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PaperclipPerfector  4d ago (text post)   2106 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025

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While I do find the fanaticism around Rust offputting, especially considering how gay it is...

Yeah the Rust community is... not a great place. It tends to be very politicized and hostile to anyone who doesn't like that. And as you said, there's a weirdly high occurrence of trans people and furries who make that front and center of their programming blogs. No idea what that's about, but as someone who just wants to program I kinda hate the community. But the language is good even if the community is off-putting.

but as someone who just wants to program I kinda hate the community

This is also why I haven't gone into LLMs, except instead of the community it's the models themselves that are gay (or you need to spend hours figuring out which ones have had the gayness removed).

No idea what that's about

It's because they're not programmers, they're math people who just happen to express that through programming (which is why they don't fully understand the "no backtalk from my machines" programmer mindset). These are the academic, math -> programming as end types rather than the programming-as-means/[software] engineer types (who tend to be natively compatible with imperative languages).

You can usually tell if a language was made by these sorts of people if it's a.) a functional-first language (where it's both mathematically pure and hence completely fucking useless), or b.) uses the penis operator ":=" to declare variables. These guys also tend to really love Vim for the same reason.

This is also why I haven't gone into LLMs, except instead of the community it's the models themselves that are gay (or you need to spend hours figuring out which ones have had the gayness removed).

R1 is not gay and will readily roleplay as literally Hitler if you jailbreak it. admittedly it's a bit harder now since they removed the web search but should be still doable.

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