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I love that Rust has eliminated the egoism around "you should know at all times when something is allocated or deallocated". We're trusting the compiler to do that better with zero cost to us. So take it to the extreme: Only specify the loop direction if you have a true requirement to do so.

This is my Ted Talk, thank you.

For #2 - LOL! I had no idea it was essentially aliasing those functions to get around a requirement for uniqueness.

I've been at the other end of the spectrum where I don't get work done in the office. I get involved in crosstalk between coworkers too much. We go to far too many pointless meetings. Everyone wants to share about their family while I'm working. I feel over-socialized and it affects my work and my ability to disconnect at the end of my day. This is a job. I get paid money for the work I do. I should not feel indebted to people who parody themselves as my friends (coworkers) who need this last-minute thing done by me at the end of the day. I'm off the clock and I want to disconnect. How many times have I worked through lunch? How many times have people called my personal number for non-emergency needs? The workplace infringes on my work-life balance, and remote work gave a large part of that back to me.

If we care about both groups of people (those over-socialized, and those isolated), we should give the worker the option. A good supervisor should be learning how to engage with the employee in the way they wish to communicate, as long as the work is getting done.

1) Why are we explicitly directing a loop forward or backward most of the time when it's not necessary. The compiler should direct the loop unless we want to explicitly do this for the body of the loop. My thinking is that there may be performance reasons to reverse a loop or even split it into separate threads. (unlikely)

2) In C++, I've always wondered how template types get instantiated for POD that is represented the same at the bit level. Does the compiler duplicate the templated code or is it smart enough to say "this std::vector<int> is the same as that std::vector<intalias>". Rust prides itself on zero-cost abstractions, I have wondered if they reduce binary bloat in this area. (as a naive C++ person)

I think the best thing the gov could do is give us awareness of these things, in an objective way, so we can stay informed. I do not see the fearmongering you see, but I'm sure I could find it on Facebook and Twitter if I looked.

And then.. the things our gov does to other countries to spy and maintain intelligence is a bogeyman for others. We are a threat, as China is a threat. I wonder if we have any stray weather balloons floating over China that we don't hear about in our media.

So I tried Chat GPT recently and I asked it about something I've never quite understood. "How is an antenna designed to prevent the feedline emanating radio waves?" and it gave me a very focused explanation of how impedance is matched between the feedline and antenna to reduce standing waves and power being reflected back to the transmitter. I was so happy with this, because although i could find countless resources on antenna design they were much too dry for my understanding. I was always lost navigating the text because I didn't have the formal education to piece together 'what they're saying over here relates to what is being said over here'. You have to have a certain level of comprehension with the subject material to locate information.

I think Chat GPT and things like it represent the search engines of tomorrow. There's a DEFINITE risk of creating recycled, incorrect content and prompting it circularly into the same dumpster of misinformation. However, I spent 15-20 minutes re-articulating my question about antennas and "what part of the antenna prevents this?" and I came away very happy with my new understanding.

I'm looking forward to AI-assisted learning, and it feels as magical as Google Search did in the 90s.

In another instance, I asked it how to run a Powershell script on a remote computer with psexec and it produced the correct commands but did not warn me the script had to first be copied over to the remote machine. All good explanations / demonstrations should come with clarifying questions. I'm very happy I can ask technical things like this, embarrassing things, very abstract/broad things, and have an AI that will guide me into new understanding.

Take it all with a grain of salt. Looks like I'll be doing the $20/month for ChatGPT Pro though. It's more valuable and entertaining to my day-to-day curiosities than something like Netflix.

So far I've been lucky that nothing surprising has been leaked to others or wound up in recordings, but this didn't used to happen.

The parent is probably right: Not a nefarious agreement, but it is some kind of irony that the service exists to help expunge your digital existence in many places and they have you agreeing to use your commentary (satisfaction?) as a means to market themselves.

If you were so happy with their service, I wish you could submit testimony in an explicit area of their site. I left an earlier comment and erased it: I'm not a fan of "implicit" we-can-use-anything-you-do agreements. I wish it were more transactional. That's why this service could be fantastic: It's alienating and exhausting to live in the digital public where every influencer/company wants to use your existence for monetary gain.

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There has to be a narrower way to draw up this agreement.

I acknowledge and I do believe what you're saying: I've seen racists articulate something terrible with enough complex words to hide that message in academic settings and pretend it's not hot garbage. That exists. I've been to Berkeley, California as a visiting student. :-) Social justice can wrap around to ugly places.

Economics - to me - seems like a study from a much higher perspective. I don't believe economic theory would go to all the places of why a class of people is being advantaged or harmed.

Do you believe systemic racism exists? Should we study it? I don't understand why a large group of folks are very against asking these questions. You seem like a rational person, and I wouldn't hold you among these. Do you believe the media has skewed and tailored the image of what CRT is? Is it possible to rally or radicalize a lot of people behind the idea that "these teachers are telling your kids to be ashamed"? For most of my life I've seen an assault on public schooling, and I was never taught to feel guilty about my race. I did learn of things like the Trail of Tears in college, however.

Here are some examples:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/nyc-cops-did-a-work-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/nyregion/bloomberg-stop-a...

I'm throwing you easy ones, but the better explanation I was told is that it could be a study of how tax law over several generations has resulted in affluence for some class of 3rd generation Asian families on the West coast (hypothetical).

It doesn't necessarily have to be about harm, just a study of a system and its impact. Understanding the nuance of how a system produced "this set of circumstances for this class of people" is why it's a college level deep-dive.

"resume for a 20-something who travels abroad and knows the rust"

It's in the government's best interest to support those with capital. All the rest of us be damned.

(My naive understanding)

I remember looking all over for an "hdmi quadviewer" that had all of these things:

>= 120hz hdr / 10-bit color edid web admin to adjust layouts (or some other method)

I got close, but the biggest thing I can't find is higher framerate viewers. My TV should do this.

The analogy is Tesla is the only one making good electric cars. When there's competition, I will never buy Tesla because of the shitty experience.

Also for >$1k it should let you use the TV as an HDMI multiviewer. It has 4 HDMI ports on the back, let me view plug in my personal laptop on the port 1, work laptop on port 2, and divide the screen to give each laptop a "2nd monitor". Or even 2 monitors each.

Google has all the resources and hundreds of engineers to throw at Rust. They will definitely have undue influence on the language and its community now that it's in Chrome. I just hope it doesn't wind up looking like Kotlin.