escobar_west

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by escobar_west 11mo ago
I think it's the perfect amount of hostility. People shouldn't complain about things given to them for free built by amateurs in their spare time. Including fewer dependencies adds more time to developer's effort. Including p
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by escobar_west 11mo ago
So let me get this straight. You want the benefit of being able to re-use other peoples' codebase by using an HTTP crate you didn't write. But you don't want those people to also use that benefit of depending on other crates.
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by escobar_west 1y ago
This article should expand more on what TODOs are actually for, in that case. What's the difference between a regular comment (which is what the example in the article clearly is) vs an actual TODO comment?
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by escobar_west 1y ago
Wrong. My claim is that the only reliable way for weight loss is through calorie counting. You can guestimate it without counting calories but that is not reliable. You can't rely on taking a drug indefinitely for weight loss.
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by escobar_west 1y ago
I'd argue that taking a drug to suppress your appetite is way more extreme and unhealthy than simply counting calories, but I guess to each their own. And yes even in that case you're still guessing and hoping you're in a cal
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by escobar_west 1y ago
The only reliable way to lose weight is through a caloric deficit. And the only reliable way to be on a caloric deficit is through counting your calories. If you're dieting without actually counting your calories, then at best you are
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by escobar_west 2y ago
Rust and Haskell are completely different languages so I don't really agree here. Haskell doesn't have the features (lifetimes, ownership) that make Rust "hard" and Rust lets you have mutable states and procedural code.
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by escobar_west 2y ago
Is there another language out there which encodes lifetime semantics and affine types besides Rust? AFAIK there isn't (happy to hear otherwise though).