fridgeseal.xyz
Book reader, coffee-appreciater, eldritch machine whisperer, producer of 5+ abandoned side projects.
Opinions are my own etc etc.
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Remember when Google made all their icons look basically identical and everyone ridiculed them for it? Did Apple see that and go “hold my beer”??
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“What if, for our UI overhaul, we made the worst possible design, but then launched it anyway, as a joke?” - Apple apparently.
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God it’s awful. Who on earth, looked at that and went “looks mint, ship it”? And can they like, never be let near a computer ever again?
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Thanks, I hate it.
Did they wake up and go “hmmm, yes, let’s make it as colourless and unreadable as humanly possible”.
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I raise you:
- a sprint preparation session, 1.5 hours, followed 3 days later by a
- 1.5 hour sprint planning session
- fortnightly retro
- all tickets pre-written-by-committee.
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Definitely option B.
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As serving as an example of “what kind of human not to become” I guess.
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I understood that bit, I just wasn’t sure _why_ I’d want to be doing that, the error-> display example from the sibling comment was kind of useful, but I don’t understand why if you wanted trait B, or were given something impl’s trait B, you couldn’t just use it?
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If we have another 2 people, we could start in the middle and work forward from a quarter way through each!
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Rust docs: “there’s a lot of things, but here’s exactly what this function accepts, and I’ve linked everything for you!”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
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It’s an easy for language for beginners! There’s 1 way to do things! Ignore the 4 different ways to interpolate strings, wacky scoping behaviour, an async runtime seemingly nobody likes and murky documentation! What a language.
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I used to write a lot of Python, and when I learnt Rust I found the docs initially confusing as I didn’t understand what I was initially looking at, once they clicked I found them suddenly _significantly_ easier. Navigating the Python docs alone should deduct points from its usability.
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Don’t be silly, they’ve just neglected to type out all the leading zeroes!
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Rust docs: “there’s a lot of things, but here’s exactly what this function accepts, and I’ve linked everything for you!”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
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“C doesn’t have proper arrays”
Would be some solid bait material for your next post!
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I wonder how feasible kernel-TLS or hardware TLS could be? I don’t know enough to be certain but possibly the Pi’s networking hardware doesn’t support offloading.
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My favourite is people who insist on using boilerplate heavy tools “the magic box saves me typing so much boilerplate!”
It really gives “computer, experience this tragic irony for me” haha
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I feel you.
My all time record was ~600 across 3 Firefox windows.
iOS safari wisely restricts me to 500 tabs per tab group (of which I am at 485).
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My personal dream would be a Titanfall-2-esque game centred around Tau. A Fire Warrior or Stealthsuit, calling down Broadsides and Ghostkeel’s that you could pilot.
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The purpose of a GC is to automate memory management by having it automatically track resource lifetimes. Plenty of GC languages aren’t fully threadsafe.
Python has a GC and also has a concurrency model that I’d call “confusing and full of gotchas”, so I’m not terribly sure I agree about that point
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Is the “imminent AI productivity” in the room with us now?? lol
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I think that says more about the lacklustre JS perf for this workload than anything special any golang…
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Arguably, the borrow-checker, getting to grips with lifetimes etc is kind of core to a Rust.
Remove those and you end up with a markedly different language.
+ people are already building real systems w/ these enabled.
I don’t mind a “mini Rust, but it should arguably be its own language.
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Oh look:
> Regardless of the subject, it seems that the Red Hat corporate culture had finally finished the transition from the free-spirited campus-based life in the days of yore to an insane ultra-woke brainwashing hell-hole.
Didn’t even get to 5 comments before we went wildly off the rails!
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Hmmmm, I’m in team combinator, less so “for_each” directly, as I rarely find myself using that, but I definitely find the combinator apis easier to read than people inevitable-large-sprawling-for-loop.
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Nothing breaks as frequently and badly as reddit, I don’t know what they’re doing over there, but whatever it is, they need t stop, because it’s not working.
My favourite is that it cannot manage to navigate forward/backwards without having a conniption and eventually forcing a reload. Garbage.
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In fact, doing this would cause an _increase_ in value, as the storage, compute and power savings to serve that instead would be non-trivial!
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What are they going to do, sic one of their AI agents on you for being fake? Haha
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Probably the lifetime of LinkedIn.
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What do you mean you don’t exist to be unpaid support at the behest of our company??? What else is this “open source” thing for otherwise???
/s
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But I’ve committed such impressive programming crimes using only group theory! Clearly no other branch of mathematics is necessary and other branches are just academic noodling and nothing anyone actually uses it built with them?!
/s
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Finally a solution to C++ safety issues!
They should have done this earlier, who knew it was that easy.
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Well, it was a quality, functional app while it lasted!