Xirdus

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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Destructive move is when the move skips destructor. Rust does have that. What it doesn't have is destructive destructuring - you can't skip the destructor when destructuring a struct. Meaning you can only destructure structs that
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Yeah, this makes sense. Although all this affine type stuff was also the basis for the C++ move semantics (although the resulting type system isn't affine at all, the mental model is very much that, with deleted copy constructors and a
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Not only they don't deserve to die - they deserve to not die from this, no matter their level of risk taking.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Re: [1] - correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I remember, Rust originally did have GC and relied on it for safety, but as development went on, they added more static checks and eventually, very late into pre-alpha phase, realized th
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I'd say marketing texts were pathological long before LLMs were created.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
So multicolumn layout increases whitespace in newspapers but decreases it in dictionaries? Funny how it always does the exact thing needed to disprove whatever I say in this exact moment.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I wonder what you'll come up with for 21st century reprints of the Bible. Please don't say tradition.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Depends what you mean by privacy. Most computers are a lot less private than most phones, in terms of how many people can access your data.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Yes, but for psychological, not ergonomic reasons.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Now explain dictionaries.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
The problem with your argument is that if you look at 100 year old books and modern newspapers, you arrive at exactly the opposite conclusion - it seems we ditched full width text a long time ago and fully switched to narrow columns, and it
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
True, haven't read the source and only went by what the other commenter said. But one could argue 500MB more free space is similarly imperceptible.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
The reason LLMs write like that is because they learned on human written taglines.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Overprovisioning also reduces the need to clean the disk. I've had a terabyte Macbook for over a year, developing in 7 different tech stacks simultaneously, never cleaning anything up manually, and I still have over 60% space left. It&
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Video games are routinely stomping over all known rules of good user interface in the name of art. And that's okay because it's a leisure activity, and efficiency and comfort is not the goal. I suspect the same thing is true of no
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
When actively developing Python projects, running uv a dozen times per hour isn't unusual. Those seconds add up fast. Whereas freed disk space remains unused.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Newspapers figured out wide text lines are awful for reading some 100 years ago. We're still waiting for web designers to catch up...
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Each "line" of text takes 2.4 actual lines on my device (Samsung Fold). I'm not reducing my font size by 60%.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Physical keyboards and virtual keyboards are different. Traditionally, ź and ż (my keyboard doesn't have ž) are inputted on keydown X or keydown Z while Alt modifier is active.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Another great example of increasing accessibility while reducing usability.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
You might be the kind of person who does benefit from accessibility features such as larger font size. On the other hand, I'm not; I can read 10pt font on 100 DPI display just fine, without glasses. I'd rather have an extra column
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I am a little confused about your response. Do you disagree with me that accessibility features often reduce usability, or do you agree with me and just feel like nitpicking? I'm all for nitpicking, but I'd rather keep it separate
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
My point exactly. Accessibility isn't "just usability" and the great-great-grandparent was wrong to say that.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I think you are mistaken which side I am on in the "accessibility is just usability" debate. For the record, I am on the side that says not at all.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I have my opinion on aesthetics of additional ways of repeating information already available by color coding. But to each their own. Other than that, is enabling/disabling any of the aforementioned features ever a question of aestheti
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Riddle me this - why would you want to disable something that increases usability of an application? (Yes, this is a loaded question - I never said these features are bad, just that usability and accessibility are sometimes at odds with eac
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Certain types of colorblindness combined with certain colors makes text much harder to read than black-on-white. If you limit yourself to just universally readable colors, you're heavily limiting the number of different categories you
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Most accessible, not most convenient/efficient/easy to learn. It's very very hard to beat entering text in terms of how many people on Earth are physically capable of doing it (considering all the available methods, including
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
There's TUI and there's CLI. TUI has always been poor man's GUI, back in the day it was even literally called GUI. CLI on the other hand has zero similarities with GUI. You write the command and the command executes and that&
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
> accessibility is just usability. all it is is making sure your product is as usable by as many people as possible. Not always. There are things that increase usability for fully abled people but decrease it for disabled people. Color-c

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