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BatmanAoD

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  • Yes, I did spend time on this

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  • This is hilarious. I'm not sure how often anyone would actually need to verbalize arbitrary binary data, but I do see an advantage over base64 since the English letter names are so often phonetically similar.

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • "Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point"

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • Right, but their endorsement is still likely to do more harm than good in terms of public perception of the law, I think.

  • pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta

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  • Well, that's fair; first-class support for running an actual Linux kernel, with the containerization support that implies, is one of the reasons I prefer Windows with WSL as a dev environment when using Docker (at least, in companies where the IT team won't just let you run native Linux).

  • pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta

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  • MacOS and docker is asking for trouble.

    That's a real problem! MacOS and Docker are extremely common for development, and a scripting language like Python should just work with them, not just at the language level (which is good enough) but in the ecosystem and tooling. The latter is what Astral is trying to improve.

  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • I understand having severe philosophical disagreements with the Rust project, with the majority of Rust users, or with the uutils project specifically. What I don't understand is this part:

    If you go to the website of the Rust programming language nowadays, one of the first things you'll notice is that their primary communication platform is Discord. Yes, you read it right - their primary communication platform is Discord, a proprietary spyware program that is owned by a Chinese investment company and has backdoors to various other national intelligence agencies too.

    Rust did have an official Discord, years ago, before switching to Zulip (alongside other official communal hubs, most prominently the Discourse forums that the author complains about next). But this was written in March and specifically says "nowadays", and I cannot find any mention of Discord on the Rust website.

  • Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? (Uğur Erdem Seyfi)

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  • If you drive a car, have you read the entire owner's manual for every car you've owned? If you're a homeowner, how about your hvac system? What about your system shell? Your compiler(s)?

    At some point you need your tools to be intuitive enough that you don't need to read an entire manual in order to do your work.

  • Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions

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  • Oh, you just mean he believes that's the future, not that he agrees with it or thinks it's a good thing.

  • Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions

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  • Do you mean the "this is where we're headed" comment? That's not agreeing with the direction.

  • My skill prevents bugs, unlike your fancy compiler, peasant.

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  • ... until you have an off day, or you get bored of coding, run off to join the circus as a professional knife-juggler and your codebase is inherited by someone of more conventional aptitude.

    Sometimes you even have to deal with having mere mortals on your team!

  • Madeleine Mortensen: Jujutsu For Busy Devs (Part 1)

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  • For what it's worth, I agree with you about branches, and there are various ongoing discussions about how to make working with branches more convenient. I use an experimental feature called "advance branches" that makes it mostly fit my workflows, and the other benefits of jj are sufficient that I haven't switched back to git.

    I create log files of runs, temporary helper scripts, build output, etc. in my working copy all the time.

    The solution to this is to just have a more aggressive .gitignore. But also, note that the "working copy commit" isn't generally something you want to push or keep; think of it more like a combination of the git staging index and an automatic stash.

  • Merge conflicts

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  • average c++ dev

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  • You didn't say "programmers should be aware that rust doesn’t automatically mean safe". You said:

    People just think that applying arbitrary rules somehow makes software magically more secure...

    You then went on to mention unsafe, conflating "security" and "safety"; Rust's guarantees are around safety, not security, so it sounds like you really mean "more safe" here. But Rust does make software more safe than C++: it prohibits memory safety issues that are permitted by C++.

    You then acknowledged:

    I understand that rust forces things to be more secure

    ...which seems to be the opposite of your original statement that Rust doesn't make software "more secure". But in the same comment:

    It’s not not like there’s some guarantee that rust is automatically safe...

    ...well, no, there IS a guarantee that Rust is "automatically" (memory) safe, and to violate that safety, your program must either explicitly opt out of that "automatic" guarantee (using unsafe) or exploit (intentionally or not) a compiler bug.

    ...and C++ is automatically unsafe.

    This is also true! "Safety" is a property of proofs: it means that a specific undesirable thing cannot happen. The C++ compiler doesn't provide safety properties[1]. The opposite of "safety" is "liveness", meaning that some desirable thing does happen, and C++ does arguably provide certain liveness properties, in particular RAII, which guarantees that destructors will be called when leaving a call-stack frame.

    [1] This is probably over-broad, but I can't think of any safety properties C++ the language does provide. You can enforce your own safety properties in library code, and the standard library provides some; for instance, mutexes have safety guarantees.

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  • I guess what you mean is that Rust doesn't advertise the compiler as being bug-free?

    The massive difference here is that C++ has no soundness guarantees even when the compiler is working as intended, whereas Rust actually does in fact give soundness guarantees in the absence of compiler bugs.

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  • Rust doesn’t have a formal specification other than “whatever the fuck our team hallucinated in this compiler version”

    That's simply not true. The Reference, while not an ISO-style formal spec, does actually specify most of the intended language behavior, and incrementally approaches completion over time. But even if you insist on an ISO-style formal spec, there's Ferrocene: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/the-ferrocene-language-specification-is-here/

    it fucks your day because you’re not careful

    The cve-rs vulnerability is actually not really something you'd ever write by accident. Also note that the bug report has multiple versions because, even though a "full" solution is pending some deeper compiler changes, the first two three versions of the exploit are now caught by the compiler. So, like I said, the compiler bugs do get fixed over time.

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  • Borrow checking...existed in C++ too

    Wat? That's absolutely not true; even today lifetime-tracking in C++ tools is still basically a research topic.

    ...someone found memory bugs in Rust, again, because it is NOT soundly memory safe.

    It's not clear what you're talking about here. In general, there are two ways that a language promising soundness can be unsound: a bug in the compiler, or a problem in the language definition itself permitting unsound code. (unsafe changes the prerequisites for unsoundness, placing more burden on the user to ensure that certain invariants are upheld; if the code upholds these invariants, but there's still unsoundness, then that falls into the "bug in Rust" category, but unsoundness of incorrect unsafe code is not a bug in Rust.)

    Rust has had both types of bugs. Compiler bugs can be (and are) fixed without breaking (correct) user code. Bugs in the language definition are, fortunately, fixable at edition boundaries (or in rare cases by making a small breaking change, as when the behavior of extern "C" changed).

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  • It's neither arbitrary nor magic; it's math. And unsafe doesn't disable the type system, it just lets you dereference raw pointers.