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by rewmie 3y ago
> Heck, even C++ is getting out of hand for Herb Sutter. That's a wildly exaggerated take. Working on something to improve user experience and simplify it is not nor it ever was the same as something getting out of hand. This take i
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by rewmie 3y ago
> My feeling during the read, and my definite conclusion afterwards, is that I didn't read a collection of new nice additions to the language, but a list of minefields and new fancy ways to crash your program. I don't think tha
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by rewmie 3y ago
I've heard he's an equally impressive Yeti tracker, loch Ness monster spotter, and leprechaun catcher.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think there's a difference between not having the skills to repair it and being prevented by some arbitrary barrier put up by the manufacturer. I'd go a step further and state that repairability is a design trait. The amoun
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Lack of Precompiled Header support kills this for us immediately. Out of curiosity, why do you use precompiled headers? I mean,the standard usecase is to improve build times, and a compiler cache already does that and leads to greater
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What can I use to cache with MSVC that isn't Incredibuild? Ccache works, but if you use the Visual Studio C++ compiler you need to configure your build to be cacheable. https://github.com/ccache/ccache/wi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The project itself may not be large, but if it's pulling in 517 dependencies, that's a lot to compile. Why do you need to build hundreds of dependencies if you're not touching them?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> No, threadrippers[0] are commonly used by people working in large compiled codebases. I don't think that's true at all, unless you're using a very personal definition of "common". In the real world, teams use c
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by rewmie 3y ago
I look at how this Rubiales character is abusing his position to attack a persecute his victims, and tries to create a chilling effect to silence current and future victims, and how the critical event is wholly documented and watched in rea
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by rewmie 3y ago
I never saw anyone complain that crates.io isn't curated. Why is this suddenly an issue when discussing shipping prebuilt binaries? If it's somehow ok to download the source code as-is, why is it a problem if crates.io builds it f
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think there's a very obvious distinction between the kind of "3rd party" that is your chosen OS distribution and the kind of 3rd party that is "some person on github or crates.io" That tells you more about cr
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That said, it's a trade off between efficiency and load spike tolerance. I trust that the trade off is made with informed decision. I don't think that relatively low utilization rates is the scenario that requires "infor
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by rewmie 3y ago
Let's see if the Rust community learned anything from the actix-web fiasco.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> On topic: I agree that 3rd party binaries are not a good solution to this particular problem. That is the type of solution that works in a closed environment like a corporate CI system, but it should not be the default. Why? I mean, OS
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by rewmie 3y ago
This blog post isn't insightful and doesn't even manage to present a consistent case against IDEs, and boils down to a sequence of weak strawmen. Describing a IDE's job as making it easier to type is pure nonsense and fails t
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by rewmie 3y ago
Sounds like yet another feature designed for disinformation bad actors to abuse. Even Wikipedia has editors that delete vandalism/disinformation and lock articles under attack by propaganda organizations.
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by rewmie 3y ago
If the first thing that the blogger thought out as the leading "worst C++ design choice" is zero-based indexing, this is a clear tell that the blog has nothing of value to add.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Oh no, we lost a few crabs? Yeah let's abandon Mars it just doesn't seem worth it. Do you think a private for-profit company should get a free pass for the damage they cause to the environment just because you like their busi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The only damage they actually cite despite claiming to have access to a 1100 page report is someone's trail camera seeing birds getting scared off and their eggs being eaten by another animal... The article you're supposedly
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by rewmie 3y ago
Why would anyone subject himself to that? All mainstream build systems already support incremental builds, and in some cases it's even possible to leverage compiler cache to further shave down the time it takes to rebuild a project. Br
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I also don't think tests should be blazing fast. I'd rather correct tests than fast tests, just like I'd rather a thorough compilation over a fast one. That's a false dilemma, and a poorly thought out strawman. The
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There's no way an "enterprise grade" cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (...) I don't think your beliefs are well founded. AWS's EC2 by default only supoprts shared tenancy, and dedicate
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by rewmie 3y ago
> For all intents and purposes Rust is dropping support for anything below Windows 10. And that's perfectly fine. Windows 8.1 is unsupported by Microsoft since early this year, and all older releases were already unsupported.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The police are average people too. Let's assume you are right, and just presume that a police officer is as useless in an emergency response scenario as your average Joe. Police officers are a part of a regional- and state-wide or
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Trust your gut, maintain awareness. This advice is pretty bad, and reeks of survivorship bias. This "truthiness" approach to safety purposely ignores the countless cases of morons getting themselves killed by intentionally ig
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by rewmie 3y ago
I really don't understand what point you tried to make. Claiming "you're the one responsible for your safety" really does not say anything, specially as you do not have the context or situational awareness to know whethe
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I get the impression that Rust revisions are (at least intended to be?) backwards compatible I don't think that matters at all. If I try to build a new project with an older version of Rust, the compiler will still throw errors wh
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by rewmie 3y ago
> since it's common to the majority of widely-used languages. I don't think so. Both C and C++ are specified in international standards. That's the gold standard. Java has very concrete versioning and specification process
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by rewmie 3y ago
That's perhaps the most pressing problem of Rust: not providing a concrete specification that can be targeted by projects and implementations.
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by rewmie 3y ago
I once interviewed for a financial company. They were looking for an experienced developer who could easily onboard onto a project. During the second meeting with the HR representative, he asked me to meet with the guy I was going to work w

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