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> ...rust is way more productive than any other language... Eventually The learning curve is unfun

> 95% of the ecosystem uses tokio nowadays The other 5% matters a lot. > but pretty much all async libraries will work with tokio, "pretty much" is useful until it's not. When it&…

Surrender, to compile Weather the winter storms You will find, true bliss

I do a lot of real-time audio programming in Rust because it is so expressive and the compiler so helpful But I disagree. I do not use asyc/await for my asynchronous programming in Rust if I get …

It is good for China.

"why use python " is a question I have asked myself for as long as Python has existed Too capable for a job control language, interesting objection, but if a job control language is too cap…

> Israel is the only successful and powerful free democratic state in that part of the world, Not true. The West Bank is being annexed by Israel and transformed into a racist state, where Jews have…

> Let's let Mexicans take over America Good idea.

LLMs are a tool. They must be wielded. Looking at the code, paying attention to the structure is part of the skill The skills required to wield an an LLM are not exactly those required to write code,…

Have you ever been sailing on a yacht with friends? There is s hierarchy. Generally in my experience it is the person on the tiller who will bark commands as the boat moves across the wind. A hierarc…

I am curious about the existence of https://beamed.su/ The best IP Stresser service since 2022. That is one way of putting "DOS" for hire WTF does it really mean?…

Yes. We do not need GMO for food, I agree. But where is the genetically engineered heart muscle that sits in the engine bay of my car running on nutrient solution, excreting C02 and urine while drivin…

> It is hardly feasible to train your own LLM as a private person or even a small company Yet

> Here's the problem: you can't. It is not possible to "enforce" a "value system". True. But we can have a value system we share that benefits us all. We can work to…

> Most people had no concept of a computer's capabilities, computer science was not as widely distributed. I am not sure that has changed....

> do they ask about pre existing conditions? then prbly race also makes sense Why?

Here in New Zealand those pages and pages of fine print are disappearing as they are no longer enforceable. The only things in a contract that can be enforced must be stated plainly and clearly Turns …

> The relevant facts are that the website owner voluntarily put the tracking code... The civil discussion should now be about the punishment for that. Regulation is required for handling people…

i am experimenting with TUI/GUI. My motivation is avoiding all the piles and piles of extra software dependencies that X and/or Wayland bring in. In addition (but might only be relevant in m…

And another thing... What is the harm of malfunctioning insider dominated prediction markets, other than those hedging possibilities evaporating? I am not taking a position, I am wondering. When they…

> Obviously, if you have a group of people working on the same task, you'll reach the business goal faster. That is not obvious at all.

> the reality is that America has led in AI since the beginning and has had the best frontier models The USA has the biggest, but there lies their disadvantage In the USA building bigger, better fr…

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Why would conscrtpt squaddies have any more trouble with that, than you? Or me? People everywhere are very smart, curious and want to something other than kill. There are exceptions, but they're…

I would point out two other short Cummings in the async/await paradigm 1. It makes asynchronous programming look synchronous. I do not like things being other than they appear. The point was tou…

There is a small "straw man" bias here. Callbacks are not the only alternative to Promises. There exist state machines and event loops too. I play around with real time audio, and use stat…

> children at Tiananmen Square. The US is descending into totalitarianism, but it hasn't reached that level yet. Ask that question of the American Indians the USA genocided. I do not see why …

> [AI customers] are using considerable time and resources to evaluate how expensive high-end models perform on certain tasks compared to cheaper alternatives. That! There are viable business model…