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> The crux of the problem is "gee grandma, what big types you have there", because... essentially, tower is a couple of important traits.

> And the basic idea is "oh shit we don't have async trait methods" (hence the Future associated type) but also "backpressure is love, backpressure is life", by way of the poll_ready method.

I really don't like this guys style of writing. It seems like the bones of the article are interesting, but then they slap like three layers of meme talk, irony and sarcasm, and it just ruins the read for me. It reminds me of TARS humor setting. It doesn't need to be zero, but its currently at like 98, can we turn it down some?

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It's borderline, but this probably falls under the 'tangential annoyances' that the site guidelines ask commenters not to complain about:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

The point isn't that such things aren't annoying, it's that commenting about them leads to shallow off-topic tangents in the thread, which only piles one annoyance on top of another.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> but its currently at like 98

Come on now. There's two chasms between "an academic paper", my blog, and "a blog with minion/the office reaction GIFs".

The amount of humor is finely-tuned so that it's not /too/ distracting from the actual technical topic at hand (of which there's always one, I'm not a sit-down comic), but it also filters out folks who'd rather focus on the form than the content / take themselves too seriously.

Looks like the net caught you! Hi!

I would really like to see more minion gifs in your posts

No, I just don't want to read the TikTok equivalent of a blog post, but nice try.

Seriously! Some of Amos' posts about Rust as in-depth as anything on the internet. TikTok it is not.

With the amount of effort he puts in he's earned the right to make a few dumb jokes

Isn't the TikTok equivalent of a blog post just a Tweet? I mean, back when the first came out there was a whole notion of "microblogging" that they were tapping into.

This post has paragraphs, sections, coherent layout. It's certainly not a TikTok analogue.

Please make your substantive points without swipes. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On the flip side, I thought that the little red riding hood bit was really funny!

FWIW, I personally find that your humor is not at all distracting from the content.

It's the kind of humor that usually not even the author finds funny. They just learned that this is how "funny" people talk.

It's fair to not appreciate the humor oneself, but this is a really unfair judgement / assumption of the author's intent.

The emperor has no sense of humor?

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