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by c_crank 3y ago
He horribly misjudged what ordinary people enjoy, then.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I'm not sure I would describe either of those phrases as being particularly wise. The first is a basic observation that might lead you to noticing things like 7 degrees of separation, the other is advice that helps some people and not
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by c_crank 3y ago
A steady increase in LLM power sounds like bad news for artists and other professions who can easily be replaced by them. The internet will fill up with bots even more than it already is. Maybe it will be nicer, because smarter bots would b
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by c_crank 3y ago
Mere intelligence does not generate an atomic bomb. Einstein signed the letter to the president, and Oppenheimer was the man helming the project, but the actual construction of the atomic bomb required massive amounts of labor and resource
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by c_crank 3y ago
Shutting down the internet would not kill more people than an atomic bomb. What are you on?
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by c_crank 3y ago
The experience many authors have of unlocking deep wisdom from drugs seems genuine, in the sense that they are not lying about it, but any actual wisdom involved is hard to find. I wait for the day when the common 60's literature scene
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by c_crank 3y ago
Was it ever a great time for truth and critical thinking? With civilization, comes pressure to conform to some standard of thinking.
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by c_crank 3y ago
What a day to be alive, when Java-style OO is described as a nicer looking option!
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by c_crank 3y ago
If you use any language with garbage collection then you won't have memory safety problems (barring unusual corner cases). That is an actual guarantee of memory safety.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Given how Actix was used for benchmarking, I'd imagine that there was a reason the original developer wanted to use unsafe a lot. Nginx was written in pure C, and that is an act of wizardry. I can't imagine wanting to do any work
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by c_crank 3y ago
If popularity is what counts, then Rust is only a revolution in marketing and evangelizing.
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by c_crank 3y ago
In general, the language lacks both complex features and low level primitives that would be useful for building anything more substantial than network glue code. Go codebases are often noted for the egregious use of copy and paste. Not that
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by c_crank 3y ago
“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding
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by c_crank 3y ago
The inability or unwillingness of city police to deal with camps of the homeless would register as a cause, to me.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Ada was the DoD standard for a while.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Gangs and homeless camps are generally endemic to urban areas, not rural ones, despite rural low income groups having a far greater need to rely on cars to get around.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The trivial reading of Turning Red as prostitution is thus: a thirteen year old girl suddenly struggles with transforming into a red panda, and this is quickly explained in such a way to heavily associate with the physical and mental change
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by c_crank 3y ago
The message in Turning Red can be trivially read as a thirteen year old girl learning to prostitute herself against the wishes of her stifling and controlling mother, even if this wasn't the intent of the filmmakers. Concerned parents
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by c_crank 3y ago
Rust people talking about 'revolutions' love to ignore that memory safe languages without garbage collectors have been around for years. Ada+Spark, Cyclone, even D all made large steps forward in this area long before Rust was eve
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by c_crank 3y ago
Rust doesn't guarantee memory safety. I think anything that can generate a trivial hello world program that doesn't leak memory is better than V.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I don't think it would be so well regarded when considering the motivation that Rob Pike and Ken Thompson had for making the language the way they did.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Speaking as someone working in the CRUD Java salt mines, I've never had an issue with sharing variables like this that allegedly makes imperative programming fundamentally broken and unproductive. Scoping and any basically functional p
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by c_crank 3y ago
Most relevant and non obscure languages support a const feature of some kind.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Without bringing highly opinionated interpretations into it, Nick Wild is voiced by a white man doing a white southern accent. The number of characters voiced by black men is not very high.
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by c_crank 3y ago
An observation that will make Zootopia much more enjoyable is realizing that the predators and prey don't map onto racial groups and aren't intended to be seen that way.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The problem in Strange World is abstract with parallels, but the solution maps more precisely to reality. We do not live on the back of a turtle, but the solution of abandoning the Brussel Sprouts is very similar to the real life message of
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by c_crank 3y ago
As a stand alone movie, Lightyear fails to deliver an interesting and sound science fiction film for adults, or a competent action filled romp for kids. I could not tell you who it's supposed to be made for besides the producers.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Weird as it sounds, I would still describe the political message in Wall-E as more subtle than in Elemental, or even Strange World - another recent flop. Why is that? Wall-E, although clearly and one sidedly in favor of environmentalist or
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by c_crank 3y ago
The word 'subtle' was included.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The answer is not as simple as the analogy suggests, but the principle of the problem is that the conflict resolved by the rat driving the human around is central to the theme and the characters, while the dog flying the airplane is not. I

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