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Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 53

The reason people will roll their eyes at you over that is that its an incredibly boring debate that ended 30 years ago.

And yet, you jumped into the argument as if it were fresh dung and you were a dung beetle.

Python has plenty of serious problems. But if what you get hung up on is whitespace,

And there it is, you're a dung beetle white space Python fan who can't resist defending your bad decisions.

Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 53

I don't understand the Rust culture, I really don't. You never see this kind of hardline, ultra-orthodox alignment with other languages, at this scale

Swift programmers were worse. It's a crappy language (has all the warts of Objective-C and adds some of its own), but as soon as you say "the enum system makes it easy to write confusing code" you will have all kinds of Swift programmers coming out to insult you and your dog.

Comment Re:No surprise[s in today's SF?] (Score 1) 128

I looked back at Ray Bradbury the other day, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about Fahrenheit 457. Unfortunately there is no author currently who comes close to that aliveness and energy. For a while I started thinking modern authors are just unskilled.

But now I have a different hypothesis. My new hypothesis is modern authors are skilled, but they have a different aim (which they achieve). Instead of being energetic like Bradbury, they are aiming for a feeling that is more like opium. Give the reader a numb feeling, just like you get from doom scrolling, or many online games these days.

Comment Re:Sums it up nicely (Score 1) 183

Musk has two important skills:

1) He's very inspiring. His employees like working for him (tbh it's not hard to be more inspiring than the average CEO, but he manages to pass that low bar, and his employees respond by doing good work).

2) He's good at getting funding, especially government funding.

Both of these are real skills, and they have led to all his success.

Comment Re:What a shame (Score 1) 42

SQL was never referred to as a forth generation language until recently. A lot of revisionism has been done lately, like in this article which has no relation at all to reality: https://dev.to/yokwejuste/prog...

Forth generation languages were usually intended to be general use programming languages, the canonical example being Forth.

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