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by ufmace 10mo ago
Rust might be worth a look. It gets much closer to the line count and convenience of the dynamic languages like Python than Go, plus a somewhat better type system. Also gets a fully modern tooling and dependency management system. And nativ
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by ufmace 10mo ago
I disagree with the overall point of the article. I guess maybe they're worse for professional phone reviewers, who switch phones all the time, but I'm not one. In my experience, I think about two-thirds of the time I've gott
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by ufmace 10mo ago
I wonder if it's the opposite actually. When there is a human running a convenience store type of thing, people don't generally spend time trying to convince them of obviously absurd things, particularly if they work for the same
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by ufmace 10mo ago
Having ridden a few of them in the area, I think they're worth it. Waymos are 100% reliable. If you book it and it says it's coming at X time, it will definitely actually show up at X time. No more of, driver cancelled at the last
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by ufmace 10mo ago
I've come to think that adding halfway-typing to languages designed from the start to be dynamic is mostly not worth the bother. It may help a little bit sometimes, but there's always going to be holes. If you really want strong t
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by ufmace 10mo ago
It sounds like the kind of job you really want is going to be a bit of a unicorn. That means those kinds of jobs don't get advertised in job boards and have professional recruiters running around looking for candidates that fit. That i
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by ufmace 10mo ago
In addition to the other sibling comments, I think there's also a factor of greatly increased computing power. Back in the 90s and earlier, we just didn't have the computing power generally to encrypt everything with super-strong
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by ufmace 10mo ago
This isn't about things that happened decades or centuries ago though. It's about how right now, today, the UK is arresting 12,000 people a year, 30 a day, for supposedly "offensive" posts on social media. https:/&
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by ufmace 10mo ago
Thanks! This is a much better link than the OP, and better preempts the usual round of "why not my other pet language X instead"? questions. Clearly this choice and strategy has been in the works for a long time and the team has c
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by ufmace 10mo ago
> Ban all advertisements. (I'm all for it, at this point.) What would that actually look like though? Take something that could be considered an ad, but probably most people agree is a good thing. Say you post on here that task X is
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by ufmace 11mo ago
You don't necessarily have to if you're just getting a speeding ticket. But in order to write a speeding ticket, you have to hand over a valid Driver's License so they know who to ticket. Exactly what should they do if the dr
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by ufmace 11mo ago
I don't think this makes a lot of sense because, if the password is quick and easy to type, it can probably be cracked by any such device in the time it takes for a single keystroke. A long and complex password might hold up okay, but
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by ufmace 11mo ago
Exactly what "rolling over" would that be? Maybe you don't believe Durov's statement[0] about it. But is there any actual evidence anywhere that they've ever violated the secrecy of non-e2e private groups or message
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by ufmace 11mo ago
Speaking of, maybe I started paying attention at the wrong time, but I could swear I've seen like 10x more post/comment volume whining about how annoying the "Rust evangelism strike force" supposedly is than actual exces
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by ufmace 11mo ago
Reminds me of the Oceangate disaster as proof that things at least that dumb can happen in real live involving substantial amounts of money. Including everyone who is actually an expert in the field telling them that this is idiotic and usu
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by ufmace 11mo ago
Where's the meme of the guy who gets hired on to a tech company, fixes one bug that always annoyed them, then quits immediately
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by ufmace 11mo ago
"Pro-war" seems like an odd assertion here. They're recognizing the status quo in a reasonably neutral way, which seems anti-war to me. It seems like you're advocating for Western powers to take a position, using either
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by ufmace 11mo ago
I don't particularly like this article, mostly because he seems to have spent the great majority of it ranting about people on the internet supposedly yelling at him about not being "on the cloud" and semantics about exactly
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by ufmace 11mo ago
Actually I think I might be a little misguided here - confusing a mutex with an awaitable lock method versus blocking, and a mutex whose LockGuard is Send and can be held across other await points. To clarify, I do still think it's pro
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by ufmace 1y ago
Considering this issue did also make me think - maybe the real footgun here is the async mutex. I think a better "rule" to avoid this issue might be something like, don't just use the tokio async mutex by default just because
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by ufmace 1y ago
Assuming this quote from the article is true, it sounds like the only villain here is the school principal: > It said the AI alert was sent to human reviewers who found no threat - but the principal missed this and contacted the school&#
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by ufmace 1y ago
No, it's 100% appropriate. Anyone can have opinions on anything, but frankly, most of them have little relevance to reality. Their use of the word "expert" is supposed to mean the person has knowledge or expertise that render
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by ufmace 1y ago
I did say that those aspects of Ruby would start to be painful at that scale, not that it was totally unusable. Clearly it's usable, and there's certainly less scale-able things than Ruby on Rails out there serving big production
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by ufmace 1y ago
I mostly agree, though I actually wonder if the energy difference is as big as you say. Yeah the big LLM company datacenters consume tremendous amounts of power, but that's mostly for either training or serving ~millions of requests at
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by ufmace 1y ago
Ruby by itself is still a pretty decent scripting language. I still think Rake is highly underrated as a command runner. Rails is still a good web framework within its limits. If you want to build a small, modest complexity web app with lik
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by ufmace 1y ago
It's a cool and interesting type of attack, but I really don't care for the breathless clickbait headlines that are sourced to a few security researchers demonstrating an attack in a lab, that has already been patched against and
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by ufmace 1y ago
Mise seems pretty cool, but the thing that makes me reluctant to get on board now (current asdf user) is that it seems to want to manage too much. Especially with regard to using PATH munging. I've had substantial frustration with mult
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by ufmace 1y ago
Well, a regular SIM mostly just works, except for when it doesn't. I haven't had any APN issues with regular SIMs in a while actually, but it used to be a common problem that would only sometimes auto-configure correctly. I'v
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by ufmace 1y ago
Yeah but on the bright side, Google's total lack of customer service means nobody will ever be able to talk a minimum wage clerk in the middle of nowhere into transferring your phone number to somebody else without your permission.
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by ufmace 1y ago
The "abolish the police" movement did not manage to actually abolish the police, but it did drastically decrease enforcement and prosecution of crimes perceived as minor or petty, like shoplifting. Police are not eager to try to e

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