NGL, writing pure functions in Rust is fantastic. Writing responsible code that handles all the error conditions turns the “happy path” into hamburger. Even with the ergonomics of Result, Option, and even ?, code just sprawls and becomes a readability tradeoff. I’m only a few months into Rust at this point, and I have a lot to learn, but it’s tempting to just .unwrap() and .expect() where I think it’s unlikely to fail.
One of many reasons why I love BSG. As a retro-computing enthusiast, the idea that antique systems are naturally impervious to conventional digital attacks, just felt so validating.
Sure, our navigation system is based on a Commodore-64, but good luck getting it to divulge mission-critical information over bluetooth. Or any information for that matter.
Well, they can take my plugins and Tampermonkey when they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
Honestly, this is why I fled suburbia for someplace more integrated and communal.
I looked around and realized that I barely knew who lived there, and nobody had my back. Likewise, if someone was in trouble, I would never hear about it. I’m not unfriendly by any means, it’s just the whole tract-housing setup with no communal space is practically engineered to divide people up. Heap work hours and commute time on top of that, and all you know is someone keeps a car in so many driveways overnight; you never see any people. Everyone there really kept to themselves, as the environment made that easy to do.
I’m happy to say that I’m in a place now that would likely band together if it came down to it.
That’s how I see it.
There’s also something that folks forget about people that get suckered in like this: It’s not their first rodeo.
Imagine you’re someone that gets below average marks in school, makes a lot of simple mistakes, and has to work to meet average expectations in life. All this gets called out and checked a lot by people that seem to be having an easier time at everything. A lesson the world teaches people like this is: never admit you screwed up, because maybe this time nobody noticed. It’s an environment where you just get emotionally beat up if you don’t protect yourself. So, to me at least, it’s not a surprise that a lot of people react to being called out by defending their ego every way they know how.
80 is a tad short these days, but that’s still kind of win/win since now you can have way more files all showing side-by-side.
Sure but, hear me out, imagine having most of your project sourcecode on the screen at the same time without having to line-wrap.
Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.
This isn’t ageist. This is classist.
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You mean, like this?
It’s probably hungry, feed it a mouse.
That’s the neat part. If you have snakes indoors somewhere, it’s probably because you already have mice. Mr. nope-noodle there is just taking up residence at the buffet.
Multiply this by everyone in the engineering department and you have SAFe on planning day.
the last value will be the return
This is the one thing that I really dislike about Rust. All this talk about safety and the return value/expression reads like a typeo w/o a semicolon. It even has return anyway since there are lots of scenarios that’s needed for an optimal path.
Shatire.
You just know that was tossed around Colbert’s writer’s room, before they decided that might wind up with them off the air sooner.
I’m all in favor of zuruck replacing return, because that just sounds cooler. Plus z doesn’t get enough use in my programs these days.
Eh, it’s more like electromancy, but… yes.
That’s okay. The company is set to go IPO in two.
Rearranging entropy by moving heat from one place to somewhere else.
TL;DR: viable last-ditch option would resemble Highlander 2 in terms of putting one corporation in charge of “protecting” the planet.
Okay, so I was keeping the idea of using deliberate “global dimming” in my back-pocket just so it wouldn’t worm it’s way through the zeitgeist. It’s a viable last-ditch option, but it comes with steep drawbacks. But since we’re here now, fuck it.
We already know that, thanks to requiring shipping vessels to use low-sulfur fuel, cloud seeding can actually reduce solar gain. The problem is that it also blocks out a lot of the light needed for photosynthesis. So this approach punches down on the environment in a completely different way. As for people, while global warming will absolutely impact agriculture, so would less sunlight.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shipping-rules-are-affecting-global-warming/
So we could just use airplanes and cloud-seeding. Or we could increase particulates in the atmosphere. Or, as Elon suggests, fly satellites to do the job. The tradeoffs here are awful: disrupt where rain happens, raise lung cancer risks globally, or catapult one man into multi-trilliionaire status while they charge every government on earth for the privilege. Plus, each of those options are more or less forever if we never get around to carbon sequestration that actually works.
We should seriously considering doing anything else first.
Edit: I know I didn’t invent this idea. Rather, I just didn’t want to add to any consensus around it.