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by worik 4mo ago
> What problem does stdx actually solve? Even a small rust programme can end up importing hundreds of crates. For many applications you need to investigate and verify your dependencies. A substantialstandard library, the hypothesis is,
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by worik 4mo ago
I am a supporter of Kerkour's efforts > are Rust developers going to seriously entertain an alternative "standard library" curated by one developer. No. Absolutely not But this is a start. Join the effort. Help them
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by worik 4mo ago
> The blog has been on a downward spiral for years, it's doomed, let it go. Argumentum ad hominem, yuk > the fundamental mistake of assuming that they’re trustworthy and we’d trust them no questions asked. The author makes no suc
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by worik 4mo ago
> As in why would I trust a random git repo It is one repo to trust, rather than hundreds That is the reason
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by worik 4mo ago
> stealing some code Strong words. Care to back them up?
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by worik 4mo ago
> Don't stay honest to those don't value it. IMO you are either honest or you are not
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by worik 4mo ago
Typical. Meanwhile Chinese, open weight models, will catch up. This ban is security theater, virtue signaling, again
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by worik 4mo ago
I have been building on a Pi with a 7 inch touch screen I started out looking for lightweight X-Windows solutions, for the LLM and me to use. Cutting a long and frustrating story short I settled on SDL2 Rust wrapper But what a PITA X-Window
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by worik 4mo ago
I am not much of a GUI user, or programmer, but I have used a lot of GUI tool kits, mostly debugging and/or extending other's work HTML5 is the sanest for me. I can actually find where code executes, tooling using browsers (Firefo
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by worik 4mo ago
...an old con. Automated cold reading
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AMD Stiffs Researcher $10k Bug Bounty(gadgetreview.com)
98 points by worik 4mo ago|9 comments
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by worik 4mo ago
THE foundation of democracy... ...is "Rule of Law" IMO
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by worik 4mo ago
There is some trainspotting I can identify with!
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by worik 4mo ago
> including non-Barbaric culture to Russia Golly. Europe got from the Islamic world in the crusades. Did it though? End barbarism?
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Academics set out vision for planetary survival(theguardian.com)
6 points by worik 4mo ago|0 comments
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by worik 4mo ago
> Why do you think nobody in the financial press is reporting on this blatant corruption? They are
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by worik 4mo ago
> Do you have any sources to share in support of this claim of malfeasance? Not here, this is a casual discussion not a scientific seminar. But use Occam's Razor and modern history Point 1. Corruption has penetrated the highest ech
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by worik 4mo ago
> Damn this person's obviously is so bitter towards Rust What makes you think that? > I wonder why picking on Rust specifically. I did not see that. What did I miss?
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by worik 4mo ago
I said and I mean "huge", as in "very big" Passive index investing was once the best strategy, perhaps is still. But in the face of such apparent malfeasance perhaps no longer The big pension funds do have governors, t
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by worik 4mo ago
> As long as there are active investors in the market conducting price discovery. Which there always will be, Passive funds dominate ow, don't they?
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by worik 4mo ago
> This is why many are arguing for fast-track inclusion... History will be the judge. But using nothing more than Occum's Razor and recent corporate history as a guide the reason that "...many are arguing for fast-track inclu
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by worik 4mo ago
Yes. And just because yesterday's rules were "invest in S&P500" does not mean the governors of many (not all) funds cannot change the rules to dodge such blatant fraud The managers of huge funds are not complete idiots- f
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by worik 4mo ago
> It will absolutely be untenable to keep Anthropic , OpenAI and SpaceX off the S&P 500 with them also being the highest valued companies on the market. Following the rules of passive indexes is the whole point. Mēh! The passive inde
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We are in the golden age of Open Source(kerkour.com)
4 points by worik 4mo ago|1 comments
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The Great AI Boomerang(emeraldbook.org)
3 points by worik 4mo ago|0 comments
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Rk New York police investigate mysterious cases of people coming out of manholes(theguardian.com)
39 points by worik 5mo ago|18 comments
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by worik 5mo ago
> albeit easy choice imo China, obviously.
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by worik 5mo ago
What is the value proposition for Space-X? As far as I can tell it is in machines they cannot make work, servicing markets that do not exist for a service that will not matter for 20-years. That and a third rate AI company that no body want
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by worik 5mo ago
> Do you use Grok multiple times per day? No body who has a choice is using Grok > Is Grok solving Erdos problems? Mēh! At a slower rate than models a fraction of the price
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by worik 5mo ago
> Just pin rsync's version Very bad advice these days.

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