techbrovanguard

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by techbrovanguard 1y ago
american exceptionalism at work
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by techbrovanguard 1y ago
this is not the gotcha you think it is, you just dropped your gluestick
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by techbrovanguard 1y ago
you’ve taken a slightly smaller shit on the floor than the seo slop factory next to you. do you want a medal?
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
> Tech pundits still seem to commonly assume that UB is so fundamentally entangled in C++’s specification and programs that C++ will never be able to address enough UB to really matter. - denial ← you are here - anger - bargaining - depr
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
> 3) The overreliance on dbus turns the “the unix philosophy” ;) away. Text as a universal communication medium, everything is a file, etc. have you considered the reality that the "unix philosophy" results in incredibly brittl
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
the second i tried writing go to solve a non-trivial problem the whole language collapsed in on itself. footguns upon footguns hand-waved away with "it's the go way!". i just don't understand. the "the go way"
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
the greens could always use more votes
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
> The first rule of kremnology is that Russia always lies without a shame, as lies are usefull and they incur zero cost on the liar. you’re describing international relations, none of this is specific to russia. people are indoctrinated
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
this is pretty obvious bait
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
i've seen a sharp increase in panzer tanks (f150s especially!) spreading like a plague throughout australian streets. can yanks keep their child slaughtering, pedestrian maiming, two tonne kill-boxes to themselves? every cunt with a di
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
siri’s speech recognition and intent handling is so comically bad. as of late, for some unknown reason, when i ask siri to favourite the current song while driving it curtly replies that it doesn’t know which speaker i’m referring to. this
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
this is a joke… right?
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
tangent, but you can’t send mail on ios with an idn because “the sender address was invalid”, despite it working in macos. i’ve read this is caused by a broken regex check. if any apple employees are reading please take a look
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
wowee, color me surprised
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
quality post from `throwaway984393`.
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
maybe too little memory safety means your wit overflows back to 0?
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
> I don't understand why people criticizing Rust tend so heavily to let perfect be the enemy of good. if you've convinced yourself that you're special and all problems with c are solved by trying harder, clearly everyone e
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
ah yes, the incumbents: Big DNS™. your suggestion is laughable, come back when you have a solution that isn't looking for a problem.
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
> To do anything interesting you will require unsafe blocks this is just flagrantly false, have you no shame?
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
because it won’t—entertaining the question legitimises these snake-oil peddlers
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
did you have a crowdstroke while writing this reply?
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
pointing out the obvious? why are you upset i’m stating mixing hot oil and water will make a mess?
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
this all-or-nothing mindset is is reductive and defeatist—harm reduction is valuable. sure, rust won’t magically make your kernel driver bug free, but will reduce the surface area for bugs, which will likely make it more stable.
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
be the change you wish to see
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
> Well how much of those kernel-level drivers we rely upon ARE written in a memory unsafe language ??? Like 99% ? And we are not crashing and dying every day? we shouldn't discount the consequences of memory safety vulnerabilities j
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
i've seen photos of the bsod from an affected machine, the error code is `PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA`. here's some helpful takeaways from this incident: 1) mistakes in kernel-level drivers can and will crash the entire os 2)
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by techbrovanguard 2y ago
I'm glad Rob Pike didn't contribute to Go, that'd have been catastrophic to my productivity! Imagine having tools do work instead of users, it'd be like a world without lawyers. Anyhow, I've got to refactor my WIP c
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by techbrovanguard 3y ago
Clearly, the solution is more neoliberalism.
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by techbrovanguard 3y ago
If you want to call an async function from a sync context, use `futures::executor::block_on`. Nobody is forcing you to use async.
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by techbrovanguard 3y ago
> It would have stopped virtually all of them? Do you have a source for that claim?

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