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The resident C/C++ experts here would have you believe that the same is possible in C/C++. Is that true?
Half the comments here are talking about the vtuber herself. Who cares. It's been talked before. Just imagine if half the thread is discussing what gender she is. What I am interested in is the claims here https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/#rust-is-... . (what is it called if it comes with a proof?). The resident C/C++ experts here would have you believe that the same is possible in C/C++. Is that tr…
In C++? Maybe, but you’d need to make sure you stay on top of using thread safe structures and smart pointers.
What Rust does is flip this. The default is the safe path. So instead of risking forgetting smart pointers and thread safe containers, the compiler keeps you honest.
So you’re not spending time chasing oddities because you missed a variable initialisation, or you’re hitting a race condition or some kind of use after free.
While there’s a lot of people who say that this slows you down and a good programmer doesn’t need it, my experience is even the best programmers forget and (at least for me), I spend more time trying to reason about C++ code than rust, because I can trust my rust code more.
Put another way, Rust helps with reducing how much of the codebase I need to consider at any given time to just the most local scope. I work in many heavy graphics C and C++ libraries , and have never had that level of comfort or mental locality.
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> Nothing particularly predatory here, but there is still a feeling of a false sense of security. What danger could an online persona possibly present to you? "[...]a false sense of security" implies there's a danger
There's no point thinking of this as a cognition the pilomotor response is a reflex. One that evolved before the dinosaurs were wiped out. I can only tell you my feelings, thoughts and emotions. Feel free to come up with a better explanation!
I think like with anything "new", life is always about disconfirming our biases. As a result, now that you're aware of this bias, have the additional time and can access System 2:
Going forward you find a way to have a less aggressive reaction to learning about a the next VTuber.
Half the comments here are talking about the vtuber herself. Who cares. It's been talked before. Just imagine if half the thread is discussing what gender she is. What I am interested in is the claims here https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/#rust-is-... . (what is it called if it comes with a proof?). The resident C/C++ experts here would have you believe that the same is possible in C/C++. Is that tr…
Talking of C++ it can be really solid to work with your own data structures where you control code on both ends. Using templates with something like boost::serialization or protobuf for the first time is like magic. E.g you can serialize whole state of your super complex app and restore it on other node easily.
Unfortunately it's just not the case when you actually trying to work with someone else API / ABI that you have no contol over. Even worse when it's moving target and you need to maintain several different adapters for different client / server versions.
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The quantity of exclamation points lol. I assume I'm just too old to get it...I'm okay with that, and I'm damn impressed with the results, so more power to Lina, whatever works for her.
Yeah, it's just... sorry, but there is nothing in the world so exciting that 149 exclamation points (thanks to another poster for counting) is warranted. When every statement is exciting and special, then none of them are.
But perhaps I'm biased: I write how I talk too, and use and abuse punctuation to attempt to mimic my own voice.
Awesome job.
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Thinkpad keyboards are great (I own a couple T400’s and used to daily drive a X61s), but the latest MacBook Pros have real, actually good keyboards afaik too.
I've tried them but they're nowhere near Lenovo quality sadly. Unfortunately Lenovo is on a downward trend with ever less travel with each generation so I guess they'll be on par in a few years :(
These low-travel ones may not be perfect, but they're decent, and that's enough for me personally for the times I do need to use it.
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Every cell in your body is running a full blown OS fully capable of doing things that each individual cell has no need for. It sounds like this is a perfectly natural way to go about things.
Organic units should not be admired for their design. DNA is the worst spaghetti code imaginable. The design is such a hack, that it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years.
What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
There are 149 exclamation points on that page (!)
I find it hard to analyze these things by numbers alone. It's context that really matters and if there truly is a baseline excitement, there really should be a high number of exclamations.