stackghost

Why are Rust people so insufferable?

We get it. You like Rust. It's not a panacea.

Designing the game and having codex shit out the code is how I roll.

...every nah'n'then I get a little bit terrified, I see the fuckin look in your eyes

Other than gopher/Gemini, not really, no

You mean centralizing the web? Doesn't bother me. Most of the web is a dumpster fire of AI slop anyway.

There's more to the Internet than the world wide web, though. NNTP and IRC communities remain vibrant, if diminished in size

That's an interesting choice of analogy because I despise doing jigsaw puzzles. I don't see where the entertainment is supposed to be.

And to the sycophant, pointing out real and obvious drawbacks is being a curmudgeon.

>Now tell me what is cool

Piracy is cool. Information wants to be free.

I hate the corporate bootlicking that is so prevalent here.

There needs to be another rule against being a techno-sycophant.

Technically, any conversation possible exists somewhere in the digits of pi.

Nobody is saying that their minimal default install is itself problematic.

But trumpeting your default install's safety record doesn't actually say much when the default install doesn't actually do anything. As soon as you add a package or a port you're beyond "default install" territory and their vaunted security reputation's coverage.

NB: "Pi" in this context refers to an agent harness of some sort, and does not refer to the Raspberry Pi.

I was confused.

OpenBSD has a reputation for being... selective about what they admit is a security-relevant bug.

>writing code is the actual fun part of the job though.

You mean typing the actual code into the editor is the fun part for you? For me, the fun part has always been "cause computer to do novel things", and actually typing/compiling/debugging the code is just a speed bump on the way to something fun.

Traders have no more special insight into economic policies than anyone else. The economy != the market.

>Sorry, why are their sources of funding relevant?

Because money is power, are you new?

You claimed that some unspecified "They" are attempting to force a socialist utopia/dystopia upon us, and that "They" are seeking to end private ownership because socialism. You seem to be unable to articulate who "They" are, from where "They" derive their power, or who is funding "Them".

>If they’re in power or have influence, it could largely be a grassroots movement and it doesn’t matter?

Grassroots movements quite simply do not have power or influence unless either:

1. they're well-funded, in which case see my previous point. Where does that money come from? or

2. they're supported by a significant majority of the public, in which case it makes no sense to refer to "They" in such a way as to insinuate there is a small minority of powerful figures forcing these issues upon an unwitting or unwilling public. If the movement enjoys broad popular support (unlikely!), then there is no conspiracy and you simply have a minority opinion. In that case, deal with it.

>Because the green movement is largely made up of socialists

Okay, and where are they getting their political clout and funding? I believe in following the money. Where does the money come from?

>I don’t think it’s accurate to assume auto manufacturers have a financial interest in opposing the end of fossil fuels.

Auto manufacturers certainly have a financial interest in private automobile ownership, don't you think?

>[seeking to] mandate digital currencies, mandate digital IDs, impose "chat control" and eliminate all privacy.

None of this has anything to do with a purported green movement that seeks to end private ownership of cars. Modern cars are easy to track, for starters.

>Why should people be able to own private property like cars, we should all be using government owned means of transportation in our new socialist utopia.

Given that electric vehicles including cars, busses and trains all exist, can you explain what relationship exists between the notion of private property ownership (notably cars) and "the green movement"? It is not clear to me why a global environmentalist cabal would seek to end private ownership of electric cars, which have more or less the same drawbacks as electric busses or trains.

Furthermore:

As far as I can tell, the following groups are both wealthy and powerful, and have a financial interest in opposing the end of fossil fuels and/or the end of private property:

- big oil

- coal

- auto manufacturers

- major banks (because they finance loans, including auto loans)

- the governments of oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Venezuela, Canada (Alberta, mostly), Russia, Iran, etc.

Can you also explain where the "green movement" is getting its funding and lobbying to not only resist but (according to you) completely overcome the influence of the above groups?

>You forgot the bike lanes that take up road space but nobody uses.

Where I live (city in the PNW), bike lanes see heavy use year-round.

Who is "they"?

What is their motive for wanting to "force people out of cars"?

For those like me who were not abreast of this issue: the FBI was able to arrest some kid who hacked/is alleged to have hacked a jewellery retailer through a VPN. They were able to track the hacker via the user's GDID, which is a stable identifier unaffected by VPN usage.

This surveillance is certainly going to expand in scope as age verification comes into widespread usage. Personally I see little legitimate use case for this telemetry. It seems only useful for the purposes of tracking users for law enforcement or targeted advertising purposes.

>how has no on mentioned the typo in the title

Perhaps because it's irrelevant [0].

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

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's too late for that excuse now.

It was an early-war thing. Later Yakovlev designs were particularly formidable, both in game and IRL.

In one of the IL-2 Sturmovik games you could fly the Polikarpov Po-2. It's pretty fun because it can maneuver effectively at a speed below the stall speed of most German fighters, so it's pretty much impossible for them to "saddle up" on you for a tracking shot.

As a result unless the AA batteries get you, or Fritz gets lucky lobbing a Mk 108 shell at you from long range, it's actually pretty safe and effective.

>It's not that single person who threatens the world, it's the complete American elite and the whole American society who push for wars and more wars, and the current NPC of the day in the office is just their tool.

I agree that Americans themselves are the root cause. Americans as a society are deeply, pathologically unwell and Trump is entirely their fault. I have no sympathy for any of them.

But only one person is the commander in chief of the US military, and the checks and balances that are supposed to keep him in control are not functioning.

It has felt inevitable to me for a few years now. The market != the economy but a major crash can still trigger a credit crunch that will materially affect regular people. Look at the insane valuations on some of these companies. They can't continue forever.

As for WW3, well, there's a diaper-wearing senile old man, with an inferiority complex to boot, in charge of a nuclear arsenal and major conventional forces.

Plenty of American firms do this too, notably Apple.

Made in China, Designed by Apple in California, lmao

Of course it's (indirectly) a symptom of that.

What's the alternative? Proprietary closed-source operating systems owned by corps who can be compelled to insert covert backdoors?

If BSD was as popular as Linux it would have the exact same problems.