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by crispinb 3y ago
If it's "mature" to disregard basic values, then we're stuffed. Attitudes and values cluster. People who care about night skies also care about ecosystems. Denatured, psychologically-damaged people who value neither, des
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by crispinb 3y ago
If we allow billionaires to just chuck up what happens to suit their whims, there won't be night skies for long.
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by crispinb 3y ago
That's an absurd response. You don't need to carry today's dominant political manichaeanism into every aspect of your responses to events. Making decisions about what to do (whether to build, mine, manufacture) is all about m
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by crispinb 3y ago
No wasn't suspecting nuisance-satellite of being near-eternal! I mean we have had a real night sky for millenia, and now a handful of men are being permitted, with hardly any communal discussion or decision, to expunge it. Many won&#x2
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by crispinb 3y ago
> a civilisation that decides that serving internet is more important than its ability to observe the universe It's slightly worse than that. Starlink is only viable because of huge gaps in planned provision of what is now a basic u
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by crispinb 3y ago
It matches my experience precisely. Every time I've seen a GUI framework/library chosen that didn't have a huge head of steam behind it and very broad availability of off the shelf components and tooling, the project has eith
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by crispinb 3y ago
However often you inform someone that they are wrong about what they found difficult, it will not thusly become true. Your brutish & obdurate insistence is only boring. The difference between what you and I are claiming isn't in th
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by crispinb 3y ago
> I think it should be simply considered a different paradigm. I addressed this above and believe it to be an unconvincing explanation of Rust's difficulty. Many polyglot programmers comfortable with, and experienced in, switching
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by crispinb 3y ago
If by 'general purpose PL' you mean one used to write mainstream GUI apps, I nearly agree though I'd bet against Rust on that score. If however you mean one used across a wide variety of industries, software types, and hardwa
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by crispinb 3y ago
Sure, despite my frustrations with it (and with the often frankly false claims about it tirelessly repeated by people who identify too strongly with it - it's a programming language, not a signed-in-blood manifesto for world peace and
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by crispinb 3y ago
I don't have a problem with Rust syntax. Actually I can't imagine any developer with more than a year or two's experience has much trouble with any language syntax (unless it's something truly weird like APL). After a fe
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by crispinb 3y ago
> This is a matter of familiarity No it is not. Or at least not for everyone. I have learned several languages more unfamiliar to me than Rust (pure functional, logic, stack-oriented,etc), but none has given me the difficulties Rust has.
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by crispinb 3y ago
> an issue I have observed with the Rust ecosystem, which is fragmentation. Absolutely. The fragmentation doesn't matter with all library types, because they don't all need the vast array of associated libraries, tools, common
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by crispinb 3y ago
Slower - not really now Rust client web frameworks have improved. Don't have refs handy, but Leptos, Dioxus etc are on a par with Solid. Larger bundle sizes - yes that's still true. And not all GUIs are web GUIs, so WASM isn'
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by crispinb 3y ago
I don't think that's quite the point. It's not that you want dozens of different widgets in every app. It's that when picking an ecosystem for apps, a business will want to know that whatever they need (whatever small
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by crispinb 3y ago
> I really don't understand the use-case for a Rust-based GUI. For people already writing things (libraries, cli's etc) in Rust who want to add a GUI while staying with the language. No great mystery. As for a business case,
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by crispinb 3y ago
I doubt Rust is going to become used for (the GUI layer of) GUI apps far outside of Rust enthusiast circles. To build a widely attractive ecosystem it needs a dominant framework to which enough of the many widget and theming and distributio
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by crispinb 3y ago
Nice that you released the source. Some might say a little risky for a commercial hosted app. Not knocking it though. What made you decide to?
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by crispinb 3y ago
> The year of the Linux desktop will never come Probably true. But largely irrelevant. > the cathedral can make a much better GUI than the bazaar. Can is such an open ended claim it's impossible to judge (there's always a
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by crispinb 3y ago
Agree on the complexities. 'Viability' has to be conceived more widely than just a technical sense. Fission a good example, as you suggest. A dead duck in most of the world. As is wide-scale decarbonisation! We know that (a) it is
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by crispinb 3y ago
I can't see how this isn't a basic decency filter for anyone using any web site. A paid site must at a minimum make the price easy to find. Otherwise I won't even continue to read or browse, let alone sign up. I'm gone,
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by crispinb 4y ago
> Usually those novel technologies that don’t become viable is because it’s either a technology we don’t want (like a sentient toaster) or there is another technology that can solve the same problem but cheaper. I'm sure there must
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by crispinb 4y ago
Many (most?) novel technologies never become commercially viable. I think what @charlieao is saying is that they suspect fusion will be one of the failures. That's a different claim from the one you're countering. Of course predic
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by crispinb 4y ago
I wish I had, just once, had as thoughtful and thorough manager as Mr Yank (terrible name for an Aussie) seems to be (at least as far as you can ever tell from the self-presentation of an article).
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by crispinb 4y ago
> I’m gonna ignore your personal insult No insult, just a description of what you've posted (idiotically) here > Starlink is an excuse not to rollout proper infrastructure. That's ridiculous. Australia's infrastructure
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by crispinb 4y ago
Fortunately here we have sun and don't need generators ;)
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by crispinb 4y ago
4g has very patchy coverage in rural Australia away from main roads. Satellite can be an OK option for some (we have a gov-subsidised option), but is unreliable and subject to lengthy outages and low monthly data caps. There are many other
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by crispinb 4y ago
"Here" is Northern NSW, Australia. I have no idea of the numbers, but it's not uncommon in rural Australia.
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by crispinb 4y ago
Yes, fixed wireless has been vastly overused. Presumably when NBN were short of budget for an area, or where there weren't enough wealthy folk calling their pet MP.
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by crispinb 4y ago
It's very patchy though even for those in urban areas. Fixed wireless has been way over-used in areas that could easily have been wired. And SkyMuster is supposed to be a last resort, but is pushed anywhere local topography offers a mi

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