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by blub 11mo ago
How do you know it’s real? When one is in a straitjacket for a long time, the trauma might make the mind disassociate from the body, giving an illusion of freedom. The brain is essentially dreaming it’s escaped while the body is still progr
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by blub 11mo ago
Yes, thereby making them even better than self-driving cars. Human + driving automation still beats the bots. ;) The bots aren’t superior either, they’re just not able to function in many countries and situations so in their little box they
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by blub 11mo ago
It’s already happened: when trying to download, I can’t sign up for “security reasons”. This never happened to me when getting something from the AppStore, or from anyone else really. And that’s the problem with cloudgarbage, you have zero
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by blub 1y ago
In Europe, Eternit as a brand of fiber cement still exists, but they replaced the asbestos with something else.
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by blub 1y ago
This is particularly funny because: a) the risk is not acceptable and several countries switched young males to Biontech from Moderna b) every time I pointed this out on HN I got downvoted or some vaccinesplainer downplayed it. But yes, if
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by blub 1y ago
Actually, your assumptions that human drivers cannot be improved are wrong. Modern cars have a lot of safety features to help avoid accidents: * lane keeping with optional steering * pedestrian and obstacle detection at the front * pedestri
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by blub 1y ago
If AI is really making developers so much more productive, companies should invest that productivity into offering better technical solutions. This means native applications for each platform. I’m not a customer of Fastmail, because the law
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by blub 1y ago
You mean memory-safe Rust is the default. Taking this default is not enough to write safety-critical software… but it’s enough to write a browser (in theory) or some Android core daemons.
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by blub 1y ago
Here’s an example how safety-critical C is written and formally verified: https://www.absint.com/ Based on what I know about Rust, it’s harder to write Rust to that same level of confidence, but I haven’t kept up with their
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by blub 1y ago
Many people know and like C. Many companies have access to plenty of C talent, but no Rust talent. These are two great reasons to try Fil-C instead of Rust. It seems that many Rustaceans think in terms of their own small community and don’
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by blub 1y ago
“ most people really want to be able to write code that doesn’t crash at all because of expressive limits in C’s semantics. “Memory safety” is a convenient term of art for this.” Rust doesn’t rely only on compile-time checks, so I find your
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by blub 1y ago
It is broader since it applies to things which can be perceived visually, but does not apply to any random creative activity. The list is finite and programming is not on it. Furthermore, taste in one area is more likely to manifest in othe
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by blub 1y ago
Most engineers and technical persons don’t have good fashion taste, so they have a hard time understanding good taste in general. The great majority of technical things are not cool to normal humans, they’re geeky. Programming languages are
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by blub 1y ago
Pure China products with Western QC on top and somebody to sue when things go wrong. Turns out this matters. But it’s still better to buy made in EU/USA.
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by blub 1y ago
China has very many start-ups and one man shows shipping utter junk. Germany and the US are not even in the same league. The companies in those countries tend to follow the local laws because they know there are consequences. Good luck gett
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by blub 1y ago
The claim was not that Rust was faster than C++, they said it’s about as fast. C and C++ were and are the benchmark, it would have been revolutionary to be faster and offer memory safety. Today, in some cases Rust can be faster, in others
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by blub 1y ago
Well yes, only in the safe subset, but the safe subset is the alpha and omega of Rust. Woe to those that use unsafe, for the scorn of the community shall be upon them. :)
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by blub 1y ago
But that’s bad news for Rust adoption… Worst case for Rust is it takes just some (not all) marketshare from C and C++, because Swift, Golang, Java, Python, TypeScript, etc have cornered the rest.
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by blub 1y ago
This comment highlights a very important philosophical difference between the Rust community and the communities of other languages: - in other languages, it’s understood that perhaps the language is vulnerable to certain errors and one sho
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by blub 1y ago
Many FAANG & co engineers are overrated. If every new hire is introducing concurrency bugs in a Golang codebase, refactor, do better review and maybe use concurrency questions instead of leetcode. I’ll take tptacek’s word over most FAA
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by blub 1y ago
The problem Rust has is that it’s not enough to be memory safe, because lots of languages are memory safe and have been for decades. Hence the focus on fearless concurrency or other small-scale idioms like match in an attempt to present R
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by blub 1y ago
Meego’s N9 had in some areas better usability than the iPhone and was overall competitive. Tap to wake, slide to homescreen, the control center were introduced by the N9.
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by blub 1y ago
Yes it is lower quality: doesn’t look as good as massive wood or other quality wood, less stable, breaks or loosens up after moves, so light that it easily falls over and must be anchored, etc. What you’re saying is that low quality furnitu
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by blub 1y ago
As late as 2011 Nokias like the N8 or N9 were competitive with the iPhones of that time i.e. the iPhone 4. That iPhone is the famous “holding it wrong” phone. Then Nokia admitted defeat and switched to Windows which failed badly. Symbian wa
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by blub 1y ago
2003 was Symbian time. The OS was built around cell network reliability and low power. The N900 was the promising side-show getting few resources and attention. Compared to the iPhone or any modern phone, it did a lot more with a lot less b
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by blub 1y ago
C doesn’t have objects, which are great for encapsulating data structures, but in C++ it’s not at all hard to write a graph data structure. One wraps it behind a reliable interface, writes automated test and runs them under valgrind/sa
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by blub 1y ago
Here’s a nice history of the decades old relationship: https://www.dw.com/en/russian-gas-in-germany-a-complicated-5... It was a major success, contributing to the thawing of relationships with the Soviet Union and prob
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by blub 1y ago
My use of formal was from: “The standard is not intended to teach how to use C++. Rather, it is an international treaty – a formal, legal, and sometimes mind-numbingly detailed technical document intended primarily for people writing C++ co
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by blub 1y ago
It’s not even close to as formal as the C++ specification because only one of them is an ISO standard, or more generally, an international standard. US corporations have massive influence over Rust since they bought seats on the board. S
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by blub 1y ago
The contractors working on my house sometimes paint a room bright pink for no particular reason. When I point that out, they profusely apologize and say that of course the walls must be white and wonder why they even got the idea of makin

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