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by troad 2y ago
Really fine points. Rust definitely has more going for it than some of the earlier hype cycles. That being said, and speaking from my own experience with Rust, there are some design choices that I suspect may pose a barrier for its widespre
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by troad 2y ago
My (limited) understanding is that most serious emulation is done via dynarec these days, particularly past the fourth / fifth gen of consoles. For newer consoles, traditional interpreted emulation isn't going to be fast enough to
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by troad 2y ago
> What’s the risk of bringing back a wooly mammoth? I imagine a big one is the needless and possibly intense pain and suffering for the surrogate mother elephant, and her experimentally-GMO'd calf. Elephants are highly social and b
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by troad 2y ago
> Defining what is and isn't part of a species based on their gut microbiota seems nonsensical. OP never said this. They said complex organisms are not fully defined solely by their DNA. That is a finer point than the one you'r
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by troad 2y ago
You can write out of tree Rust drivers for Linux right now, no one is stopping you. Your 'very practical desire' to write Rust drivers doesn't extend into some sort of corresponding obligation for anyone else to accept that c
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by troad 2y ago
You're apologising to someone "if he misunderstood" when you said you hated them. How magnanimous. Maybe one day you'll spend time composing your thoughts to put out there, looking forward to engaging in a discussion on
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by troad 2y ago
This is all predicated on the assumption that forks and clones are a bad thing, when they're actually a good thing? Why does a clone require an 'exit strategy'? Does Linux have an exit strategy for merging back into Unix? Whe
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by troad 2y ago
This is the wildest single thing I've ever seen on HN. You decided it would be a good use of your time to try to explain - straight to someone's face - why you hate them. As though you were filing a Jira ticket about a human being
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by troad 2y ago
> It's been adopted for core components in Firefox, and Chromium/Android are likewise moving towards adopting Rust. In general, Rust has seen broad industry adoption from the likes of FAANG, M$, etc. Rust has seen slight intere
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by troad 2y ago
TLDR: In response to the recent resignation of Rust-for-Linux's Wedson Almeida Filho [0] and consequent debate over the politics of Rust in the kernel, Drew DeVault suggests that the Rust for Linux crowd build their own ABI-compatible
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by troad 2y ago
Definitely C#. You’ll find tons more resources. F# is fantastic, but it’s not a good *first* programming language. A lot of what you’ll learn when you first learn programming is going to be applicable in any language though. Once you’re com
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by troad 2y ago
I wouldn't mind a platform that tries to bring back the old model - perhaps by limiting the amount of time a property can be made available, or something along those lines?
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by troad 2y ago
Odd indeed. It's also worth noting that the article has a real apples != oranges problem. Things like 'libsystemd' are not in any way comparable to your typical Rust crate.
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by troad 2y ago
Super interesting take, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I like your trade-off framing, but I do think that your argument fails to take account of something important here, which I'll try to illustrate with an example. Let's say
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by troad 2y ago
> And many notable Rust projects attempt to keep third party dependencies to a minimum. I don't think this is true. The only two major Rust crates that manage to keep their dependencies light are tokio and serde, and these are highl
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by troad 2y ago
Dependency bloat is an issue with Rust in general. The dependency trees for any meaty Rust project quickly become pretty horrifying. Auditing all these dependencies is infeasible, and my level of confidence in a lot of them is fairly low. I
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by troad 2y ago
I feel like I must be missing something here. Why not store the ID of the top-most visible list item, and just render the next n until you run out of box height? Surely you're not trying to draw thousands of items that aren't even
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by troad 2y ago
For a moment I thought this was about the urban legend, which got me reminiscing about the era when Snopes was a fun treasure trove of wacky urban legends, not “fact-checking” SEO slop.
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by troad 2y ago
> for some reason you trust the websites of your Linux distro vendor, but not netboot.xyz? I'm not going to lie, this made me laugh out loud. "For some reason, you trust a doctor to perform surgery on you, but not this lovely
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by troad 2y ago
> Imagine having had an opportunity to miss out on 8 figures of stock returns and only be left with 7 figures because you followed sound financial advice. A bit of perspective may be warranted. There are single mothers busting ass raisin
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by troad 2y ago
Huh. Apparently I've been watching videos on mpv for years without HW acceleration. Good thing I read this; thanks!
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by troad 2y ago
> People love to talk about how capitalism (or free market) solves the tragedy of the commons, but it actually doesn't. The only way to solve it is to make people care about commons by giving them a say in managing it, i.e. socialis
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by troad 2y ago
"Obnoxious tightwad" is in the eyes of the beholder. Asserting your Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights won't make you popular with the police, and yet you're far safer asserting those rights than getting overly talkative
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by troad 2y ago
We need more laws like this, then. Federal ones.
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by troad 2y ago
It sounds like you're precisely describing Rust's Result type. [0] [0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/
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by troad 2y ago
I think you're overlooking the disincentives to competition that exist while Google is so consolidated. Google funds things like hardware, cloud, and Android so that they constitute a hundred-mile moat around its core Advertising and S
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by troad 2y ago
> Apple has also made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store. This is truly egregious.
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by troad 2y ago
I honestly don't think this is true. I think people tend to discover a creator they like first, and then click through to their Patreon. I don't think the reverse happens very often; I don't think many people install the Patr
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by troad 2y ago
Europe already has all the middle- and upper-class people it will ever have, they've all heard of Apple, and they mostly don't use their products. Europe's share of the world economy is in decline. The regulatory environment
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by troad 2y ago
You're not wrong, but try and tell my bank they should release banking apps for those systems.

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