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by ragnese 6y ago
They weren't more painful in Rust because of them being implemented poorly or anything. Rust's memory model makes referencing data across scopes difficult. In a GC'd language, your closures can just reference everything willy
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by ragnese 6y ago
If that's the case, it wasn't intentional. My reading of your comment was that you were criticizing DuckDuckGo for not inspiring confidence. I understood the name to be at least one of the reasons. EDIT: Actually, even now, reread
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by ragnese 6y ago
I was reacting to the words "unpolished", "allusion to a children's game", "inspire confidence", "nonsensical", "thoughtful layer of meaning"
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by ragnese 6y ago
That's a good point. When I first started trying to learn Rust, I also thought that there was some semantic meaning to 'a, since everyone uses that exact same name in all the examples.
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by ragnese 6y ago
If that's your main complaint, then good for Rust!
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by ragnese 6y ago
Because Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc all have professional sounding names? Let me tweet about it.
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by ragnese 6y ago
This is unbelievably silly. Your parents can't handle a highly-memorable name like "Duck duck go"? It sounds like the childhood game "duck duck goose". You even admit that they couldn't handle Google at first e
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by ragnese 6y ago
To be fair, the process is scary. Depending on your phone, rooting often involves exploiting security flaws because the manufacturers don't want you to have root (reason #1 that makes me want it all the more). I have an old Pixel 2
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by ragnese 6y ago
Rooting your phone does not give root access to all of your apps. Is this why people keep acting like rooting is a security risk? I'm very tired of this message. Google has root to your phone and you don't. You think that puts you
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by ragnese 6y ago
> Some users want to put together their own computers and their own operating systems, and they will do too. We'll see how feasible/affordable that is in 10 years. I'm afraid that consumer hardware is only going to get mor
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by ragnese 6y ago
I find that extremely offensive, honestly. I'm not allowed to play a god-damned game that I purchased offline when nothing about the actual game requires network access? That's ridiculous!
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by ragnese 6y ago
I use and like both. I don't do anything fancy with my email, though, so YMMV. For my use case they are equal.
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by ragnese 6y ago
> how their parents refuse to let them move back in during the pandemic, citing the “time to grow up” mentality. My sarcastic response is that I hope they enjoy the retirement home their kids put them in in the future. I don't actu
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by ragnese 6y ago
I understand, but surely someone with an actual stats background could do a basic calculation on number of recent plane crashes vs. some estimated probability of N people out of 100 on a plane having COVID * the overall mortality rate, etc.
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by ragnese 6y ago
Wouldn't this be a simple case of measuring the probability of needing to evacuate the plane quickly vs. probability of catching covid-19 and dying? Honestly, right now, for an elderly person, the covid risk is probably higher.
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by ragnese 6y ago
Sure, sure. But the point here is that there are JVM languages that have shown that these things can be done well on the JVM.
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by ragnese 6y ago
I thought the rule of thumb was that only live objects matter for GC performance (mark-and-sweep only counts what's alive and just purges everything else). Is that not true in modern era?
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by ragnese 6y ago
That's a whole other can of worms, too. How about reproducibility and transparency? How do I know the math is correct when I don't know what MATLAB/whatever is actually doing under the hood?
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by ragnese 6y ago
It's a vicious cycle, though. The kids learn MS Office (and basically no actual computer savvy skills) and then they become manager some day and buy a shit-ton of Office licenses for a business/department that doesn't need an
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by ragnese 6y ago
Don't the other ones have TEXT, too?
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by ragnese 6y ago
It's certainly not an endorsement of checked exceptions. Just an FYI. And, further, PHP is basically just copying every feature they can from Java for the last several years.
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by ragnese 6y ago
I agree with that. I was heavily involved on the other thread someone linked to about Java's checked exceptions. Until that thread, I thought I was the only one who didn't accept that they were a mistake.
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by ragnese 6y ago
Hold on, though. There is plenty to dislike about Java. Everything can be null, interfaces have to be implemented at definition, broken array type variance, no const/mutable at the language level, no value types, etc...
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by ragnese 6y ago
Perhaps. I definitely read it as them saying checked exceptions aren't helpful because you can still handle the errors poorly. But I can see how I might have misinterpreted the intent.
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by ragnese 6y ago
Ack. Totally agree about Integer.valueOf. I think I agree about IOException, too. Definitely most other people agree that it should've been unchecked and that does seem reasonable, as long as it's really only thrown for "oh s
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by ragnese 6y ago
Agreed that the boilerplate of Optional is worth it. That doesn't mean it's actually good . With Java it's just a choice between "bad" and "worse".
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by ragnese 6y ago
I like Kotlin's null most of the time, but I actually prefer Option still because every once in a while I need to nest them. You can nest Option, but not null.
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by ragnese 6y ago
You said you were picking on my second point, but you actually addressed the first. I was specifically talking about Result and Option, which, as you mentioned, are marked must_use. It's correct that it's a warning, but I think th
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by ragnese 6y ago
Optional is okay. Of course, you could still be a real jerk and return null instead of Optional<T> and the compiler won't warn me at all and I'll just get an NPE at run time... But it probably won't happen. The problem
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by ragnese 6y ago
Actually, PHP has checked exceptions exactly like Java

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