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It's not a perfect analogy, but if you want to put yourself in the shoes of the people making it:

1. Rust is an immensely complicated language, and it's not very composable (see the async debacle and whatnot). On the simple<->complex slider, it's smack dab on the right of the scale.

2. Ignoring any nitpicking [0], Zig is memory-safe enough in practice, placing it much closer to Rust than to C/C++ on the memory safety axis. My teammates have been using Zig for nearly a year, and the only memory safety bug was (a) caught before prod and (b) not something Rust's features would have prevented [1]. The `defer` and `errdefer` statements are excellent, and much like how you closely audit the use of `unsafe` in Rust there is only a small subset of Zig where you actually need to pull your magnifying glass out to figure out if the code has any major issues. In terms of memory issues I've cared about (not all conforming to Rust's narrow definition of memory safety), I've personally seen many more problems in Rust projects I contribute toward (only the one in Zig, plus a misunderstanding of async as I was learning the language a few years ago, many of varying severity in Rust, at this point probably more code written in Zig than Rust, 10yoe before starting with either).

With that in mind, you have C/C++ on the unsafe axis and Zig/Rust on the safe axis. The complexity axis is self-explanatory, fleshing out the analogy.

Is Zig memory-safe? No, absolutely not. Does that mean that Rust will win out for some domains? Absolutely. In practical terms though, your average senior developer will have many memory safety bugs in C/C++ and few in Zig/Rust. It's a reasonable way to compare and contrast languages.

Is it a perfect description? No, the map is not the territory. It's an analogy that helps a lot of people understand the world around them though.

[0] Even Python is simpler than Rust, and it's memory-safe. If we're limiting ourselves to systems languages, you still have a number of options like Ada and Coq. Rust is popular because it offers a certain tradeoff in the safety/performance/devex Pareto curve, and because it's had a lot of marketing. It's unique in that niche, by definition, but it's far from the only language to offer the features you explicitly stated.

[1] It was just an object pool, and the (aggregate) resetting logic wasn't solid. The objects would have passed through the borrow checker with flying colors though.

Edit: To your GC point, many parts of Rust look closer to GC than not under the hood. You don't have a GC pause, but you have object pools (sometimes falling back to kernel object pools) and a variety of allocation data structures. If RC is a GC tactic, the extra pointer increment/decrement is negligible compared to what Rust actually does to handle its objects (RC is everything Rust does, plus a counter). That's one of my primary performance complaints with the language, that interacting with a churn of small objects is both expensive and the easiest way to code. I can't trust code I see in the wild to behave reasonably by default.
It's not only Apple users, you can view and respond to an invite without an apple account or device but cant create an invite without an apple account.

Really really dumb to have it require icloud+ however. Why??
Rust has a Cranelift-based backend that you can use for that.
What is "low stakes"? This is quite literally life-or-death.

Also, just FYI -- airports don't hire their own ATC; it's all FAA (or the equivalent wherever you are located.)
Safari updates are tied to OS updates.

Firefox and others update with all recent versions of the OS.
I really hope this fails.

Apple will use it's dominant position to create lock in like how they did with iMessage instead of cooperating with other platforms on a common standard.

Oder friends and family are surprised when they want to video call over Facetime and find it hard to believe other people's phones don't have Apple apps.
> it takes the reigning POTUS to realize its causing problems that are impacting wealthy elites (24 hours in the case of tariffs)

He didn't "realize" anything. All of the show we're seeing was planned posturing and "deal-making by leverage". We shouldn't be accepting even talking about the US annexing Greenland FFS - but here we are, with credible proposals for installing new US military presence on Greenland being discussed. That's alarming.

> 4 years.

Bold of you to assume there will be elections in four years, that these elections will be anywhere close to fair, or that the people who voted for the 47th won't just vote for him (or his successor, assuming the 47th goes six-feet-under) again.
I know I'm not using it because Intellij is constantly complaining that my version does not support the AI plugins.

The "dumb" autogenerated stuff is incredible. It's like going from bad autocomplete to Intellisense all over again.

The world of python tooling (at least as used by my former coworkers) put my expectations in the toilet.
I like to think of it as amusingly “dramatic” rather than false. ;)

Way back when I was in college and the internet was new-ish. There were a few places you could ask math questions. A classmate of mine found that if he just asked a question online he would never get any responses. So what he would do is add some false generalizations in his question.

