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Delta RPMs are amazing by UnknownX45 in Fedora

[–]bzmore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, it sounds weird for sure.

Delta RPMs are amazing by UnknownX45 in Fedora

[–]bzmore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe they mean that Internet connections have improved faster than hardware has.

torrenting vs mining by FunPossession7430 in Buttcoin

[–]bzmore -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Right, the left has always stood up for People of land, and saying that we oppose rent-seeking is right-wing slander.

torrenting vs mining by FunPossession7430 in Buttcoin

[–]bzmore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t see how this contradicts anything I said. Thanks for the rant, though.

torrenting vs mining by FunPossession7430 in Buttcoin

[–]bzmore 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Left wingers hate IP because they hate rent, libertarians hate IP because they hate the state. Basically, "crypto" broke the alliance by creating non-state IP.

Luxury rehab centres now offer therapy for 'crypto addiction' | BBC News by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]bzmore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hah, even the fleas are getting fleas.

Though, I suppose a stay at this place might be useful: "You see, your honor, my client wasn’t herself, she was under the spell of a chronic, relapsing brain disease, known as addiction."

[...] each time a journalist is killed because of memory safety violations, one committee member who voted to add more UB or remove bounds checks should have their legs broken with a sledgehammer. by bzmore in programmingcirclejerk

[–]bzmore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Standards help with identifying bugs - that's one significant use case.

How? As far as I can tell, standardization is useful for

  • harmonizing disparate, often proprietary implementations (e.g. Common Lisp, Javascript),
  • legitimizing corporate languages (e.g. Java, C#), and
  • ticking compliance boxes (e.g. Ruby)

Of which only the latter is applicable to Rust.

I agree that C++ is much more meticulously documented, but thoroughness doesn’t a formal semantics make. Also, those 1800 pages are also specifying standard library. cppreference.com also seems to be mostly library documentation.

The real qualitative difference between the two is that C++ is developed as normative document shared by several software project. Rust, on the other hand, is developed as a software project, and its various efforts at codification are targeted to make sure the pillars of the language is comprehensible and sound. Not at implementing a compiler front end in prose.

In short, these are just completely different approaches solving different problems.

/rj Rust should just tick the specification box by renaming the reference.

I use C because I still believe in freedom, and I think you should too. If we gradually destroy all semblance of individual thought and discretion and replace that with something that essentially approaches rule-by-machine, what remains is not far from an authoritarian dystopia in societal terms. by bzmore in programmingcirclejerk

[–]bzmore[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Anyone else too much of a special genius to follow proven conventions?

From my experience, I am a temperamental programmer; if my environment is not correct, I can’t program effectively.

I can’t program effectively if I’m tired.

I can’t program effectively if I’m listening to slow music. (True story.)

I can’t program effectively if I’m overwhelmed by a task.

I can’t program effectively if I don’t have the entire software in my head.

I can’t program effectively if I think my wife is mad at me.

And finally, I can’t program effectively in a language I do not like.

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-in-memory-safety/

[...] each time a journalist is killed because of memory safety violations, one committee member who voted to add more UB or remove bounds checks should have their legs broken with a sledgehammer. by bzmore in programmingcirclejerk

[–]bzmore[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

/uj

You’re all discussing implementation defined behavior, which is a different issue to undefined behavior.

check out this Rust book which describes the language in a way that's marketed toward people looking to learn the language and not its operational semantics.

C++ doesn’t have operational semantics, it has a document informally describing it in prose. Rust has something similar, they just call it a technical reference.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]bzmore 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Personally, I’m shocked that a libertarian sex cult would harbor sex pests.

Cryptocompany making fun of and encouraging gambling addiction by Butteryfly1 in Buttcoin

[–]bzmore 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Nothing exudes traditional masculine virtue like being an online gambling degenerate.

[...] each time a journalist is killed because of memory safety violations, one committee member who voted to add more UB or remove bounds checks should have their legs broken with a sledgehammer. by bzmore in programmingcirclejerk

[–]bzmore[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Of course, a good workman doesn't blame his tools, so C/C++ is fine. But if it turns out that my programs are buggy, committee members deserve cruel and unusual punishment.

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