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sidelove

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  • They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. The plan is to take on AI and industry layoffs

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  • Yeah, but not all administrative work is for Nazi Germany, that's his point. Unicef has a website, not sure I could confidently call their engineers Nazis.

  • Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting

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  • Wait, I'm so confused, what's your definition of a systems language?

  • Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting

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  • Wait, what? How? It compiles down to bare metal without a runtime. People write OSes and program microcontrollers with it. For any arbitrary C program, it's possible to write Rust code such that it compiles down to the same bytecode. Am I missing something?

  • Scromit

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  • Raises hand meekly... I do in fact get this if I've been consistent for a long-ass time, not necessarily the dose size, but I swear to god you could replace my pen with ipecac and it would be the same experience. That said, long breaks "reset" it for me.

    And while I don't personally know anyone with the same problem, there are thousands of stories both online and IRL for me of "friend of a friend can't smoke weed anymore because of it".

  • How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?

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  • To add on to the points here, hantavirus is lethal in a way that doesn't translate to widespread pandemics easily. Coronavirus is unique in that while it was 5:1 more lethal than similarly transmissible airborn viruses, that was the "Goldilocks zone" for a virus with its lethality and transmissibility to do maximum damage. Lots of excess death, but the average person generally only had a slightly rough go of it. Hantavirus has >30% lethality in many forms, and is extremely likely to burn itself out before any sort of epidemic status.

    So ultimately, very unfortunate for those that contract it, but its characteristics put it way below pretty much every other airborn illness in terms of what keeps me up at night.

  • Virginia court declines to block Democrats from using new voter-approved congressional map - Democracy Docket

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  • OH, damn, I came in here all angry haha

  • Is there a "default action" in psychology?

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  • Wouldn't that basically be any action that didn't start in the prefrontal cortex? There are plenty of fauna that are basically entirely composed of "default action".

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    How many times do you think an ant has killed a person?

  • Looking forward to bikini season

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  • Have you ever seen that video where an otter muck-sprays the water and all the fishes go crazy eating it?

  • Language Design: Annotations Obsolete Modifiers

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  • Statements like "async is a language design dead-end" is the confidently correct misinfo that I'm talking about. You can't expect anyone to take you seriously if you authoritatively present your opinions as gospel.

    Should I instead have interpreted it as "async is a language design dead-end, and by dead-end I mean overfitted standard for the problem space?" Because I really have to be charitable and put words in your mouth to paint your argument in a good light.

  • Language Design: Annotations Obsolete Modifiers

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  • Jfc that's a bit of a stretch. You basically just said "you are wrong to use those features, and if you don't use those features then my solution is great". Like yeah, no shit, if I wanted a toy language I'd go back to using Logo.

    "no visibility modifier" should probably mean "public"

    For-fucking-real?

    instead put different targets into different folders: much easier, works better

    Ahh, yes, file-based programming, the most usable and ergonomic pattern for cross-cutting concerns. /s

    async should not exist at all

    The most I'll give you there is that it's used more frequently than it should. But it is far and away the best abstraction for bare-metal concurrency without a runtime. Your "dead end" comment reeks of writing off an entire language feature because you don't understand it or why it solves problems no other language feature solves as well.

    Normally I'm open to discussing the merits and comparing drawbacks to certain approaches, but of course I'm going to be cross if you dump a bunch of confident horseshit on me. Like, wtf man??

  • Language Design: Annotations Obsolete Modifiers

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  • Hmm, I mean I totally understand the overlap in functionality. Especially when you get into the Java Lombok situation where annotations are as structural as the modifiers themselves. But there are clear cases in things like Python and Rust where the modifiers are a clear meta-programming that are mostly outside the scope of the language itself.

    Granted, Rust is a weird example where annotations tend to "graduate" to the language itself, like in the form of #[async], but that clear delineation of what's in the language itself and what's defined as post-processing still leaves it more readable than if we heaped a chunk of similar-looking-but-willdy-different-effect-wise tokens on top of our function/type definition. E.g.,

     
        
#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
#[pub] #[async] fn some_func() {
    #[mut] let my_var = 3u2;
    // ...

    Vs.

     
        
#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
pub async fn some_func() {
    let mut my_var = 3u2;
    // ...

    Like, I do get the similarity in function, but it's almost like why we have capitalization in our natural languages. Making language-defined features "louder" and more ingrained in the language itself makes sense, even if the border is fuzzy.

    Edit: even going the other direction, and we do:

     
        
pub cfg(target_os = "windows") async fn some_func() {
    let mut my_var = 3u2;
    // ...

    That homogenization is still a bit of a bitch to read

  • TIL mondegreen is the mishearing of the words in a song.

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  • Under pressure! Pushing down on me, pressing down on you, you're an asshole

  • Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed

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  • Ty! 😊

  • Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed

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  • Okay, okay, Jesus Christ, he's not a good person and you have receipts. I concede.

  • Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed

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  • I buy it -- at what point did he imply he's MAGA? What he said is a statement on the reality of the nation's finances. Can you please be a little more civil?

  • Trump says he’ll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed

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  • I could not imagine a dumber possible move than trying to lower interest rates when gas is this high, wtf

  • Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds

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  • That's why I'm top of the bell curve, babbyyyyyy

  • How Swalwell’s Implosion Affects an Already Weird California Governor’s Race

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  • More or less what I expected, his implosion is good for the health of the party, even though the surrounding circumstances are awful and never should've happened. By releasing the plurality of democratic votes to a smaller spread it becomes less likely that Democrats cock up and lock themselves out of the general election.

  • AVP_irl

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  • Yessss I've been waiting for the new Bioshock!

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk threatens to sue for custody after Ashley St. Clair apologizes for transphobia

    www.yahoo.com /entertainment/celebrity/articles/elon-musk-threatens-sue-custody-161618831.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

    www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-14419949/trump-surprise-democrats-midterm-election-2026.html