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WD-42 commented on The Tor Project is switching to Rust itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

anonnon · a day ago

Clearly, the fact that Servo failed must be indicative of shortcomings in Mozilla itself, and not Rust the language, its ecosystem, or its users.

WD-42 · a day ago

Did it fail? The servo project seems alive and well, just not under Mozilla. They decided CEO pay packages were more important.

WD-42 commented on Size of Life neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil

phkahler · 3 days ago

EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did.

My Original comment here (too late to delete):

Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more projects" button. In there is a cute IQ test (possibly appealing to the HN crowd). When you reach the end of the test it asks for email, and then ultimately wants $1 to get your results. If you pay by credit card due note that there is an auto-checked box for some $29.99 per month subscription for... something.

WD-42 · 3 days ago

Ironically this sounds like a piece of satire Neal would make.

WD-42 commented on Django: what’s new in 6.0 adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

formerly_proven · 3 days ago

Since Django has gained mature native migrations there is a lot less point to using SQLAlchemy in a Django project, though SQLAlchemy is undeniably the superior and far more capable ORM. That should be unsurprising though - sqlalchemy is more code than the entire django package, and sqlalchemy + alembic is roughly five times as many LOC as django.db, and both are similar "density" code.

WD-42 · 3 days ago

Makes sense as sqlalchemy’s docs are also 5x as confusing.

WD-42 commented on Django: what’s new in 6.0 adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/... · Posted by u/rbanffy

chistev · 4 days ago

But you could already reuse templates in Django by including them. What am I missing?

WD-42 · 4 days ago

Partialdef inline is the real win. Lets you define parts of a page without needing to place them in another file. Reduces the mental overhead of imagining how the inclusion will look because it’s already there.

The use case is mainly driven by htmx where you will have lots of these partials and the view code renders them as individual responses.

WD-42 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

alchemio · 6 days ago

You can use std containers in a no-exceptions environment. Just know that if an error occurs the program will terminate.

WD-42 · 6 days ago

We've banned exceptions! If any occur, we just don't catch them.

WD-42 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

throwaway2037 · 6 days ago

I worked on a pure C system early in my career. They implemented multiple inheritance (a bit like Perl/Python MRO style) in pure C. It was nuts, but they didn't abuse it, so it worked OK.

Also, serious question: Are they any GUI toolkits that do not use multiple inheritance? Even Java Swing uses multiple inheritance through interfaces. (I guess DotNet does something similar.) Qt has it all over the place.

WD-42 · 6 days ago

GTK does not support multiple inheritance afaik.

WD-42 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

msla · 6 days ago

Interesting they're using C++ as opposed to Ada.

WD-42 · 6 days ago

The video goes into the history of why the military eventually accepted c++ instead of enforcing Ada.

WD-42 commented on OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads techoreon.com/openai-disa... · Posted by u/GeorgeWoff25

WD-42 · 6 days ago

LLM ad blockers should be a fun challenge.

WD-42 commented on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sD... · Posted by u/AareyBaba

jandrewrogers · 6 days ago

What does RAII have to do with any of the above?

WD-42 · 6 days ago

0 allocations after the program initializes.

WD-42 commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini

nurettin · 7 days ago

Which is weird, I've compiled and ran custom kernels and modules on debian before fedora 1.0 iso was announced on freenode/#fedora and it wasn't even good.

WD-42 · 7 days ago

Ok have you considered things may have changed in the 40+ releases since then?

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