In doing that he would be inundated with people answering his question, even if just to prove him wrong.
My experience with Zig is that it's also a plausible replacement for C++
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NC DMV replaced their regular forms with a chat bot and it's horrible. Takes forever to complete tasks that used to take less than a minute because of the fake interaction and fake typing. Just give me a damn form to pay my taxes or request a custom plate.
… the Palisades will have no insurer left either. And then rebuilding will be impossible.

I have no insight into how inevitable this fire was, but I do hope there is a measured approach to reconstruction. Do not rebuild in the exact same place, in the exact same way if it is destined to happen again. I previously heard a story about some guy whose house had been flooded and repaired(?) rebuilt(?) 11+ times. That entire area is clearly not fit for human habitation, stop letting them build in dangerous areas.
If there there was an award for post of the year, this would be a contender. Amazing work.
time for obtuse edge lord is over, what is currently happening due to musk and trump is a serious threat to the stability of the US
I will get probably heavily crucified for this, but to people who are ideologically opposing AI generated code — executives, directors and managerial staff think the opposite. Being very anti-LLM code instead of trying to understand how it can improve the speed might be detrimental for your career.

Personally, I’m on the fence. But having conversations with others, and some requests from execs to implement different AI utils into our processes… making me to be on the safer side of job security, rather than dismiss it and be adamant against it.
I don't say the "lower language wars" as being between zig and rust. I see it as being between old and new. And I'm on team new.
I remember trying Fo4 VR and there was an option like "turn off tunnel shadow" something to reduce motion sickness, oh man that was an instant regret immediately felt sick when moving
Simply counting votes is such a poor way of making decisions, it doesn't account for the strength of feeling in each voter. 51 people who are weakly in favour of something can steamroll 49 who are vehemently against.
Nothing was banned, culture changed.

This happens as you age. The world and customs you grew up with, despite how they may feel too you, are not the natural state of the world.

Accept that new customs may replace them.
No, there's a senate to get the small states in the late 18th century to ratify the constitution. There's still a senate because various groups added states without enough population to pass the bar of statehood in order to get extra votes without having to actually have democratic support.
> Your intuition is anecdotal. Plenty of people either don't care, or gasp prefer Windows. They are not stupid (I'm one of them, which I'd be happy to discuss with anyone, up to and including Mr. Torvalds).

You're one of who?
My ~3000 person company (a subsidiary of Microsoft!) even uses Google workspace
Even if we accept the premise that 'if doing [X] is barely scraping by, you shouldn't do [X]"' is indisputably rational and easy to process for one's one circumstances, you must see that making the choice to be and no-longer-be a photographer is trivial compared to the choice of being and no-longer-being a rancher. The difference in the levels of personal, financial, emotional, and lifestyle investments required to take up or abandon either career choice (for a versatile meaning of 'choice') is astronomical.
It is possible the data is biased by enforcement ability. However, the difference is huge. Last year only 0.2% of fentanyl was seized at the northern border and 98% at the southern border.
On last resort bug fixes:

> I don’t do this a lot, but sometimes when I’m really stuck on a bug, I’ll attach the entire file or files to Copilot chat, paste the error message, and just ask “can you help?”

The "reasoning" models are MUCH better than this. I've had genuinely fantastic results with this kind of thing against o1 and Gemini Thinking and the new o3-mini - I paste in the whole codebase (usually via my https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt tool) and describe the bug or just paste in the error message and the model frequently finds the source, sometimes following the path through several modules to get there.

Here's a slightly order example: https://gist.github.com/simonw/03776d9f80534aa8e5348580dc6a8... - finding a bug in some Django middleware
Quick note that I'm in the US and my experience is: most random people use SMS; closer friends and family some use Signal, some Discord, some email; colleagues use Slack; overseas taxi drivers etc. use WhatsApp.
People in Europe are poorer. Android is cheaper.
So, what's stopping you from becoming Apple's competition? If a significant number of people crave your idea of FOSS and you have ideas to make a superior product, I'm sure the market will reward you.
The C# insertion benchmark yields roughly 100000k inserts per 5.7s, so it's more like 17.5k inserts per second.

