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by dbdr 2mo ago
That course was posted just yesterday, in case you are interested in the discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038
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by dbdr 2mo ago
In an ideal world, that would be true, but the actual world is very far from that. As an extreme example, AI is very useful to automate scamming people.
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by dbdr 2mo ago
"ads will no longer look like ads" (in the future). Ads are clearly marked in the first step, but will likely be more and more blended over time (or worse, biasing the model and therefore the output itself). That's the logi
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by dbdr 2mo ago
" Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/micro...
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by dbdr 3mo ago
My point is that this was a minority of 46.7% making that decision (because of a technicality that has been pointed out already). In a dictatorship, a minority of 1 against a million or more makes all the decisions. Even though you can say
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by dbdr 3mo ago
> I don’t like the Rust culture. There’s no better way to put it. Every time I’ve interacted with them or hear how they talk about Rust, I just don’t like it. I wonder if it's not that different people have entirely different experi
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by dbdr 3mo ago
> Even in C++, with appropriate rules, restrictions and discipline you can write programs that are guaranteed to be at least as safe as any Rust program If by discipline, you mean running something akin to the borrow checker in your head
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by dbdr 3mo ago
It's absolutely legitimate to be upset. However, identifying a lawfare trick in a close vote to a dictatorship is serious hyperbole. I'm afraid that's counterproductive.
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by dbdr 3mo ago
You are assuming an infinite productivity boost, i.e. that no programmers at all are needed to make programs. A more realistic scenario is that programmers are still needed in the foreseeable future (for some definition a what a programme
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by dbdr 3mo ago
That's revenue though. Fixed costs for hardware is probably much higher. If we looked at profits, the percentages would probably look quite different.
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by dbdr 4mo ago
What about automated signup confirmation emails, just as one example?
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by dbdr 4mo ago
Agreed. The problem is that people are used to do search, which returns hits from clearly identified sources. Suddenly, Gemini is interpreting your query and generating its own response. It's an entirely different product. If I expect
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by dbdr 4mo ago
If a pesticide is banned to use inside the EU, it should also be banned to import into the EU products that were grown using that pesticide.
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by dbdr 4mo ago
Only an idiot would drink when they are not thirsty. Nothing to do with his job being to lie and manipulate opinion.
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by dbdr 4mo ago
> the misguided idea among some that as long as a dependency isn't through FFI, it doesn't count as a dependency, is one of the things I dislike the most about Rust culture I have not heard that idea a single time. There's
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by dbdr 4mo ago
That's absolutely correct. Wild to see it downvoted without explanation, while you preemptively mentioned the tradeoff that you do need to worry about correctness in that case (just as much as in C/C++), but that only applies to a
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by dbdr 4mo ago
> If you are the 'systemizer' type and like to have an extremely precise mental model of the thing you write down to the last bit, nothing beats C++. I would say the same thing of Rust.
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by dbdr 4mo ago
The URL of the source for the last link is not working, this is the updated version: https://boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html
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by dbdr 4mo ago
However they are literally changing the rules of what "the entire market" means to include those companies sooner that they would have been when people bought those indices.
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by dbdr 4mo ago
min-publish-age in cargo is coming: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3923-carg...
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by dbdr 4mo ago
If it's the algorithm, I'd be curious what other parameter it could be. If it's people flagging, is there a good reason to do that? Otherwise, I would still call it nefarious behavior by people abusing the flagging mechanism
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by dbdr 4mo ago
Peer review is imperfect, for sure. What alternative method do you recommend?
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by dbdr 4mo ago
[meta] I was surprised this fell off the front page. The post has "131 points, 3 hours ago, 39 comments" and sits at rank 55. Number 2 on front page has "41 points, 4 hours ago, 0 comments". I don't want to assume s
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by dbdr 4mo ago
One issue with this is that it's a non-peer-reviewed critique of a peer-reviewed scientific article. It's of course still possible that the critique is correct and the article is wrong. However, you'd need to deeply understan
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by dbdr 4mo ago
This paper is relevant: Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How Does Energy, Time, and Memory Relate? https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pap... This is the main summary
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by dbdr 4mo ago
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How Does Energy, Time, and Memory Relate? https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pap...
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by dbdr 4mo ago
GC pauses are not the only reason. At the very least, raw compute performance and lower memory usage are also valid reasons in some contexts.
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by dbdr 5mo ago
Learning Rust is more alike to learning a new programming paradigm (e.g. functional when you only know imperative) than a new language with different syntax only. If you ignore that and try to jump directly to writing code more or less the
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by dbdr 5mo ago
> Very little will change in Hungary with the new government. Are you aware the new government is not even in power yet?
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by dbdr 5mo ago
> The commit message just said it reverted a change from another commit because there was "no benefit". From the patch itself, it is not at all evident that this is a fix for a critical security bug. If the commit message says

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