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by gspr 2y ago
Indeed. It's the one cultural aspect of Rust I find exhausting. Huge fan of the language and the community in general, but a few widespread attitudes do drive me nuts: * That adding dependencies is something you should take very lightl
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by gspr 2y ago
> Do we just blame every "natural" disaster on climate now? No. > What about acknowledging the effects of improper land management (forestry, rivers, etc)? Those are acknowledged, and there needs to be more focus on it. Was
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by gspr 2y ago
Use the ST monad? :)
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by gspr 2y ago
> Why not go work on redox, or write something new? Because the BSDs and Linux are actually used in hundreds of millions of systems and provide clear value to lots of people. Redox is cool, but it's in an entirely different league.
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by gspr 2y ago
Interesting. Do you have any clarification about which these "many" jurisdictions are? Like, can we expect this to be the case in most of the world?
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by gspr 2y ago
> The best way to avoid any such issue is to contribute changes to the upstream project, which is our goal with the choice of license. This I understand. But it doesn't really address Martin's worry about an accidental modifi
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by gspr 2y ago
Could you elaborate a bit with specifics? I feel both sides are just opining, and I'd love to know where to stand on a license, the main idea of which I love.
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by gspr 2y ago
I have no experience with the AGPL, but I really really like the idea of it. However, I get worried when I read takes like Hector Martin's [1]. In essence, he argues that it becomes very easy for the end-user to make even the most triv
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by gspr 2y ago
> You're implying that the only reasonable reason to doubt data is contradicting data. No. I'm implying that the only reasonable reason to doubt massive amounts of data that has been, and is being, actively studied by thousand
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by gspr 2y ago
> Thus, treating anyone skeptical of the complete theory of human-induced global warming (which is different from not wanting to reduce pollution, mind you) as a troglodyte who "goes against the SCIENCE^tm" isn't wise at a
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by gspr 2y ago
I'm terribly confused. I don't see any corrections in what you wrote.
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by gspr 2y ago
Feel free to correct me. There's of course limited actual scientific substance that fits into a dozens-of-words HN comment, but any improvement is welcome.
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by gspr 2y ago
Are you saying that things whose concentrations are expressed in what in your daily life is a small number are unimportant? Would be great if you could be completely explicit about this, so that people can reply to something concrete. Thank
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by gspr 2y ago
I'll bite. Not because I think I can change your behavior, but just so that others passing by don't end up taking your comment as having value. > First it's global warming, then ice age, then again global warming... Imagin
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by gspr 4y ago
> Math? Which physical laws/equations need infinity? Pretty much all of them are phrased in the language of differential equations. Perhaps some can be salvaged through finitist approaches, but that seems far from certain or trivial
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by gspr 4y ago
Why would they need to mention this?
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by gspr 4y ago
How do you reconcile the fact that the best tool we have, by far, to describe the "real, physical world" depends on certain notions of infinity?
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by gspr 4y ago
> Everyone in the Rust ecosystem updates withing a few days, because of how trivial it is. I love Rust, but this attitude is terrible. Luckily it's also not accurate – it's perfectly fine to stay on your distro's compiler.
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by gspr 4y ago
What do you want mod infinity to mean?
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by gspr 4y ago
> Radians are just half-turns, so we use turns either way. What? This thread is full of weird statements, but this one is among the weirdest. In what way is a radian a half-turn?
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by gspr 4y ago
> On the other hand- crates.io + the toolchain make it way easier for fixes to propagate outward into the ecosystem, and then for new builds to be created with them (even for multiple platforms at once) As a Rust fan who subscribes to th
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by gspr 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. It's the one worry I have with a language that I otherwise love. (Of course the problem is technically hard, or possibly unsolvable, so I don't blame the Rust folks for its existence.)
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by gspr 4y ago
> They don't care about ABI stability so even if you could just update links to a library, the interface would be horribly broken. Which is, of course, the actual gripe we're discussing. The lack of dynamic linking is just a co
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by gspr 4y ago
Being put off by the evangelizing I can certainly understand – but surely the name "rustaceans" is just some innocent humor.
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by gspr 4y ago
I love Rust, it's the most fun I've had programming since first discovering the concept as a kid, with the possible exception of the time I was enamored with Haskell. But one stereotype that I've faced a lot is in connection
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by gspr 4y ago
> dynamic linking isn't really supported This is one of my few big gripes with Rust too, but it should be pointed out that it's dynamic linking with other Rust code that isn't really supported. Dynamic linking with e.g.
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by gspr 4y ago
Norway has wolf, sheep and various things the sheep eat (I've seen variants cabbage and bales of grass). We also have a variation where everyone shifts down a step and there's a missionary "above" the wolf.
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by gspr 4y ago
Thankfully, an alternative PGP implementation is quickly gaining traction: https://sequoia-pgp.org/
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by gspr 4y ago
It's a website with a very marked orange header and some orange styling. Since there's very little else in the way of appearance (coming from me, that's a compliment!), the orange becomes quite prominent. Calling it "the
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by gspr 4y ago
Interesting choice of units, kWh per hour?

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