The feature size of the matte vs shiny sides are much smaller than the wavelength of the bulk of the radiated light in either a microwave or conventional oven.

> microwave or conventional oven

I worry for you if you're microwaving aluminum foil.

Is it? I can see the broiler glowing, so at least a decent chunk is close to visible light.

An alternate intuition pump, at least if you're old enough to remember incandescent bulbs: consider how bright a 1000-watt bulb is, compared to how bright (in the visible spectrum) the 2-3000 watt oven element gets.

Look up the emission spectrum for a body at the temperature of a typical oven element: yes, it starts emitting some light that is visible, but the bulk of the energy is still in the IR band.

I think this is entirely plausible lapse for someone with a bad fever, especially if they routinely work from home and are primarily communicating over text-based channels. Personally I'm much more inclined to blame the organization, as it sounds like they knowingly accepted work from someone who was potentially going to be in an altered mental state.

A fever can cause altered mental states, confusion, etc. It's not surprising that someone suffering from one would act out of character.

Yeah, personally with a high fever I’d say I’m more impaired than when I’m drunk. It’s not a state people should be doing anything important in.

Stop pinning things to the edges of the screen and window. Some sites have literally over 50% of the viewable area taken up by irrelevant static elements. Let the content scroll, like god intended.

@PlatoIsADisease (because dead comments can't be replied): the term WalledGarden has been a term for this and related concepts since long before marketing-speak had completed the takeover of the internet.

Exactly. I like to say that learning feels like frustration. If I'm right, then LLM's eliminate precisely the thing that is learning.

It's the same in tiktok: there's literally a button that says “I'm not interested in any live videos”, but it keeps inserting livestreams into the feed anyway.

And current through a wire stays the same on every point of the wire, more or less regardless of the length, as long as the supply can provide enough voltage to maintain it. This in turn dramatically simplifies the electronics needed to interact with it.

“Irrelevant” feels a bit reductive while the practical question of what actually causes qualia remains unresolved.

Nothing is happening “suddenly”, and it remains true that “people who want to work purely on the C side can very much continue to do so”.

But, is this true or false?

> If any C developer developed drivers in C previously for the DRM subsystem, they might in the future be forced to learn Rust.

Whether that's true or false depends on what your hypothetical developer wants to do in the future. When an all-new driver is written in Rust, then working on that driver will require knowing Rust. But nobody's talking about trying to re-write all the existing drivers in Rust, so there will still be plenty of C code to work on even in the DRM subsystem.

> When an all-new driver is written in Rust, then working on that driver will require knowing Rust.

But that is not what the claim is about, it is about any new driver, not a specific one.

I think this is true. But that'd be nonetheless up to the subsystem maintainers.

That means that, even if a C developer used or added C bindings to DRM when wanting to write a new driver, they would be forced to write their new driver in Rust regardless. That seems to run counter to the promises made by Linus.