anewvillager

Moreover, the naturalness argument is pretty strange. Of course complexity arguments are useless if big constants dominate the run time, but, why is it justified to assume the constants are small enough? Is it to make our life simpler? Real life is seldom that simple.

[0]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

[1]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372

Comment · 6 years ago

> I don't like to see wasm replacing native for stuff like development tooling, and desktop apps.

Wasm is like the JVM or CLR in that regard. It's not the future - it's the past.

Comment · 6 years ago

Dude, just make it opt-in. It's that simple.

Comment · 6 years ago

but the thing is, i want to copy the video itself

not copy the url, paste in a terminal for curl or wget to download it, then copy the video..

Comment · 6 years ago

> In the 23andme case there was a worry that people might commit suicide or make massive life changes, if they discovered they had a potential terminal illness. Here, the 2x2 matrix of positive vs negative and true vs false, seems most dangerous on the false-positive side for people who believe it grants them freedom to do whatever they like. False negatives are dangerous for those who then feel certain they don’t have the disease currently and thus expose others unwittingly (but this is already likely!).

So you suggest it's better to not test people?

Comment · 6 years ago

> you can't configure additional peripheral FPGAs.

My understanding is that you can only have a single FPGA.

Comment · 6 years ago

Then why didn't they already stopped? They are violating the law.

Comment · 6 years ago

> Where are the pervasively used compression libraries in Rust? Video and audio codecs? Network stacks? Database engines? System management utilities? PKI and encryption stacks? All that stuff is still in C. After ten years of Rust success!

It's not ten or 20 years, the first release of Rust was in 2015. Pre-1.0 Rust was a wildly different language, with green threads, segmented stacks, regular and wild breakage, not really a C replacement! Please understand this point.

But anyway here are some projects:

https://github.com/ctz/rustls a TLS library that uses https://github.com/briansmith/webpki a pki library

https://github.com/burntsushi/rust-snappy a compression library

https://github.com/tikv/tikv a database engine

https://github.com/hyperium/tonic a gRPC library

https://github.com/tock/tock an embedded OS

https://lib.rs/command-line-utilities lots of CLI utilities which include system management

You ask for "pervasively used" but this is not under control of Rust itself. It's not feasible to replace decades old setups in five years.

The most widely deployed Rust stuff is in Firefox and some Gnome libraries AFAIK.

> I mean, is it maybe fair to say that the window is closing for rust to take over a significant fraction the systems programming world?

I don't see why this should be the case.

Comment · 6 years ago

Why do systemd detractors keep styling it as SystemD? I'm honestly curious.

You know it's written all lowercase, right?

Comment · 6 years ago

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