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dbdr
·قبل 16 ساعة·discuss
My point is that this was a minority of 46.7% making that decision (because of a technicality that has been pointed out already). In a dictatorship, a minority of 1 against a million or more makes all the decisions. Even though you can say 46.7% and 0.0001% are both below 50%, it's missing a lot of nuance to claim they are of the same nature.
dbdr
·قبل 24 ساعة·discuss
> I don’t like the Rust culture. There’s no better way to put it. Every time I’ve interacted with them or hear how they talk about Rust, I just don’t like it.

I wonder if it's not that different people have entirely different experiences:

If you are outside the rust community, you'll mostly interact in the context of language flame wars, "why don't you just rewrite it in rust", etc. That is, you interact with the (small) part of the rust community that is most likely to want to dismiss other languages and want to brag.

I consider myself in the rust community, on reddit, the rust forum, etc, and I find it extremely well-meaning, inclusive, supportive of beginners, thoughtful, and generally a very pleasant bunch.
dbdr
·أمس·discuss
> Even in C++, with appropriate rules, restrictions and discipline you can write programs that are guaranteed to be at least as safe as any Rust program

If by discipline, you mean running something akin to the borrow checker in your head, that's essentially tautologically true. The issue with that is that it's mentally draining and/or you will still make mistakes sometimes.
dbdr
·أول أمس·discuss
It's absolutely legitimate to be upset. However, identifying a lawfare trick in a close vote to a dictatorship is serious hyperbole. I'm afraid that's counterproductive.
dbdr
·أول أمس·discuss
You are assuming an infinite productivity boost, i.e. that no programmers at all are needed to make programs.

A more realistic scenario is that programmers are still needed in the foreseeable future (for some definition a what a programmer is, even if it's "understands software enough to be able to write good prompts and judge the results"). So the question is how the productivity boost compares to the increase in the amount of software being made.
dbdr
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
That's revenue though. Fixed costs for hardware is probably much higher. If we looked at profits, the percentages would probably look quite different.
dbdr
·قبل 29 يومًا·discuss
What about automated signup confirmation emails, just as one example?
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Agreed. The problem is that people are used to do search, which returns hits from clearly identified sources. Suddenly, Gemini is interpreting your query and generating its own response. It's an entirely different product. If I expect to find a source, this was just wasted inference. It's especially problematic that the LLM result is the top result, since we all know how much that matters.

It's fine to have Gemini as an option, it's also fine to have a combined result page, that should just be something people are able to chose if they want that (even persistently if they want). It should just not be the default.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
If a pesticide is banned to use inside the EU, it should also be banned to import into the EU products that were grown using that pesticide.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Only an idiot would drink when they are not thirsty. Nothing to do with his job being to lie and manipulate opinion.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> the misguided idea among some that as long as a dependency isn't through FFI, it doesn't count as a dependency, is one of the things I dislike the most about Rust culture

I have not heard that idea a single time. There's definitely the idea that FFI dependencies "count more" / add more baggage (because there's a bigger risk that the build fails, it's harder to investigate memory safety, ...). Absolutely not that a non-FFI dependency "does not count".
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
That's absolutely correct. Wild to see it downvoted without explanation, while you preemptively mentioned the tradeoff that you do need to worry about correctness in that case (just as much as in C/C++), but that only applies to a small part of your codebase, so it's still a huge benefit.

The only downside is that unsafe rust is more verbose than C/C++.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> If you are the 'systemizer' type and like to have an extremely precise mental model of the thing you write down to the last bit, nothing beats C++.

I would say the same thing of Rust.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
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dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The URL of the source for the last link is not working, this is the updated version: https://boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
However they are literally changing the rules of what "the entire market" means to include those companies sooner that they would have been when people bought those indices.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
min-publish-age in cargo is coming:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3923-carg...
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
If it's the algorithm, I'd be curious what other parameter it could be.

If it's people flagging, is there a good reason to do that? Otherwise, I would still call it nefarious behavior by people abusing the flagging mechanism in order to bury this story.
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Peer review is imperfect, for sure. What alternative method do you recommend?
dbdr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
[meta] I was surprised this fell off the front page. The post has "131 points, 3 hours ago, 39 comments" and sits at rank 55. Number 2 on front page has "41 points, 4 hours ago, 0 comments". I don't want to assume something nefarious without reason, but that seems counterintuitive. Are there other parameters that can explain this ranking?