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by tyg13 2y ago
Every time I see a post from Lisp fans about macros, I want to be amazed, but I always just walk away confused. I can tell there's something interesting in there, but the quote-unquote-quasiquote syntax is just so dense that my brain i
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by tyg13 2y ago
Just to further illustrate what I'm saying, are you really trying to say that ``` //explicitly annotating this struct is default initializable and copyable #[derive(Default, Copy, Clone)] struct Foo { ... } ``` is actually wo
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by tyg13 2y ago
Your post starts with the flawed assumption that you have to define constructors in Rust, and then your own wall of text (ironically longer than mine) about avoiding boilerplate which doesn't apply to Rust. I'm not sure you unde
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by tyg13 2y ago
You're mistaken. Rust does not require you to define all constructors. Rust does not have constructors. All structs in Rust must be initialized using brace syntax, e.g. `Foo { bar: 1, baz: "" }`. This is commonly encapsulat
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by tyg13 2y ago
Seventeen-hundreds doesn't sound stilted at all, to this native English speaker. I would use this even in a very formal context, and certainly no one would bat an eye. One-thousand-seven-hundreds is almost certainly incorrect in Englis
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by tyg13 2y ago
It's certainly capable of creating technically impressive music, and mimicry at a ridiculously competent level, but it absolutely will not replace the desire for recording artists. These tools will become part of an artist's arsen
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by tyg13 3y ago
Am I stupid, or is this just AI covering Blackbird by The Beatles in a couple different styles? Is this supposed to be an example of AI writing "absolute bangers" or "soulful music with feeling" because I just don't
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by tyg13 3y ago
How is age verification supposed to work? I don't suppose users of the site are going to provide legal documents just to use it. It's tantamount to shutting it down. I ask because there was a similar moral outrage around age verif
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by tyg13 3y ago
It's just a secular leftist response to Conservapedia that mostly focuses on debunking (mostly far-right) pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. I think you're taking the name a bit too literally and the concept a bit too seriousl
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by tyg13 3y ago
Can we just stop with the nonsense about "people wanting to live where the rich people live" as if a good majority of the people who are fighting for affordable housing aren't people who _already_ live there and are fighting
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by tyg13 3y ago
You're missing the point. The people in the area often do support building new housing, they just don't want it where they are. This is a fundamental paradox, as it has to be built _somewhere_, but seemingly none of the people who
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by tyg13 3y ago
Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist; in much of the world outside of America, public transport is not unpopular. And your own transportation system is vastly inefficient in the task of getti
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by tyg13 3y ago
The smart and motivated ones will try to get to the grocery store. Unfortunately, for most, those services do so much more harm than good. What makes sense for a wealthy professional to pay for the convenience of food or grocery delivery en
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by tyg13 3y ago
This generation grew up in the middle of at least two of those economic crises, has witnessed countless riots, faced down a soul-crushing pandemic at the peak of their childhood, and has lived their entire life without even a shred of hope
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by tyg13 3y ago
Because corporations are not people.
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by tyg13 3y ago
The author seemed to offer no particular criticism of the invading Israelis, as far as I can tell. In fact, they almost seemed to praise their tactics for their unconventional nature.
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by tyg13 3y ago
> If your job was X by hand and now a machine does X better what gives you the right to deny others who want to use such a machine? Self-preservation? Do you expect them to roll over and die? > Did Luddites not feel it was their right
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by tyg13 3y ago
I feel like this comment exists in a capitalist fairy tale where the only way a business could grow to overtake its competitors is by being better for consumers. Or where a business that has done so will always continue to do so once it has
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by tyg13 3y ago
I'd be quite interested to read that post, given that one of the big UB hammers is strict aliasing which gets used a _lot_
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by tyg13 3y ago
This seems like the sort of a comment that can only be written by completely refusing to understand why compiler writers take advantage of UB. Compiler writers are not engaging in "adversarial" behavior with their users -- they ar
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by tyg13 3y ago
You're correct, although I'm fairly sure dereferencing a `void*` is a compile error on all but the most ancient and non-conforming compilers. I'm not even sure what it _could_ compile to, given that `void` has no size.
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by tyg13 3y ago
I'm not complaining that it's not curated, specifically because it's exclusively a source code package directory. Auditing source code for safety is hard, doing so with a binary is much harder.
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by tyg13 3y ago
Sure, maybe not entirely isolated. I just mean that the geographic isolation of being an island means you don't see a dialect continuum between English and other languages the way that you do with say, the various Germanic languages.
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by tyg13 3y ago
crates.io is just a platform for people to make their Rust code distributable; it's not curated in any way really (other than removing obvious malware). An OS distribution is explicitly curated.
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by tyg13 3y ago
Yes, you are correct the Saxons would be in ancient Saxony, not Britain.
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by tyg13 3y ago
It seems multi-dimensional. Isolation allows for parallel language development, but that development could be conservative relative to the rest of the speakers, or it could be heavily divergent. Basque is an example where there's an ob
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by tyg13 3y ago
Hebrew as it's spoken today in Israel, or ancient Hebrew? There's a lot of intelligibility between the two, but it's mostly in the written form. In ancient Judea you'd be more likely to find a speaker of dialect that&#x2
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by tyg13 3y ago
I'm no linguist, but I do study it as a hobby. As far as I'm aware, linguists are not generally in the business of making ridiculous claims like "this language is older than another." The concept of "age" for a
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by tyg13 3y ago
I'm quite familiar. Would you care to elaborate?
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by tyg13 3y ago
Not that your point is invalid, but I wouldn't be linking Guns, Germs, and Steel. Quite a few historians have heavily criticized the claims in that book for being overly reductive pop history.

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