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by blub 10mo ago
Business and Enterprise plans have a no-training-on-your-data clause. I’m not sure personal Claude has that. My account has the typical bullshit verbiage with opt-outs where nobody can really know whether they’re enforceable. Using a person
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by blub 10mo ago
Maybe the EU shouldn’t have transformed themselves into US vassals then. Nobody respects weakness, not even an ally. Ironically showing a spine and decoupling from the US on some topics would have hurt more short term, but would have been h
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by blub 10mo ago
Actually these kinds of projects are chronically over budget and the US military is notorious for wasting money. Using C++ vs wishing an Ada ecosystem into existence may have been one of the few successful cost saving measures. Keep in mind
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by blub 10mo ago
The exact opposite of what you suggest already happened: Ada was mandated and then the mandate was revoked. It’s generally a bad idea to be the only customer of a specific product, because it increases costs. > And the F35 and America&#
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by blub 10mo ago
Comparing accurate communication with magic is nonsense. Both in Europe and the US, the government screwed up badly both mask strategic stockpiles and procurement. Therefore, the official message was that “masks don’t work”. After they wer
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by blub 10mo ago
No, severe swelling and pain, which in the case I know about resulted in a hospital visit. More info: https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055... Fortunately doctors and medical organizati
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by blub 10mo ago
“Doesn’t kill you” is the absolute bare minimum and a very low bar. Because the vaccines were so rushed, it’s still reassuring, but not at all a testament to the safety of mRNA vaccines. The more interesting studies will be about non-lethal
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by blub 10mo ago
The implementations of hardening in libc++ and libstdc++ are available now and are straightforward to use. https://libcxx.llvm.org/Hardening.html https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LibstdcxxDebugMode (was alread
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by blub 10mo ago
They rival Rust in the same way that golang and zig do: they handle more and more memory-safety bugs to the point that the delta to Rust’s additional memory-safety benefits doesn’t justify the cost of using Rust any more.
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by blub 10mo ago
> There is just so much unmodern and unsafe c++ out there. Mixing modern c++ into older codebases leaves uncertain assumptions everywhere and sometimes awkward interop with the old c++ Your complaint doesn’t look valid to me: the feature
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by blub 10mo ago
“We build free software so we can tell you to go fuck yourself.” Sounds like a great thing compared to the sanitized corpo bullshit from nowadays. Microsoft bought themselves into OSS with github and each project has a bland CoC. It’s pathe
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by blub 11mo ago
It has potential to be the new thing, since several details synergize to make this incident more powerful: 1. Previous claims that Rust code often just works after compiling. 2. Previous claims that low-level error-handling idioms like matc
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by blub 11mo ago
You’re mixing up developers becoming more competent with the language becoming easier. Neither C++ nor Rust are becoming easier unless new features are added which make them simpler to use in some circumstance. C++11 & co did make many
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by blub 11mo ago
I peruse Android system code at work and their C++ code base is not designed for safety. It’s just typical C++ code as any large company would write it. And for a large juicy target like Android, that won’t be good enough to stay ahead of t
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by blub 11mo ago
If the C++ code I worked on looked like that[1] and was actually C with classes, then I’d be switching to Rust too. For Google and Microsoft it probably makes sense to rewrite Windows and Android in Rust. They have huge amounts of legacy c
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by blub 11mo ago
The pain will always remain when refactoring or changing code, with modifications cascading in the function and type definitions. If a language is hard to write at first, it’s always hard to write. The saving grace of C++ is that one mustn’
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by blub 11mo ago
All of that stuff doesn’t matter though. If you look close enough everything is different to everything, but in real life we only take significant differences into consideration otherwise we’d go nuts. Memory bugs have a high risk of exploi
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by blub 11mo ago
This whole memory-bugs-are-magical thinking just comes from the Rust community and is not an axiomatic truth. It’s also trivial to discount, since the classical evaluation of bugs is based on actual impact, not some nebulous notions of scop
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by blub 11mo ago
Sounds like a straw-man. I know developers who are good enough to achieve it on their own, but they use the tooling anyway, because one can’t write perfect code always: feature requests might be coming in too fast, team members have differe
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by blub 11mo ago
It’s a bad idea to put the fox (front-end developers) to guard the henhouse (great, consistent user experiences).
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by blub 11mo ago
It’s an amazing game. They released buggy because of management pressure, but fixed it. GOG is also amazing.
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by blub 11mo ago
For casual users and likely some pro users, there’s still Pixelmator Pro and Acorn. I used to use Photoshop CS for web design many years ago and they’re good enough for that. This Canva app’s so dumb, even their log-in doesn’t work. I want
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by blub 11mo ago
The general problem is that there’s a lot of activists online nowadays. I used to call myself an activist, but now it’s a dirty word which I associate with obsessive behaviour, harassment, cancellation attempts and being generally obnoxious
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by blub 11mo ago
It depends if the original opinion was a reasoned one or just based on personal feelings. The dependency explosion is still a problem and I’m not aware of any real solution. It would have been interesting to to see why their opinion changed
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by blub 11mo ago
With GPL I can compile my own copy and use it with their software. They have to allow that. They also have to give me their sources, changes included. MIT is a big joke at the expense of the open-source community.
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by blub 11mo ago
Is the pay good at your job? Rust jobs are few and far between, so I think Rustafarians are willing to take lower pay to work in their dream language. Companies will of course abuse this.
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by blub 11mo ago
Seems reasonable. I wish you would have written that in your original message. Good luck…
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by blub 11mo ago
Recently the rust coreutils had a bug and this essentially disabled auto-updates on Ubuntu. :) Seeing this tone-deaf message from an Ubuntu employee would be funny if I didn’t actually use Ubuntu. Looks like I have to correct that…
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by blub 11mo ago
Well, there’s hobbies and there’s a buying addiction that comes with a hobby. In many areas there’s a tendency to overdo it with tools, gadgets and also to compensate for lack of skill with more gadgets. I do woodworking for example and my
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by blub 11mo ago
I use Pixelmator Pro, which can be bought on the AppStore. If you want to buy directly from the company, there’s Acorn from Flying Meat. I tried to use Affinity Studio the other day and it wouldn’t allow me to register for “security reasons

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