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by xedrac 3y ago
Who do you think owns most of the lake houses?
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by xedrac 3y ago
My wife is one of these people - an artistic ADHD type whose brain bounces around in a very non-linear way. The commands she speaks to Google leave me completely confused.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Is it just me, or is Lemmy.world really slow? I'm on a multi gigabit connection, and feel like I'm browsing with a 56k modem.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Well you had a nice professor. Mine would have a few "tough questions" that accounted for 50% of your grade. It forced you to know everything inside and out if you hoped to pass.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I'm not sure it's quite that simple, as some marriages are toxic to children. But the general dissolution of the nuclear family is not a positive trend, and will have grave consequences for future generations.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I know you're getting downvoted, but seriously, Rust compilation/linking does take a long time, especially if you enable fat LTO. The upside is it's doing a lot more for you than say the C or C++ compiler would. It's a
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by xedrac 3y ago
Is this before or after taxes? When researching taxes in Germany, apparently there is a 9% tax if you belong to a church. What is that about? Did some politician read about tithing in the Bible and decide that money should go to them inst
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by xedrac 3y ago
It's the exact same story with Python and Lisp. I love dynamically typed languages for fun little projects, but really don't like working with them on big must-not-fail type projects.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Are there any examples of federated platforms with mass appeal? The architecture details seem to dominate the UX.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Guilty until proven innocent. This is a major failing of modern society's knee jerk reactions to any perceived offense, especially around social issues.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I remember having dialup in 1994 through xmission. It was the same year my dad installed Slackware on our basement computer.
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by xedrac 3y ago
> I don’t use distros that lack a graphical installer (running fdisk is frankly beneath my dignity) Ironically, I couldn't get the 22.11 graphical installer to work. I had to drop down to an Arch style install (which was fine). My
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by xedrac 3y ago
It was a joke :)
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by xedrac 3y ago
> Most things that help a mouse don’t help us. Like exercise and eating fewer calories?
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by xedrac 3y ago
I feel like the CEOs job is to surround themselves with great people and a vision, then get out of the way. Beyond that, it's more of a sales job than anything.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Once neovim choose lua, I had a reason to pick up the language. I don't love it (mostly the 1-based indexing), but it's a lot better than vimscript.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Some time ago I grabbed the source code and noticed some vi binding issues. So I opened up the lem source code with lem itself and went about fixing one of the issues. It was a bit like performing brain surgery on myself. But it was real
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by xedrac 3y ago
With freeform keys, you can nest all day. But you'll likely just reinvent the wheel when you want certain features. aaa.bbb.enabled = true aaa.ccc.enabled = true
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by xedrac 3y ago
Catch data races at compile time?
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by xedrac 3y ago
Didn't mean to attack. I just didn't see any valid arguments as to why Rust was less suited to replace C than other candidates.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I think we can just disagree here. But I have to assume you haven't done any significant development in Rust, or at least haven't experienced the freedom it gives once you get over the initial awkwardness. I find Rust is easier
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by xedrac 3y ago
For those obscure hardware platforms, I agree that Rust isn't a good tool for the job. (Although there are GCC integrations for Rust too, which may solve those issues in the future). But arguing that having to write unsafe Rust means
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by xedrac 3y ago
Not sure I follow your line of reason. From a technical standpoint, I see only one reason why Rust could not completely replace C. And that reason is obscure hardware platforms that LLVM doesn't target. Otherwise, it's superior
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by xedrac 3y ago
Your comments triggered my PTSD hard. I don't think I could ever work in an environment like that again. I'd rather shovel cow manure.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I hear this repeated quite often in Zig crowds, but Rust is absolutely, 100% aiming to displace C. There's no way it would have made it into the Linux kernel otherwise. It just so happens that it can also replace most of C++, which i
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by xedrac 3y ago
Rust used to use the word try in a similar context, but was considered too noisy, and opted for ? instead, which I think worked out very well in practice.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I used Julia for a project back in 2016, and had the same adverse reaction to 1-based indexing. It's the same reason I have a hard time with Lua. Why? I suppose it's all rather superficial, but it's one of those things tha
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by xedrac 3y ago
El Niño has been occurring for thousands of years. I think any contribution it has in destabilizing marine environments must be leveled with the fact that it's been doing so for a very long time, and yet those marine environments are
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by xedrac 3y ago
Maybe because it solves about 80% of the PITA security bugs that have beset Windows and other systems software since the dawn of software development? C# is garbage collected with a big runtime. It's not even an option.
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by xedrac 3y ago
You're saying that making something more comfortable for new users is the same as marching towards a walled garden? Linux has been criticized for decades about its inaccessibility to the masses. I'm about as hardcore a Linux guy

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