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by sk1459 5y ago
Calling programming engineering in the absence of licensure or any standard of performance for the entire industry is kind of silly.
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by sk1459 5y ago
Somebody with an HN account said that they write Rust for a purpose and company he won’t disclose? Well, that shows me.
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by sk1459 5y ago
They aren’t.
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by sk1459 5y ago
Better yet, read the epic rant that Zed Shaw made about Ruby. It is certainly juvenile, but I don’t think it’s baseless. Now, consider that the core members of the rust community are exactly the same people he was talking about when rails w
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by sk1459 5y ago
I suppose this can’t be stopped. I hope someone has the resources to curate a working fork of the Linux kernel that doesn’t have all the “improvements” it’s about to get.
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by sk1459 5y ago
Hard hitting journalism from the New York Times...after Pfizer has made their money.
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by sk1459 5y ago
I just did a search on Dice for jobs. Java: 12,879 Golang: 4,339 COBOL: 321 Haskell: 18 Rust: 2 The Rust jobs also appeared to be blockchain related, so I wouldn’t count on that being a place that could get you to retirement. I would expect
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by sk1459 5y ago
>impossible to write code containing a data race https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Rust+data+r...
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by sk1459 5y ago
Contextualizing events with the knowledge that the FBI has shown itself to be a modern NKVD and the “intelligentsia” in journalism are happy to be mouthpieces of the US oligarchy actually saves you a lot of confusion. Being lost in the mome
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by sk1459 5y ago
Permanently? I thought the standard of performance has become “reducing symptoms, maybe, we think, we’re not really sure. This is probably safe though”
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by sk1459 5y ago
Article says 1700lf and looks about 4ft wide, so that’s 6800ft of bridge deck. At $2.8M that would mean they spent $412/sf of deck. Where I live, the state DOT spends about $150/sf of bridge deck for traffic rated bridges. I’ve go
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by sk1459 5y ago
I’m actually trying to say that it is an industry dominated by snake-oil, charlatans and coffee-table “science”. There is no standard or obvious measure of performance, and liability is usually of little concern. The planners I know are har
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by sk1459 5y ago
Would you say SpaceX has been eating a free lunch, then? Sounds about right.
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by sk1459 5y ago
Bain Capital bought Toys R Us with leverage, put the debt on their books and it crushed them. There’s a great write up by Zachary Yost. https://austrian.economicblogs.org/mises-us/2021/yost-proper... He looks like
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by sk1459 5y ago
A planner at my firm recently told me, with complete confidence, that on-street parking increases safety. Then I was told that research from AASHTO was just not something this person agreed with, and haven’t I heard of Strong Towns? Here’s