LinXitoW

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by LinXitoW 1y ago
You can pay not Google for services too. Most people don't, though. If ALL people that used free stuff (like gmail) suddenly started paying an appropriate amount to competitors, the problems may solve themselves. But people don't
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
I have no idea how in the world you think that could ever work in a general sense. Things require labor. Labor costs money. Ergo, people giving you stuff require money, somehow. A tetris clone requires so little labour, that a well-off pers
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
If you gave a junior level developer just one or two files of your code, without any ability to look at other code, and asked them to implement a feature, none of them would make ANY reasonable assumptions about what is available? This seem
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
There's no system the same way there's no Facebook, just some databases and servers. Or there's no Java language, it's all just UTF-8 characters. Or there's no government, there's just people voting for other p
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
Considering capitalism is a very new phenomenon in human history, how do you think people survived and thrived for the other 248000 years? It's as ludicrous to believe that capitalism is some kind of force of nature as it is to believe
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
I mean, this is just capitalism. And while I loved old forums, they were constantly fighting with being underfunded, there was infighting between the "owners", and each one worked differently, making them a bunch of disconnected l
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
I have to ask, in comparison to what do you like it? Because every functional language, many modern languages like Rust, and even Java with checked exceptions offers this. Hell, you can mostly replicate Gos "error handling" in any
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
Isn't defer hidden control flow? The defer handling can happen at any point in the function, depending on when errors happen. Exactly like a finally block.
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
Sure, you can emulate some of the features and hope that everyone using your library is doing it "right". Just like you could just use a dynamic language, tag every variable with a type, and hope everyone using your library does t
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
So you then have binary blobs of state without any documentation of how or why it is the way it is? That doesn't seem maintainable. Dockerfiles are basically this, but with a file documenting the different steps you took to get to that
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by LinXitoW 1y ago
I've only played with these kinds of plug and play databases, but mixing and matching seems like the worst of both worlds. The plug and play is gone, because some things might me in API 1, some others in API 2, and maybe worst of all,
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
In a UBI situation demand would shift, not just go up. If there's two hypothetical people paying the tax, a very rich person (>300.000 a year) and a poor person (<50.000 a yr), money effectively shifts from the rich person to the
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
We already have "Marx-style" price control and regulations in many sectors, specifically food production. It's just that the advantages are arbitraged away by corporations using cheap corn to create highly addictive foods, an
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
I mean, I'd never expect a junior to do better for such a highly specific task. I expect I'd have to hand feed them steps, at which point I imagine the LLM will also do much better.
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Got absolutely read to filth: > You've spent more time explaining why Go's error handling is bad than Go developers have spent actually handling errors. > Your relationship with programming languages is like a dating s
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
But the point is that the Rust developers have tried literally everything else. If the C developers make it a "Them vs Us" thing, there IS NO ALTERNATIVE for the Rust developers. Linus' reaction is quite literally the equival
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
The issue is that Linus put the Rust developers in an impossible position: On the one hand he approved Rust in the kernel, but then never ever ever has the balls to enforce that decision. Then, the fanatical C developers openly sabotage and
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Speaking from zero experience, the FFI stories of both Python and Java to C seems much better. Wouldn't going connecting them via a little C bridge a general solution?
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Yeah, and if Google hadn't used Go themselves, it would've also fizzled out. Any halfway non-horrible tech just needs enough funding and usage from some company to become mainstream.
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Is there a good reason to not just use the rust version the project is made for? I have some Java projects using the newest 21 version, and older ones using 8.
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
No, I'd tell you that the cobalt for electric cars is only a tiny fraction of the total cobalt used, and that combustion engines also need a lot, AND that there's less un-ethical sources of cobalt that many manufacturers use. But
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
In a world where the presidents closest "friend" can do a Hitler salute, twice, people are more focussed on getting Pro Palestinians fired, arrested, etc. That very much fits any of the censorship China has going on.
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Go launched without any dependency management. Go people believe that anything non-trivial is either a useless abstraction, or too difficult for the average developer. So their solution is to simply not add it, and tell anyone claiming to n
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
The built-in "logging" in Go is barely more than a fancy Println. For example, where are the levels, like DEBUG and WARN?
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
I genuinely don't know what people with this opinion work on that they can so easily choose to completely re-invent the wheel in every project, just because they're afraid of hypothetical dangers. Most of which are still present f
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
As a left-ish person, TikTok is genuinely the only place I feel safe from braindead hate. EVERY OTHER platform I've interacted with has a fuckton of hate. I'm sure it exists in TikTok too, but at least the algorithm keeps those fr
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Yeah, as a 12 yr old, I would've reacted completely calmly to Counterstrike being banned, or ICQ being banned, or MySpace being banned, or, worst of all, my access to lingerie models from clothing catalogues being destroyed...
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
The EU has the advantage that their politicians don't all own gigantic shares in any social media companies (because the EU doesn't have any), so they are afforded the rare luxury of actually voting for the good of the people. Th
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
I've heard this reasoning multiple times, but that doesn't make it right. Like you said, you ARE presuming something: That scripting and a (useless) base case are the most common usage. How many people script Git? More importantly
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Yes, but at least in the USA, I constantly have to hear shouting about how "free" everything is whenever I ask for sane regulations (guns), or something like universal healthcare. If USA was actually so free, that would at least b

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