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by blub 5mo ago
One of the authors commented below that the “teams” were actually persons and the Rust person was an intern. This is even less serious than the typical pattern of grabbing random students for experiments and then drawing conclusions about t
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by blub 5mo ago
Germany has the Schufa. Should be trivial to narrow down to a specific group based on name only.
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by blub 6mo ago
All of these didn’t prevent Go from competing with Rust and I’m guessing that Fil-C will be the better choice in some cases. Rust has managed to establish itself as a player, but it’s only the best choice for a limited amount of projects, l
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by blub 6mo ago
No, UV is unrelated to your issue. First you need to figure out if it’s a surface infestation because of condensation or if it’s a constructive thermal bridge. The latter can be solved by raising the surface (wall, ceiling, etc) temperature
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by blub 6mo ago
Was it from flooding or how did it get there? How did you detect it?
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by blub 6mo ago
ZoneAlarm, assuming it still exists, would be at least 20 years old. Back then there was also a nice ~$15 program called Net Limiter which allowed one to cap network speeds individually per program.
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by blub 7mo ago
The web and web apps as pushed by Google and others was another nail in the coffin of efficient software. From Android to whatever web framework they’re peddling as development solutions, these are not designed for efficiency, but for time-
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by blub 7mo ago
I worked on Windows programs similar to WinAmp, which had custom drawing, skins with custom shapes, etc. Usually written directly in WinAPI, VCL (C++ Builder, not Delphi) or a combination. It was a matter of having access to the right (alth
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by blub 7mo ago
A good rule of thumb for programming languages is to check what the general recommendation is on HN and do the opposite. Using win32 from Rust is nonsensical. This is the kind of use-one-tool-for-any-job Visual Basic 6 programmers used to h
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by blub 7mo ago
It’s certainly doable, but not as nice and easy as Delphi or Qt, which are WYSIWYG. Of course, if one is a web developer, even attempting such a feat this could result in a brain-melting experience.
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by blub 7mo ago
That’s genuinely nice that it doesn’t have the multimedia crap. They do also have an “extreme” model with touchscreen and connected services. At ~220km range it probably has about 100km in winter though. :-/
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by blub 7mo ago
The UN has released a report on human rights abuses in China, but has not called these a genocide. The more credible accusations of genocide came from a handful of political bodies in Western countries, but crucially the acting governments
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by blub 8mo ago
This is less about languages and more about so-called AI. One thing’s for sure: it’s becoming harder and harder to deny that agentic coding is revolutionizing software development. We’re at the point where a solid test suite and a high-qual
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by blub 8mo ago
I feel similar about the potential of this technique and have heard this from other C++ developers too. Rust syntax is a PITA and investing a lot of effort in the language doesn’t seem worth the trouble for an experienced C++ developer, but
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by blub 8mo ago
The apparently widespread enthusiasm for spyware on wheels (a category in which Tesla also competes) is sobering. Many customers really only care about price and that it generally works and looks fine and have zero idea about the hidden cos
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by blub 8mo ago
Losing connectivity is a non-issue because it will come back soon enough absent some global event. The realistic risks are rather: * all services are run at a loss and they increase price to the point the corp doesn’t want to pay for everyo
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by blub 8mo ago
I had already said it’s a PR piece, you’re merely rephrasing that and making it sound like a good thing. This and the Google blogs offer zero technical insights and I haven’t learned anything from any of them.
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by blub 8mo ago
The dependency management and complexity/poor ergonomics are the two major technical problems with Rust. Normally the first one’s ignored while the second is downplayed, so it would have been interesting to see what (if anything) Faceb
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by blub 8mo ago
Just like Google’s Rust-in-Android blogs this reads like a PR piece (and in the case of facebook also recruitment piece) with some technical words sprinkled in for effect. The overall communication quality is that of a random startup’s “loo
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by blub 9mo ago
> I'm trying really hard to buy European made products and to use European services where possible. European companies are trying even harder to outsource to China. In the past months I’ve seen an increase and it feels like almost e
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by blub 9mo ago
QtBase is C++ first of all. Massive projects like Qt also push compilers to their limits and use various compiler-specific and platform-specific techniques which might appear as bugs to Fil-C.
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by blub 9mo ago
(Not the OP) For many years, all the projects I’ve been in had mandatory code review, some in the form of PRs (a github fabrication), most as review requests in other tooling. This applies to everything from platform code, configuration, to
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by blub 9mo ago
Doing a vehicle check-up is a pretty normal thing to do, although in my case the mandatory (EU law) periodic ones are happening often enough that I generally don’t have to schedule something out of turn. The few times I did go to a shop and
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by blub 9mo ago
There was an interesting video on YT where an engineer from a fastener company joined a carpenter to compare their products with traditional joints. The traditional joints held up very well and even beat the engineered connectors in some ca
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by blub 9mo ago
Google have published a couple high-level Rust blog posts with many graphs and claims, but no raw data or proofs, so they haven’t demonstrated anything. By now their claims keep popping up in Rust discussion threads without any critical eva
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by blub 10mo ago
In practice it would be encoded in comments, automated tests and docs, with varying levels of success. It’s actually similar to tests in a way: they provide additional confidence in the code, but at the same time ossify it and make some cha
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by blub 10mo ago
There’s two types of slowdown at play: a) It’s fast to change the code, but now I have failures in some apparently unrelated part of the code base. (Javascript) and fixing that slows me down. b) It’s slow to change the code because I have t
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by blub 10mo ago
> No one claims that good type systems prevent buggy software. But, they do seem to improve programmer productivity. To me it seems they reduce productivity. In fact, for Rust, which seems to match the examples you gave about locks or re
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by blub 10mo ago
Interesting, I was also thinking of the similarities with Jehovah’s witnesses. It’s as if they somehow got into the building, were offered a job and now want to convince everyone of the merits of technical salvation. Rust the technology is
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by blub 10mo ago
C++ devs don’t care what the Linux kernel’s written in. But I did see an interesting comment from another user here which also reflects my feelings: Rust is pushed aggressively with different pressure tactics. Another comment pointed out th

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