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by vacuity 11mo ago
But if it's a real, serious issue without an easy resolution, who is the burden on? It's not that the maintainers wouldn't fix bugs if they easily could. FFmpeg is provided "as is"[0], so everyone should be responsi
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think I've got the gist now. Although I think Gernot Heiser doesn't consider the following to be ideal , I think it's fair to say that true claims have undergone some sensationalization. I don't think people generally
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think the framing of "monoliths vs. microservices", with the implication that you must either have a mountain of a codebase or a beach of grains of code-sand, is not helpful. Good modularity means that different levels of tradeo
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Perhaps Dijkstra was going for the former, but is it bad to consider a stronger argument along the lines of what he said?
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Presumably no one thinks "I love using [dynamically-typed language] because I can make mistakes easier", but on the other hand, isn't it the case that large codebases are written with low initial friction but high future main
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I will check those out tomorrow, but in the meantime: I don't mean to say that a microkernel-based system is necessarily worse on performance. However, I think a highly optimized monolithic system will probably always be somewhat faste
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Note: IPC performance isn't the only factor in overall OS performance. Especially for a "traditional microkernel", where programs are split up into separate processes liberally, performance degrades due to the sheer number of
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Note: IPC performance isn't the only factor in overall OS performance. Especially for a "traditional microkernel", where programs are split up into separate processes liberally, performance degrades due to the sheer number of
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by vacuity 11mo ago
More generally, even if someone says something questionable, there may be something to learn from what they said. Always seek to learn and grow, because all that you can learn from is before you.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
It may not be the case for statins specifically, but my main concern is side effects. If there was a panacea, I would support giving it to everyone, but lifestyle changes are usually more available, if not easier.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Use none, too.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Not GP, but I genuinely don't understand what GP is talking about.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think the error type stuff should be less prominent, and really shouldn't be front-and-center in the standard library, or any library. Error handling is undoubtedly important, but its expression in the API is a different matter. I do
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by vacuity 11mo ago
On the topic of allocators, I noticed some PRs to add allocator support to more types recently...great, now we just need to stabil—oh, wait. Although I care more about not stabilizing a bad API than eternal unstability, if it comes down to
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Given the troubles with shipping Polonius, I imagine that there isn't much more room for improvements in "pure borrow checking" after Polonius, though more precise ways to borrow should improve ergonomics a lot more. You ment
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by vacuity 11mo ago
You're exaggerating heavily, which undermines your claims. While Rust claims to allow fearless concurrency, there is plenty of official documentation to show that the limitations are acknowledged. Anyone telling you Rust prevents memor
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by vacuity 11mo ago
The borrow checker is an approximation of an ideal model of managing things. In the general case, the guidelines that the borrow checker establishes are a useful way to structure code (though not necessarily the only way), but sometimes the
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I could argue on technical aspects, but firstly, how do you square what you're saying with Rust code used in production codebases? Do they not do multithreading, or shared memory, or complex allocation patterns? Sure, Rust is not a sil
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by vacuity 11mo ago
> > But who is "they"? You used "they" several times, so I took a certain usage to mean "Rust", and I was asking who specifically "Rust" entails. Who defines the "Rust beliefs"? > &
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Your comment is really quite interesting. Thanks! What you're saying all sounds plausible to me. I note that, while different circles may call for "purity" (fans of, e.g., Unix, Lisp, or Haskell), I think honestly pursuing th
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think I see most Rust threads here. Perhaps there is a low presence in most threads, but I didn't notice a significant rate as the baseline. Though this thread is burning up, certainly.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think that many people leaning toward the latter are "merely" misguided, though I certainly don't think that to correct them would be easy. However, I genuinely think some people are taken to be hateful when they aren'
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by vacuity 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45819079 (read my comment here first) Not quite your fault, but the framing of "people you don't agree with" juxtaposed with the implicit statement of "people who pro
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by vacuity 11mo ago
In fact, by my reading, that post is saying that the actual cause is immaterial in the face of campaigning that essentially tried to be the cause.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
Morality partially stems from autonomy (in the sense that "I should be able to act as I please"). According to autonomy, a person should be able to act freely, and two people should be able to interact similarly. One person's
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I think this is rather hostile. There is moderation from not using dependencies or from using too many dependencies. I don't think GP is advocating for no dependencies, either. Even vendoring and pinning dependencies provides benefits.
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by vacuity 11mo ago
But who is "they"? What does it mean to be "on the same side as Rust"? What if Rust maintainers disagree? Being on a side suggests an unwillingness to part ways, which is more commitment than merely agreeing to a set of
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by vacuity 11mo ago
> Instead they hear voices from the LGBT community Oftentimes, the voices are outside. I think you're somewhat optimistic, and "the middle ground" is not a magical place. It's easy to fall into a false sense of securi
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I'm not aware of the attempts, but at least the route of adding more to the stdlib seems even worse, although it may be popular .
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by vacuity 11mo ago
I agree with you, although of course "don't be an asshole" is only simple to enforce in practice. In the current climate, I expect that people considered "conservative" will still be highly hostile to good faith (le

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