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FizzyOrange

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  • Ship types, not docs

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  • This has been the norm for literally decades. Doxygen was doing it in 1997 and I'm sure it wasn't the first.

  • Ship types, not docs

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  • Uhm, ship both. Most type systems are not expressive enough to 100% explain the correct use of an API.

  • How to Save Multiple Drafts in Git: A Guide to Using Stash

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  • In my experience unless you are pretty much immediately popping the stash it's much better just to make a branch and do a normal commit. I would recommend avoiding git stash in general.

  • We mourn our craft

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  • To be fair they are definitely improving. It feels pretty incremental at this point though. I think we need one or two fundamental breakthroughs before we're going to see programmers actually out of jobs. E.g. if they find a way to do real on-line learning, or a way to stop the hallucinations.

  • How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis

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  • Why? MATLAB is pretty dense normally, and most MATLAB code is hacky scripts that wouldn't bother with "boilerplate" anyway.

  • Help learning low-level dev

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  • Oh that reminds me. I wouldn't recommend PIC in the 21st century but there's a really cool project called BIO that is an open source alternative to Raspberry's PIO (programmable IO). It's RV32-E with custom x16-31 registers that control the pins directly. Very neat idea.

    It's by Bunnies Huang and he talks about it in this talk about Xous.

    The hardware is (or will be) here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip

    May be a bit hardcore for a beginner though.

  • What additional concepts should I learn before starting to learn rust?

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  • Sounds like you know plenty to learn Rust.

  • Trust signals are broken

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  • Yes it has definitely changed. Before AI, writing code strongly indicated that the author had thought about the problem and put effort into solving it. Of course they could have still done it wrong but a) the chances are much higher with AI, and b) they're using up your time without spending any of theirs which breaks the social contract.

  • How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis

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  • Yeah I think just counting fully unique lines is going to really capture the repetitiveness of a language. I think you'd get more accurate results just asking people using pairwise ranking.

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  • They wanted me to make some changes and with the normal workflow that's just git commit and git push. With git send-email I have no fucking idea and it got beyond the point where I had enough cared enough to fight the process.

  • Help learning low-level dev

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  • For bare metal definitely get a microcontroller and do some fun electronics project.

    Easiest to get into is Arduino, but don't stick with that because its only redeeming feature is that it's easy to get into. The IDE sucks, the build system sucks, the APIs really suck, and the code quality is very low (probably because it's easy to get into so you get a lot of inexperienced people doing stuff).

    After Arduino I would recommend either going to the Nordic nRF5x series - you can do some cool Bluetooth stuff, or even make you your own radio protocol since the radio peripheral is fully documented... Or ESP32 with Rust and Embassy is probably the most modern and slick way to do microcontrollers.

    It does require learning Rust but Rust is really really good so you should do that anyway.

    There are some extremely good videos on YouTube about that: https://youtube.com/@therustybits

    I would probably still start with Arduino though since you know C. Just don't stay there for too long.

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  • Yeah it's mad. Tbh I don't think GitHub PRs are the best workflow, but I absolutely know that git send-email is the worst. I tried to use it once to contribute to OpenSBI, which inexplicably also insists on it. Suffice it to say my patch was never merged...

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  • ... if you have a super janky patch file workflow.

    If you are using Git like normal people do this can't happen.

  • Rebase vs Merge guide

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  • This is just straight up "ChatGPT write me an article about merge vs rebase".

    It's also missing any discussion of squashing, CI, git blame, git bisect etc.

  • The Cult of Clean Code

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  • You have misunderstood. The is ranting against Clean Code, not clean code.

  • Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory

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  • I came for the trash Phoronix comments... But actually they were all very reasonable! What happened to the anti-Rust luddites?

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • In my experience a lot of these old projects really go out of their way to dissuade contributions anyway. Lots of naysaying "it's always been like that", ancient infrastructure - e.g. insisting on git send-email patches, etc.

    Usually the only way it gets resolved is when someone writes a more modern competitor and it starts gaining traction. Suddenly all those improvements that people tried to do and were told were impossible and stupid aren't such a bad idea after all.

    I don't think that's the case with Unity but it probably is with things like GCC, sudo, sysvinit, X11, etc.

  • Inheritance in 🦀

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  • Rust doesn't have inheritance like in traditional OOP languages because it doesn't have virtual methods. You have to manually implement methods to delegate to base classes.

    Also what is this trash meme?

  • How useful are functional programming languages?

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  • They don't really let you do anything you couldn't do in Python, they just let you write more elegant code.

    Personally I find ML-style languages to be difficult to read. They deliberately leave out a lot of the punctuation that makes code readable leading to code that just looks like a stream of words.

    Rust is I think the best option here - it steals most of the good ideas from functional programming but has saner syntax.

    Also you seem to be conflating pure languages with functional languages. I also made this mistake because Haskell is probably the best known functional language and it's also pure... But they're different things. OCaml is functional and not pure. You can use mutable variables to your heart's content.

    TL:DR learn Rust not Haskell or OCaml.