[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago

Champagne implies the existence of Champleasure

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago

It's hilarious to me that people talk about "ugly" as if their opinions are objective.

I found Rust unpleasant to look at for the first two weeks of learning it, and now that I've been using it professionally for three years I loathe when I need to read code in other languages.

No other language can rival Rust in showing the exact information needed to understand the code


never too much and never too little


while being concise, correct, and handling all edge cases.

You can be more concise in other languages, but it will come the loss of handling every little possible bug. You can be prettier in other languages, but it will come at the price of adding a lot of useless boilerplate.

Of course there are cases where Rust can be verbose or confusing, but that's when you're doing very esoteric things that would be just as confusing in other languages.

Like any opinion on aesthetics, how someone feels about the prettiness of a language will have far more to do with familiarity than with any objective metrics.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Words mean nothing, except as a method to "win".

This is literally how demons are in Frieren.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

Google is an enormous company which operates flatter than you'd expect for an organization of its size. It's entirely possible that someone from Google was involved in organizing this (i.e. booking the venue) without having buy-in from leadership. Once leadership became aware after being asked about it, they may have shut the whole thing down because they knew the optics would be bad.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

One thing I've noticed among friends and family, who lean quite left compared to the general public and would be generally supportive of progressive policies, is that there's a belief that progressive policies are unpopular outside of our circle and therefore in the primary they must vote for a candidate who triangulates in order appeal to the majority in the general election. Because a centrist from the Democratic Party is better than anything we can hope for from the Republican Party.

I try to show them statistics that progressive policies are broadly popular across both parties as long as they are not presented with labels of "socialism" or "progressivism" but the reality that we all need to contend with is that we cannot easily escape the unfair baggage that these labels carry in our society where the big media cartel controls the narrative.

I think if we got rid of FPTP and got rid of primaries we'd see an enormous swing in favor progressive candidates. In my mind that electoral reform is the key thing to pursue. Well that and literally anything related to mitigating the climate crisis because that one really can't wait.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This has to be the stupidest take on the term "plant based" I've ever heard. I swear, "plant based" is just the "No true Scotsman" of vegans.. anything that a non-meat-consumer does that a vegan doesn't like makes them plant based instead of vegan. It's so asinine and intellectually dishonest.

Vegan people can be assholes too. Assholes will inevitably exist in any demographic that gets sufficiently large. I have known people who identify as vegans who insist that it's preferable for humans to die than for non-human animals to die.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

As for not having underwear, well...

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

He absolutely has not.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

If the issue exists in the standard library of every language that provides this capability and Rust's standard library is the first to fix it, how is it a Rust issue?

It would be more accurate to say that it's an issue in almost every language EXCEPT Rust at this point.

The only reason it isn't being called a C or C++ issue is because their standard libraries don't even attempt to offer this capability. But you can bet that all sorts of C/C++ libraries that do offer this, like Qt, will also be having this issue.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 3 years ago

I want this for when climate collapse destroys modern civilization and the survivors are left to rebuild society without the benefit of global supply chains or information infrastructure.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 12 points 3 years ago

Personally I think the "compiling Rust is slow" narrative comes from comparing it against scripting languages like Python. If you compare compiling Rust against compiling C++ code of similar complexity, I think Rust will come out very favorably since C++ templates and headers tend to carry a huge compilation burden.

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