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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
The way they’re using hard-fork and soft-fork, is that based on the blockchain usage of the words? If so, that makes it hard for me to take seriously!
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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
This is a fair defense of C, but C++ is what deserves the heat. C is portable assembly, C++ isn’t.
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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
Scrolling shitty cable is much less fun and therefore less addictive. It’s also not always available. But both are terrible ways to spend your time and bad for your brain.
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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
Math problems are quite similar in this way!
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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
The word “method” already has a definition in Rust, which includes all intrinsic and trait methods. I feel like ‘dyn’ is relatively rarely useful and defining the term “method” based on what’s compatible with it is a bad idea.
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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
“Ethics” for what is almost certainly an honest mistake with a reasonable diligence of research? Accusing someone of ethics violations should require more research than you’ve done!
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by thecodedmessage 2y ago
Would you have found out about those earlier sources without Wikipedia? I think it really depends on how obscure they actually were. I’d take the fact that neither Wikipedia nor this article knew about these earlier sources in 2014 as evide
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
This is a surprising take. Linux as a project is the kernel. Unlike most OSes, the most commonly used libc is maintained separately. As a result, Linux the operating system is the one where it’s the most common and supported to avoid the “s
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
Yeah, I remember reading the code in the kernel that handles shebang a long time ago. ld.so is not involved.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
Clickbait implies a specific intent to mislead for clicks, whereas I think there’s a completely good-faith disagreement here about the meaning of the word “memory leak.”
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
The Rust docs are for some reason much worse than the Python docs, or at least that used to be the case
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
I mean, pretty high. What if your boss just tells you to learn polars, and you don’t know why? Saying what something is, is just good communication, and can help clarify for people who are confused.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
I am literally asking whether this can run on DOS. It’s become clear that it can’t, and words mean things. Given the article is about running web servers literally on DOS, I think we can safely say it’s been brought. Modern Windows command
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
Writing in Rust when appropriate is improved modern coding practice.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
So what’s the point?
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
Naming variables is so good that it should be mandatory in your programming language.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
If at first you don’t succeed with a big company’s resources, try again as a hobbyist!
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
This can’t be actual DOS, can it? It’s running Windows batch files or something?
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
I am so sad there’s not more LoTR stories. Have written about this before: https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/tolkien/
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
I am in favor of deficit spending. EU countries should be allowed to do more of it. I simply don’t believe that belt-tightening is “good,” both in general and especially as fighting climate is an important cause.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
“Because profit” is a bad explanation. It’s super incomplete.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
I think you’re misunderstanding the meaning of “great” in “great man theory.” It means “big” as in “significant,” not “good.”
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
These sources do not address the claims made in the article.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
For the word “dangerous” to be appropriate, it needs to be established (1) that nicotine is bad for you or (2) that this introduction ever leads to smoking. Or are you just taking all the harms of smoking and applying them to nicotine becau
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
You know what slows me down in Python? The fact that you need to actually go down a code path to make sure you’ve spelled everything right. But nothing that Rust does slows me down because I’m used to it.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
The example is for the child process. The threads in Rust is meant as an implementation detail. This is super unclear and should’ve been explained.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
Autism is no excuse for this level of confusion about what “objective” means and scorn for others’ ways of communicating that escalated to (checks notes) blatant and explicit misogyny. Plenty of autistic people do not do this.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
The level of debt we have is fine, and we could have a lot more and still be fine. The idea that the debt is a number worth minimizing is just bad economics.
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
When property does not serve its purpose it is no longer morally binding, just legally. And that’s if you convince me proprietary code ownership has any moral standing at all. Sometimes, I follow the law not because it’s particularly the ri
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by thecodedmessage 3y ago
How do you represent state machines, ASTs, or messages of different types? Sum types are great for those! I assume you don’t use std::variant for that? Have you ever written a tagged union when std::variant was available for clarity? Why th

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