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by hitekker 1y ago
Apollo News sounds like German Fox News. But it looks like the citation behind "distorted beyond recognition" is itself misleading. The fact-check admits: > At a discussion event, Green Party politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt ad
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by hitekker 1y ago
This offhand remark would likely have disappeared unnoticed if not for a doctoral student who had taken it upon himself to patrol the internet. The student filled out a criminal complaint form on Göring-Eckardt’s behalf and sent it
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by hitekker 1y ago
It's good to have another record of history while most of the key participants are alive. As someone who enjoys Python, I do wonder where Python will be in 10 years. I felt Guido's abdication came about due to fundamental challeng
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by hitekker 1y ago
Good catch, the link should go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672003 (the 3 was missing)
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by hitekker 1y ago
It's true. Or rather, it's the emergent behavior of the community. Other languages typically don’t openly say, in writing: > Then [Anti Rust person] should have been perma-banned long ago [on an open forum]. Until this is done,
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by hitekker 1y ago
It's an entirely fair assessment within a framework of supremacism. "My language is the best. People who don't use it need to learn it. If they don't, they're bad programmers, maybe even bad people." It's
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by hitekker 1y ago
Much of that bad blood comes from how Rust's leadership attacks other programming languages, online and offline. pcwalton infamously declared zig was "a massive step back for the industry" https://x.com/pcwalt
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by hitekker 1y ago
Your point on coherence is similar to the perspective of an ex-C++ maintainer. This video came out a decade ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ&t=2530s and I feel his lesson went unheeded. It's relevant
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by hitekker 1y ago
Timothy Nguyen’s way of introducing his grievances does feel heavy handed. Lots of emotionally laden, suspenseful language, that I usually hear from people who have an axe to grind. But I don’t know him nor have I read material from him or
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by hitekker 1y ago
You're part of the way there. Think less feature development, more architecture & governance. A language reference is like documentation and a language specification is like a contract. If I uncover behavior in a system that isn’t
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by hitekker 1y ago
Rust's leadership wanted a formal specification. They thought it's reasonable. Hence, why they invested in a team to build a spec https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/11/15/spec-visio...
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by hitekker 1y ago
The spec is not the reference. That's a fatal misunderstanding of both the initiative and the concepts therein. IMHO, I'm familiar enough with the spec effort to say that the GP and other naysayers are basically right. Despite my
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by hitekker 1y ago
I think the GP is speaking tongue-in-cheek; it's a fun little joke
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by hitekker 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. It sounds like they're playing house. Going through the motions but unwilling to sacrifice for their supposed goal.
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^ This comment demonstrates what I meant by "thick lattice of ideology"
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If you one day write a blog, I would want to subscribe. Your writing feels accessible. I find it makes complex topics approachable. Or at least, it gives me a feel of concepts that I would otherwise have no grasp on. Other online writing t
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by hitekker 1y ago
"Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses." from https://wamu.org/story/19/05/15/guidance-reminder-on-abortio... I'm not against abortion. In fact, I actually see the le
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by hitekker 1y ago
> Yet much less is written about the difficult employees who aren’t responsive to management coaching. Most of what is written is about the stories where good managers turned difficult employees around or bad managers failed to help empl
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by hitekker 1y ago
Your insight is true enough that almost every recruiter asks a manager "have you PIP'd someone before?" in the first phone screen. It's a hard experience that some junior managers cannot, or will not, do for a variety o
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by hitekker 1y ago
Other stations can get funding through private donors; rural stations cannot and they may actually die out. I think the weirdness comes from NPR's previous PR strategy of denying they even needed government funding. At the time (2 year
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In praise of Mission Creep (2022)(aam-us.org)
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by hitekker 1y ago
You're citing ACLU's PR and one source from a progressive site, most of which is pre-2019. Meanwhile, recent articles say things like this: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu
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by hitekker 1y ago
No, those statements you cited don't contradict. The GP is correct that ALA has gone through mission creep, which you seem to be denying.
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by hitekker 1y ago
Small marketing suggestion: maybe " limit function coloring" instead of " defeat function coloring". I like Zig's approach so far, but clearer terms would help avoid pointless arguments and disappointments that a
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Similarly, the author's "Truth" sections are rather glib and misleading. Each one could be its own article and analysis, i.e., a proper fact-check, but he seems to have rushed to the conclusions.
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by hitekker 1y ago
IMO, a bad study requires a lot more effort and expertise to dismiss than a conspiracy theory. Most people, not even paid experts, don't have that time. They're more liable to accept a bad but fashionable study than an easily debu
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by hitekker 1y ago
When another Brilliant Jerk struck me down in my own little kingdom, using similar weapons & tactics. The Golden Rule is a Ruler that cuts both ways, turns out. TL;DR I became a Christian. God broke my heart and opened my eyes. Like sho
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When the "top performer" destroys trust and fails to rebuild it, they shouldn't be on the team* Skimming over the context, Kent seems to be lying by omission in PRs and distorting the history behind the PRs. Plus fighting wit
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by hitekker 1y ago
You should watch the original video, not just the BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kucaq6jkHMg . The reddit thread and other articles also provide context that the BBC article glossed over & excluded. The way I see i
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by hitekker 1y ago
You might have seen different BBC stories than I have. Like when the BBC said all converts to Islam are "reverts"; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-did-the-bbc-say-musl... ; the nasty implication being

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