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by gue5t 10y ago
As a C magician, I haven't written a new C project since the Rust 0.8 era. The only reason you would is ease of updating dependencies through distro package managers (because Rust has no stable ABI and performs extensive cross-librar
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by gue5t 10y ago
Designing memory-safe programs in C requires a programmer to reason about the same domains as doing so in Rust, but C doesn't double-check you to make sure you get everything right. With no guard rails, C is a lot more stressful. Re: r
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by gue5t 10y ago
Indeed. Where is Haskell? OCaml? Rust? Scala? C#?
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by gue5t 10y ago
Why is Firefox adding CDM support at all? Do they not care about the security and well-being of their users? Or do they think that somehow making ideological compromises will further their proclaimed goals of respecting and helping users of
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by gue5t 10y ago
> My new to this problems space view I'm going to be downvoted because this isn't particularly on-topic, but nonetheless I'd like to suggest you try hyphenating phrases like this to make them easier to read, so you don&#x2
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by gue5t 10y ago
I don't want to be rude, but I really don't understand your message. Computers have always been, and will always be, tools for automating away work. The specific nature of the work the user needs automated is in a constant state o
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by gue5t 10y ago
Because continued development of the Web is an obvious, user-hostile money-grab. If you only care about getting your software to users, you have a million choices for your application runtime. If you want to monetize every user by selling
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by gue5t 10y ago
Why does this site's header image seem to say "Bugs" (in near-white text) around (763,108)?
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by gue5t 10y ago
This is about Swift "protocols" which are more like "interfaces". It isn't about network protocols or process calculi.
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by gue5t 10y ago
Cargo assumes you want to cache downloaded/built dependencies at the granularity of a unix user account. It's very easy to break things if you try to force current cargo cache dependencies at the per-project level and there's
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by gue5t 10y ago
When users don't own their technology, they get jerked around by whoever does until they jump ship for greener pastures. You can claim the market will solve this (users will sell their time and speech to a higher bidder, now that Twitt
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by gue5t 10y ago
It would be great if we could also make media like books, music, and movies completely unusable five years after publication.
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by gue5t 10y ago
There's no way to know if a machine you can't contact is on the other side of a network partition or if it has died/disconnected/given up. You could have the client try to persist its state across local reboots, at lea
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by gue5t 10y ago
Kernel AIO is virtually unusable for anything other than databases because of all the restrictions you mention, and it can still block in many cases (some of which are runtime conditions like "too many outstanding requests"--no,
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by gue5t 10y ago
I advise skipping the signal nonsense and making the interface purely fd-based. The only "advantage" of signals over fd readiness is that signals can interrupt syscalls that don't expect them, and this can be emulated without
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by gue5t 10y ago
I'm so glad this is being discussed. The intricate and weak durability guarantees, the unaddressed dangers of global mutable state (without reasonable locking capabilities outside of "only ever write something so small the OS woul
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by gue5t 11y ago
Yes!
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by gue5t 11y ago
There's a word for people who only care about their own quality of life, and not that of those around them: "assholes". Don't be an asshole, and don't advocate "fuck you got mine" practices like these. Let
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by gue5t 11y ago
The reason people are making the browser the OS is because there's money in it. Ad money, SaaS money, middleman money. People whose computers already do useful things, for free, will obviously think that moving everything into the br
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by gue5t 11y ago
What's interesting is that (as described in the present top comment on this article, about "CALL BRIAN"), if the abstraction of "type safety" is leaky (as it is , e.g. in the presence of memory or hardware errors),
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by gue5t 11y ago
I would hate to go searching for a commit that broke something in this mess. Your colleague should be more descriptive. http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/731/143/3e3...
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by gue5t 11y ago
Even if we assume no user ever has legitimate access to a copyrighted work (which is untrue; take, for a trivial example the author attempting to show off their own work while travelling by downloading a copy of it from their home computer
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by gue5t 11y ago
The right way to handle a direct reply to a comment is to detach its thread and leave its pronouns dangling? What particular deficiency of the HN comment threading system is this particular act of moderation addressing?
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by gue5t 11y ago
No, I don't. I'm sure many others creators feel the same.
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by gue5t 11y ago
There's no reason to assume a priori that an act is immoral. The primary criterion for an act to be immoral tends to be that it makes someone else's life worse. There is no direct effect of piracy on the author of a work. There
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by gue5t 11y ago
Exactly. Machine learning is an inequality-expanding lever just like many other forms of capital. This is one of the reasons Google et al are so dangerous.
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by gue5t 11y ago
The only result, of the 10 on that page (right now, for me), that answers the question is https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-bittorrent-is-the-best-way-to-... But if you search "using * to pirate movies" (google will m
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by gue5t 11y ago
This is still how web searching works. I have no idea why you would think otherwise--at its core Google is still fundamentally an indexing service, and you use indices by figuring out which words may be in the documents you want to read and
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by gue5t 11y ago
Personally, I've always thought that type safety provides the most benefit at boundaries between codebases: you have people composing pieces that they don't understand, and the types serve to guide how those pieces can be composed
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by gue5t 11y ago
Of course, but then you've hamstrung the typesystem that makes Rust safer than C, and generated a lot of work for developers who have to convert all internal types to #[repr(C)] ones at library boundaries. Rust without cross-crate gene

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