Bond is not such a bad example, because he introduces himself as “Bond. James Bond”, not as “Bond. Bond James”. If he did introduce himself as such, then you’d be forgiven for thinking that his given name was “Bond”.

The problem is also not the short form of author names, which as you point out places the family name first, and which typically abbreviate the given names. The problem is that many sites will reverse that order when they render the full names. The solution is simply to allow the authors to specify how their full name should be rendered. This not a problem that is unique to scientific journals.

The full article is available here: https://archive.ph/1NGkF

See also https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/

You are not going to accomplish that using a random selection of textbooks. It doesn’t even look like there are that many textbooks in these piles. Realistically, you’d probably have better luck asking students taking intro-level courses to donate their old text books, or just pirating the textbooks you need

I’m guessing that the big books are old collections of scientific journals. Depending on the journal, you could have multiple of those tomes per year. These days scientists access journals digitally, so there’s little benefit to keeping the physical copies around in most cases

The author probably didn’t know. I believe that the 1.4 build is only available via the bun self-updater as a “canary” release. It hasn’t been officially released yet

It can’t be quite that bad; they’ve been shipping the rust version of Bun with Claude Code since v2.1.181 (released June 18th), and I haven’t seen an outcry over all related functionality breaking

That really ought to have been the default behavior. Opting out only takes one or two extra characters. Well, three or four if you don’t habitually bracket your variable names, which you should probably be doing anyways

Rust has no Undefined Behaviour.

That is simply not true. See here for a list of behavior that is considered undefined in Rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-undefined.html

However, most (all?) of these require the use of unsafe, which helps narrow down where the problem might be, if you trigger any of this behavior

The Windows installer partition manager also does not ask for confirmation before formatting a drive. That was a costly misclick

You didn’t expect them to use the standard low-level, cross-platform API to build cross-platform coreutils?

I can’t believe that Rust developers would call POSIX functions to interact with the operating system! The audacity!

D seems unlikely to get a renaissance. These days languages are facing much stiffer competition, and D has never solved its fundamental problems:

It is a rudderless language, that struggles with fragmentation due to the hype-driven addition of half-baked and mutually incompatible paradigms, with a leadership that keeps driving away contributors.

I can’t see how any of this could change while Walter Bright is still in charge, but I also don’t see how the language could survive him stepping down as BDFL