datadeft.at.hn
- datadeft parentDo you think that there is form of communication where you reach a higher understanding? Are we average Joes on HN?
- > plenty of things Rust didn't solve
I agree on that too.
> Nor do I believe that Rust is the perfect tool for all tasks.
No disagrement here either.
I was just not really getting why you are attacking OP with assuming bad faith content from him immediatelly. Maybe I misread your comment.
- I am sorry, but HN is probably the last place on Earth where you can wander off the mental plantation of single tech praiser people without much pushback. Perpetuating monocultural ideas and discouraging critical opinions is the way to create echo chambers that many online forums are poisoned with.
- My problem is that I do not want to replace one centralilzed service with another. I do not see any difference between the US and the EU (or Australia) in handling privacy. Most politicians are super keen on destroying privacy for people, for the "good cause". There are so many examples of this I lost count. We need strong encryption and true peer-to-peer networks where the connection is going through random routes (impossible to predict) and there is no government controll of any of the nodes it touches.
- A lot. Problem is that sometimes the hardware is lost due to renovation to the building.
https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...
- I have moved to uv few months back and never looked back. I use it with venv and it works very well. There is a new environment handling way with uv:
- uv init new-py-env
- cd new-py-env
- uv add jupyter
- uv build
These are executed super fast. Not sure if this could help your situation but it is worth to be aware of these.
- I thought that the point of Rust is to have safe {} blocks (implicit) as a default and unsafe {} when you need the absolute maximum performance available. You can audit those few lines of unsafe code very easily. With C everything is unsafe and you can just forget to call free() or call it twice and you are done.
- The biggest problem what I have with using AI for software engineering is that it is absolutely amazing for generating the skeleton of your code, boilerplate really and it sucks for anything creative. I have tried to use the reasoning models as well but all of them give you subpar solutions when it comes to handling a creative challenge.
For example: what would be the best strategy to download 1000s of URLs using async in Rust. It gives you ok solutions but the final solution came from the Rust forum (the answer was written 1 year ago) which I assume made its way into the model.
There is also the verbosity problem. Calude without the concise flag on generates roughly 10x the required amount of code to solve a problem.
Maybe I am prompting incorrectly and somehow I could get the right answers from these models but at this stage I use these as a boilerplate generator and the actual creative problem solving remains on the human side.
- The amount of issues I have seen in the last ~20 years caused by "off by one" type of errors in Excel is insane.
Few examples:
- incorrect schedule for the electricity grid for an entire country
- incorrect assessment of an airport use for an airline (causing few millions USD loss in revenue)
- incorrect financial position assessment for a mine (resulting incorrect deciosion to optimize the wrong business process, not sure about how much they lost)
Making illegal states unrepresentable is a concept that benefits programming langues and business processes alike.
- So I have this small form box (it is hardly bigger then few mobile phones stacked on each other) and I run Tailscale on it as well (also as an exit node). I installed Tailscale on my MBP and mobile phones as well. Now it is forming a network where regardless of where I am in the world I can chose my home server as an exit node and also access the samba shares and the other devices (rpi3 and rpi4).
- "Historically, ideas on the origins of life have been mingled with evolutionary explanations. Darwin avoided discussing the origin of the very first species in public although he acknowledged the possibility that life originated by natural causes. Some of his followers adopted this materialistic position and advocated some sort of spontaneous generation in the distant past. Nevertheless, Pasteur’s experiments were a major obstacle for scientific acceptance of the sudden emergence of life. The scientific study of the origin of life, established in the 1920s, required abandoning the idea of a unique chance event and considering a view of life emerging as the result of a long evolutionary process."
https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.100...
- > Maintaining solar panels will be always way, way, waaay cheaper,
Citization needed. Actually we do not know and we are figuring this out.
Few examples:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJKM65tsCo
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/weather/worlds-largest-float...
Batteries would need to be safer, less toxic and less prone to be mined by children in Africa, also orders of magnitude more energy dense.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893...
- In what timeframe?
Solar panels last 20-25 years. Nuclear power plants last for 50+ years and use fraction of the space that solar. It is hard to believe that the TCO is lower. Usually people just looking at the price in the short term and comparing that. Batteries are a whole different can of worms. Super toxic and you need a high volume of those because the energy density is much lower.
- > An electric bike or scooter can be brought indoors to charge.
Just look at this:
https://www.newsflare.com/video/704902/e-bike-battery-explod...
There are a lot of videos like this that shows the devastation of charging electric bikes or scooters indoor.