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by ymbeld 6y ago
> Informing everyone, right down to the janitors (and all respect to janitors) where we are going and why. But it isn’t a coincidence that you chose to single out the janitors as those who are “down”.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
> Unfortunately, even now, it seems that there is a lot catching up to BK still to be done. To be fair, we had kernel level programmers working on it, we don't think anyone will pick up our code, you pretty much have to be a top 1-2
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Presumably people agree that we should “retire sociology” considering that I was being sarcastic.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Write once, install JVM everywhere.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
We should just retire sociology. It’s all just human nature, and what that means is just obvious to everybody.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Thanks, that’s a good suggestion.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
16GBs of memory isn’t enough for me anymore.[1] Although that is mostly due to Intellij and the Web at large (my browser). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26120743
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by ymbeld 6y ago
The problem ? You would have to ask the poster that you initially replied to.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
All the layers that I see Rust and Zig are introducing have to do with the compiler. And if advanced compilation is a “layer” then Mr. zero-cost-abstractions C++ shouldn’t throw stones.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
> Frankly, if you were to boil down the "unsafe" C vulnerabilities it is a small class of exploits, suitable for automated detection. Ah, it’s simple, then. We will await eagerly for the non-forthcoming links to all those effo
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by ymbeld 6y ago
P has chronically bad taste when it comes to all things PL-related.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
This comment is as low-effort as the hypothetical examples. Will they do things in that way? Heck, let’s just ask: are they doing things in those ways? crickets Just meaningless rhetoric (“being done fast and/or cheaply”) and unfo
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by ymbeld 6y ago
I don’t get why this is off by default for debug builds though. Maybe that’s a separate concern.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
The Result type is specifically designed to store value-or-error. One may use it diffently but that’s what it’s made for. The library designers had a choice between making a generic this-or-that type or a value-or-error type and they chose
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by ymbeld 6y ago
It took Java until Java SE 14 (last year) to produce NPE stacktraces which actually tell you which variable was null. At least in Rust third parties could have created a library to remedy a similar situation.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Bringing up points like the second/third world wages in a conversation about first-world pay will benefit neither first-world workers nor any other worker (which begs the question -- qui bono ?). Their arguments are not even consisten
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by ymbeld 6y ago
I didn’t say something about the progress of space travel. I made an observation about how technological progress and centralization are correlated. And I don’t think societies in the age of space travel (with the technology that that ent
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by ymbeld 6y ago
I won’t call you crazy, but I will call you naive. Modern civilization was what brought us centralized states and corporations. And yet we always seem to think that that next hill, just over the horizon is where everything will flip on it
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by ymbeld 6y ago
They don’t have the mental capacity? In what sense?
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Beware of loudest people in the room bias.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Aah, but will the cameras get enough shots of my tongue? Linguametrics, you heard it here first, folks.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
Pretty much correct. It’s a bit ridiculous that high-tech gadgets (rare earth metals and all that) are sometimes considered to be environmentally friendly. Still though, consumption choices will ultimately never save the environment.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
0.3% of my whole life just to test out one single programming language doesn’t sound unreasonable.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
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by ymbeld 6y ago
I don’t worry about it.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
I stand corrected.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
It’s bad enough to have to keep pressing Save manually, but I also have to do it regularly while using LibreOffice Calc since it keeps crashing. :-)
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by ymbeld 6y ago
I believe they are making a point. It’s easy to see the cruelties of other regimes but a bit harder to distinguish the propaganda coming from within one’s own regime.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26139364
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by ymbeld 6y ago
If it is immutable from the client’s perspective, it’s immutable. Anything else is ill-defined.
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by ymbeld 6y ago
The title seems like false advertisement. It seems that strings in Python are indeed immutable. How it implements immutability is up to it (the implementation), and making a brand new allocation for each operation is not the only way of a

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