[-] qqq@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

The coordinated strike had an immediate impact. Millions of people in Dubai and Abu Dhabi woke up on Monday unable to pay for a taxi, order a food delivery or check their bank balance on their mobile apps.

I honestly can't tell if this paragraph is supposed to be satirical.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Congress please dear god grow a spine.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

I've had someone screenshot my code, circle a buggy line in red, and blog about it instead of submitting a PR.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Look at this person over here using branches, show off

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Seems like a ton (over 1k) of people were affected because of an auto updating VS Code extension. Check your bashrc/zshrc and GitHub account if you use nx

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Beyond the bird or wildlife problem, outdoor free roaming cats are just generally a problem. I have two cats and an outdoor cat likes to come and taunt them at the window: it seriously stresses them out. It'll go so far as climbing up screens and damaging them. Cats will also often mark people's houses.

I walk my cats on leashes. I don't understand why cat owners can't understand that people don't want their cat around unmanaged.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v2.3.0

ChatGPT is correct? The irony of people confidently asserting that ChatGPT is wrong, while being wrong, seems to be lost on the crowd here. Kinda makes you understand why ChatGPT is often so confident even when wrong.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

JavaScript alone is not a simple beast. It needs to be optimized to deal with modern JavaScript web apps so it needs JIT, it also needs sandboxing, and all of the standard web APIs it has to implement. All of this also needs to be robust. Browsers ingest the majority of what people see on the Internet and they have to handle every single edge case gracefully. Robust software is actually incredibly difficult and good error handling often adds a lot more code complexity. Security in a browser is also not easy, you're parsing a bunch of different untrusted HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You're also executing untrusted code.

Then there is the monster that is CSS and layout. I can't imagine being the people that have to write code dealing with that it'd drive me crazy.

Then there are all of the image formats, HTML5 canvases, videos, PDFs, etc. These all have to be parsed safely and displayed correctly as well.

There is also the entire HTTP spec that I didn't even think to bring up. Yikes is that a monster too, you have to support all versions. Then there is all of that networking state and TLS + PKI.

There is likely so much that I'm still leaving out, like how all of this will also be cross platform and sometimes even cross architecture.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm so sick of this; that wasn't her platform. People constantly saying that was her platform stopped people from actually looking at her platform. I'm so sick of Dems that think they can just not vote because they don't fall in love with their candidate. Politics is practical and the USA just shit the bed and it will have a real impact on the world. All of the Dems or left leaning people who didn't vote are complicit.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is not legal; you have a right to vote. Call those numbers if you have an issue and don't leave the line.

We don't all have to be activists, but one day of the year we can spend a little extra time ensuring we remain a democracy.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No intention of validating that behavior, it's uncalled for and childish, but I think there is another bit of "nontechnical nonsense" on the opposite side of this silly religious war: the RIIR crowd. Longstanding C projects (sometimes even projects written in dynamic languages...?) get people that know very little about the project, or at least have never contributed, asking for it to be rewritten or refactored in Rust, and that's likely just as tiring as the defensive C people when you want to include Rust in the kernel.

People need to chill out on both sides of this weird religious war. A programming language is just a tool: its merits in a given situation should be discussed logically.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They're being downvoted because it's a silly comment that is basically unrelated and also extremely unhelpful. Everyone can agree that C has footguns and isn't memory safe, but writing a kernel isn't memory safe. A kernel written in Rust will have tons of unsafe, just look at Redox: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aredox-os%2Fkernel%20unsafe&type=code That doesn't mean it isn't safer, even in kernel space, but the issues with introducing Rust into the kernel, which is already written in C and a massive project, are more nuanced than "C bad". The religious "C bad" and "C good" arguments are kinda exactly the issue on display in the OP.

I say this as someone who writes mostly Rust instead of C and is in favor of Rust in the kernel.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Async features in almost all popular languages are a single thread running an event loop (Go being an exception there I believe). Multi threading is still quite difficult to get right if the task isn't trivially parallelizable.

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