Mawr

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by Mawr 1y ago
I don't wanna sound too daring, but going outside is also an option.
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by Mawr 1y ago
> (Real-world experience has shown that Rust is not really at a disadvantage wrt. productivity or iteration speed). I don't believe that for a second. Even just going from Python to Go drops my productivity by maybe about 50%. Rust?
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by Mawr 1y ago
There is no house safety without nuclear warhead detonation safety. There is no pedestrian safety without mandatory helmet laws. There is no car safety without driving a tank.
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by Mawr 1y ago
Safety isn't binary, so your comment makes no sense.
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by Mawr 1y ago
The method is obvious - adjusting the law so that such vehicles become way more expensive than the more reasonable ones. Don't ask me how to get that pushed through though.
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by Mawr 1y ago
There is no such thing as “reverse discrimination”. It's just discrimination.
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by Mawr 1y ago
Men peeing into toilets always results in urine sprayed all over everything. I don't see how urinals could be worse.
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by Mawr 1y ago
And citing such statistics is different from citing crime statistics broken down by race how?
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by Mawr 1y ago
His is the best response in this thread. The point is that whether you've personally heard of something or not is not a great indicator of anything. To answer the original question, wherever there is any power imbalance, there will be
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by Mawr 1y ago
True, but false. Accidents that you can do nothing about are vanishingly rare. Even the situation you bring up is not one of them. When stopped/stopping you should be checking your mirrors to make sure the car behind you is at least sl
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by Mawr 1y ago
> The root cause is plain and simple - your wife just needs to learn to drive better, then she wouldn't be scared regardless of her seating position. Correct, but unfortunately such arguments are like shouting into the wind. Bike he
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by Mawr 1y ago
Humans have these weird appendages called "legs". Non-americans often use them to get places. More seriously, bicycles exist. There is no "gap in public transit". Transporting people in cities is a solved problem. It&#x2
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by Mawr 1y ago
Do you have any reason to only care about being stabbed in particular? Is another car running a red light and smashing into yours, leaving you to bleed to death within the hour preferable to being stabbed somehow?
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by Mawr 1y ago
> Any measurable number of passenger-on-passenger incidents in the NYC subway is enough to give me pause over taking a taxi or Uber. But any measurable number of car-on-car incidents in the NYC is not enough to give you pause? Uber drive
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by Mawr 1y ago
> point-to-point travel is literally always better no matter where you are in the world Yeah, cycling is better than public transportation in cities in most scenarios.
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by Mawr 1y ago
There are languages with full inference that break this rule. Moreover, this rule is more important for Rust than other languages because Rust makes a lot of constraints visible in function signatures. But the most important purpose of the
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by Mawr 1y ago
> It starts from a marketing position of "Safety With No Compromises" Since such a tradeoff is not possible (full safety for free?!) I doubt there's any such marketing. > The world is filled with very reasonably comprom
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by Mawr 1y ago
Swift isn't a general purpose language and Rust is not suitable for general application development; it's also much less popular.
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by Mawr 1y ago
> goroutines are not really a lot better than threads in other languages They are though. Even Java people agree, Java recently got their implementation of goroutines (green threads). It's a superior model to async for application l
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by Mawr 1y ago
> I hate the fact that they didn't want runtime assertions as an example, So you hate writing: if (something != 1) { panic("oh no!") } vs assert(something != 1, "oh no!") ? Reminds me
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by Mawr 1y ago
Your "great read" is horrible.
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by Mawr 1y ago
> Rust itself or perhaps OCaml/ReasonML So compared to... very niche languages? Go has exceptionally few quirks compared to mainstream languages.
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by Mawr 1y ago
"More than 10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. In 2006, Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%."
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by Mawr 1y ago
Or how much energy it took to even get to work by car that day.
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by Mawr 1y ago
Youtube's compression already butchers the quality of anything 1080p and below. Uploading in 1440p or 4K is the only way to get youtube to preserve at least some of the bitrate. There's a 1080p extra bitrate option available on so
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by Mawr 1y ago
Correct. It's even worse than that, they'll say they optimized the energy usage of their website by making it 1kb smaller and then fly overseas for holiday. How many billions of page loads would it take to approximate the environm
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by Mawr 1y ago
Your statement is meaningless, as you did not define what the x in 100x is and what being a "programmer" entails. Is x the average? Is a programmer someone who just implements the requested features, or, like bluecalm commented be
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by Mawr 1y ago
> As for being stressed -- if this is too much, how will you do when asked to solve even harder problems with tight schedules and/or demanding customers? There's no such single "stress". It's all different. Being
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by Mawr 1y ago
Comparisons between software and structural engineering make no sense, ever. Structures are one-and-done projects with engineers having access to concrete data on material strength, load calculations, etc. Software projects are never ending
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by Mawr 1y ago
> For me, the benefit of languages with manual memory management is the significantly lower memory footprint (speed is no longer an issue; if you think Haskell and Go are good enough, try Java, which is faster). ... what? Speed is no lon

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