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by flooow 3mo ago
I wish Roclang well but (as a regular listener to Feldman's podcast) I don't think we can draw many conclusions from this switch other than "Feldman has lots of opinions on lots of things".
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by flooow 3mo ago
Believe what you want, I guess. https://xcancel.com/jarredsumner/status/2055796104302858694#... > I’m just tired of dealing with crashes and memory leaks & want language features to help prevent things (Edi
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by flooow 3mo ago
I imagine it's a difficult time to be a Zig developer. In the near term, Bun choosing to switch from Zig to Rust specifically to fix all the memory errors seems to have done the Zig community some psychological damage. But more signifi
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by flooow 8mo ago
Thank you for actually reading the article. I knew I would get many responses parroting the official narrative because that's what we're being spoonfed, but I'm glad some people are interested in understanding what really hap
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by flooow 8mo ago
This story has been horribly misreported in the mainstream media. Suffice to say that the AI gaff was the very thinnest pretence for a politically motivated firing. The true reason being that West Midlands Police made the UK govt furious fo
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by flooow 1y ago
I thought it was very funny that a military parade has sponsors. But there is no hypocrisy here, from Coinbase's point of view. They would argue that "A military parade isn't political, it's just patriotic!" Point i
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by flooow 2y ago
From listening to Feldman's podcast, this doesn't really come as a surprise to me. The rigor that Rust demands seems not to jibe with his 'worse is better' approach. That coupled with the fact they already switched the s
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by flooow 2y ago
It's obviously going to be much much more difficult to steal $450K from an actual bank account and get clean away - you're going to need a lot more proof of identity than a google login. From that POV, owning a lot of cryptocurren
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by flooow 2y ago
You're being downvoted but as a lefty European tech worker this rings true. I come to HN for interesting technical content (obviously) but I find the politics of the site by turns confusing and hard to stomach. It is certainly the case
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by flooow 2y ago
Kind've interesting that the author is now a big Zig advocate. Presumably he likes Zig for the same reason he likes Go and dislikes Rust - because Worse is Better. I love Rust and you couldn't pay me to write Go (haven't trie
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by flooow 2y ago
Lots of people seem surprised that the new government apparently have no desire to improve the dire state of the UK. But that was never on the cards and the idea that they might have done so is pure projection. The current leadership of the
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by flooow 2y ago
What has C# got to do with... anything in this article?
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by flooow 2y ago
`just` is great and I use it all the time. * All commands in one place, view them all with `just --list` * Stupid-simple format * Small standalone binary * Configurable (with arguments, environment variables etc) but not _too_ configurable
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by flooow 2y ago
Been a number of examples of cryptobros funding unrelated projects for the positive PR. Is there a word for it yet? 'FOSSwashing'?
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by flooow 2y ago
Bingo
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by flooow 2y ago
I rent an ex-coucil house in SE London. It takes around 45 minutes to get into the centre. The local drug-dealers hang out next to the house, there is graffiti on the walls, and it is next to one of the busiest roads in London. There have b
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by flooow 2y ago
Agree
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by flooow 2y ago
> This is why we need decentralization. That's an interesting interpretation. I read it as 'all cryptocurrencies are scams'.
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by flooow 2y ago
The chances of cargo update pulling in some updated dependency which is now compromised with malware is low. The chances of a compromised dependency getting past `cargo-audit` are low. The chances of compromised code causing measurable harm
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by flooow 3y ago
'goroutines' are just threads, that happen to be scheduled in userspace. They are not coroutines - they don't work the same way and don't have the same features. Pretty much nothing in the blog post is possible is Go, wi
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by flooow 3y ago
One has to assume this kind of propaganda isn't supposed to convince any objective observer but rather to provide cover to allow ongoing operations to continue for as long as possible before they get checked by the US.
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by flooow 3y ago
The underlying point is correct though. Rust developers cannot be expected to maintain a C++ implementation of their language. Half of them learned Rust to get away from C++, the other half never knew C++ in the first place.
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by flooow 3y ago
Or, y'know, "rustc 1.74.0" like a normal person.
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by flooow 3y ago
> The end of the year has witnessed a surge in blockchain gaming development, signaling a major trend for the upcoming bull market. The unique proposition of integrating blockchain with gaming (GameFi) is set to revolutionize the sector.
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Go is repeating the billion dollar mistake? (2009)(groups.google.com)
3 points by flooow 3y ago|2 comments
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by flooow 3y ago
Regarding recent discussion about null-safety in Go ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300425 ), here is a thread from Go forum in the pre-1.0 days where a user tries to highlight the problem and suggests a solution. I
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by flooow 3y ago
Incorrect. Semantically, Rust always inserts runtime bounds-checks, regardless of optimization level. The compiler _may_ then remove them as part of an optimization pass, iff it can prove the check is redundant. Do bounds checks even matter
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by flooow 3y ago
Obviously clearer is better, but do you think a scientific body should be expected to go out of its way to convey information in a way that would be difficult for bad-faith actors to willfully misinterpret? Because I don't.
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by flooow 3y ago
Yep, but the model I referred to (DICE) had been developed by him (and others) over many years - unsurprisingly, since it's what he won the prize for. More thorough critique: https://mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/up
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by flooow 3y ago
At first I thought this comment was a joke, but I see you made the GP comment so maybe serious (or just a good troll?). In any case, yes, the Nobel Prize committee for Economics is made up of eminent economists, who are indeed probably best

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