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by c_crank 3y ago
What is idiomatic, simple C++ code? Each standard seems to redefine what that looks like.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The common occurrence of hallucinations makes it hard for me to believe anyone will be using LLMs to produce code anywhere outside of shops who really don't care about errors. Until they fix that, code is a use case where even slight e
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by c_crank 3y ago
It depends on if you think Marx or Eliezer Risco has a monopoly on being the furthest left.
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by c_crank 3y ago
In the same way the author says that people would hate Up without the first ten minutes, I think a lot more people would enjoy Cars if the first ten minutes were removed. The opening is really heavy on the advertising and low on the story b
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by c_crank 3y ago
Soul isn't on the same level of Coco. Coco is a clear and heartfelt message with a (mostly) beautiful backdrop. Soul is a consistently ugly meandering story with all sorts of strange crypto Gnostic and pro life themes that just confuse
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by c_crank 3y ago
Linus and many other people hate C++ for having strange compiler rules and a kitchen sink approach. Ada, for a long time, was linked to a proprietary government supplied compiler, and also did not have many volunteer developers available. C
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by c_crank 3y ago
The main use of the internet is quickly passing along information. Hospitals rely on the internet primarily to handle records and financial processing. Their ability to actually treat patients would still be functional without the internet.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Who? Aggressive about what? Rust 'community' (subreddit?) members, sending nasty messages to the Actix developer. It was pretty clear the Actix developer was interested in making a fast, dependable web server that was especial
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by c_crank 3y ago
The last time I had any real fun with programming was when I wrote a toy Linux kernel driver in college.
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by c_crank 3y ago
"The Progressives", "The Conservatives", and "The Reactionaries" best fits America, but I imagine it would be more confusing to European audiences.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Seconding this. Nothing less fun than trying to untangle insidious Hibernate bugs.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Several successor languages have kept the simple syntax of C while eliminating a large class of warts. Hindsight and not having to keep a wide reaching set of compiler standards let a language have simple syntax and not so many problems wit
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by c_crank 3y ago
I don't think Linus was pleased or fooled. I think that there hasn't been a bunch of eager beavers trying to write Linux drivers in other languages until Rust.
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by c_crank 3y ago
"This Haskell program was chalk full of not just unnecessary, but showably unsound uses of UnsafePerformIO..." The language lets people write code that way if they wish. Why are Rust people so aggressive about that?
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by c_crank 3y ago
What you're describing is a very poorly run criminal organization. It would be poorly run because pure money is not a strong enough incentive to hire someone to commit a crime for you, because that money can easily disappear once it is
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by c_crank 3y ago
I was just thinking of contemporaries in time, not genre. Catch 22 stuck in my mind as one of the harder ones to read. Kafka is listed as a modernist, but he's dead simple.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Ada, and Cyclone, and Misra C, and various other C formalization tools. It also borrows a lot of the ML stuff from... ML. Engineers who had safety as their prime goal can and often did use Ada and other tools to achieve that goal. The avera
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by c_crank 3y ago
The first step in this far fetched plan would be passing a law that makes it legal for an AI to own property and operate a company. I don't see that happening.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Going by stackoverflow surveys, the majority of younger engineers would be happier to see it implemented than not, regardless of whether they've even used the language before.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I don't agree that contemporary literature in Joyce's time was as challenging to read as Ulysses. Many of the typical selections presented with Joyce are much easier reads - even stuff like Catch 22. The construction of Ulysses an
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by c_crank 3y ago
Trust is great when it can be trusted. When trust is abused, great tragedies occur.
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by c_crank 3y ago
"Secure the plug"? Is it going to buy out the dataserver it is running on, under an assumed name, managed via taskRabbit employees paid exclusively in Monero?
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by c_crank 3y ago
I actually don't know where to find Free Pascal - the question of which kind of Pascal and which compiler / build environment to use always seemed leery for someone looking for a Better C type language.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Someone pulling the plug has already made the call that those services are not worth the cost of whatever mischief the AI has been pulling.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I'm glad someone else has the sense to see Inside Out for what it was. But the article just seems to reaffirm the idea that Pixar isn't what it used to be, just pushing the date to when they stopped making a lot of good movies fur
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by c_crank 3y ago
I wonder how the average Googler feels about reviewing their homemade Go code to Rust code.
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by c_crank 3y ago
All the computer can do is beg.
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by c_crank 3y ago
What's the benefit of writing any story in this format, instead of just making a story that is just a really good Shakespearean play, or a really good pastiche of some era, or...?
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by c_crank 3y ago
Gradual improvements are the finest quality coffee for a programmer's mug. I would quite enjoy a future of writing clean, procedural programs with an improved C standard, VMs that are cleaner and easier to set up, and the latest editio
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by c_crank 3y ago
An argument isn't evidence. Physical evidence should be the only thing that causes a quick and instant shift in views, and the situations where this evidence is clear and obvious enough to warrant this are not so common.

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