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by hitekker 1y ago
IIRC, Alex Gaynor was championing Memory Safety & Rust in the FTC. But then he left (or was ejected?) before the Trump Administration came in. I have no clue who is carrying the torch now. Someone probably, given that OP's docum
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by hitekker 1y ago
Yeah, vlang's deception comes up a lot on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503446 I'm not even for or against vlang-- I just find their beha
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by hitekker 1y ago
Yeah the GP’s reply was a little misleading/ambiguous. It begins by saying “great point” but then it distorts & argues against that point. Better just to disagree directly, I think.
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by hitekker 1y ago
Some people like to treat homelessness as sacred. The image of a spotless victim, who has no choice but to suffer, is an object of veneration, even love. It's an odd sort of worship but very common in the Bay Area.
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by hitekker 1y ago
> rav1d proclaims that Rust is (almost) as fast as C when all the performance engineering efforts went in the ASM bits, that were copied verbatim from dav1d. This is key. Not to mention how advocates for ra1vd are gaming their benchmarks
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by hitekker 1y ago
You’re right; this happens a lot. The SQlite folks, half of Linux, and other maintainers have encountered the same kind of zealotry. Dealing with language supremacism is annoying and I don’t blame ffmpeg for venting. In fact, I’d even say t
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by hitekker 1y ago
I was a hiring manager and saw this happen firsthand. So much pressure to hire people with the right skin color or gender, even if they outright failed an interview. Some of the ones who were fast-tracked later struggled and then got fired.
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by hitekker 1y ago
The replies to this comment are untruthful. The journalist was clearly sympathetic to the author's ideology, which NPR later tried to conceal. As the diff from original to latest shows:[1] "hand-wringing about looting" -&
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by hitekker 2y ago
Do you have a source for "criticizing other languages not installed on 3 billion devices as too academic" ? Without more context, this comment sounds like rehashing old (personal?) drama.
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by hitekker 2y ago
I thought you were harsh, but then I read this piece: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-lib... It's dispiriting to see librarians distort a normal process (deaccession) to cover up
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by hitekker 2y ago
Yup, they employed intense scrutiny on books before 2008, followed by ideological filtering as you noted, resulting in empty library shelves. On that note, it's sad to see the GP downvoted for raising this uncomfortable truth. I guess
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by hitekker 2y ago
Bluesky has a real problem with outrage addiction; it's myopic to pin the blame on Adobe.
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by hitekker 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413702 is one example. A Rustacean implied Go was not memory safe and that Microsoft couldn't understand the power of Rust. Steve Klabnik & others told them off. But other Rus
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by hitekker 2y ago
A former employee of Cyc did an insightful AMA on HN back in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828
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by hitekker 2y ago
Wait a second. You're saying now hg didn't influence git, but how does that fit with your previous comment? > One particular aspect that often gets left out of this creation myth, especially by the author of Github is that Merc
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by hitekker 2y ago
The GP put in the work to verify his own memory, after acknowledging the gaps. And then you belittled him. He met the “standard” or guidelines of our community in a way you have not.
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by hitekker 2y ago
The accusation is harsh, but I think Zig's BDFL had a point. V-lang seems to have been poorly led for many years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503
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by hitekker 2y ago
Your comment has changed substantially from its initial version. For the latest version: I think Anduril knows who they're looking for and how to get those people. This commercial, for example, is quite deliberate in filtering out the
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by hitekker 2y ago
Yeah, feels like lazy pattern-matching. The top-level reply mixes context across decades and doesn't support its criticism with concrete evidence. IMHO, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover article is a
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by hitekker 2y ago
FWIW, I think your opinion is accurate, particularly regarding digressions. It's a common debate tactic for hyping a language under the thin veneer of technical discussion.
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by hitekker 2y ago
There's at least 3 top-level threads criticizing the decision not to rewrite in Rust. Including a RIR banner ad posted in the replies. Holy Language Wars are a spectator sport as old as the internet itself. It's normal to comment
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by hitekker 2y ago
No need to get defensive. GP just doesn't share your humor.
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by hitekker 2y ago
Brendan Eich was against Gay Marriage at the same time that Barrack Obama himself was against Gay Marriage. A detail often forgotten in the rehashing of old grievances. IMO, calling Brendan evil or bad is the kind of moral shortcut that Pro
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by hitekker 2y ago
Thank you for the clear disclaimer. It’s an elegant way to conserve or draw attention in a forum. One small bit: maybe include a link to your website? That would make it easier to clickthrough and looksee
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by hitekker 2y ago
Thanks for doing the analysis. The GP has chosen not to reply, but I would hope they learn from your comment. Especially this part: > Your epistemic stance, which seems to be "Well we don't have perfect, incontrovertible proof,
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by hitekker 2y ago
Interesting link, it'd be great if their solution meets expectations. Right now, the proof-of-concept they've provided seems simplistic. Their progress seems to have shifted from cr-sqlite into "Zero" instead. I'm g
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by hitekker 2y ago
Some companies love to blame vendors for their own non-payment. The blameshift works when users only have the company's (the actual customer's) word for it. Having basic transparency like "this service is in read-only due to
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by hitekker 2y ago
The only thing Discourse said was "This site is in read-only mode because there are overdue hosting payments". It's a system message that's automatically shown when the customer forgets to pay their bills. The drama come
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by hitekker 2y ago
Thanks for backing this up with more evidence. It's a graceful move to acknowledge a mistake. I also thought the GP was just throwing fire. But after reading more into the matter, I'm a little too disgusted to dig anymore.
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by hitekker 2y ago
This is my understanding as well. There's a lot of merit to Open Source. But there's also a lot of spam, politics and drama that comes with opening up. That negativity is invisible to people who haven't encountered it, or a

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