I agree. Arch has been my current favorite distribution for several years now, but it's almost impossible to maintain without having to drop into the shell occasionally. I have EndeavourOS installed on my wife's laptop and she's been happily using it for nearly a year; bauh helps with software installs, but I still generally drop into a shell for the full -Syu upgrades, and you have to use the shell at least once just to install bauh as it's not a core package.
You might be able to avoid the shell to use bauh if you use the AppImage; I haven't tried that. bauh can apparently do system upgrades, but I haven't tried that yet and I need to see how it handles news; Arch is fairly cavalier about pushing out breaking changes that require extra user steps which need to be discovered by reading the news posts.
I agree that Arch isn't the best "first linux" distribution.
I've just accepted that I have no palette. I can taste the difference between Starbucks and my home brew, but I'd be lying if I said I could taste a difference between drip, immersion, pour-over, Aeropress, or French press, much less whether the water was 201⁰F or 195⁰, or the brew was properly bloomed.
I taste gross differences: dark vs light roast; cold brew vs hot; home brew vs cheap office pod machine; how strong the cup is. Everything else is noise.
I don't doubt some people have palettes where such fiddly recipes yield noticeable gains; I don't know whether to envy or pity them.
Or maintain a repos. Which would force people to create an account on one of the free VCS servers, pay for an account on a non-free one, or run their own.
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is only 25,000 ly from Earth. Assuming constant acceleration, and sufficient technology to protect and keep things running for all that time - no mean feat - reaching a substantial percentage of light should make that reachable within a hundred or so thousand light years, even with a flip and slow-down halfway.
Seque 1 is only 75k ly.
Andromeda is much farther; I didn't catch it in the article, but I got the impression the strands were identified between the more local clusters.
I don't recall which one anymore, but there are web sites that take text you type and convert it to Unicode code points in different styles. DDG for "Unicode text converter" or something like that.
A bridge, you say? Then we can cross to other galaxies! Our overpopulation problems are solved!
On a more serious note, I wonder how much this would increase our ability to cross the gulfs. Assuming we could eventually build machines that can endure for hundreds of thousands of years, would the presence of a gas bridge would make ramscoops a more viable intergalactic option?
There's a false equivalency here. Array sizes have nothing to do with static typing. For evidence, look at your own words: if undisputed strongly typed languages don't support X, then X probably doesn't have anything to do with strong typing. You're conflating constraints or contracts or specific type features with type theory.
On the topic of array sizes, are you suggesting that size isn't part of the array type in Go? Or that the compiler can't perform some size constraint checks at compile time? Are you suggesting that Rust can perform compile time array bounds checking for all code that uses arrays?
I agree. Arch has been my current favorite distribution for several years now, but it's almost impossible to maintain without having to drop into the shell occasionally. I have EndeavourOS installed on my wife's laptop and she's been happily using it for nearly a year; bauh helps with software installs, but I still generally drop into a shell for the full
-Syuupgrades, and you have to use the shell at least once just to install bauh as it's not a core package.You might be able to avoid the shell to use bauh if you use the AppImage; I haven't tried that. bauh can apparently do system upgrades, but I haven't tried that yet and I need to see how it handles news; Arch is fairly cavalier about pushing out breaking changes that require extra user steps which need to be discovered by reading the news posts.
I agree that Arch isn't the best "first linux" distribution.