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by widdershins 3y ago
> Sure, I had read various books about opening the doors of perception but at some point you realize it's just more "you" that you are finding. But that's what opening the doors of perception means. Of course you&#x27
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by widdershins 3y ago
I don't know that Rust would solve the issues you mentioned. It's great for fixing memory errors, and making it hard to make logical mistakes where you forget to handle a particular case. But it doesn't do much to stop deadlo
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by widdershins 3y ago
And kill all pet cats.
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by widdershins 3y ago
So why on earth is std::string so slow to compile, if it's possible to compile this full-featured formatting library in 1/4 of the time?
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by widdershins 3y ago
Yep, you're right. At 5$/month they'd need 6.66M subscribed users. Still a lot, but more acheivable.
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by widdershins 3y ago
I made the website for my wedding with Redbean, just for a bit of fun. It was a delightful experience. Deployment was just: upload one file, restart a process. I developed on my Mac, and deployed the executable, unchanged, to a Linux server
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by widdershins 3y ago
The Conservative party are in government. Their programme is designed to extract wealth and political agency from the general populace, and suck it up into the control of their own class of people (a mixture of landed gentry, financiers etc
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by widdershins 3y ago
It's about when you want to enable optimisations or conveniences depending on the parameterized type. For example, in the std::vector<T> type, if T supports being moved, you want to use that when growing your vector for performan
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by widdershins 3y ago
You've missed the forest for the trees. The idea is that with fewer cars we would design our urban areas for walking and cycling. Your apartment block wouldn't have only one grocery store nearby, you would have a thriving ecosyste
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by widdershins 3y ago
Don't let the haters get you down. I appreciate homebrew every day, and I know there are thousands more out there like me. It makes using a Mac so much more fun! I appreciate this because I sometimes have to use Windows, where package
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by widdershins 3y ago
That depends on the sizes of the objects. If the objects in the union are generally small, cache coherence is better than if you have polymorphic objects allocated on the heap.
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by widdershins 3y ago
Count me among them. I write C++ all day and I'd love to introduce Lisp/Clojure to orchestrate my more performant code. This is a very interesting project!
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by widdershins 3y ago
Haha, that's largely my resume, but I write pretty hardcore high-performance multithreaded code in C++ every day. Reason: I started with C++, got a job in it, and still work in it 15 years later, having mostly not needed another langua
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by widdershins 3y ago
Yes, that's true for our generation, since we grew up with authors and musicians as role models we admired, and we loved their art and wanted to emulate it. But what will happen in a generation or two, when the world is flooded with AI
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by widdershins 4y ago
Yes, it's fairly common to go to prison for drink-driving here.
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by widdershins 4y ago
But equally useful for those who want to learn how to spot a crook!
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by widdershins 4y ago
I think bevy is a much more ambitious 'total' framework for making games. Plus, I think by its nature Rust forces you to deal with the really hard questions up front, and get them right first time. In C++ you can punt some of thes
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by widdershins 4y ago
What if your father's slave trading generated a huge fortune, which is bequeathed to you?
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by widdershins 4y ago
Your (oblique) comparison to gun control is interesting... but practically, controlling a technology which is just a special kind of number-crunching is vastly harder than controlling a technology which must be forged from steel in a specia
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by widdershins 4y ago
It was 1873. People spoke and wrote differently - usually more verbosely. It also depends what context the quote has been lifted from. I think your version is excellent if you're 'trying' to write a new aphorism or idiom. But
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by widdershins 4y ago
> I'm sure Kagi's paying customers are paying for a reason No ads, blazing fast, and the search results are more than adequate for me (I don't find myself ever reaching for Google as I did with DDG). I'm not too bothe
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by widdershins 4y ago
I personally think that she laid the groundwork for some of the problems we're seeing today. She 'sold the family silver' which creates short-term gains, but in the end you've damaged long-term foundations of the economy
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by widdershins 4y ago
Yeah, we're also employing that same architecture to great effect. A really nice side-effect is that you can reconfigure your app easily without recompiling. It really speeds up iteration times. We can also have a small core team writi
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by widdershins 4y ago
I personally find the lack of vaporware from Apple refreshing. With Apple, when you hear about the thing you can go out and buy the thing. From too many companies you hear about cool tech, only to find it disappointing or hobbled a year lat
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by widdershins 4y ago
Wind operates at night, often producing more than it does in the day.
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by widdershins 4y ago
Perhaps you could retain some sympathy for the 48% of us who voted against it.
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by widdershins 4y ago
A well-designed digital rotary knob isn't too hard to use - but it must be set by simply dragging up and down, not in a rotary motion, which is very unnatural with a mouse. They remain popular in audio software not just because of skeu
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by widdershins 4y ago
> behind each wind turbine field there is a very real gas turbine or lignite power plant But isn't it still better to be using wind turbines 75% of the time when it's windy, and gas/coal only 25% of the time when it's
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by widdershins 4y ago
> Speed in programming never matters except in the systems space. No one is gonna be able to tell Rust vs Go in a web API Speed equals money. The same app running at twice the speed uses half the compute resources. You may also gain a lo
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by widdershins 4y ago
I pay for YouTube too. Between that and Kagi search, it's ~$20 per month. Which seems crazy in today's environment of 'everything free'. But seriously, I use these both all day for both work and play, but I only watch an

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