calcopiritus

@calcopiritus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.

  In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.

  The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.

  Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.

  Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.

  I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple.

  1. I’m reading tab A
  2. Tab A links to tab B
  3. Open B in new tab, since I know I’m going back to tab A soon.
  4. Go to tab A
  5. Go to tab B again
  6. I’m finished reading tab B so I close it.

  Notice how I didn’t close tab A. Because at that point, I was not in tab A, therefore I don’t think about that tab much so I don’t even think if I should close it or not. Tab A will probably stay open until I decide to clean my tabs when there are 50+ tabs on them.

  Another common scenario:

  1. I’m reading tab C
  2. Something comes up that makes me either switch to another task or shut down the computer

  From this point there are 2 paths: either I never resume the task I opened tab C for, so it stays there for a long time, or I resume the task when tab C is too far up (I use vertical tabs), so I open tab D that is the same webpage as tab C. When I finish I close tab D, but tab C remains for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite ps2 multiplayer games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dragon ball: Budokai Tenkaichi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you ignored my entire comment.

  I don’t know what is more explicit about expect. Unwrap is as explicit as it gets without directly calling panic!, it’s only 1 abstraction level away. It’s literally the same as expect, but without a string argument. It’s probably top 10 functions most commonly used in rust, every rust programmer knows what unwrap does.

  Any code reviewer should be able to see that unwrap and flag it as a potential issue. It’s not a weird function with an obscure panic side effect. It can only do 2 things: panic or not panic, it can be implemented in a single line. 3 lines if the panic! Is on a different line to the if statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An unhanded error will always result on a panic (or a halt I guess). You cannot continue the execution of the program without handling an error (remember, just ignoring it is a form of handling). You either handle the error and continue execution, or you don’t and stop execution.

  A panic is very far from a segfault. In apparent result, it is the same. However, a panic is a controlled stopping of the program’s execution. A segfault is a forced execution stop by the OS.

  But the OS can only know that it has to segfault if a program accesses memory outside its control.

  If the program accesses memory that it’s under it’s control, but is outside bounds, then the program will not stop the execution, and this is way worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace uncaught exception for unhanded error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “unwrap should not exist” is true as long as you don’t want to ever use the language. If you actually want to use it, you need it. At least while developing.

  Some values cannot have a default value. And some cases it’s preferable to panic even if it has a default value.

  unwrap is not the problem. Cloudflare’s usage is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really hard to do without Rc (or similar) or unsafe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Data storage devices are the last items you wanna buy second hand though. A drive failing could mean much more than just having to buy a new one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs Will Always Hallucinate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll remember this post when someone manages to make a human fly by tieing a cow to their feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs Will Always Hallucinate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No it is not. It is the same as saying you can’t have coal energy production without production of CO2. At most, you can capture that CO2 and do something with it instead of releasing to the atmosphere.

  You can have energy production without CO2. Like solar or wind, but that is not coal energy production. It’s something else. In order to remove CO2 from coal energy production, we had to switch to different technologies.

  In the same way, if you want to not have hallucinations, you should move away from LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sucked in losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh. Ironic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, fire fox what the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a windows/hollow knight issue.

  Firefox has no way of knowing that you’re playing a full screen game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment was surprisingly easy to read. Definitely easier than if it were for the “th” sound

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with that is that reviewing takes time. Valuable maintainer time.

  Curl faced this issue. Hundreds of AI slop “security vulnerabilities” were submitted to curl. Since they are security vulnerabilities, they can’t just ignore them, they had to read every one of them, only to find out they weren’t real. Wasting a bunch of time.

  Most of the slop was basically people typing into chatgpt “find me a security vulnerability of a project that has a bounty for finding one” and just copy-pasting whatever it said in a bug report.

  With simple MRs at least you can just ignore the AI ones an priorize the human ones if you don’t have enough time. But that will just lead to AI slop not being marked as such in order to skip the low-prio AI queue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they are prepare for the AI slop DDoS. Curl wasn’t, and they didn’t even state they would welcome AI contributions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pokemon uranium is playable on PC, I don’t think it works in consoles. Played it long time ago so I don’t remember how good it is though.

  I don’t know how easy it would be to find though since Nintendo shut it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference between treason and a revolution is which side wins at the end.

  Just make sure you’re enough people doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone denies that whatever happens after you no longer pass your genes around has no evolutionary effect.

  Whether helping your offspring is evolutionarily helpful or not might be debatable (I don’t see how it would not be helpful though)

  Even in beings that not form societies it has an impact. Example:

  You reproduce, then instantly die. Now your offspring have more available resources around them, since you no longer consume them

  Or, your reproduce and you become much stronger, but not aggressive towards non-predators. Now predators are less likely to be near you, and your offspring are probably near you. Therefore, they probably benefit from having less predators around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not stupid for it. Since it makes sense.

  However, due to the way we “calculate” the sizes of infinite sets, you are wrong.

  Even integers and all integers are the same infinity.

  But reals are “bigger” than integers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all going home early today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My microwave has a sticker so you don’t heat liquids without a teaspoon. I’ve heated milk in it every day for years, every time with a teaspoon in it. It also heats up faster with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can spend millions on building power lines over oceans and such. Or you could just spend that money on building your own power production. Might be more expensive (or not), but you get to control the production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When 2 people that know a language want to talk shit about someone else that doesn’t know the language, the first thing they’ll do is speak that language.

  It’s not an unreasonable fear at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on context it might be stupid or make sense.

  At my company, which has 100% Spanish employees, we can talk among ourselves in Spanish. However, in things “for the record” such as jira tickets, git commit messages, documentation pages, they have to be in English.

  It makes no god damn sense. Nobody is going to read Jira ticket #6738 in 40 years when we are a multinational. It’s a ticket about fixing a typo in page 567 of the documentation. 100% of employees speak spanish, and some have dogshit English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it can be done for multiple lines too. And you can do else-if too. Also, “if” and “else” is more recognizable than “?” and “:”

  x = if y > 5 {
      println!("Y was over 5");
      z + 5
  } else if y < 0 {
      handle_negative_y(y);
      z - y
  } else {
      println!("<WARN> unexpected value for y"}
      0
  }
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is valid rust. I don’t know if there are more languages with this feature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Swords had phrases written on them too. This has been happening since forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “in 20 years” doesn’t get as much hype as “in 3 months”

  Maybe if they said “in 3 months” instead we would’ve actually have had it in 20 years. Seeing how much ai attracts money with these obviously unbelievable promises.