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Not to mention that BurntSushi is the author of the entire rust regex ecosystem
by sam0x17 2y ago
Not to mention that BurntSushi is the author of the entire rust regex ecosystem
- dhosek 2y agoI remember getting into a debate with him on Reddit about something or other and then realizing who I was debating with and saying never mind.
- ramon156 2y agoThat shouldn't stop you from settling an argument (given it was respectful). The best way to learn is to be wronged by smarter people.
- komadori 2y agoAlso, just because someone is famous/important/etc doesn't mean they're always right. In fact, one of the dangerous things about being famous is the people stop being willing to disagree with you and that can lead to becoming detached and warped as a person.
- qup 2y agoI feel very certain that's not the best way to learn.
- sam0x17 2y agotraining data is training data
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- sam0x17 2y agoYeah for example I've given him crap for years for not having the will to bring back compile-time regex in Rust even though all the pieces for it are there in his `regex-automata` crate ;)
- dhosek 2y agoWell, the flip side of it was that in benchmarking our equivalent codebases for Unicode segmentation, my code was significantly faster, to both of our surprises as it turned out.