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mumblingdrunk

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    Comment #40331568

    All CPUs commit in order and except precisely, because most other options are insane, or would drive you to it. However: single thread commit order =/= observability order. Observa…

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    Comment #36754888

    This is why I switched to Helix. The configuration is practically non-existent, and it has default configs for all the language servers I could ever want to interact with. I just p…

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    Comment #36428755

    I never got the impression that the developers had an attitude. The discussion I've seen has been mostly people making demands or saying Helix will fail if it doesn't support AI to…

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    Comment #36015555

    > Many are allergic to basic scripting, don't bother to learn how their tools work, and have an elitist attitude towards other design responsibilities (ex. layout, verification). I…

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    Comment #36013741

    This is just true for a whole lot of the industry tooling. Xilinx Vivado is a bloated piece of crap that'll crash all the time unless you have half a terabyte of RAM. Same goes for…

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    Comment #36013657

    This reminds me of an article I read a while ago https://alastairreid.github.io/mrs-at-scale/ MRSs would enable much more of the formal verification parts to be generated.

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    Comment #35977326

    I can also highly recommend a visit to The National Museum of Computing. https://www.tnmoc.org/ While you're there, take a stroll around Bletchley Park as well. Last time I checked…

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    Comment #31634287

    I'm not fighting your claim that the borrow checker has perfectly reasonable situations it can't deal with. That's why 'unsafe' exists. I've already said that. You're adding other …

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    Comment #31624437

    It seems you are slightly misunderstanding the point of 'unsafe' as a concept. And no, memory safety is a huge deal, it is just that the borrow checker cannot verify the soundness …

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    Comment #31624362

    You don't have access to the C standard library in the Linux kernel either, so what is your point? Ime., the core library of Rust is much nicer to work with than the absolute bare …