kennykartman

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by kennykartman 9mo ago
If tomorrow I owned 1 zillion dollar, that wouldn't make me able to change the course of next US (presidential) elections. It's not the only factor, ofc, but it is a very relevant one. Let's consider other factors that might
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
I'm aware of that and I agree. So what? My comment was that they are not the only billionaires.
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
People can do whatever they think is right, of course (: so there is no "should". My point was that saying that a government should not impose communication restrictions is not necessary right. So, no, people should be happy: if t
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
I wonder what you consider a successful language. Rust appeared in 2012. Zig in 2016. I consider them both two successful programming languages, but given they are only 4 years apart, it's easy to compare Zig today with 4-years-back Ru
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
You're right! Still they are billionaires in their countries with many benefits for being billionaires! Except, steering the government where they want - which typically means getting even richer. In the USA this happened, though. My p
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
The USA centric view I was referring to is the one where lack of freedom is wrong, since it benefits the USA ideology of maximal freedom. Which is not in generally shared by all western countries (in Europe socialism and state ownership is
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
I think this is not true. Russia and China come to mind: billionaires are there, but they are not allowed to subvert the regime. Edit just to clarify: presence of billionaires that are not hostile to the regime does not mean they are allies
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
I'm not conflating them.
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
The US democracy is quite weird, though, because it's IMHO quite far from the people: billionaires can influence the outcomes of elections by steering the votes where the most paying candidate (or the most knowledgeable, or someone els
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
It boils down to what one considers to be relevant for humans: I think that well being is more important than freedom. Historically, freedom was not a predominant part in human societies. On the contrary: slavery, kingdoms, empires, took pa
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
Playing a bit the devil's advocate here, but > This is why all of those "national great firewalls" shouldn't exist in the first place This is a kind of colonialist thinking that is, IMO, a problem in the western socie
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by kennykartman 9mo ago
Yep, it is, except Trump is a thug that also use military force, which is not negotiation at all.
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by kennykartman 10mo ago
I general I don't agree with that view, but indeed exceptions can be defined in different ways. An exception doesn't need to have a dedicated keyword or a glorified syntax to be one: if it's something that traverses the stack
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by kennykartman 10mo ago
Well, no, you're mistaken about Zig. There are custom panic handlers which are some kind of exceptions. I think Rust has something similar.
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by kennykartman 10mo ago
I think that's a very narrow view of our society dynamics.
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by kennykartman 10mo ago
If you think that publishing a paper is marketing, then we have quite different views. Incidentally, I was aware of NASA paper before tigerbeetle was a thing. Not because someone marketed their work, but because I did my research over publi
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by kennykartman 10mo ago
Marketing is the thing that makes uninformed people adopt thing they don't need. I dont think we need marketing, but rather education, which is the actually useful way to spread information. If you think marketing is the way knowledge
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by kennykartman 10mo ago
Thank you for sharing! It's great to have more wavelet libraries. I don't often use those, but when I do the choice is scarce. It's great to have another option!
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
> The Rust Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and non-member organizations alike! I might miss your point, but I don't see the difference.
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
I find this a nice read, but I don't think it captures the essence of these PL. To me it seems mostly a well crafted post to reach a point that basically says what people think of these languages: "go is minimal, rust is complex,
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
Ah, nice. I wish this was licensed GPL instead of MIT. I'll avoid contribution, sorry!
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
Same here. I got no answer. Ahhhh, no: I got one! An automated answer from a deputy on vacation.
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
I believe people will typically not stand for their rights (even less so for other's rights) unless they are significantly bothered or led to think the situation is dire. This is not great, but it is also natural for the human conditio
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
TIL Zig is almost 10 yo. It will turn 10 next February. I really thought it was a younger language.
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
I had the same thought. But one thing was actually very useful to compare "bug densities": deno vs bun. They have comparable codebase sizes as well as comparable ages (7y vs 4y). I'd like to see the same stats for tigerbeetle
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
I'm curious, do you have figures for this? I was not around when C or C++ were 10, but I was when python was and as a long time python user I would say that the pycommunity was much smaller at 10 then the rust community at 10. So my gu
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
> then why Rust? Why not ATS? After all, Rust does let you eliminate certain bugs at compile time, but ATS lets you eliminate so many more. Of course it's subjective, but I think there is a perception of perceived benefit over effor
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by kennykartman 11mo ago
> But I oppositely believe the world needs more tech that treats professionals as experts, not kids. This made me think about Rust borrow checker: given the amount of people struggling with it, I would think the number of experts is much
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by kennykartman 1y ago
If I had a penny for every time I heard that devs are not idiots, I'd be billionaire. It's true, but devs are not infallible and that's the point of Rust. Not idiots, not infallible either. IMO admitting that one can make mis
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by kennykartman 1y ago
I know basically nothing about CAD, but I know thet fornjot exists and wondered if it might be useful to your purposes, in case you don't know about that. But well, the project is very cool and I love the idea of using LSP for somethin

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