Pasha
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Pasha
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1hr ago
That is an interesting opinion I have never encountered before. What makes Rust unable to "properly manage memory" in a way that C can? Or did you have another language in mind when you wrote this? You know you can just malloc and shuffle pointers around in Rust just like C right?
Pasha
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1hr ago
Professional Rust developer here.
First of all, congratulations on getting paid to write Rust code without actually liking it. In my experience this was quite difficult to achieve so everyone around me really likes Rust a lot.
Borrow checker is honestly one of the hot topics about Rust that always confuses me, because I almost never have problems with it apart from some very small edge cases. Meanwhile people online seem to base half their Rust experience on the borrow checker. May I ask you what sort of programming did you do?
I will fight you to death about the mut keyword. It is absolutely fantastic and it pushes you in a more functional way of programming.
which means that there's no actual way to get, say, a reference to a mutex with the guarantee that you will not modify the object it points to.
But this can be achieved easily with like a 10 line wrapper type around Mutexes in your codebase?
Anyway I used to write C code and switched to Rust without brushing much with C++ so it has been a gigantic improvement in all ways. But honestly I fail to see why anyone would prefer C++ at this point for new projects (except for gamedev where shipping something buggy and fun trumps correctness by a lot).
Pasha
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1hr ago
This is actually an argument I had a couple of times in groups of new parents, almost every single time with American expatriate families. They seem absolutely terrified of SIDS in a way that none of the other Europeans or 3rd worlders I know are. And it sucks because some of the "precautions" make it very difficult to take care of a small baby sometimes.
Pasha
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8d ago
You don't need to be "famous". I know of one girl I went to uni with who started doing porn. She isn't really famous or big (although I am sure she has a decent income with some business acumen), but pretty much every common acquaintance seems to know about this. Especially very difficult to escape if you make content in any other language than English since such markets are rather small.
Pasha
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9d ago
Cryptonomicon
I read Snow Crash recently and thought it was wacky but quite fun. Also metaverse. Is this a similar book?
Pasha
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15d ago
As parent of a child who will start school in a couple years, this started to worry me. Any good resources from mottizens to learn about what traps to look out for when checking out schools?
Pasha
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30d ago
and you can guess which one wins out
Islamic Germans would be a world historical force to reckon with
Pasha
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30d ago
The early adoption on woke maps almost perfectly to the English language capabilities of the population in Europe. Germans aren't the worst but also not particularly good at English so it has noticeably lagged a bit.
Pasha
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1mo ago
Germans being Germans, are getting a bit late onto this new ideological train but they will soon show the world what peak woke taken to all its full logical conclusions can really look like. An impressive group of people.
Pasha
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1mo ago
"How the hell they would try to make a movie out of this" novels are pretty much the only reason I still read literary fiction. It is an incredible feeling when you realize you are witnessing something that could only be told on paper and no other way.
Pasha
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1mo ago
It is probably in the same special category as making deepfakes of Mohammed
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1mo ago
As soon as offputting woke types stopped going on live TV debates against him, the guy pretty much ran out of anything interesting or new to say. You can talk about bible metaphors on Joe Rogan only so many times. Also didn’t the guy go insane at some point?
Pasha
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2mo ago
Imagining a world where wars are settled by each side bidding on each others deserters
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2mo ago
Apart from the vast wilderness of North America with natural predators (not super relevant because in such places in Europe you can also often own hunting rifles), I have always assumed that this simply has to do entirely with the number of black people around in the US metro areas and the general distrust of large segments of the population towards the government that it will actually protect them from these black people.
Can Americans sanity check me?
Pasha
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2mo ago
Most Westerners won't ever interact with immigrants (or locals when they vacation abroad in poor countries) beyond a context of low-level service industries so food is the obvious thing to associate with them. It is also in the interest of the immigrant groups to hype their cuisine since ethnic restaurant industry is very common way to earn good money if you have no capital/know-how/education that is valid in the new country.
You might also hear from some less educated wanna-be liberal Westerners that "<immigrant_group> works hard and is good at <construction/farm labour/cleaning/etc>" as a praise. But this line of thinking will feel dangerous to higher-mind people as they will recognize they are praising brown people's propensity for mindless drudgery, or at worst a modern system of quasi-slavery quite often.
And almost everything else about any poor immigrant group's culture beyond ethnic food and cheap labour (and maybe fun weddings) will feel very icky to average Westerner so they would rather not think about it beyond any extremely sanitized context like Buddha statues and yoga studios.
Pasha
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2mo ago
There is a large abundance of beginner resources for any language out there, and yes chatgpt is fine for this sort of grammar explanation tasks. But this is not a human tutor that can converse with you or give you reading tasks with a specific goal in mind, noticing and focusing on your weaknesses etc. You have to be your own tutor and can get some help from chatgpt
Pasha
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2mo ago
My benchmark is an actually good language learning tutor LLM. The task seems pretty much perfect for the current crop of LLMs, and there is infinite VC funding for literally anything that involves LLMs. As long as something so obvious isn't mastered yet, LLMs are hardly more than a gimmick imo.
Pasha
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2mo ago
Responding more generally as you seemingly wrote a lot about your life recently here. Specific dating advise is very difficult to give without knowing someone’s social class, personality and appearance. But it’s generally quite important to avoid “over-philosophising” as a guy over sex, women and dating before acquiring some real life experience. You have to build mental models for certain feelings and persons and interactions. Think less, do more, and with time many things that right now you are agonising over will become crystal clear to you.
Pasha
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3mo ago
Is there a rival to the United States that is experiencing a demographic boom? Are you afraid of the coming Nigerian wars or something? Any potentially rich country (which obviously doesn't include India lol) of the future has demographics much worse than white Americans
Pasha
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3mo ago
Can someone ELI5 how to bet on polymarket from the EU? Preferably while also being able to convert any winnings to cash
Pasha
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3mo ago
Grew up in an upper middle class family (to parents who grew up as literal peasants themselves), currently living as what I can best describe as "expat class". Earning money that would make me upper middle class in this country easily, but without easy access to most channels this normally opens up in life.
Pasha
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3mo ago
Not exactly that football you are talking about but still: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM
I have to interact with some Python code at work once in a while, and the mentioned Astral tools make me slightly happy to touch Python for the first time in my life. It got adapted very quickly in my company.
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