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I don’t get it. I give the search engine a string. Who is arguing against them searching for the string? They’re arguing against using location tracking and third party tracking in order to figure out that, actually, you’re not searching for a specific type of tree trunk but for viagra pills.

I also might not want my previous searches to impact my later ones. (Just give good results again, Google Search...)

> I did not meet or came to know of existence of any one person who willingly gives consent for companies to use their data.

Get ready to be lectured on users being freeloaders/hypothetical users who would love to give away all their privacy for run of the mill blogspam.

So you saw a post about C++, it didn’t mention “Rust” once, mentioned “memory safe” languages which there are dozens of, and yet found a way to shoehorn in a dismissive comment about a meme. Nice.

We’ve reached the rewrite-in-rust meme stage of questioning whether the author is a nefarious crypto-Rust programmer in lieu of not being able to complain about it (since it wasn’t brought up!).

We’re still in for another 20 years of hardcore veteran Cxx programmers insisting that either the memory safety issue is overblown or just a theoretical issue if you are experienced enough/use a new enough edition of the language.

> I think this is just another opportunity to create new services.

So maybe cool for people with itches or startup aspirations, more hassle for everyone else.

OK Drone.

Okay great. Thanks Ron :)

What do you mean? I’m talking about Java code inside javadoc, like code example docs.[1] That’s straightforward if the doc markup is MarkDown with code fences.

The MarkDown code character backtick is especially great for Java since it’s not a metacharacter in the Java syntax.

[1] I didn’t mean writing docs in Java itself, whatever that would look like.

The worst thing about HTML as docs is that you have to encode your code. You should just be able to write the code for the programming language you are using directly in the docs. Anything else is just nuts.

Java programmer argues for another level of indirection, using XML. More news at noon.

Et tu

An OS distribution is a whole OS because you need an OS. An Emacs “distribution” (quotes) doesn’t include Emacs because you can already install vanilla Emacs yourself.

Que Emacs is an OS jokes.

Plain Emacs is not Emacs. Customization or at least the option to customize is the whole point.

Intellij hotkeys at least are a Ctrl+Alt+Shift nigthmare. Are Emacs keybinds really that bad? Well, I wouldn’t know anymore since I use Evil…

OK Great Leader. People are noting that the “Homebrew guy” is behind two back-to-back stupid ideas (that package thing and this). You can’t deny that he was involved with Homebrew and that’s all that’s being said.

The OSS CV thing can be a double-edged sword for all involved parties.

The great thing about modern living is that a thousand variables have changed in the last 70 years so we can pick our own favorite pet peeve and just hammer on that point in every conversation.

I think with these things it helps to reflect. If you reflect you can either glean the truth about it or make up some intuition that is instrumentally useful. I think a lot of use manage to reach some wisdom milestones completely independently by just reflecting.

And if you are concerned about this feeling of time going by faster: being less of a tunnel-visioned adult who is mostly focused on the extrinsic can maybe counteract this feeling.

That’s just some made up math-as-psychology that makes sense to nerds for some reason. Just conflating two completely different concepts.

Any explanation that doesn’t say anything about the mind is just baloney. Time here is an experiential phenomenon. It’s not fractions. Insert your pet theory in a context where adults have the same mindset as children and retain memories perfectly and have no reason to discard/compress memories them—you see that it’s totally irrelevant whether your life is 2/3 or 1/8 over. It has everything to do with how the mind works, not how numbers work.

Bonus points for the “unscientific representation of your potential cumulative effect”… which is very self-aware-useless.

What are you arguing against? This is an experiential thing. Or phenomenological. Evidence? This is just something that people often report. No one cares if there are counter-examples. That doesn’t make it less true for those that experience it.

(1) is nonsense (and literally not needed to explain this phenomenon) but (2) is true.

That the mind compresses oft-repeated experiences makes more sense than this math-as-psychology nonsense.

Notice how when you have to wait for an hour, you’re bored, time seems to pass slowly, yet for those last ten minutes time passes more quickly because there’s only 1/6 hours le— yeah exactly, no, that doesn’t happen. The whole hour passes slowly because that whole fraction theory is bunk.

Around this? Assuming that it’s something that needs to be gotten around.

With some smudge/clean filter or wathcamacallit you can make your job easy at the same time.

I have a confession to make. I am so bad with dynamic programming languages that I prefer to make scripts in Rust rather than Python. It has all the modern conveniences that I want, it’s impure, I can simplify if I want (maybe allocate more, borrow less), and the compiler helps me out.

Sorry. I interpreted it as “if you got nothing nice to say…”

Oh no. Someone had the grit to document their experiences with a technology that they dislike and share it with us. What a tragedy.

Most people don’t have the energy for that and just move on. Which doesn’t help others.

> "golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

But Go is a working programming language.

We can’t just appreciate that someone took the time to evaluate the technical merits of a particular technology? What the hell does all of this peripheral stuff (“is the author otherwise well-known?”) matter?

> However, they have also been subject to profoundly unreasonable – even unhinged – criticism, and this has created a rather unhealthy dynamic where both reasonable and unreasonable criticism are all treated the same by the developers. You kind of need to insulate yourself to some degree.

If you need to insulate yourself to the degree that you ban someone for answering the question “V or Go?” with “Go, obviously”[1] then what’s the point of even maintaining a community? All you’ll end up with is a bunch of yes-women.

[1] Is V production-ready?—no. Is Go? Yes, for a long time.

None of these points apply in this context. The context is that this project has been going on for many years, is popular (using the GitHub stars proxy), and has been criticized before. This isn’t a fourteen year old kid trying to make a language and being naive about what it takes to achieve it.

> I'm not saying the V people have always smelled of roses either, but this article is definitely part of the problem with the general drama and toxicity surrounding V.

Meh. Complaining about the tone is so boring. The author is a bit upset but no one is disputing their technical arguments (I’m relying on others since they know more about it than me).