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That’s what happens when a government is either too corrupt or too incompetent to tackle the real issues. Things get worse, people get mad, populists rise and, at some point, try to grab power.

I really hope todays politicians get the message. The problem is not that populists are there. They won’t just go away, no matter how hard you campaign against them. The problem is that you give them power by failing your country and the people within.

Germany: Great!
Italy: Hurray!
France: Love!
Austria: 😐

The US spends more on public education than multiple states where it’s basically free for everyone. Now take a moment and appreciate how badly you are ripped off.

If you gonna rant, please make it at least comprehensible. You went from “JS is flawed” to “everyone is wrong these days” within three paragraphs like wth.

I also highly disagree with your premise that people think ‘simple is bad’. Things that are complicated are usually complicated for a reason. C++ for example is complicated, because it grew over decades. Rust is complicated, because it tries to be secure, capture mistakes at compile time, while allowing for concurrency and memory management, and at the same time be very efficient and give the programmer much control. It’s hard if not impossible to achieve all these goals in a language without making it complicated.

Go on the other hand is not complicated, because Google engineers saw C++ and wanted to make something less complicated - and thus they created a simpler language. This is an example that goes directly against your argument, together with many other modern languages and frameworks that were created for reasons like this. But notably and more importantly, the most popular languages are simple. Python, JS/TS, Java - These languages are all relatively easy to use.

I won’t pretend that I get you bit about WASM since I have little experience with it, but as far as I understand it is primarily a vehicle allowing to use programming languages for the web that weren’t designed for it. And as far as I’m aware you can do quite sophisticated things with it, so where exactly is the problem? Putting guardrails in place is rarely a bad thing, because they are easy to remove but hard to establish retroactively.

The middle thing is not what normies do, it is what enterprises do, because they have other needs than just knowing ‘error where?’

I think TOML found a pleasant compromise there

There is acceleration for text processing in AVX iirc

I don’t know and I won’t pretend it does have any statistical significance. I will just say that I have read dozens of papers and anecdotally, the results were questionable in almost all cases. And not because of the possibility that they might have missed something, but because of basic shortcomings. Some don’t even state how often they repeated their experiments, software versions, whether they accounted for caching effects, (system) temperature, hardware characteristics, you name it.

That’s why I wouldn’t name papers a prime example for clean benchmarking. The quality on YT news outlets like Gamers Nexus or Hardware Unboxed is higher than most of them by far.

Have you ever read a paper? You can consider yourself lucky if they have error bars and repeated their measurements more than once. The quality of “benchmarking papers” is comically bad (on average).

I’m usually completely chill when I’m on the clock. When I write code for myself, that’s when I feel personally attacked by my mistakes.

I think fish is simply fantastic. Not only is it significantly more readable than most other shell languages, it was also recently rewritten in Rust (still in testing I think), which gives me a lot of confidence when it comes to your typical vulnerabilities.

I mean sure, a Rust vulnerability the reason we’re talking, but let’s not forget how valuable memory and thread safety are.

This hurts my brain. We have nice shell languages now, can we just lock down and phase out the rest please? I don’t even want to know the hidden cost of running Bash or sh scripts tbh. Both are languages where you can do something not right enough, because everything just has to be obnoxious.

Idk man, I just like electromagnetic waves

Every time I take a look at collections of user created themes for anything, I am reminded why design is a profession.

Not trying to shame anyone, I’ve been an enjoyer of custom themes ever since I started using Linux, but you need to have at the very least a little contrast in your theme. That’s kinda where this conversation begins :D

It allows for more fine grained access control and to implement afterthoughts.

Think having some private function that can break things if called improperly, but also allow you to avoid significant overhead when calling it the correct way. For example you could be avoiding input validation in a public wrapper for that function. If your friendly class already does it, or cannot produce invalid inputs, there is no need for that.

You could also implement logging after the fact, because your friendly logger object to read private members.

Arguably it’s a questionable design decision tho, as you could do all of this in other ways and it basically breaks any guarantees private would usually give you.

I hated YAML at first glance, but it kinda grew on me

Man, imagine being stuck not only in a distro-wars mindset, but also thinking vegans are some kind of problem. Not ever has any of my countless vegan friends started to talk about how great being a vegan is. Strangely this phenomenon seems to be limited to social media and I couldn’t care less about that

Classic post-purchase rationalisation

Except it’s completely different starting with you not having to spend a penny lmao

The upside is it’s a rolling release and very convenient btw.

“American” is hardly an ethnicity (except maybe if you are referring to native Americans of course), so this has nothing to do with racism. Secondly I assume the author of the comment is refering to the simple fact that the terms “liberal” and “conservative” have drastically different connotations in Europe and the US.

A foreign policy matter that China and I agree on? What a timeline