You can modify tobacco plants to produce a wide variety of pharmaceuticals. It’s a very versatile plant. Last I knew, the University of Kentucky had a large field of various strains of experimental tobacco plants on their research farm.

pokes black hole C’mon, devour Earth.

Watching it all go down from the Corporate States of America.

Question for the Ukraine’s: Are you guys concerned that Putin will see that he’s about to lose and use tactical nuclear weapons?

That’s a big worry for your comrades stateside.

The Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.

Why is that? The planet will be fine without us. It will probably be better off without us.

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Is it wrong to hope it hits the specific city I live in? 😅

Is it wrong to hope it hits us?

Just those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.

We’ve already seen a few crotchety old timers who don’t want to add rust to the Linux kernel.

At some point, a complete rewrite of the kernel in a memory safe language would be prudent. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs will have to go extinct before that can happen.