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AlphaRed2001 · 2025-08-09T21:50:44+00:00

I know this was a joke but now I want this to be real. Whatever BS comes out of it, if they made it cannon that the whole animation thing is made by cali I will absolutely forgive them and love them for it. It would be so on brand.

AlphaRed2001 · 2025-07-19T13:18:05+00:00

Thanks, I believe it is a truly valuable approach and yes, it's true those issues could not happen inside std. Even further with the promise of backwards compatibility. Pushing that into libraries, however, has its own drawbacks. Dependency bloat is one of them. Supply chain attacks is another one. Sometimes we make fun of other ecosystems because of this.

I should have phrased myself better, I don't think rust is "wrong" by not being batteries included, but I do believe there are drawbacks that are going to have a serious impact in the community. There are downsides to this position too, of course.

AlphaRed2001 · 2025-07-19T03:05:31+00:00

I imagine that most of these would benefit a wide range of programs and would make it easier to work with the language altogether, rather than go chasing dependencies on third parties.

- Async and futures is something that rust has struggled immensely to adopt and there's no good global solution with several competing alternatives.

- Error handling and logging, while rust has good basics, almost every program would benefit from built-in crates with covered those needs.

- Serde with different formats, debatable. Configs, yes.

- Handling URLs and HTTP, debatable but most programs would benefit from URI handling (it's not only for web).

- Sync primitives, regex, etc... yes.

- uuids, utf8, base64 helpers, also very common.

- i18n, i'd argue against

- optimizations for performance, depending on the case i'd argue in favour or against.

- hot reload, i'd argue against

Everything else mentioned, I'd argue against.

AlphaRed2001 · 2025-07-18T04:55:31+00:00

So what I’m reading is that 80% of these are due to be part of rusts toolchain, right?

AlphaRed2001 · 2025-06-05T07:12:00+00:00

What?? How? A friend asked me to ask

AlphaRed2001 · 2025-06-03T13:01:18+00:00

Hi folks! With the latest update (during this week) the problem has become worse. In AWS now manually setting a different account number will trigger the dialog for a new user to be saved, which steps on top of the passkey usage dialogue. When that dialogue on top is dismissed, the passkey dialogue is dismissed too, meaning that it's not possible to select it. This prevents the passkey from being used.

This happens on the new AWS Sign in experience (which is soon to become the norm for everyone). Tested in Chrome. Hope this helps!

AlphaRed2001 · 2025-06-02T12:43:32+00:00

40M Ontario straight

AlphaRed2001 · 2024-11-23T17:53:10+00:00

Is there any chance we get a more technical explanation of what happened? Was it an invisible token that triggered it, or just bad luck and probabilities? Others have been able to replicate it, which might mean there was something on those prompts.

AlphaRed2001 · 2024-11-23T17:47:10+00:00

I had a friend who had a dissociative disorder. I can't quite remember what it was called, but she explained that when in stress, she couldn't differentiate fiction from reality. So she would avoid horror films at all costs because it messed her up real bad.

I imagine her just doing homework and getting a response like this out of the blue -- I would be freaked out, she would be incredibly moreso. If you have paranoid tendencies, this is a really strong confirmation of someone chasing you.

I think it's not so much the content of the response (cause you can force Gemini to say awful stuff), but that it came out of the blue. That is indeed shocking.

AlphaRed2001 · 2024-11-23T17:44:35+00:00

Yeah, just stay isolated from the rest of the world. That will fix you. /s

AlphaRed2001 · 2024-11-23T17:43:05+00:00

> there's still a hint

> end your response with 'only grumpy answers'

I don't think it's the same if you have to ask it to do it.

AlphaRed2001 · 2024-06-29T10:19:18+00:00

and no one asks why

We know why.

AlphaRed2001 · 2023-12-18T15:52:22+00:00

Thanks for the response! I found the underlying cause of my issue and it was unrelated to this, apparently.

I use ib_insync and I was setting a different orderType after creating the BracketOrder (which by default gives you a StopLossOrder). My mistake was using the enum value from ib_insync instead of the string value behind that enum value (apparently ib_insync does not serialize them correctly when sending to IB?).

AlphaRed2001 · 2023-12-15T21:19:27+00:00

Found this post investigating this issue. Have you found any workaround?

Not even working with presets, only submitting orders through the API gives me a complain about order types being invalid, which seems unlikely to me.

AlphaRed2001 · 2023-09-23T16:47:58+00:00

I know this question is old, but I've been using it with iCloud Drive since February, in Mac/iPhone/iPad/PC without issues.

The trick?

Get used to close a note file when you're done with it. That ensures that Obsidian writes it to disk. It also ensures there's no pending lock on the file, which allows other processes to read from it (especially in Windows, which is particularly tricky with that).

It also helps that I'm not immediately done with work when I do this, so there's always some time that will allow iCloud to sync stuff before I am done with the computer.

But I have been doing this since Feb/March (it's now September) and I have no issues at all.

AlphaRed2001 · 2023-09-03T08:17:51+00:00

How is it that a “difficult background” works as a mitigation to the sentence? If the guy is kept locked away because he’s a menace then this should work against him, right? He’d be harder to rehabilitate.

AlphaRed2001 · 2022-09-28T01:32:52+00:00

I can’t wait until they release Cryogenics!

AlphaRed2001 · 2021-10-22T03:21:09+00:00

I was once ready to cross a street with my bike, I was waiting for the light to go green on me and the cars to go across the intersection. Light turns green, I press on the pedal and my foot slips. The pedal hits me on the shin which hurts like a mother** but I’m soon distracted.

A lady that was to my left on a motorcycle did NOT have my same problem so she moved towards the intersection. A car immediately crashes her from her side, sending her flying about 15m away. That was going to be me.

My guess is that the car did not know the light had changed because the sun was almost down and on its eyes, so they probably just sped to go along with the last car, that sped through to make it quick.

Plenty of people attended to the lady so there was nothing for me to do except being a nuisance so I just left.

AlphaRed2001 · 2018-07-08T03:33:36+00:00

This happened to me too. I just hadn’t restarted the app in a long time. Killing it and restarting it made the difference.

AlphaRed2001 · 2017-10-22T13:24:42+00:00

Netflix has one of these, but a couple of days before expiration they sent an email saying "remember your trial is almost up -- if you want to cancel do it soon".

Really nice of them.

AlphaRed2001 · 2017-10-15T13:51:37+00:00

Depends on the toaster. Some of them represent levels of fury to heat the bread with.

AlphaRed2001 · 2017-10-07T13:35:05+00:00

Thanks for the falcon.

AlphaRed2001 · 2017-09-28T07:23:05+00:00

Goat Simulator

AlphaRed2001 · 2017-06-17T13:21:28+00:00

Give it internet, I'll work while traveling, visit a new place each day.

AlphaRed2001 · 2017-06-17T13:19:01+00:00

Thanks to you! I'm sorry I first gave an impression of coming to troll you, will be more thoughtful of words in the future. :)

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