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by xedrac 3y ago
Haha, that's some high praise!
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by xedrac 3y ago
Given your username I suspect you're quite a bit older. I've mentored several grey beards on Rust and they weren't at all happy about it, at first. After a few months though, they were some of its strongest advocates. It&#
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by xedrac 3y ago
The trick is to introduce Rust wherever you're at, assuming it's a good fit for the task. This may be harder to do if you don't have enough influence.
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by xedrac 3y ago
This looks interesting, and I will try it out, but I don't feel any friction using git directly. The only exception is rebasing in some situations can be very annoying, and git LFS. How does JJ deal with submodules, subtrees, and LFS
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by xedrac 3y ago
90 minutes is a very big ask if you want to be consistent. Maybe you're simply trying to bite off more than you can chew? I think consistency is king, so whatever you have to do to stay consistent will pay dividends, even if that mea
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by xedrac 3y ago
And it gums up your engine more than gasoline does. Although this problem can be mitigated somewhat.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I'm an avid user of Rust. What things does D bring to the table that Rust does not? My uninformed guess is: - smaller binary sizes - faster compile times - easier learning curve That's not a very compelling list for my use cases
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by xedrac 3y ago
Except railways occupy land that may physically exclude competitors from being able to build their own (mountain passes etc...). No such limitation exists for launching a rocket.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Would that compel them to launch their competitors' products into space? Seems like they could just say "build your own rockets".
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by xedrac 3y ago
My first introduction to Mr. Beast was when he participated in Chess.com's tournament of famous streamers. I think he was rated around 280 elo at the time, which was lower than anyone I had ever seen. I think he's gotten somewha
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by xedrac 3y ago
My LG fridge compressor lasted 3 years. Manufacturer warranty was 10 years, but only covered the cost of the part. Labor to replace it was $700 (called the different places). Needless to say, I went and bought a boring fridge for $1000,
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by xedrac 3y ago
$500k in government is chump change. As ridiculous as some of these business deals are, they are not even on the same planet as government contracts.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I would argue it would need a will of its own to be human level AI. Any intelligent human will come up with many things to work toward to improve their lives and the lives of others.
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by xedrac 3y ago
Async is definitely nicer when things are immutable. On modern CPUs, async green threads can easily be backed by different OS threads running in parallel on different CPU cores, making data races a real problem for many languages. Async d
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by xedrac 3y ago
When writing some IO bound application, async Rust is great. Less great for libraries that want to support both async and sync without having to make an async runtime a dependency if you just want the sync interface. Mutually exclusive fea
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by xedrac 3y ago
I'm sorry my comment was a little snarky. What I meant to say is that is not an exponential curve. It may have tracked with a quadratic curve, or even a cubic curve, but not an exponential curve. In mathematics, a curve that grows e
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by xedrac 3y ago
You keep using that word (exponential), but I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I use Firefox exclusively, and I love the Rust language that took shape at Mozilla, but it makes me sad to see HN censor comments that point out Mozilla's despicable behavior when they fired Brandon Eich because he didn't espouse
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by xedrac 3y ago
I used C for a many years and generally liked it. I then spent the following 10 years using C++ and had mixed feelings about it. I now use Rust and I'm not sure I could ever in good faith write a new project in C or C++ again. Anywa
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by xedrac 3y ago
I've worked as an IC on both highly productive teams, and completely stagnant teams. All of the productive teams were lightly managed, while the stagnant teams were very heavily managed. Some developers are just not ever going to be
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by xedrac 3y ago
Can someone enlighten me on why they needed to bump the minimum version of macOS and iOS? Is it a hard requirement, or more of a "we no longer test on these systems" thing? I'm just concerned that Rust won't age well i
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by xedrac 3y ago
The problem I have with Nix is that it adds a lot of abstraction/complexity on top of everything. This is fine for power users, but I don't see it ever being used by anyone else. Silverblue also imposes some additional complexit
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by xedrac 3y ago
> "Our paper proves that interactions with the neighboring galaxies are responsible for the unusual brightness of early galaxies" This is why I have a hard time with Astronomy. Why are scientists in this field so eager to &quot
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by xedrac 3y ago
I was thinking about buying an electric car when I realized an electric scooter would serve me nearly as well (maybe even better), be 50x cheaper, and I wouldn't need to register it.
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by xedrac 3y ago
- Playing with my kids - Health & Fitness (lose your health and you have nothing) - Electric scooters (so fun!) - Hiking - Reading more books - Playing more Chess - Keyboard layouts - Baking - Penny whistle
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by xedrac 3y ago
+1 for Chess. Such an amazing game, one could spend (some might say waste) their whole life dedicated to it, or just a couple minutes here and there. It's fun either way.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I tried this by playing Factorio, and realized I was doing similar "work" as my job, but without the added stress of deadlines, compromise and people. Ironically, it felt extremely productive, but not very recharging.
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by xedrac 3y ago
I agree, but I tend to lose my perspective and skew heavily to living in the future. I loved reading this article because it helped me to reprioritize some things, like that family vacation I've been putting off. Or even just playing
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by xedrac 3y ago
I like seeing Mozilla actually improving Firefox instead of just shuffling UI components around. I've been a longtime user, and am happy to support the underdog here to try and keep some balance of power on the web. Having Mozilla fo
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by xedrac 3y ago
The point is more general than cooking. Clearly if you hate cooking, it's going to negatively affect how you feel about your efforts cooking. But the point still stands. Putting in effort to achieve something you want will very like

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