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by blub 4y ago
Life and friendship happen in the real world and taking away the physical side will result in something incomplete. I suppose many don’t feel satisfied by such restricted relationships and will only bother with the real thing. I know I’m li
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by blub 4y ago
Getting involved in foreign wars is something that the great majority of private individuals won’t ever think about, because it’s a terrible idea.
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by blub 4y ago
The US was planning these sanctions end of 2021. One can assume that they were planning them with the countries which have something to sanction. i.e. Germany, etc. If the US and Germany wouldn’t be in, the rest of the sanctions would be wo
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by blub 4y ago
Germany was Russia’s biggest customer, why would they even dream of attacking them? Of course, now that the EU have firmly positioned themselves, Russia may have revised its relationship to Germany. It’s not excluded that they’d completely
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by blub 4y ago
The only sanctions that matter come from the US, Germany, Italy, France, UK, etc. Eastern Europe and the Baltics are just following the lead of the big boys, similar to how a well-behaved child looks to their parent for approval before doin
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by blub 4y ago
Right, we don’t want the world to end. Do we want double-digit inflation and 4x-6x-?x heating prices though? If only the EU actually had a plan instead of throwing sanctions at the wall…
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by blub 4y ago
You and the fellow below calling parent a “cretin” because they are complaining about their bills will be in for a rude awakening if the prices and inflation explode. Heating, food, housing are among the most basic needs of a human. If they
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by blub 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of the dating book “He’s just not that into you”: there’s no complex reason why your OSS contributions have’t made a penny. If you aren’t able to make money off them, it’s because they’re worth zero dollars. Making m
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by blub 4y ago
The domain drives programming language choice, so if they’re fascinated by the demoscene they’d look into C or assembly, I imagine. On the other hand, if they’re fascinated about cryptocurrencies, Rust would be a logical choice.
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by blub 4y ago
And what are you thinking about now? For me it was what lifetimes and types to use to make my program work. Just as it was in C++, but with a static verification step at the end which most of the time got in my way. Rust makes lots of sense
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by blub 4y ago
I find neither C++ nor Rust to be particularly “creative” programming languages because one has to think all the time about two things which are irrelevant for the features of the program - resource management and complicated types. Rust is
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by blub 4y ago
After reading a good chunk of the Programming Rust book (minus concurrency, async and macros) I can understand that. My C++ experience helped a lot in comprehending and mentally mapping Rust concepts. As far as I can tell, that’s normal Rus
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by blub 4y ago
It probably refers to DDG down-ranking so-called Russian disinformation. Which sounds like a brilliant idea until one remembers the clusterfuck of censoring pandemic-related disinformation which transformed into a witch hunt of everything w
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by blub 4y ago
Based on the code changes made at that time, it seemed that Chrome developers didn’t know how to write performant C++ code. Those were not difficult to understand C++ features either, but basic ones which were very well known by then. I rem
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by blub 4y ago
I have a hard time imagining a more accidentally complex piece of software than a web browser written in C++ and in Rust. All the chaos of the so-called web standards, decades of accumulated C++ complexity and the eccentricity and burgeon
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by blub 4y ago
What are you talking about? “We” aren’t just going to not laugh or not give money to “you”. No, “we” will harass, perform character assassination, boycott anyone associated with “you” and try to harm “you” financially and derail “your” care
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by blub 4y ago
This is not about ultra-low responses or anything. Performance is just as much part of an application’s architecture as security or usability are. You can’t add those things at the end, they need to be done iteratively. So when you say you
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by blub 4y ago
Performance is something that needs to be considered throughout the development cycle. If optimization happens at the end then it’s either a rewrite or a minor concern anyway because the building blocks like frameworks and libraries were al
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by blub 4y ago
Lots of businesses have nearly zero engineering in them and cobble together libraries and frameworks that they sell or rent as software. On the other end of the spectrum you have companies hiring specialists at all points of the stack to sq
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by blub 4y ago
If I remember correctly, Programming Windows had a desktop app focus, whereas Jeffrey Richter’s book(s) had a system focus. Then .NET happened and almost anybody could program Windows apps, assuming Microsoft didn’t keep deprecating framewo
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by blub 4y ago
There were legitimate concerns around the new vaccine technologies from the beginning and those have proven correct - the trials missed both the AstraZeneca clotting and the mRNA heart inflammation. Those effects were then constantly downpl
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by blub 4y ago
In Europe pushing Coronavirus vaccines as a magic solution while downplaying potential (and later real) side-effects, defaming critics of one specific vaccine as anti-vaccine in general and cultivating an all-around attitude of suspicion an
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by blub 4y ago
There is no connection between vaccines and abortions and trying to bring these topics together is absurd and a waste of time. Furthermore access to abortions is a concern only in the US, Poland and I believe several other ultra-religious c
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by blub 4y ago
EU-style nazis that limit themselves to marching with offensive signs do seem rather harmless, don’t they? At least I assume that Finland’s nazis don’t form militias and aren’t part of the armed forces and don’t receive military weapons fro
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by blub 4y ago
It theoretically could, but… why would they do that? And before you say “Ukraine”, consider that Ukraine and Russia have a common history going back hundreds of years and together with Russia were part of the USSR. The attack on Ukraine is
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by blub 4y ago
Assuming you’re talking about Poland and Romania, the consensus was that Russia’s initial plan would have been installing a puppet government. So they wouldn’t have had Russia as neighbor, but a Russia-friendly country, just like they did f
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by blub 4y ago
The big question is if one can still get a job by doing the above. If the wider Rust ecosystem will be infiltrated by async and heavy generic code one would be condemned to use Rust for personal projects.
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by blub 4y ago
Rust is not an appropriate solution for iOS, I don’t think it’s even possible to use it except through some hacks. So the options aren’t buggy Objective-C++ vs inelegant but safe Rust. It’s having a product vs. not having one and the latter
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by blub 4y ago
Why is a systems language used for web applications, servers, command-line utilities and all sorts of libraries? The article is about a “messenger bot” for example and nobody’s complaining that it’s wrong to write such a thing in Rust. The
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by blub 4y ago
Where's the proof that Rust makes it easier and faster to create applications? In my experience it's harder and slower compared to other languages like Go and even C++, but you get memory-safety in return while keeping a very good

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