A few observations:

- Both benchmark driver and server are running locally on my laptop, completely saturating the machine.

- I've managed to achieve higher throughput with rust. At least part of it is probably that the client side is lighter on my already saturated machine.

- I've found that I'm getting roughly 3x the performance on a pretty humble 8700G desktop.

- I've found the file-system to have a non-trivial impact.

- The benchmark is only as fast as the bottleneck 50cm in front of the screen managed to make it run. The benchmark driver is here: https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase-benchmark/tree/main.... Dotnet is super swift, so I'd be surprised if it couldn't be further optimized (whereas Dart and Node are fairly client-side bottlenecked).
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Probably the other times they didn't appoint someone so connected with the dark enlightenment ideologies and that spews lies continuously on a media channel he owns. It is important the who, but it is important also the what (as in, what's he/she if appointed for).

Not being American, I can't really comment on what the democrats appointed before musk. However, I do not believe it has happened before to have someone access with write permission the payment system, to access personal sensitive data of federal workers[1], and so many other things I wouldn't even know where to start complaining about

https://www.govexec.com/transition/2025/02/robbery-progress-...
I do tons of TypeScript in my side projects and in real life, and I usually feel heavy frustrations when I stray away.

When I stray out of this (e.g. I started doing a lot of IoT, ML and Robotics projects, where I can't always use TypeScript). I think one key thing that LLMs have helped me is that I can ask why something is X without having to worry about sounding stupid or annoying.

So I think it has enabled me at least a way to get out of the TypeScript zone more worry free without losing productivity. And I do think I learn a lot, although I'm relating a lot of it on my JS/TS heavy experience.

To me the ability to ask stupid questions without fear of judgment or accidentally offending someone - it's just amazing.

I used to overthink a lot before LLMs, but they have helped me with that aspect, I think a lot.

I sometimes think that no one except LLMs would have the patience for me if I didn't filter my thoughts always.
So basically, Altman announced Deep Research less than a month ago and open-source alternatives are already out? Investors are not going to be happy unless OpenAI outperforms them all by an order of magnitude
How is this different than any calendar app?
Was it in the US? Unless it’s Walmart, there is no company in the US that is larger than the largest FAANG by headcount.
What country are you in? This is fundamentally a cultural question.
The birth rate thing is a bit of a canard in this context. There are something like 100 million Americans under the age of 30.. we’ll have some demographic problems in a generation or two but there are plenty of people to staff the physician and ATC roles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...
One article I noticed that discusses the legality of this:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C2-3...
I didn't mean it was overly complicated so much as it's probably got more bickering stakeholders, as it involves private industry who presumably don't want Tesla to be able to dictate the standard.
It isn't like you can't write tests or reason about the code, iterate on it manually, just because it is generated. You can also give examples of idioms or patterns you would like to follow. It isn't perfect, and I agree that writing code is the best way to build a mental model, but writing code doesn't guarantee intuition either. I have written spaghetti that I could not hope to explain many times, especially when exploring or working in a domain that I am unfamiliar with.
> Copilot

…needn’t say more.

Copilot was utter garbage when I switched to cursor+claude, it was like some alien tech upgrade at first.
I am uninvolved (thankfully, not many people have been confused) but on the topic of the meditation practice: years ago when reading the zizian.info writeup, I found the unihemispheric sleep part to be the most alarming & interesting part.

There are many strange altered states of consciousness found by experimentation, and I can totally believe that some form of auto-hypnosis + sleep deprivation - which would parallel many well-attested mind-altering practices in many different cultures & religions - could have bizarre effects or induce psychosis and hallucinating demonic entities, and turn an activist vegan into a murderer. (Their specific interpretation of 'unihemispheric' sleep may or may not be true. I would say that it's worth checking... except I'm not sure how one could either prudently or ethically investigate it, given the apparent consequences.)

And it would answer the question many people have been asking about how these unlikely-seeming murderers were made, in a way that the rest of it all does not.
You’re saying that like I’m the gullible one but he’s following it to a t so . . ..
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I'm quite surprised that a totally custom risc-v board is the first third-party mainboard for the framework laptop. I'd have expected someone to rush out a Pi compute module carrier board as soon as possible.
What's your stack ? I have the complete opposite experience. LLMs are amazing at writing idiomatic code, less so at dealing with esoteric use cases.

