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by wwright 6y ago
Good feedback there :)
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by wwright 6y ago
This is very insightful, thanks!
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by wwright 6y ago
I don't know Ada well personally, but from what I've read, it's a bit less advanced than Rust at static checks, a good bit simpler than Rust and Swift but more complex than Go, and a little bit old-fashioned in approach (verb
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by wwright 6y ago
You can't write code that expects to call C functions to interop with the Linux system interface. You have to call the syscalls directly without a C-like ABI. There is some functionality you can access from glibc at link time, but no
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by wwright 6y ago
I don't think Swift really competes with Rust or Go at all. - Go aims to be simple enough for many engineers to be productive with little investment. - Rust aims to be extremely reliable and efficient. Swift is very complex, and make
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by wwright 6y ago
I work somewhere that primarily relies on manual testing rather than automated testing. It definitely does not make the software more reliable here, at the least. :-)
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by wwright 6y ago
These two do not conflict. It’s the Unix philosophy.
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by wwright 6y ago
Setting up eslint or related tools in a CI pipeline would let you catch these in an enforceable, consistent, decoupled way. Of course, it sounds like there is no real testing or review before your team commits to master anyway, so there is
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by wwright 6y ago
I should have made my statement more carefully. I agree with you fundamentally; I see them as two heads of one beast, though.
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by wwright 6y ago
WoW Classic is Activision, isn't it?
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by wwright 6y ago
What kind of use case would want to suspend within a frame?
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by wwright 6y ago
The war on terror and war on drugs are closely related enough (through expansion of powers and economic policies such as allowing police to purchase old military equipment) that I wonder if it’s worth even treating them as separate things.
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by wwright 6y ago
Don’t systems normally want fairly tight bounds on when they execute and how long? (Genuine question)
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by wwright 6y ago
Wow, that’s some really great stuff :)
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by wwright 6y ago
It'll be fun when we get first-class generators and you can write a simple, imperative function and no helper types and still use this type signature :)
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by wwright 6y ago
That patch will likely take weeks or months to reach end users
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by wwright 6y ago
It seems like anything other than building a duplicate of the building would qualify as a transformative work (I mean… a video game with a building is just objectively not a real building)
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by wwright 6y ago
Disable outgoing network in CI and vendor everything? For many modern tools such as Python, JS, and Rust, you’d have to do this if you want to “control” everything anyways
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by wwright 6y ago
Java added lambdas in Java 8. Are you thinking of something else?
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by wwright 6y ago
That parses a subset and is only guaranteed to be compatible with Python’s “.toisoformat()”. (I imagine it would be backwards compatible to expand it to cover all of ISO8601 and I can’t tell why they haven’t.)
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by wwright 6y ago
It still can’t parse ISO8601 :(
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by wwright 6y ago
I believe that withoutboats has deprecated that, and now recommends anyhow (for applications) or thiserror (for libraries). I’ve tried them, and they really do take most of the toil out of defining errors.
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by wwright 6y ago
Click Fewer Links
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by wwright 6y ago
Fox News is certainly much worse than this. They habitually and regularly post actual fake news. Of course, they do have real news mixed in there; otherwise the strategy wouldn't work.
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by wwright 6y ago
It's actually very popular in the JS world these days
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by wwright 6y ago
Just because they're about the cause doesn't mean the people writing or reading them care about the cause
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by wwright 6y ago
Yeah, but how many lay people care about causation in an RCA? ;)
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by wwright 6y ago
Well, in our case, the event generators are almost never CPU bound but the logstash nodes are. Generating a UUID (which is mostly just waiting for the kernel to hand you some bytes, which allows other threads time to do useful work) before
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by wwright 6y ago
I was thinking primarily of the public education system (through high school). I think you are right that the university system is more sel-serving. However, even there I think it is mostly a servant of the neoliberal economic machine. The
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by wwright 6y ago
The education system literally exists to serve corporate America.

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