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tatterdemalion

@ tatterdemalion @programming.dev

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Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist

  • Choose your path!

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  • Someone explain the Rustacean failing to support MacOS.

  • Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world

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  • Tbh I don't think even the most loved US president should be comfortable without some security. The country is so big, there is always some crazy person with a gun.

  • My tender eyes and ears

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  • All I know is YouTube has more advanced ad delivery methods than DNS blocklists can filter, so you need client-level blocking. This only works if you use browser plugins or 3rd party client apps. YouTube's first party app will always have ads.

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, this is just my understanding.

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  • I think feminism is a perfectly appropriate word choice for the movement. The focus is on the fact that women are discriminated against, and that is a very specific scope of problems that need to be addressed. Calling it egalitarianism kinda loses the point and draws focus away from the actual problem. I.e. the movement is about solving problems, not about a hypothetical utopic end state. You could argue about what that utopia should look like forever, but the movement has already identified concrete issues that need to be addressed.

    Anyone who nitpicks the word choice like in the comic is just not sympathetic to the issue and causing a distraction.

  • Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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  • 'Tis the season

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  • The "you don't even celebrate" felt pretty snarky to me. Like it even matters whether or not you celebrate the same holidays.

  • 'Tis the season

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  • The snark is really not warranted. If you can't survive for a single holiday by yourself, you need to get your shit together.

  • For me, it was Microsoft Ants

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  • Flash is actually coming back to life via WebAssembly of all things.

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  • Please explain how my comment implied that in any way.

    EDIT: So if I'm understanding you right, you're saying that you believe (even if only for the sake of argument) that other people are a "part of you" in such a way that you can't know things about them that they already know about themselves.

    If so, I don't think that really changes the ethical problem. So what if you believe that you'd only be harming "yourself"? You still can't prove this, and so acting on that belief to do harm to others without guilt would be unjustified.

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  • I mean, that's easy to disprove because I can tell you plenty of things you don't know about me.

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  • I disagree. You are assuming that everyone who harms someone else does not care whether they are conscious or not, but there are certainly people who reconsider their actions when given the opportunity to reflect about their victim's life. It's called empathy.

  • What do people love about Rust?

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  • Did you read the post? It ends with several critiques of Rust.

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  • And that makes it OK?

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  • It's a dangerous belief from an ethical standpoint. You could use it to justify horrible acts against others without any proof about their sentience.

  • TIL that in the early 20th century there were clubs for fat men. You had to be over 200 lbs to join, pay one dollar for membership, and learn a secret handshake and a password.

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  • No the dollar membership would be too expensive.

  • [Watch Party] The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Friday 19th December, 7.30pm US ET

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  • It's such a weird poster. You can tell they photoshopped two separate photos of the actors together.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • I guess I see what you mean if we want to get very technical about what a syntax extension is. But I think for the purpose of this discussion, it's reasonable to think of macro_rules! as a part of the Rust language. Practically speaking, it is syntax provided by the language team, not just users of the language who are free to extend the syntax by using macro_rules! to do so.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Enums are the best part of the Rust language IMO, so I'm not sure how you can view them as ugly. Having the choice to destructure something is fantastic. You generally aren't required to destructure every return value. Make sure you're using the ? operator as much as possible. If destructuring is getting in your way, it sounds like the code is not very idiomatic.

    I can't really comment on your issue with nested if and match. Too much nesting is bad in any language; try extracting more functions and let bindings to make it more readable.

    You can enable a clippy lint to deny .unwrap() if you're worried about it.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Sorry, I love Rust but I can't really agree with you here. They only showed a macro_rules! definition, which is definitely rust syntax. Lifetime annotations are relatively common.

    I will concede that loop labels are incredibly rare though.