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by nindalf 4y ago
Yes, of course we should ban TikTok by Noahpinion ( https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-of-course-we-should-ba... ) should help you understand the arguments in favour.
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Hilarious that you asked a question and then immediately changed that to a statement 20 minutes later when challenged. Why didn’t you just make it a statement to begin with?
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Yeah, that's the flip side of a simple tool that makes it easy to solve problems. It's not clear when "simple" stops working or how to recover from it. On the other hand, the bespoke software approach can have bugs too.
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Right I’m speaking about slightly advanced Excel. Everyone knows how to sum/average columns or apply basic formulae. But creating pivot tables and using macros isn’t self-evident or easy to figure out by clicking around.
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Literally everything I write is in Markdown because it’s so simple to me. I use it for blogposts, presentations, documentation, todos, internet comments. But this article doesn’t strike a chord with me. The author fails to understand that i
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by nindalf 4y ago
> there seems to be no use case for which Rust isn't good You should read Why Not Rust ( https://matklad.github.io/2020/09/20/why-not-rust.html ). It was written by someone who has written a lost of Rus
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The FAQ I wrote answers the question - "What does this website show that perf.rust-lang.org doesn't?" - perf.rust-lang.org is great for monitoring for regressions on a day to day basis, perfect for compiler devs. But arewefas
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There used to be arewefastyet.rs, to measure the speed of the compiler. But I didn't renew the domain. It's at https://arewefastyet.pages.dev now.
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Curious you didn’t respond to the part right after “hear me out”. You know, the actual substance of my comment. Could we leave that behaviour in reddit too?
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In today's world you're pretty much forced to own a smartphone if you want to have a “normal” life. And half of all US taxpayers pay Apple for this privilege. That still doesn’t mean Apple is taxpayer funded. Hear me out, this may
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by nindalf 4y ago
I say the idiomatic translation of a function named insertion_sort() should not use the stdlib sort. The algorithm used by Rust’s stdlib is PDQsort. In general translations should stay as close to the original as possible, while eliminating
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This bizarre claim that FDIC insurance is funded by taxpayers is becoming more prevalent. So a bank offers financial services to a citizen and in exchange makes money. The bank uses these profits to pay insurance on the deposits. And by som
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> And when GitHub starts similar shenanigans The difference between GitHub and Docker is that GitHub is profitable.
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This is a consequence of computers + internet. 2 ways in particular: 1. Large organisations become unwieldy - computers help track and tame that complexity. 2. Geographically distributed organisations have trouble communicating and can be o
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It reflects rather badly on you that you're talking mad shit without knowing their circumstances. What's the bus factor on your systems? Can they handle literally every person being fired overnight?
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You think the person you’re replying to is slandering Cloudflare by saying they write blog posts primarily to build their brand among potential hires. I don’t think he’s slandering Cloudflare. I think he’s captured their intent well. I say
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Recent downloads on crates.io (like npm for Rust) - Tokio 12.1M - Async-std 1.6M It’s an order of magnitude difference.
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Mate, Stallman is still alive.
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Those CO2 scrubbers on the car don’t move the needle in an appreciable way. It would be cheaper and better to plant a single tree. To really move the needle in terms of carbon capture, it needs to be at scale, with a plan to do something wi
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by nindalf 4y ago
I can't speak about the experience of writing unsafe. I haven't written any, and hope never to do so. That said, your concerns are pretty valid, widely echoed and are being taken seriously. Writing unsafe code is a chore and it ne
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I think we’re on the same page here. Neither of us agree with a blanket assertion that code written in Rust is flawless and free of bugs. This can be easily disproved by looking at the bugs fixed in the Rust compiler and standard library, a
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Rust has a low bar for creating CVEs, because the standards for safety are higher. From the link you’re sharing > Fortunately, they are context-sensitive library APIs that are not usually used in a way that the bugs can be triggered. Man
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They’re not just calling out though. They’re condescending with their “airquotes”, they’re stereotyping with their broad strokes. It’s not useful criticism to simply say “this community was such-and-such”. I’d expect them to do better. Spea
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The author of Ruff mentioned that many people told him exactly what you're saying. He went ahead and built it anyway. I'm puzzled though. Those naysayers were naysaying about an attempt at rewriting. You appear to be naysaying a
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Yeah fair enough. It might be worth requesting the maintainer of zune-image to add a decoder for jpeg2000. The repo already supports a whole bunch of formats already.
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I might have misunderstood what you've written, but is there a reason you can't use https://github.com/etemesi254/zune-image as a JPEG decoder? It has minimal use of unsafe and is performant.
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> a whole bunch of the footguns Could you expand on this in the context of Rust?
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I think you’re conflating different projects. There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as
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I didn't claim that Rust provides absolute guarantees. I don't know anyone who has claimed that. The only place I've heard that being claimed is people saying it's commonly claimed so by Rust advocates. Even in my commen
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> Fix them. People are. Like on Android. > In Android 13, about 21% of all new native code (C/C++/Rust) is in Rust. There are approximately 1.5 million total lines of Rust code in AOSP across new functionality and components

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