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by riwsky 3y ago
Says a man clearly in the pocket of Big Boat.
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by riwsky 3y ago
They were born… in virtual reality?
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by riwsky 3y ago
“Apple is the worst computer company, except for all the others.”
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by riwsky 3y ago
> Paying for the phone is not a viable way to pay for the OS. That incentives the phone maker to ditch OS updates for old phones. Huh? That is Apple’s model, and iOS supports old hardware much longer than Android does.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Apple’s App Store has more choice, quality, and innovation than Android does; yeah, there are other factors at play there—but it’s a bit brash to accuse people of understanding nothing when, in the case of mobile app stores, you’re arguing
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by riwsky 3y ago
USB-C: if YAML were a cable
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by riwsky 3y ago
It improves those things for everyone else, too. While those symptoms are real, and have plenty of biological underpinnings, they are not distributed bimodally in some way that distinguishes ADHD from “just” having terrible executive functi
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by riwsky 3y ago
Adderall does not have different effects on people with or without ADHD; it gives everyone better concentration.
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by riwsky 3y ago
you say this as if walking didn’t have plenty of cognitive benefits
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by riwsky 3y ago
any use of interfaces? No way, man. Any use of reflect? Sure.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Or maybe… certain problems lend themselves better to some languages than others, even when accounting for debugging, and Rust just isn’t the winner every time?
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by riwsky 3y ago
What are all video games if not mental gyms?
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by riwsky 3y ago
Download/offline support
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by riwsky 3y ago
How the system was intended to function is only relevant to the mistakenness of the popular conception of its ethical obligations insofar as that conception does (or should) rely on beliefs about that founding intent. Generally, it does not
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by riwsky 3y ago
Sure, but that doesn’t fix the problem with mrandish’s argument. People assume the Court’s role is to fix things because from like 1950–2016, it fixed things: the Court’s political outlook was much closer to the average American’s than Cong
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by riwsky 3y ago
Turns out there are some resource management problems even rustc can’t solve.
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by riwsky 3y ago
This idealism ignores decades of the Supreme Court acting as a shadow legislature on topics as broad as environmental protections and sexual freedom. Roe v Wade, and decades later Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization, are not matter
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by riwsky 3y ago
Can’t help but be reminded of the excellent observation: > This always struck me as funny about the wellness world: how some people would brag about their mainstream credentials (“Trust me,” they’d say, with a straightening of their tie.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Wait, are you writing medical videogames?
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by riwsky 3y ago
Can’t get over the sentence “Finally some folks with IQs in the triple digits got into the act”. I think the author’s point was “finally some [geniuses]”, but average IQ is 100 by definition. It’s even funnier though if their point indeed i
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by riwsky 3y ago
Think of them more as “walblue” and “walgreen”
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by riwsky 3y ago
The parent didn’t suggest Java is less safe; their point is “Java is safe; C++ is fast; Rust is both” and they just phrased it unclearly
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by riwsky 3y ago
cries in ALGOL-68
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by riwsky 3y ago
I had stopped believing in fate, too—until I learned that (popular astrology app) Co-Star makes heavy use of Haskell[1]. So since they got my horoscope to compile, it’s probably correct. [1]: https://www.costarastrology.com/
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by riwsky 3y ago
iOS AI apps are dead in the water until Apple releases Fortran APIs
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by riwsky 3y ago
Pizza, though, is only available in NY and CT
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by riwsky 3y ago
dangGPT
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by riwsky 3y ago
“Magic” isn’t a rigorously defined term, so let’s ignore it. Support for macros is a huge philosophical difference between Rust and Go.
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by riwsky 3y ago
From “the rise of worse is better”: > Completeness -- the design must cover as many important situations as is practical. All reasonably expected cases should be covered. Completeness can be sacrificed in favor of any other quality. In f
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by riwsky 3y ago
Rust-the-language, maybe—but Rust-the-ecosystem makes heavy use of magic crates like `thiserror` and `anyhow`. I’m not saying it’s a better or worse philosophy, but it’s certainly a different philosophy.

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