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TwentyPosts commented on Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta   apnews.com/article/suprem... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
rkagerer · a year ago
Am I the only one a little bit sickened that the multi-billion dollar lawsuit is to the [potential] benefit of investors, rather than the users who were harmed?
TwentyPosts · a year ago
The reality is that it's much easier to bring a lawsuit over damage done to shareholders (dropped stock value is measurable and easy to see, security fraud), than it is to bring a lawsuit over damage done to users (harm done to individual users is hard to measure).
TwentyPosts commented on I Feel Unsafe   jezenthomas.com/2024/11/I... · Posted by u/yakshaving_jgt
rekabis · a year ago
Considering tankies:

Is it possible to be an anti-authoritarian, anti-dictatorship, pro-democracy communist? Especially one who thinks that most power structures beyond regulation, the legal system, and public services should be utterly dismantled?

TwentyPosts · a year ago
Pretty sure this is generally called "Anarcho communism".
TwentyPosts commented on Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes   hazel.org/... · Posted by u/deepakkarki
Joker_vD · a year ago

    func TestWhatever(t *testing.T) {
        // ...lots of code

        _, _, _, _, _, _, _ = resp3, resp4, fooBefore, subFoo, bar2, barNew, zap2
    }
Like, I get it, it's a good feature, it caught quite a lot of typos in my code but can I please get an option to turn this checking off e.g. in unit tests? I just want to yank some APIs, look at their behaviour, and tinker a bit with the data.

TwentyPosts · a year ago
All of this could've been prevented if Go just had two ways to compile. Debug and release.

The go devs decided against this since they didn't want to build a highly optimizing (read: slow) compiler, but that is missing the point of developer ergonomics.

TwentyPosts commented on Benchmarks of Google's Axion Arm-Based CPU   phoronix.com/review/googl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
TwentyPosts · a year ago
> These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types.

Hardware (see also, Google's TPUs and their performance vs. energy cost) is one reason why I'm fairly bullish on Google.

TwentyPosts commented on Mojo clarifies meaning of "Python superset"   github.com/modularml/mojo... · Posted by u/CoreyFieldens
TwentyPosts · a year ago
Is anyone surprised by this? Chris Lattner in high regard, sure, but I always expected them to have to quietly walk this one back.

It just didn't seem feasible, for a lot of reasons.

Of course, how feasible it sounded will depend on your interpretation of "superset". I wonder what was the straw that broke the camel's back.

TwentyPosts commented on Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter   leontrolski.github.io/gra... · Posted by u/leontrolski
cpburns2009 · a year ago
For all of the syntax features Python has been adding over the years, this would be a nice enhancement: making the "else None" optional in the ternary if-expression. E.g.,

    spam = eggs if bar
    # vs
    spam = eggs if bar else None

TwentyPosts · a year ago
Do we really need more syntactic sugar? Frankly, I am still confused why Python is going for a separate syntax for if expressions instead of just making its regular ifs into expressions
TwentyPosts commented on Rewriting Rust   josephg.com/blog/rewritin... · Posted by u/yett
chrisco255 · a year ago
On drama: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/why-is-there-so-much-mismanage...

Also, Zig is set to release 1.0 beta in November.

TwentyPosts · a year ago
Zig is not even close to a 1.0 beta this year. Or even next year.

For example, the async problem still exists and still has absolutely no viable path forward, or even MVP approach.

TwentyPosts commented on Rewriting Rust   josephg.com/blog/rewritin... · Posted by u/yett
SkiFire13 · a year ago
AFAIK many of those language features (specialization included) are blocked by the rewrite of the trait solver.
TwentyPosts · a year ago
Afaik specialisation (in full generality) would cause soundness issues, so it's not even just blocked by the trait solver, it's also blocked by figuring out a 'slimmed down' proposal that fixes those.

And that's not even getting into the problem that it's a fairly controversial feature, since people are worried about terrible, hard to track specialisation trees. (See, inheritance.)

TwentyPosts commented on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/shmatt
JohnMakin · a year ago
Man if only we didn’t live in a global society where carrying electronic communication devices in non-combatant (aka civilian) settings was the norm, you’d maybe have a point here. Multiple children have been reported as killed. Do you think that may fall under the category of “indiscriminate?”
TwentyPosts · a year ago
I don't think civilians regularly carry military-grade pagers.

And fwiw, I heard of two tragic cases of children dying, which sounds remarkably low to me so far. If this were truly indiscriminate, this number would be significantly higher and we would've heard of it by now.

u/TwentyPosts

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