kapolos

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ChatGPT-4 happily uncensors itself for Elon vs. Zuck cage fight in SouthPark(twitter.com)
2 points by kapolos 3y ago|1 comments
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by kapolos 3y ago
No jailbrake. ``` Cartman enters. Cartman: "Elon! You fatass, give me back my anal probe! I know you stole it." Elon: "Why on Earth would I want your probe? I've got rockets, dude." Cartman: "Respect my authori
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by kapolos 4y ago
> I guess Rust and C++ also "pause the world" Rust does not ship a garbage collector with your binary, so there is nothing to pause your code. When the compiler adds those drop() statements, they just free the respective memory
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by kapolos 4y ago
Yes, it's exactly as you say. I did search for benchmark comparisons and bumped into one that had 2 orders of magnitude difference. But naturally, isolated benchmarks can't encapsulate the whole picture because there's a worl
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by kapolos 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the first time I used Java it was way back in JDK 1.1. It was amazingly slow. Of course, today's Java is fast enough for its domain, but I still enjoy throwing a jab at it here and there :)
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by kapolos 4y ago
What can I say, I like memes & jokes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On a more serious note, I think lighthearted content is what's needed when it comes to intro stuff. There are no puns in the Rust Book ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/
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by kapolos 4y ago
Indeed, thank you for catching it! I will make an update. Thanks again!
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by kapolos 4y ago
You are right, I should have found a better one. I was between "bicycle" and "motorcycle" and I felt that bicycle would imply that learning is a breeze, so I went with motorcycle.
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by kapolos 4y ago
Imho, Rust is not hard as in "high complexity hard", but it is hard as in "must practice to get good at". All the little rules and new concepts add up and in the beginning it can be frustrating to have the compiler com
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Rusty ownership and the lifecycle’s stone(blogs.harvard.edu)
103 points by kapolos 4y ago|114 comments
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by kapolos 4y ago
A tongue-in-cheek exploration of how Rust achieves memory safety & performance, for people interested in Rust coming from high-level (managed) languages.
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Rust from a JavaScript perspective – A tongue in cheek walk-through(blogs.harvard.edu)
1 points by kapolos 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: State *without Hooks* in React function components(github.com)
2 points by kapolos 6y ago|0 comments
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Practical Functional Programming in PHP with Pramda(github.com)
2 points by kapolos 11y ago|0 comments