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by nindalf 2y ago
Why do you recommend that?
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The current 13 inch MacBook Air weighs 1.24kg. Is the extra 240g a dealbreaker?
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Completely agree. I’d add one more - if the compiler can describe errors in simple, plain English it’s far more likely that the LLM can fix the problem. Some languages do this much better than others.
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I tried the library out and it worked pretty well for me. I had previously written a declarative macro to generate benchmark functions [1]. It worked, but I didn't enjoy the process of getting it working. Nor did I feel confident about
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by nindalf 2y ago
The author announced a previous version of this crate a couple of weeks ago and this new version two days ago. So there might not be that many users. That said I did replace a declarative macro with it. Supposedly I wrote the declarative ma
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by nindalf 2y ago
I’ve seen this sentiment be expressed often but I don’t see any merit behind the argument. It boils down “this language may have merit but I don’t like the way people advocate for it”. That’s just tone policing. And the thing about tone p
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I think the wealth tax analogy is fantastic because some people genuinely hate rich people so much that they’d rather they left the country.
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It's nearly impossible to have an idea that is truly novel and has no prior art. Even if it isn't the exact same thing, you can see the ideas that inspired this one. All of us are standing on the shoulders of giants all the time.
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Which is even dumber. How immature do you have to be to think you can dictate the tastes of others.
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> Sure, there’s a lot of crap. But you don’t have to watch that. The way people complain, I genuinely think they don't know about this option. For example, Mr. Beast content isn't for me. But I was also living blissfully under
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by nindalf 2y ago
Why can’t something be faster than C? If a language is able to convey more information to a backend like LLVM, the backend could use that to produce more optimised code than what it could do for C. For example, if the language is able to sa
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by nindalf 2y ago
The number of tools matters less than the quality of the tools. Rust’s inherent guarantees + miri + software verification tools mean that in practice Rust code, even with unsafe, ends up being higher quality.
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You’re conflating clang and LLVM.
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My grandparents live near those hills. The funny thing is, they’re uphill both ways.
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For all the people worried about when chasil will adopt Edge.
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I'm glad they wrote several more comments. The first comment was intriguing, but the more the wrote the more wild it got. Especially the part about being connected to life like a person in a fall airplane. I think they've mixed up
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True, the other Good Emperors - Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius didn't set up their children as their successors. They each adopted someone who would be good at the job. But there was one difference between them and Marcus Aurel
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by nindalf 2y ago
> Because anecdote I don’t think anyone could have said something more rude or ignorant if they tried. > designed as an experiment Ha. As if you could design such an experiment. What, you’ll place two rats at a keyboard and ask them t
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by nindalf 2y ago
Might not. The Rust standard library has a state of the art sort implementation. There’s nothing faster, in any language - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/124032 . And sure, it’s possible that someone
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by nindalf 2y ago
I'm still mystified about the agenda of the piece? I'm not implying that it has one or doesn't have one, I'm keen to know what agenda you saw in it.
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No I don't mean. It is possible to write idiomatic Rust and C. It is possible to write assembly in the form of Rust and C. In both cases, they're comparable in performance. But leaving toy programs like Benchmarks Game and AoC asi
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by nindalf 2y ago
> Do you mean No I don't mean. I said what I said. If you click the C program right next to the Rust program for "spectral-norm" you get the equally unreadable - https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F
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by nindalf 2y ago
> Rust applications are sometimes (often?) slower than comparable C applications Could you cite some examples? There are plenty of counter-examples - ripgrep is 5-10x faster than grep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/r
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Could you describe how the muslim-christian population exchange actually happened? What is the agenda of this piece?
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Kinda like how I understood what you meant here ("absolutely devoid of context") in spite of your error ("derived of context"). Sometimes we need to make an effort to understand. I wouldn't make you feel bad by sayi
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[Citation needed].
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I put in the effort for every English accent I've encountered - French, Turkish, Greek, Scottish, Australian, Indian Canadian. You put in the effort for white people's accents. But sure, I'm the racist. Typical isn't i
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> That means Indian English has a lot of local quirks that someone from outside the country wouldn't know. Every accent is different. Every accent needs effort to understand. The point is that Indian English isn't uniquely diff
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The fact that you're willing to put in the effort for accents with different words, contractions and pronunciations but not willing to put in the effort for slightly different stress/melody is sadly quite common. Someone saying
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Could you give some examples of both? Also, why did they choose to do this?

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