• Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    How is it licensed, Jigsaw? Eh? What distro is it from? Is that a fucking Snap wheel?

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        What I hadn’t anticipated in my 20 years away from Linux was not only had teams of unpaid volunteers been beavering away behind the scenes to make everything work better, other much more enthusiastic teams have been thinking up new and exciting ways to break it again.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    18·
    4 days ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

    • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
      71·
      5 days ago

      Hello, Rust developer. [My name, etc.] It works fine, and is written in C++. [Rest of challenge is the same.]

      Truly diabolical

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      25·
      5 days ago

      Look, I’m not saying the wheel is wrong. It rotates, but what if two people try to turn the wheel at the same time, in opposite directions?

      What if—instead of risking misuse of the wheel—we have a my_wheel::Wheel, which only one person can rotate at any given time? The multiverse could enforce this safety at compile time by making it impossible for there to exist a universe where two people both think they own the right to rotate the wheel. In fact, it could even make it impossible for me to lend out the wheel to more than one person at a time.

      And, maybe… we could make the wheel even better. Cars rest on top of wheels, sure. But what if I wanted to make a car that rests on top of other cars? If we rotate the super-car’s wheels, we don’t want to make the sub-cars flap around—we want the sub-car wheels to rotate. It would be more future-proof to make a Wheel trait, then to make RubberTyre implement Wheel. Then, if we ever needed to make cars into wheels, we could have them also implement Wheel—but delegate the responsibility of rotating to their own wheels.

      In fact, we should make it into a whole library. Our other projects could need wheels. Mr. Mittens might need them eventually!

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      9·
      5 days ago

      Disclaimer: I have never actually written Rust.

      neither have most of the people advocating for (or against) rewriting stuff in Rust lol

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    4 days ago

    The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    5 days ago

    Developer: Kill me if you must but i’ve turned the wheel into a modular service called systemd-wheel

  • Gerowen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    5 days ago

    Does the wheel fall under any cumbersome non free licenses or patents? If I want to modify this wheel to suit my needs, then share that work and information with others, am I free to do so?

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    But my wheel will be much better. I will start from the center with a very simple skeleton and build on top of it as needed. It will be very modular, elegant and easy to understand. It will be my masterpiece.

    • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      5 days ago

      I read that as ffmpreg, and I thought it was some new ao3 trope where two girls impregnate a guy or something.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        6·
        5 days ago

        Close. Final Fantasy 1000. It’s a game that’s fallen through a time hole from the future and contains technology that can do absolutely anything to anyone, including that.

        Why? It’s a nineteenth-stage capitalist thing. Something about gods of wealth, insatiable hunger and first-borns.

        • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          I wanted to propose that WH40K make a new Chaos God of Capitalism…and then I thought about for 5 seconds and realized they did. The Emperor. The Emperor is a god of capitalism. Which is an interesting (to me) perspective on the franchise. So, thanks for that random completely unrelated Lemmy comment.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    12·
    5 days ago

    As if I don’t have a stash of previously reinvented wheels to choose from in my personal code. Buuuut, who can resist reinventing the wheel for the 25th time?

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    21·
    5 days ago

    There is a whole extra spoke in the wheel. Look, I’m not gonna reinvent it… I just… need to… adjust some values… and there! Look, its fine.

    Wait.

    Why is it wobbling like that?

    Hold on, I just need to get rid of this other spoke…