EastToWest

My naive implementation (as shown in the linked question) in Rust was mind boggling slow. C could do around 150MiB/s, while Rust could only do 10MiB/s. A simple `objdump -d` shows Rust is generating a lot more code. I'm not sure how much of that is relevant though.

At that point my coffee time ran out. I wish I had more time to figure out why. :-(

Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.

Linux is well funded in the sense that corporations put big money looking after their own interest in the kernel. Anything outside of their respective areas of interest? Good luck.

Paragon, for better or worse, is just yet another corporation. They shouldn't really expect other corporations or volunteers to care much about their code, other than the fact that their code may break others'.

Now that they have Linus' blessing, they can just send a pull request. The work paid off in the end.

Not necessarily politics. It could be purely due to lack of interest from maintainers and reviewers.

I would cry and run for any scientists who improve the wellbeing of tens of millions of people when they pass away.

It is fine that you don't relate to or understand his contributions.

I would have done the same if I were in Changsha.

Feel free to believe in what you think is true. I'm done with this discussion. Have a nice day.

I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow?

"Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as "fighting famine", doesn't it?

Minor correction, his family name is Yuan. Longping is his given name.

And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on?

Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.

Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s.

I'm not sure what your post is about.

Fun facts:

  1. Mars is 火星 ("Planet of Fire") in Chinese.
  2. 祝融 Zhurong, as mentioned in the article, is the god of fire in Chinese mythology.

Bad, sure, we both agree.

Dystopian has a very specific meaning though.

From Cambridge dictionary: relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such a society.

I fail to see how one can derive "a very bad or unfair society" and "a lot of suffering" from a QR code in night sky.