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KindaABigDyl

@ KindaABigDyl @programming.dev

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I make things: electronics and software and music and stories and all sorts of other things.

  • thanks

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  • So... pure functional programming w/ out state?

  • Git without a forge

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  • Yes. The only way to send patches without something like Github is over email. I don't mind all the other stuff, but there's no other way to do PRs than over email, and I hate email. I didn't see that he gave alternatives. His preferred solution was an email

    The formal PR button in a forge is a way to do that with one click, but a short email with all the same information is just as good.

    Like, dawg, no it aint

  • Git without a forge

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  • I wouldn't mind doing a self-hosted git repo and only using cli if I didn't have to also use email to do so.

    Seriously the worst part. Email is a technology that should be left in the past. It's just awful. There's no good way to do email.

  • The state should be purely passed through function inputs and outputs

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  • Isn't anarchy just against imposed hierarchy? Most anarchists I've met are okay with heirarchies that form naturally, and believe those hierarchies to be enough for society to function, hence why they call themselves anarchists, not minarchists.

  • You can lead a P to M but you can’t make ’em F’ing R

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  • You can lead a P to M but you can’t make ’em F’ing R

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  • Bro what? TI has like... the best docs. What are you talking about? They have the Microsoft C# docs of the semiconductor world. Clear examples, every little detail, well organized. Darn near perfect example of what to do

  • You can lead a P to M but you can’t make ’em F’ing R

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  • I mean, it's fine. And if you can't find something the NixOS subreddit is usually pretty helpful

  • You can lead a P to M but you can’t make ’em F’ing R

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  • I have another one:

    30min of fighting with an LLM can save you 10s of boilerplate

  • unsafeCode

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  • Why do libraries define their own true and false?

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  • GLFW is a C library, not a C++ one, and an old one at that, and so the reason is that a long time ago, there was no bool in C. Every library would make their own true and false bc it's handy to have.

    Nowadays, the type _Bool has been added to C, and C++ has built-in bool, but you can still see the legacy of no boolean in C as to use the type name "bool" as well as the key words "true" and "false" for 1 and 0, you have to include "stdbool.h," as well as in custom types in these old GL-adjacent libraries.

  • Different philosophies

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  • And that's why I don't use Python for anything more than simple scripts

  • A Shiny New Programming Language - Hackster.io

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  • Could I do:

     
            signature primes_less_than(x: number) -> [number]
    example primes_less_than(2) = []
    example primes_less_than(10) = [ 2, 3, 5, 7 ]
    primes_less_than(10582319112759318014901241439012831231539517)

    ?

    I don't pay for OpenAI, so I can't try the playground

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    My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?

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  • This response needs more up votes

  • Packaging

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  • What packaging types are there for Rust? Isn't everything just source-based through cargo?

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • Rust and Haskell (I think Haskell counts)

  • Python has a library for everything but..

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  • I find Rust crates generally have pretty good docs. Docs.rs is a major time saver

  • jonringer Continues to Cause Drama and Problems

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  • Post title is misleading as he's not really the one causing the drama.

    The mods gave him a 6-week suspension, and now it's up, so he requested his access back. Nothing unusual

    The drama comes from people who just hate the guy and are screaming about letting him back. His response to that was then very cordial and just calling out them for being to aggressive.

    I'm not taking a stance on whether his suspension should become a ban or whether he's gonna change or whatever; I'm just saying it's simply false to say he's continuing to cause the drama and problems when all he did was ask to get his commit access back and tell his haters they're being assholes

  • NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

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  • Eelco is also leftist so no

    There's a difference between a leftist and a left-wing extremist like the handful of people involved with the open letter

    also the maintainers are what make nix be nix so yes, it’s has the potencial to affect a lot of people

    Yes of course, but the maintainers aren't really affect either.

    What I'm saying is there are only a few maintainers upset right now, and if the tide turns (which it looks like it has) only a few maintainers on the other side will be upset.

    My point is overall only a few maintainers will be upset, like 10-20 or so out of thousands, so the status quo will stay the same.

    has very good arguments(with proofs)

    Not really

    that don’t have any correlation with left or right

    Strong correlation with far-left extremist ideas, actually

    you need to give a good argument if you want people to belive in you

    Those writing the open letter didn't give good arguments, so I don't need to either

  • NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

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  • What I'm saying is that there will be no change in how well they are maintained.