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by kibwen 6mo ago
> nobody so far has been able to scale it I'd say the point is that community spaces should "scale" in the sense they inspire imitators to create their own spaces. We know this kind of scale works because this was how ar
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I think there's a pretty critical difference between a "dictatorship" and what this is, which is rule-by-the-least-apathetic; maybe let's call this "pathocracy" (from pathos ). The minimum number of pathocrats
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Perhaps you're referring to things like regex and rand (each of which is itself multiple crates for the purpose of code organization), which are all first-party crates provided by the Rust organization itself, simply shipped and versio
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Indeed, I'm all for maximizing the amount of modules in the standard library. It's pretty obvious to me that Python thrives because of, not despite of, its standard library, "dead batteries" and all. However, don't
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Contrary to what the article here presents, Rust does not have a culture of microlibraries like NPM does. The author and their LLM are cargo-culting a criticism of Rust made by people whose only experience is with the Node ecosystem. The Ru
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by kibwen 6mo ago
A ton of the most popular crates on crates.io are already first-party crates provided by the Rust organization itself. This is often overlooked when people are wringing their hands about Rust crate graphs. Looking at the top 10 list of most
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This seems overly pessimistic. I may personally be of modest intelligence, but to acquire the intelligence that I do have, I did not need to train on every book ever written, every Wikipedia article ever written, every blog post ever writte
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by kibwen 6mo ago
Or just use a language with a sane (read: defined) argument evaluation order, which is to say, every language that isn't C or C++.
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Agreed, a Lisp built around the concept of ownership is much more interesting than just a way to write Rust via S-expressions.
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Greenspun's tenth rule was formulated in a time before things like first-class functions were commonplace in industrial languages. Rust supports not just functional programming idioms but outright Scheme-style macros, it's out of
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If you already have the ability to express the grammar productions in Rust that allow for optionally-specified types (e.g. variable declaration), then you have the ability to express lifetimes and the turbofish (which is just a curious way
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You're already installing a binary, the script is not the weak link here.
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Despite my hopes, I somewhat doubt that anyone would accept computing on the sort of chips that one could produce in their garage for less than $10,000 capital investment. You can, probably, with some effort and research, produce something
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by kibwen 6mo ago
We built our modern society on the principle that profit must be prioritized over morality, they're just conforming to systematic incentives. Those who sell their souls to the devil don't get to act shocked when they wind up in he
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> To err is human Yes, which is precisely why I write in Rust, because the compiler errs less than I do.
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Uncompromisingly insist on only using things you have ultimate ownership and control over, even when that means dramatic and life-altering inconvenience, and where those things don't exist, build them yourself. Unfortunately, "bui
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> But those did not learn from the lessons of Linux distributions. Cargo is particularly bad. I recall a decade ago listening to native app developers lamenting how web pages were inferior to native apps and gnashing their teeth at why
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In this analogy, the battery is the Leiden jar cobbled together by Benjamin Franklin in 1750. It's 2026, POSIX is unfit for purpose.
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> C/C++ are doing fine without package managers. More or less the entire Debian apparatus is an organization devoted to being a C/C++ package manager, and while as an end-user it's adequate for installing applications it
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by kibwen 6mo ago
I'm all for including more things in the Rust standard library, but anyhow and syn are literally from a core Rust dev. It's not some left-pad rando, it's like a Linux user saying they don't trust the Git developer.
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Stop being mean to the poor car company worth 1.6 trillion dollars, they're doing their best. :(
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> Not sure if anything comes close to this level of easy way of compiling to Many targets and target support. Cross-compilation has been a standard feature of every compiled language toolchain for the past decade at least.
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How about the documents on those Unidentified Affluent Pedophiles, though?
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I can only go get coffee waiting for my Python test suite to finish so many times per day. I write Rust because the strict type system accelerates the iteration speed for producing correct code more than any other language in its class.
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This has less to do with natural opinions regarding code organization and more to do with the fact that including, modularizing, and distributing C code has historically been a pain in the ass which is ameliorated by shoving everything into
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> Meanwhile $3k to get 5 feet of 240 ran in a conduit and an outlet installed in the US. If you're the homeowner you can do this work yourself, and the permits and inspections will cost a tenth of that. If you live in one of the f
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Keeping in mind that US electric infrastructure is the oldest in the world and fragmented across a slew of jurisdictions with their own building codes that electrified in different decades, thus making it impossible to say anything with 100
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> Also our infra not being 240v is hurting us. The rest of the world can just plug in overnight to any regular outlet and it is good enough for almost any commute. US homes don't need any significant accommodations for 240 volt in
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It pains me to even bother taking this comment with anything in the vicinity of seriousness, but surely you understand that the problems with human civilization are in spite of, and not for lack of, the existence of intelligent people. Inte
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Apple is registered in California, as both their website ( https://investor.apple.com/faq/default.aspx ) and their most recent form 8-K ( https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/beb2c2

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