aussiesnack

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by aussiesnack 4y ago
As pvg won't permit a reply to his/her/its post, I'll reply to myself: > The guideline is there because of the repetitive twitter complaints, I'm not making this > up as a fun messageboard hypothetical. Compla
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> Hence the clarification. Hopefully it's clear now Nope. Just that you personally rule something as tangential that I claim is not. Your personal preferences aren't present in the guidelines (I've read them). If you wish
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> you can find this explanation in the mod commentary. If the guidelines are unclear, and arbitrarily rule non-articles in as articles, then they must be rewritten to make the fiat clear. > Our 'legacy of textual culture' co
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I wouldn't let descriptions[1] of Rust as difficult to learn put you off. I'm long out of date with it so can't make confident comparisons with the Java of 2022 (2023!), but you might enjoy exploring what Rust brings to the t
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> The guideline is not that the form is not annoying - some people, like you, will find it annoying I'm not arguing that the guideline can be breached when some people find it annoying. That would be silly. I'm arguing that pos
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Arguable, but I don't think it's a slam dunk that replacing the multimillenial standard interface for connected text (ie. text!) with an entirely novel chain of multiple artificially separated UI widgets is either tangential or j
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
It is a bit boring to see repetitive complaints. I suspect they just won't go away until it's made obvious from the link whether or not its worth clicking on (for those of us who won't read social media trains). Even knowing
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Yes I always abandon these when I see they don't just contain a link to a blog post. You might have thought someone waxing about the merits of the web would have heard of hyperlinks (admittedly, I'm only assuming that's what
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> one of the foremost experts of fat metabolism. What makes you say that? In my experience, there are no 'experts' in empirical fields who are no themselves deeply and practically engaged with actual research. Being well-read d
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> I suspect the cause is a whole bunch of people saying that Rust is too hard, Perhaps, though I haven't myself witnessed anyone saying it's 'too hard'. Just that people (like me and everyone I know who's tried t
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> You'll find that many in the rust community are in fact very very sympathetic to your view that it's too hard to learn. I have not found that. The very comment I'm responding to above is a correction, telling me "
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
But I've never heard a C++ programmer deny that it's a large and difficult language. I personally never really had a problem with ownership model - probably because what I was doing fell into the simple buckets. Rust's diffic
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> > Rust is harder than any other mainstream language to do that in. > I’d argue C and C++ are both harder. It’s hard to even get these to build once you move past trivia examples (including libraries etc). Agree I overstated that.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> It's not hard, Yep, that's the standard Rust aficionado flat insistence: "You're finding it hard. You're just wrong". Yet with more learning time than I've put into any other language I've learne
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> The vast majority of beginners can just learn "& means any number of readers and no writers, &mut means one writer and no readers". But 'beginning' is never the hard part of learning any programming langua
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> Lifetimes aren't hard or complicated, Untrue - read https://users.rust-lang.org/t/what-is-a-good-mental-model-of... . Even Rust aficionados can't describe how they work without vast screeds. Or if you thi
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> Easy is relative In the case of programming languages, yes, it's relative to the difficulty of other PLs. I've learned many over the years, and found Rust by far the hardest (it's the only one that defeated me). And it&#
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
But it's so easy to get a handle on how the borrow checker works! Just check out this thread and all will become clear: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/what-is-a-good-mental-model-of... Joke btw. That thread is a hi
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Depends on what country you're in. It's illegal here in Australia, but almost universally practised regardless. The law is not in reality available to most people, nor is it by and large adhered to by business except where absolut
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
My "Asia" comment wasn't really a response to you - it's been a part of internal Australian debate since the 1980's. Keating crowned the 21st the "Asian Century", and claimed Australia should turn towards
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Saying , no, but feeling, yes. Keating's "Asian Century" version of Australia never took strong cultural hold. Our nearest neighbours PNG & East Timor are ignored except by our NGOs and spies, and few visit Indonesia o
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Clearly a matter of taste then. I much prefer the extremes, and find mild weather boring. Maybe it's having grown up in England. Much happier where I live now and I'm at frequent risk of fires and floods!
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
You'd think so, but from his own account he's not. Pre Asahi he used Fedora because it was easy to get working and he found Debian too hard to install. Could just be dry Finnish humour.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Yes, seems fair enough to me. Most people (quite reasonably) just aren't going to get the nuances differentiating cloud-based pw managers. One blog post isn't going to change that in itself, but it's fair for Agilebits to get
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Really? Or is it that you think of a reference to poor mental health as a legitimate insult?
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I've not given M** or Twitter, neither of which I have any form of relationship with at all, a moment's thought. I have a Mastodon account, and am pretty sure my assessment of its denizens reactions are about right.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Where is this 'sanity' claim?
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
More bitterly amused at how awful all social media platforms are than angry. I don't have a Twitter account and don't care about it at all. Though I do have a Mastodon account and am struck by how much it recapitulates most of Twi
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
But which was the best?
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Yes, it is. Lastpass is uniquely poor amongst the most commonly used password managers. https://infosec.exchange/@epixoip/109585049354200263

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