And very often, if the LLM produces a poopoo, asking it to fix it again works just well enough.
> The rest of us also had to put up with decisions under previous administrations that we didn't appreciate despite only a similar number of people actually voting for the administration.

That's actually a little rich in this case, considering how few Republicans accept the results of the 2020 election.
Apparently they do?

Something called impoundment?

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-3-7/...
I don't know what you mean by local notifications, but if you get a notification when a mail arrives, it's most probably because your mail client uses Google or Apple's push service if you use a regular mobile device, or if you installed and configured microG.

And here's your issue: your app that has nothing to do with Google relies on a centralised Google service, and depends on a proprietary library that speaks to some proprietary code running on your device.

Alternatively, your app isn't doing this, but then it risks being unreliable and stop notifying you if the system kills your app because it's been inactive for some time to save battery, or to reclaim memory, and/or it uses more battery than it could.

This post is not about a way to have more notifications: it is an answer to these issues.
My wife is late 40s and just deleted her facebook account, and she's the most FOMO person I know - and she did this because of zuck capitulating to trump. A lot of people have had it with companies supporting fascists.
Interesting that Apple is finally releasing new app functionality outside of OS updates. Is it a new trend?

Google made this shift a while ago, but mostly out of necessity to mitigate the impacts of manufacturers failing to release regular OS updates.
The linked XKCD's are #225 "Open Source" and #239 "Blagofaire" (the one with Cory Doctorow in a hot-air-balloon). Stallman-with-a-katana also shows up in the five-part arc #341-345 "1337". (I don't know if there were others?)

https://xkcd.com/341/

I'm inferring the real-life katana was a joke based on #225 (and maybe Randall Munroe wrote it in again in reference to the real-life object).
“Tanking” is a bit much.
Atleast for me the repetition is the point. It's calm enough when I'm working but I get a little jolt of joy whenbi recognise a groove I really liked before
Many reasonable and civil comments I and others made earlier today are being flagged. Whats going on?
Very funny.. where is the compensation money coming from? Taxes, right? Who pays the most in taxes - the people in the urban area..

So, a bunch of people voted to spend their money to ensure wolves are reintroduced and you are saying they do not feel the effects of it?

Obviously, there is more far reaching consequences than just money, but that means you need to listen to the experts and take their opinion. If it is just majority opinion, it is clear what the opinion is.
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Yes, but the fact that it is even a question is absurd.

I guess my thought is that you have a boss that told you to touch a computer system, normally only a few people touch it, because of you make a mistake, your company looses 100 billion dollars.

You make pretty sure that whoever is dealing with that system are experts, you make sure that they do not modify it without following procedures, you double/triple check that their change won't have side affects, you then run the changes on a test system just to make sure.

And yeah, you are only adding a print statement, it should be fine...

But what if it's not.

Move fast and break things is fine if worst case scenario your social media site goes down.

Move fast and break things is less fine when you could fuck up a key piece of financial infrastructure.

I don't have evidence of anything, no one does. We don't have evidence that there won't be any mistakes either.

In the past we could expect reliability, because the system was always reliable, within the processes and systems that people implemented around it.

It seems to me that a lot of those processes have been skipped.
Hyperkalemia can kill you. So can hypernatremia, but we have thirst mechanisms that respond very well to that. Most people who eat more sodium get thirsty, drink more, and then urinate it out.
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All I see is an attempt to funnel infinite money by Musk.

Here is the article from 2016 (!!!):
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/elon-musk...

If we were to trust Musk on this, we should already have a colony on Mars...

One day we will get there of course. But it's decades away. What's much closer however, is SpaceX getting tens of billions of $, to work on something they cannot achieve in a timeline remotely close to what's said in the article.

Edit: I'm done posting about Musk and all this bullshit, even if my blood boils every time I see the grift.
If your worldview is shaped by the P&L statements of the ranching industry, it seems you would be totally blind to the ecological benefits of wolves reintroduction.

Denver residents probably weighed risks of higher costs of beef with the overall improvement of the Colorado ecosystem as a net positive.
This is false equivalence. Not using the phrase master was meant to create a more inclusive environment.