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ost-ing commented on Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024) russellw.github.io/undefi... · Posted by u/imadr

imadr · 16 days ago

I haven't used Rust extensively so I can't make any criticism besides that I find compilation times to be slower than C

ost-ing · 13 days ago

I find with C/++ I have to compile to find warnings and errors, while with Rust I get more information automatically due to the modern type and linking systems. As a result I compile Rust significantly less times which is a massive speed increase.

Rusts tooling is hands down better than C/++ which aids to a more streamlined and efficient development experience

ost-ing commented on Fight Chat Control fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai

FabHK · 14 days ago

> government control, censorship and centralization of the internet is not the solution

Why? Porn in magazine or movie form used to be age-restricted. Assume for a moment that was the correct, or at least a reasonable and permissible policy.

Why should it suddenly not be the appropriate policy, only because it's on the internet? Why do you say that laws do not or should not apply when you sprinkle a bit of "internet" over it?

It reminds me of the crypto-bro argument that, don't know, money laundering and tax evasion and offering securities without appropriate disclosure is illegal and tightly regulated, but if you do it with "blockchain", then it is perfectly fine. What sort of mindset is that?

ost-ing · 14 days ago

> What sort of mindset is that?

Its the mindset of neckbeards who don't realize its not the 1990’s anymore, that the landscape has changed significantly and people cannot protect themselves let alone their children from it.

Implementation obviously matters and it is indeed a delicate situation, but that does not negate the need for solutions.

ost-ing commented on Fight Chat Control fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai

IshKebab · 14 days ago

> It's pretty common knowledge that pornography is not representative of real relationships, and because it's not actually emotionally satisfying, it takes regular consumers down a rabbit hole of increasingly extreme, vile and obscure content.

That's not common knowledge or true. Most of the population watches porn. Where's the harm?

> pornography is not representative of real relationships

No shit. Next you'll be telling me that Batman isn't representative of real billionaires.

ost-ing · 14 days ago

Love it when you make a statement that porn isnt harmful without referencing any studies, and then demand studies for people to prove it is harmful. You are the one who made the original claim that its not harmful, the burden of proof is on you.

ost-ing commented on Tell HN: AI hype is bs but AI models are useful · Posted by u/behnamoh

ost-ing · 15 days ago

Like with any new wave of technology, the masses try to ride the wave, however they can - either creating a spinoff company that will ultimately go bust, or spamming hn with blog posts about their experiences.

It’s yet another hype cycle, and exhibits very similar traits as the dotcom bubble. Want funding? Just use a .ai domain.

CEOs are talking about AGI or super-intelligence, but this is all hype driven nonsense to try to convince people that their stock evaluations are justified.

Whats particularly dangerous about this hype cycle is that the technologists try to convince us that humans are now replaceable with said technology, this teaches people to be lazy, promotes brain rot and ultimately leverages the situation even more.

It’s going to pop.

ost-ing commented on Ask HN: What is the go-to programming language in your industry and why? · Posted by u/vishalontheline

ost-ing · 21 days ago

Embedded developer here, I focus on audio hardware and robotics. Although C/++ is still dominate Rust is becoming more and more popular. I now specialise in embedded Rust, with a fallback to C/++. C++ is fine, but I prefer the modern language feats, safety guarantees, toolchains, package management etc of Rust.

ost-ing commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

mvieira38 · 25 days ago

If any other country should know better, you'd think it would be Germany. Ursula in particular married into a family which was both persecuted as Anabaptists and participated in persecution by being Holocaust enforcers, so how on Earth is she not aware of the slippery slope here?

ost-ing · 24 days ago

Like most people on this planet in positions of power - corruption and cognitive dissonance

ost-ing commented on The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/mykowebhn

zackmorris · a month ago

"Nurses should be at the very top of our social hierarchy but we live in a world where it’s just the opposite," she says. "This film is a love letter to the profession."

I moved furniture for 3 years in the early 2000s to support my shareware business. Something like 500 moves, sometimes 9+ hours per day, occasionally 6 days per week. It made me who I am today, but also broke me in countless ways.

