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by blub 2y ago
Author’s paper also doesn’t solve the problem, because I wager most C++ programmers wouldn’t touch this rustified C++, which manages to look even worse than the already not light on the eyes original.
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by blub 2y ago
Your rust code is 32 lines vs 16 and it probably downloads dozens of micro-dependencies. Unfortunately, the C++ also uses CMake fetch to get its dependencies. I guess this is fine for a small demo, but it would be better to inline them in t
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by blub 2y ago
Hungary is a democracy. The election was monitored by the OSCE, which concluded that the elections “were well administered and professionally managed but marred by the absence of a level playing field”. I don’t see how that’s worse than the
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by blub 2y ago
Based on election results and popularity, the Hungarian government is more democratically legitimate than the French and German ones. The wide acknowledgement is only wide in a particular EU bubble.
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by blub 2y ago
“Putin has weaponized RTO” is an interesting theory, but the even more interesting one is that home-office was a plot to undermine Western society by making people lonelier and less productive.
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by blub 2y ago
The power of Russian propaganda is that it’s based on kernels of truth: * Germany is getting economically fucked. * the US is wasting taxpayers’ money. * the Polish farmers were getting screwed by cheap, low-quality grain. The US/EU st
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by blub 2y ago
Looks like he was not only arrested, but actually sentenced: https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/04/austrian_tor_exit_rel... 3 years probation and 30.000€ fine.
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by blub 2y ago
Keka is a macOS app which implements AES protection for zip and 7z. Open source and AppStore.
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by blub 2y ago
Only in Rust is the async use idiomatic, the C++ co_* is pretty new and not yet ready for prime time. References are not at all simpler, they're memory-safe, which in conjunction with lifetimes makes them significantly more complex to
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by blub 2y ago
C++ does work on its own and there are projects which don't or can't use the STL. That can still be very useful in specific contexts. Rust also works on its own as far as I'm aware (no_std), but I haven't used that. Fur
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by blub 2y ago
Let's take the thousands of pages of English claim. Only the latest C++23 standard barely pushes over 2000 pages. The core language is described in about 500 pages, while the rest is taken up by the specification of the library. * Firs
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by blub 2y ago
I remember your nickname from some quite biased past comments on this Rust topic. Even in your recent history one can find downvoted sarcastic comments about Rust vs. C++ and now you want to be objective and want to discuss nuance. Ok, let&
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by blub 2y ago
Pushing Rust while slamming C++ is by far not an innocent, purely technical discussion. There’s a significant degree of ideology and grassroots activism behind this, which deserves to be criticized. The person which posted the Rust-positive
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by blub 2y ago
“Simpler” is so fuzzy that it doesn’t accurately express what’s going on. Rust doesn’t have the backwards compat baggage that C++ has, so it’s simpler. However, I can today easily write clean C++ that’s easy to understand, and using contain
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by blub 2y ago
This is the kind of mistake that I doubt even a junior Go developer would make. If one is a senior engineer and one has Go on their CV, then one must know the memory management top to bottom. This kind of downplaying of hard skills and tryi
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by blub 2y ago
And with that all my interest is gone and I won’t bother with zed. I highly recommend Little Snitch or opensnitch to protect oneself from rogue developers. Yes, anybody downloading things or uploading things without my consent is a rogue.
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by blub 2y ago
macOS for example checks the crypto signatures of downloaded apps, so it’s much better than randomly executing code from the internet. I think even Windows does this nowadays.
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by blub 2y ago
Yes that’s a plausible scenario. Another potential trigger is that Ukraine manages a deep strike into Russia which causes significant damage and a conventional reply is considered non-sufficient.
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by blub 2y ago
Ukraine may not have started as a proxy, but it became one as its military stocks were exhausted. Both EU and US politicians claim on record that Ukraine would fold within days or weeks if it didn’t get support. At this point US+EU are pay
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by blub 2y ago
Many if not all the close calls in the past were misunderstandings or tensions spiraling out of control. The madman with nukes is a trope. This is also why online commenters thinking that the Ukraine war will not go nuclear are misguided.
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by blub 3y ago
For the press, red lines are something to scare people with or something to be made fun of when they’re apparently crossed without an obvious effect. IMO they’re more like if X then Y, where Y could be a very fuzzy thing. One Y was cancelli
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by blub 3y ago
You’re certainly optimistic. A few months ago Ukraine was allegedly about to capture Crimea, now they’re taking loss after loss and their frontline is at risk of collapsing. Nothing really changed, the NATO war planners basically just belie
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by blub 3y ago
Your comment makes no logical sense whatsoever and is disproven by the reality on the ground: Russia will not allow Ukraine to align with the US. They are prepared to go to war for that and they are prepared to fight NATO for that and I’m
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by blub 3y ago
It’s not his or any “generation” which is doing anything, that’s nonsensical. It’s the US, Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Iranian, etc. governments. All of which have a life of their own and can either be very limitedly or not at all democratic
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by blub 3y ago
Do you think “Lars”, as chair of the Rust Foundation board of directors and previous Servo project member could have a conflict of interest here? Something that should be mentioned as a disclaimer when quoting his opinion on Rust vs. other
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by blub 3y ago
CMake is something you set up once and then mostly add source files which is a one liner. A platform like Android would have an SDK with all dependencies pre-installed, anything else would be nuts. Have no idea what “include conflicts” are
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by blub 3y ago
We’re talking high-school, not university. In the EU not graduating high-school opens the window for job opportunities such as garbage disposal, cleaning floors and package delivery. Probably McDonalds too. Shuttleworth is asking a legitima
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by blub 3y ago
There’s an overabundance of content/apps/sites. Most websites and projects are worth zero to most people.
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by blub 3y ago
There’s different kinds of “masks” and different kinds of “work” FFP3 are the standard for protecting against airborne disease and they work as intended. That’s literally one of the purposes they’re designed for. FF2/N95 also work qui
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by blub 3y ago
This “Stoßlüften” is just opening a couple of windows for several minutes to create a draft. There’s a nice booklet about ventilation for regular Joes called “Richtiges Lüften in Wohnungen” (Proper ventilation in apartments) published by th

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