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  • Wiser words have never been spoken.

  • The OP was concerned about hate toward Russians, and the comment I replied to said that the hate is justified, implying that the target of the hate (all Russians) is doing something to warrant the hate (supporting Putin).

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  • It’s sad that this is not obvious, but many people born in Russia do not support Putin’s actions.

  • I hate that it constantly plays advertisements for itself. Like, I’m already listening to you, I don’t need to be informed that you exist.

  • Turnip Boy seems to require microtransactions according to the reviews.

  • Betteridge's law of headlines…

  • You would be able to find them if every instance didn’t decide to defederate with Threads.

  • It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

  • The addicts are not going to submit themselves to the medical services voluntarily.

  • How would federation with Threads have any effect on the usability of a Mastodon instance?

  • When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

  • What’s wrong with paying a subscription for a service that requires resources to continuously operate, such as email hosting?

  • I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

    • C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
    • Small standard library
    • No generic print function
    • Hard to use external libraries
  • Nim

  • Terminally online people often get the feeling that everyone except a hateful minority agrees with them, when in reality they’re part of a secluded echo chamber.

  • What does Rust improve over its predecessors? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

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  • You’re so close to reinventing Smalltalk…

  • C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.