I witnessed single mothers giving us $20 tips each (around $40 today) while wealthy people didn't even offer us water. I saw the best and worst of the human condition, sexist pay policies, how workers are exploited by not being provided a schedule for the next few days so they have to call in each morning, how truck fuel costs more than workers' pay, how Right to Work states allow businesses to throw employees away on a whim, how tax brackets at the bottom create the impression that any additional pay gets skimmed by the man, among a great many other injustices, and how all of those conspire to keep the working class down so that a handful of individuals can become fabulously wealthy.

With every improvement in tech, I see the gulf widening. We can talk about how poor people now have cell phones and flatscreen TVs, while conveniently ignoring how people with a net worth over $10 million who couldn't spend that money in a lifetime are now buying politicians to shred the social safety net, among other dubious endeavors.

I say with complete confidence that the arrival of AGI will bring about ultimate wealth inequality. I foresee a world where 10 billion people work performatively to survive long after robots can do the work better, while less than 1 million people live like gods, free even of senescence. Assuming that we stay on this timeline and don't shift to a more equitable one.

I went into computers in the late 1980s to eventually build an android like Data. I didn't know that Turing test-passing AI would arrive 20 years early, or that I would spend the first quarter of the 21st century hustling to make rent due to unfortunate geopolitical realities driven by unmitigated greed and regulatory capture.

Now I'm not so sure that I even want to stay in tech anymore. It has been anything but kind to me. Every time I level up, so does the world, and expectations upon me just grow for the same pay. My people-pleasing has cost me my health on a number of fronts. I know that someday, I'll have to choose computers or my life.

After all of that, one might think that I'm all doom and gloom. But I'm not. I've come to treasure my time at the warehouse as a teaching tool after a great deal of shadow work. I admire my foreman for being the provider that I can only hope to be someday. I look in awe upon the borderline homeless vets, deadbeat dads and ex-cons who showed me what it is to give without expectation of reward. I see them in all of us, even the people I disagree with, and that gives me hope that maybe we can come together and avoid the iceberg that's about to sink this ship.

I'm reminded of this scene from Jaws which always stuck with me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQQIqAiTYA

And I just watched Mountainhead, here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27cN2_k0JF0

I see a world divided into two camps: one that does much for little, and one that does little for much.

It makes me wonder where we all sit in relation to this. What kind of impact we could have on the future, and how that might help everyone to self-actualize.

I don't pretend to have the answers. Some of my best years happened when things were at their worst, and vice versa.

But I do know that everything is upside-down right now, and always has been, since the dawn of civilization. I feel that tech won't really be tech until it addresses and undoes that injustice.

That's why I write this malarky when I should be working. For all the other working people who don't have time to say what needs to be said.

ost-ing · a month ago

Although I am younger than you, I feel somewhat similar. The never ending treadmill of technology seemingly makes things worse rather than better. I’m working in robotics, and I think is this actually the right thing to be doing? - but if I dont, then I wont eat and afford my future.

Really feels like society is burning the candle at both ends.

ost-ing commented on Why are we pretending AI is going to take all the jobs? thebignewsletter.com/p/wh... · Posted by u/pseudolus

kwancloudli · a month ago

Honestly, there's no need to hire more developers right now. With AI, one developer can handle the workload of five or even more, so hiring more doesn't make sense for the business.

ost-ing · a month ago

Maybe if your devs are building React components for ecommerce websites. But if they are building automotive or flight control software - good luck with that!

ost-ing commented on Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why? · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog

commandersaki · a month ago

Like someone else said best is subjective.

I prefer Fastmail.

They have a great web interface that knows how to properly deal with (catch all) aliases including using the proper address to reply.

They do DNS hosting.

They do WebDAV/Files hosting including being able to create unique shareable links to files and/or dirtree style websites or picture galleries. I've found it all very useful.

I also like their rules filtering which let's you do custom sieve code that I have found pretty handy.

Been with them for 12 years now and they've been consistently great. Before that I was hosting my own mail service using Cyrus IMAP (and since FM is the biggest contributor to the Cyrus suite, that's how I had learned of them).

ost-ing · a month ago

But it’s an Australian company that is subjected to draconian encryption and surveillance laws, so if privacy is important maybe not the optimal choice. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/access-and-assistance-bill/