and I’ve had 11 since about when it came out. Do you have an example?

Lots of settings actually seem more convenient now, especially the ones for audio and Bluetooth.