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by anp 4y ago
I hadn’t been following their plumbing saga but seems pretty rough. EDIT: I had pasted a link but it seems that the author redirects HN traffic to something other than the intended content. The one I linked was the most recent post on DNA L
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by anp 4y ago
(disclaimer: I work on Fuchsia, not speaking on behalf of my employer, feel free to clone the source repo and make your own analysis) FWIW, to the best of my memory as of a year ago I counted ~1.1 MLoC of Rust code in our open source tree,
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by anp 4y ago
This was basically the approach of Mozilla Research AIUI, which gave us Rust. IIRC this talk goes into a lot of history there: https://youtu.be/9OHcJzJQ2Nk .
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by anp 5y ago
I love the quote, but I'll offer another perspective. I had a pretty significant physical transformation over the last few years. It's the result of work I did and I feel very proud of what I've built. But! I did it after sta
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by anp 5y ago
I agree with this perspective and it’s part of the reason I’ve been considering moving into the city — it seems like a tech diaspora could relieve many of the pressures on SF in the coming years that would allow it to grow back in the direc
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by anp 5y ago
What about biological or habitual adaptation, maybe call it acclimation? People in different climates will have different ways of maintaining homeostasis relative to the weather and technological adaptations they have available for it. If y
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by anp 5y ago
It's very difficult to improve oneself without understanding the mechanisms, context, and history that contribute to one's behavior.
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by anp 5y ago
Having grown up in an environment exactly like your edit describes, I really appreciate you voicing this perspective.
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by anp 5y ago
It looks like this bootstrap chain script goes through each stable version in turn, although it hasn’t been updated to latest mrustc: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/rust/+/r... .
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by anp 5y ago
Parents recognize their own gender/sex in the baby, and babies can easily pattern off of differing levels of attention or different kinds of moment-to-moment emotional feedback.
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by anp 5y ago
This is very fair, and I could have phrased with more nuance. Upon reflection I'm actually not sure how I could be convinced that you'd raised a child without gender influence.
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by anp 5y ago
Aggression can absolutely be patterned by parents.
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by anp 5y ago
This makes some sense, but your analysis assumes that observed parental gender roles aren’t responsible for the patterning you describe before 1yr. I’d be more convinced of an analysis of child rearing in a “gender neutral environment” crea
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by anp 5y ago
I’d love to dig into that CVE analysis if you have a link!
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by anp 5y ago
Which would suggest the IRB’s oversight is broken in that institution somehow, right?
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by anp 5y ago
Based on my time in a university department you might want to cc whoever chairs the IRB or at least oversees its decisions for the CS department. Seems like multiple incentives and controls failed here, good on you for applying the leverage
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by anp 5y ago
I think Javascript has many user who think they benefit from competing implementations. I’m not sure the sentiment there seems as strong as in the C++ community, but it definitely exists.
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by anp 5y ago
I got my first bay area job through Triplebyte -- they were pretty perfect for me being able to demonstrate technical ability without a deep resume. Their process has gotten more cookie cutter over the years but the resume-blindness might b
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by anp 6y ago
"This context" is the original article, which is discussing data races specifically.
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by anp 6y ago
I don’t agree with this analysis TBH - async drop has been revisited multiple times recently with no luck. Without a clear path there I don’t know why that would seem like an option for async/await two years ago. Do you actually think
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by anp 6y ago
My impression is that some of them even burnt out in slog of a supposedly rushed process to land async/await!
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by anp 6y ago
“Rust would have been a better language by breaking its stability guarantees” is just saying “Rust would have been a better language by not being Rust.” Maybe true, but not relevant to the people whose work you’ve blanket criticized. Rust l
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by anp 6y ago
I'm not suggesting that Zig isn't concerned with safety, but it's not a language designed first and foremost to offer certain safety properties. For Rust you can say "as long as you don't write the `unsafe` keyword
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by anp 6y ago
I was thinking of The Lisp Curse[1] while reading your comment and then you mentioned the language! I’m quite excited by Zig (even if safety is lower priority for it than for Rust, it is really pushing the tooling envelope) but I do wonder
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by anp 6y ago
FWIW, NVIDIA have been adopting RISC-V as the internal ISA for their GPUs: https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tue1345pm-NVIDI... . It’s definitely a different architectural approach than describ
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by anp 6y ago
They exist because they’re popular and because the currently successful ones acquired or strangled all of their smaller meaningful competitors using investment capital and money from first mover advantages.
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by anp 6y ago
As I understand it, this is essentially what various specialties bucketed under “therapy” work to understand and practice ethically and safely. “Give all schoolchildren therapy” sounds a bit radical but I imagine there are ways to scale it
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by anp 6y ago
My possibly incorrect read of GP is that it started as effectively a retention project until someone realized they really wanted it.
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by anp 6y ago
Absolutely agree. The other thing I guess I was implying is that Fuchsia uses a number of tools to reduce attack surface that work regardless of language. (edited to make explicit other half)
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by anp 6y ago
FWIW, use of memory-safe languages doesn't preclude exploitability. It's "just" another way to reduce attack surface. (disclosure: i work on fuchsia, big rust fanboy)

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