darthrupert

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1411.
by darthrupert 6y ago
"You know all the data we give you from every person on the planet? TikTok does the same for China." That probably scared them a bit.
1412.
by darthrupert 6y ago
If this is a fun proof of concept, it's nice. If somebody uses this in an actual system, it's terrifying. edit oh, Rust is now a thing where even the bad ideas need to be praised without caveats. Gotcha
1413.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Nim is an amazing language that suffers from a lack of momentum and hype. Technically, there’s little reason why it shouldn’t be a good choice for many programming problems. Reality doesn’t work like that, of course. Hype is important, and
1414.
by darthrupert 6y ago
If only Safari had something comparable to uMatrix, uBlock and youtube enchancer suite. But apparently the APIs that would’ve been useful for the first two are a bit crippled in the latest Safari. Hopefully this can be fixed some day. I’d g
1415.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Throw a standard exception. E.g. python calls it a ValueError. Returing NaN is clearly wrong design.
1416.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Will Epic's games be soon available in Steam, then?
1417.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Apple sort of ok, Google worse, Epic worst. You guys should don't seem to understand what kind of companies these three are.
1418.
by darthrupert 6y ago
You should really like Common Lisp, then :) The language hasn't changed since mid 90s or so and many of the widely used libraries have gone for years without needing any changes.
1419.
by darthrupert 6y ago
These are easy questions. 1. If you convert a string which has non-numbers to an integer, an error is raised 2. Truthiness should not exist as a concept. Just booleans and expressions that evaluate to booleans. PHP's backwards compatib
1420.
by darthrupert 6y ago
I've studied and followed Rust since before 1.0. I have no doubt that it lives up to its technical promises. What I'm more skeptical about is whether living up to those promises yields a tangible benefit. By skeptical I don't
1421.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Is it though? Most of it seems to be hype. It’s great that programming languages get researched and improved, but do they actually improve? How is improvement measured?
1422.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Roughly 75% of the workforce and of course all the IP.
1423.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Oh cool. I've been wondering to myself why the complexities of async cannot be abstracted into threads instead in an efficient way. I hope this pans out.
1424.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Yeah, I'm getting more and more convinced about my purchase strategy for electronics: 1. Get as simple and durable as possible 2. If it has to be complex, get something made by Apple 3. There's no rule three
1425.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Is being anti-violence/hate a political stance now? Fuck.
1426.
by darthrupert 6y ago
Doesn’t banking actually use double accounting to ensure not losing money instead of relying on something as brittle as software? Then again, Wirecard happened. But perhaps that wasn’t exactly banking.
1427.
by darthrupert 6y ago
That’s unfortunately hard to find, since hardly any customers require that these days. Fast and cheap is where it’s at.
1428.
by darthrupert 6y ago
No, because it's not really used for new things anymore. That's why Cobol isn't hated either.