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by superkuh 2y ago
Exactly. rustc has a lifetime of about 3 months. gcc has a lifetime of about 5-10 years. Perl's interpreter has a lifetime of about 20 years. edit since I can't reply : The difference is that Perl devs don't immediately use
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by superkuh 2y ago
Basically the plot of Peter Watts' "Blindsight" (post-2000) scifi book series.
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by superkuh 2y ago
Another early book on the implications of AI is Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" (1872) satire which describes a society in which a complex machine uprising occurred and thereafter all complex mechanical/computational devices w
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by superkuh 2y ago
I imagine that is a dev's perception (in shipping rust binaries to users) with their rolling OS and constantly updated rustc. But as a user trying to compile rust code written by rust devs what happens is that it won't compile bec
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by superkuh 2y ago
It's too bad the lifetime of rustc is only about 3 months before breaking changes (new features, updates, etc) are introduced to the compiler and used by devs.
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by superkuh 2y ago
That 2D plane plot of the overton window distribution versus population density is why humanity needs a frontier that isn't instantly centrally controllable or communicable (like the seconds light lag to the moon, or minutes to asteroi
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by superkuh 2y ago
I see you just skipped to responding to the end of the comment chain instead of reading it. Common mistake. Here is what you missed, >If the big initial cost is rolled into home construction it would be less daunting and more normal. So
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by superkuh 2y ago
All those "Negative user focused" are actually "Apple proprietary problems" (problems that exist only on apple because of their weird proprietary stuff with no standards following, ie, getting temp on any other system is
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by superkuh 2y ago
It's a shame to see but inevitable when trying to get open software working on such a proprietary platform with so many hardware cut corners and incomplete/non-standard implementations. Just an insane amount of work of the most fr
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by superkuh 2y ago
There have been people showing how to make and operate these in various forms on youtube for a few years. Here's a guide on how to do it at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKjTlYP3cRQ
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by superkuh 2y ago
rustup still is outside of repos even if the download method isn't silly and insecure. For some random applications that's fine, but for a compiler and toolchain? No. If I wanted a rolling distro I'd use a rolling distro. Rus
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by superkuh 2y ago
Yes, I don't curl|sh like recommended for my rustc or otherwise install random arbitrary compilers from outside of my OS repositories. I have an OS install with system libraries and programs and I want to use that. I don't have to
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by superkuh 2y ago
Rust is the opposite of mature in practice. A language can be mature but if the style of devs that chose to write in it aren't, on average, then it doesn't matter. Sometimes old versus new effects this. For example in Rust the lan
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by superkuh 2y ago
For any communication I think we need to take as a premise that static HTML and static web sites are not the same category of thing. Any particular page on the web can be totally static or totally dynamic or a mix. There are static HTML pag
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by superkuh 2y ago
re: static, there are two main points of view. Static from the visitor's perspective or static from the webmaster's perspective. This seems to be about static from the webmaster's perspective which is a "modern" vie
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by superkuh 2y ago
A tiny bit of webdev-side dynamicism can really help with managing visitor-side static websites built on .html files in directories. If you run your own webserver and write HTML then check out server side includes. Being able to include .ht
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by superkuh 2y ago
News to me. But probably similarly expensive once the environmental regulations for wells, etc, and it's excavation are considered. And even fewer installers who are qualified to do it.
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by superkuh 2y ago
Ground source heat pumps install cost is very high when used in cold areas because of the frost depth caused excavation costs; significantly higher than the cost of the heat pump unit and parts themselves. It can be good if that disproporti
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by superkuh 2y ago
I think we'll see a lot larger scale adoption of heat pumps once they are re-engineered for dealing with 15F average winters (where heat pumps break even vs furnaces) that also go down to -25F for a week (where heat pumps use more ener
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by superkuh 2y ago
Maybe there should be a government mediated system for "DMCA", denied medical claim arguements, where anyone could send in a DMCA against a health insurance company and automatically involve the formal legal court system at no cos
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by superkuh 2y ago
Are you worried someone is going to MITM you? Hotline works just fine without encryption. That said, some people felt as you do even back in the early 2000s and the KDX server/client software set is basically Hotline with TLS. It was o
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by superkuh 2y ago
The hotline scene still exists in some form. The trackers are still up. Old clients still work even if new ones don't but it's nice to see some more development. I am actually connected to a hotline server right not using the Hotl
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by superkuh 2y ago
Normal applications do not completely replace themselves every time they are run. I hope you can see the difference. It's easy to see that the files in an actual application running on your OS don't change. It's much harder w
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by superkuh 2y ago
These "dynamic pdfs" are the anti-thesis of what pdf files are meant to be: static objects containing text that always looks the same. My state dept. of natural resources loves them which means all the regulations are now inaccess
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by superkuh 2y ago
Yep. Discord is not a chat protocol. It is a proprietary corporate service. The reason you can't use alternative clients for their service is (the TOS and...) that the client spies on you and that data is (part of) your payment. They s
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by superkuh 2y ago
Not spend $6000 on hardware because they run on computers we already have. But more seriously, they're fine and plenty fun for making recreational IRC bots.
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by superkuh 2y ago
This is the first javascript change in a decade that actually seems like an improvement for web pages (and not just web applications). Nice.
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by superkuh 2y ago
And this is the functionality that makes social media sites worth it for the vast majority of people. They are there following people who are there to make money. The vast majority of people involved in social media are primarily or seconda
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by superkuh 2y ago
Read my second paragraph.
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by superkuh 2y ago
Intramuscular vaccinations do not significantly prevent infection of the upper respiratory immune compartment (mucosal IgA antibodies, not humoral covered by IgG). The efficiency against infection by sars-cov-2 is about 20%. That means 80%

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