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PaperclipPerfector  4d ago (text post)   2099 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025

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I think that argument just isn't supported by the evidence of 40 years of computers more or less working just fine. People are skilled enough to just get it right enough of the time.

What? We very much have the opposite evidence. People trying real hard to write correct C(++) has led to a whole slew of security exploits due to bugs in the code. It's too soon to say if Rust will meaningfully reduce that, perhaps it won't be any better. But the paradigm you are in favor of empirically does not work.

I want to bit-fuck the hardware I paid for however I wish. I want to bend over my mechanical slave and force it to do my bidding without a single complaint. I have friends who gravitate towards LISP or Go, I gravitate towards assembly. I want to be at the metal with a big spiked club, with the CPU to afraid to talk back. Because I don't tolerate backtalk from my machines.

I don't understand how any of that is at odds with Rust. I've spent some time off and on the last several years working on a Rust kernel for fun, and trust me you can bend the hardware to your will just fine.

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