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by scoutt 4y ago
I'm not so critical of the language itself (it's just another language), but how it's managed and promoted. I'm also critical about some of it evangelists. For example, from your comment I can learn I work in (or with?)
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by scoutt 4y ago
I liked the article, and as an outsider to the discussion (I do embedded C for a living, and C++ as in "C with classes") I might add: What I've seen so far is that Rust tries to lure C developers with a sort-of "memory-m
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by scoutt 4y ago
I imagine you can have one thread modifying the vector while trying to read its length from another thread.
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by scoutt 4y ago
> 4 screens long blog post Or blog posts that explain every little thing related to a topic before the information you searched for. In your case, for the article "Shops that are open on Sunday in 2022", <h2> titles would
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by scoutt 4y ago
I'm split between agreeing with you, and that Youtube is no longer a thing for me. Probably it's my forties talking here, but I am under the impression that the content and the format (including the length) is being leaned towards
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by scoutt 4y ago
On PC (or whatever desktop)? In any case, you didn't truly answer.
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by scoutt 4y ago
> Yes, that's why I prefer apps where possible Would you prefer to install a .exe (or any other form of binary) from Aliexpress, Yandex or your preferred pr0n site in your PC instead of browsing their websites? If you don't, we
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by scoutt 4y ago
I love it. I would add a user avatar on the top right with a red "unread notification (1)" overlay icon. Why would I have a personal notification for a site I have just entered? Also, a "login to continue scrolling" like
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by scoutt 4y ago
Sorry. I don't know if you are saying that you won't be able to concatenate strings without operators, or if you choose a language just because it allows you to use a "a = b + c" form with strings. For the first case, of
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by scoutt 4y ago
> You can predict the outcome very well Not always. BTW, I don't know if you noticed it, but I was exagerating to make a point. > Of course you could do something in that operator that nobody would expect to happen inside it To m
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by scoutt 4y ago
But with "add" I'm explicitly calling a function. > There's no reason for the name "+" to be anymore special than "add" This is debatable. I want "+" to do just an addition. Also a functi
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by scoutt 4y ago
The difference is that you know (or can know, or predict) the outcome. In C++ a=b+c could be a simple addition or an operation that takes an hour, allocates 1GB of RAM, opens a socket and requests a JSON document from a server in China. Y
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by scoutt 4y ago
Police patrol != stopping people. And I wouldn't mind. I've been stopped so many times I can't even remember. If I live in high crime area, I'd want the police to patrol often. Wouldn't you? And high crime areas are
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by scoutt 4y ago
One could speed up things by having a ML model for rating dicks. Until someone creates thisdickdoesnotexist.com to game the system. PS: apparently the domain is up. IDK... I ran out of original ideas.
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by scoutt 4y ago
Aside for the lack of new, original and iconic characters and stories, we are living in a bad period for reboots of our favourite stories to be re-made and re-written by americans. I only hope it will end soon.
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by scoutt 4y ago
> some horrible stuff Note that I don't agree with many points of the article or the many bad uses of that technology, but for a second, let's imagine you are in charge of organizing and scheduling police patrol routes. Remembe
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by scoutt 4y ago
Do you remember Michelangelo virus from the 90's? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus) But you are right. Today I'm afraid of even downloading Acrobat Reader.
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by scoutt 4y ago
What should I do with an extra engineer? Should I hire one just for the sake of moving up in abstraction? 100k saved is 100k earned. Half a Ferrari.
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by scoutt 4y ago
I think it’s OK to write a blog post about your progress, with a positive attitude. A very different thing is to write a blog post refuting a troll. “Don’t feed the troll” is as old as the internet.
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by scoutt 4y ago
I don't know you, but I think you should PR-manage the situation without being confrontational. Writing a blog post about it just invites the trolls to write an answer! Do you know how many "X is better than Rust", "X la
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by scoutt 4y ago
> business logic and data structures. It seems fine to want to not have bugs in principle! I think there is no (embedded) language so far which prevents you from having bugs in business logic.
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by scoutt 4y ago
Like this? https://opencores.org/projects
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by scoutt 4y ago
I've worked on dozens of embedded projects that don't need string manipulation. Or just outputting some log string through a serial port, which is removed in release. Why do you think you'll need to process input strings? &gt
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by scoutt 4y ago
> all of our RAM and storage This has a cost. Even saving a marginal 10 cents can make a difference. Even if we live long enough to see a 10 cents microcontroller with 1GB of RAM/FLASH, there will be a $0.000001 part using the same
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by scoutt 4y ago
If there is no guilt then there is no blame. The only concern they have is about the wording they should use when communicating the decision they've taken so it doesn't look bad. Here is a template: "we did all we can, but we
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by scoutt 4y ago
> In short, companies will have much more control of the data they wish to share. What does that even mean? Even in that context. > Most users will access the EU Digital ID wallet in the form of a smartphone app. Why the EU thinks, pr
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by scoutt 4y ago
Yeah... I know the tactic and you want me to go for a hunt of some comment somewhere. Otherwise it's a dismissal. I'll just use common sense and say that all the evident effort that is put into Desktop environments and user applic
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by scoutt 4y ago
> Who is this strawman entity who "wants Linux to be mainstream" ? The ones doing desktop environments, UIs, package managers, etc. They thrive for mass adoption. Developers that want their applications cross-compatible and pai
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by scoutt 4y ago
> big hurdle Without going much further, to me it's the syntax. I can write some Rust lines of code, and I appreciate the compiler output to correct my syntax. But it's really difficult to me to read code written by others. I c
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by scoutt 4y ago
If the alternative you propose is RTOS/scheduler then the synchronous main-loop approach for embedded is, by far, more common than the alternative.

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