[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago

Annoyingly long post totally misses the point of using tmux and chalks it up to "elitism". So who's really acting like an elitist contrarian??

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago

There is always an exception. One of my older coworkers once came in to work with a sprained ankle. I asked why and he said he got it from kicking a dog, with zero remorse in his expression. I wish I had not asked. I knew he was weird but that detail cemented my opinion of him.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago

This makes me so nervous about how AI is going to influence children and adolescents of the coming generations. From iPad kids to AI teens. They'll be at a huge risk of dissociation from reality.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

Objects may have a single trailing comma.

I just came.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

What if someone draws their own CSAM and they're terrible at drawing but it's still recognizable as CSAM?

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

As a US citizen, I'm starting to feel like a German during WWII. What the hell am I supposed to do when there is no real opposition to Israel running for president? The two party system has completely fucked the world up.

While on its face this bill seems like a way to counter terrorism, the wise among us see it as just another means of puppeteering a government office. The US is losing its status as a representational democracy for each bill like this one.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They should compare defect rate with the Go teams. I'm curious if the advertised benefits of Rust's type system give some practical advantage.

EDIT: Just watched the actual talk. Apparently they did this comparison, and found that Rust has fewer defects when compared to Go.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

If the government cared at all about accessibility, then you'd be able to do your taxes in an HTML form.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly the only things that are similar to C++ are small amounts of C-like syntax, RAII, smart pointers, and iterators. And even so, Rust improves those features a lot. The list of things that Rust rejects from C++ is much larger; Rust does not have:

  • new and delete (perhaps discouraged in modern C++)
  • function overloading
  • inheritance (replaced by composition or traits)
  • friend classes (replaced by modules)
  • exceptions (replaced by Result values)
  • 6 different kinds of first-class constructors (hallelujah)
  • templates (replaced by constrained parametric polymorphism)
  • variable mutability by default

Rust does OOP very differently and leans harder into functional paradigms.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can't just equate religion with fascism. Not that I think religion is ethical or even separable from fascism, but they aren't the same. Plenty of people practice religion without resorting to extremism.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

Yea I genuinely hope we get to the point where I don't have write code. Let me describe the architecture and algorithms with my voice in English. I'd much rather spend my time solving abstract problems than typing syntax. If I have to essentially "teach" the AI what I want by dropping down the ladder of abstraction sometimes, that's OK.

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