I’ve done a little, it could definitely fall into type 2 depending on the person.

Lol, one of the great philosophers of all time

Rust is close to C++, in that you get a lot of high level constructs to help you. C is very low level, and you can learn the syntax in a weekend, but you’ll also have to learn memory management and implement advanced structures (linked lists, etc) yourself.

Memory management isn’t too hard, it’s mostly remembering who created what, who reads and writes to it, and who is responsible for cleaning up. With some additional comments as you go it’s not too hard. Also, depending on what your doing, leaks may be acceptable. A short lived program can leak all it likes, and the OS will clean up for you ibthe end :D

Once it clicks, rust can be type 1, it certainly is for me. But it’s definitely a long and hard type 2 to get there.

What type of fun are you after?

https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/281df432-3a48-4e78-ac58-1ff835091f99_SP+582+-+The+fun+scale+-+revised.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max&w=1920

Type 1 is probably python.

Type 2 is probably rust or c.

Type 3 is one of the esolangs. Uiua. Or assembly.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39717

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=37977

Doesn’t look promising. Maybe dualboot.

And then they sink millions into chasing crypto, AI, etc…

I googled for the default port of dynmap, AI gave me the minecraft default port. I knew it was wrong, but that would have been annoying if I didn’t know that.

Seems it has been fixed now, but definitely kills the trust.

Crazy that Mozilla themselves didn’t put this out.

You can AI as hard as you like, you’ll probably not manage to replace the really complex tools.

I have just started writing a laser cutter tool, and I tried some suggestions from AI for doing basic matrix transform calculations, and it was completely wrong. So I wouldn’t trust it for anything moderately complex. That said, it was fantastic for the UI.

Great read, all entirely valid points, 0 chance of it reversing the trend. As an industry, we have given up on quality, and we aren’t going back.

I buy that argument, and have made it often for other research topics, but this one is just so far into “water is wet” territory that its pointless.

There is no improving YouTube comments. It’s all noise, no signal. We don’t even need a study to know that.

And the only entity that can fix it are Google, and they’ve had 2 decades to do so, and clearly have no intentions of fixing it.

This research is just pointless, there are better more tangible things to spend money on.

Lol, YouTube comments are a cesspool. Why bother researching it…

Daily employee newsletter 🤢

I don’t even read the monthly ones my company puts out, daily must be soulcrushingly tedious?

You can get your local instance admins to delete the messages from its DB, but you can’t do anything for the other thousand or so federated instances, they all have a copy of the messages.

Safely depends on the content of your messages. But generally, consider your messages public.

“A super AI that is perfect at finding people” - firstly, doesn’t exist, secondly, by definition cannot be defeated. Otherwise, use e2ee when possible, and talk in person.

It’s very sad. He had some brilliant ideas, with a bit of mental health support he could have done incredible things. RIP :(

It’s the second coming of Terry Davis!

It’s a small enough subset of the available plans that it clearly hasn’t been an issue. Every other plan in Aus would expire and age off as you’d expect, but these ones just don’t. Before the one I currently am holding, I was holding a number for my Grandma for ~5+ years until I cancelled it. The number was never connected during those years, and I kept paying a bill with $0 in charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Australia#Mobile_phone_numbers_(04,_05)

There is a decent amount of unused numbers currently, and we have another 100m spare numbers ready for use, and haven’t needed to dip into them yet. I suspect part of the reason we haven’t run out is that because we can port numbers easily, there is a little less churn of the numbers, you can change plans without burning a number. No evidence to back that claim though.

It’s definitely not 4 months, I’ve had it well over a year. I had one before that that lasted 5+ years.

This is Australia though, our numbers are 04xx xxx xxx, which is 100 million numbers. For a population of 20-30m, no real risk of running out.