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by kibwen 9mo ago
> Swift on Windows is being used by The Browser Company to share code and bring the Arc browser to windows. Arc is no longer being developed ( http://www.newswarner.com/2025/05/27/the-browser-company-exp.
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by kibwen 9mo ago
Objective-C had its own open source source implementations, along with a better cross-platform story than Swift has ever had, and yet Apple's abandonment still managed to reduce it to irrelevance.
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by kibwen 9mo ago
Apple was the primary and only major sponsor of Objective-C, used it as the core foundation of their entire platform, and dropped it like a stone with little warning or ceremony. Yes, being tied so closely to Apple is an existential risk fo
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"Nice business model ya got there, sure would be a shame if somethin' happened to it."
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Note that there's an existing CAD-in-Rust project, Fornjot, which has been quietly developing since 2020: https://www.fornjot.app/
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And maybe you'd take gargling diarrhea over gargling battery acid, but the rest of us are looking on in disgust and pity either way.
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> I can't say for 960 specifically, but for standard chess getting rid of castling usually results in the players just manually castling their kings. The entire design of 960 is backwards when it comes to castling, because it was
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by kibwen 9mo ago
If someone wants to be bad or shitty in a way that harms nobody but themselves, then more power to them. That's freedom. If someone wants to be bad or shitty in a way that makes their lives own better while making the lives of everyone
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by kibwen 9mo ago
Our modern economy is nearly entirely built on useless bullshit, this is just what it looks like when the ouroboros starts devouring its own tail. It doesn't matter that the product doesn't work; the hype is the product. In our
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by kibwen 9mo ago
> Even though it is acceptable these days Have you used Teams these days? If you think it's acceptable, I suggest that may be the Stockholm Syndrome kicking in.
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> Management wants to break stuff, that is on them. This implies that managers will do both of the following in response to the aforementioned breakage: 1. Understand that their own managerial policies are the root cause. 2. Not use yo
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> In a video game you're not just the audience you're a participant. I'm not about to say that games don't occupy an interesting point in space to the degree that they invite (or require!) you to actively participat
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> So, the way it's different is that it's you, in a way it can't be when you read a novel, or look at a painting. I disagree. Consider what it's like for a non-native speaker to read a novel. Yes, the novel that the
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> Roger Ebert once claimed that video games cannot be art. This quote gets trotted out all the time, and yes, he did say it at one point, but he recanted this position only a few years later: https://web.archive.org/web
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by kibwen 9mo ago
Closed-source models aren't "democratizing" access to anything. If you wanted to hire a contractor to write some code for you, that's always been possible.
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You don't need to resort to communism, you can have a market economy where companies are owned by their own employees. It took millenia for humanity to dump its broke-ass monarchies for democracies, and yet we still haven't realiz
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> I can't comprehend how a population can kill that many of their own people. The notion of some well-defined "people" is a fiction that ruling powers use to keep humanity's innate tribalistic tendencies pointed out
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But note that the Tianenmen Square massacre was only one part of a larger nationwide protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Chinese_protests_by_regio... . There's no telling how many were killed or disappeare
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by kibwen 9mo ago
When apathy results in harm to others and benefits to oneself, those others are allowed to appropriately label that apathy as evil.
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> explain this to me Humans are the same emotional, irrational apes as we were 100,000 years ago, and the most emotional and irrational thing any of us do, bar none, is delude ourselves by pretending that we aren't.
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> saying this is all trivial The comment above isn't saying that closures are trivial. Once you understand the borrow checker, you understand that it's a miracle that closures in Rust can possibly work at all, given Rust&#x27
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To be fair, I could name managers who would do less damage if they were replaced by a dog. Managing upwards would be greatly eased with the application of dog treats.
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> Have we got to the point where we need an article telling us that slighting people doesn't help their motivation? Never met a manager in your life, I take it?
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Cognitive dissonance via hypocrisy and absurdity is deliberately embraced by fascist regimes, because it's a form of proof that the speaker cares more about loyalty to the state than about rational independent thought.
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"If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid" is a maxim that only applies to luxury use cases where the results fundamentally don't matter. As soon as the results actually matter, the maxim becomes "if it wo
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Flowistry publishes their underlying rustc plugin as a crate, so all the analysis is already done for you, you'd just need to integrate the output with your editor of choice.
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For another example of semantics-aware highlighting for Rust, see Flowistry, which allows you to select an expression in order to highlight all the code that either influences or is influenced by that expression: https://github.c
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by kibwen 9mo ago
Seconded. The call syntax is priveliged, and overloading it to serve as array indexing is a cute demonstration of how arrays approximate piecewise functions, but the same can be said for every data structure in some capacity.
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For the past 20 years the population of the internet has been increasingly sorted into filter bubbles, designed by media corporations which are incentivized to use dark patterns and addictive design to hijack the human brain by weaponizing

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