You know that weirdo anarchist that keeps rambling about all nations being bad and by nature imperialistic constructs? They might be the good one

After writing this comment I noticed it became a bit ranty, sorry for that. Something about this article rubbed a bit in the wrong way.

The relevant section seems to be this:

Browser engines and garbage-collected runtimes are classic examples of code that fights the borrow checker. You’re constantly juggling different memory regions: per-page arenas, shared caches, temporary buffers, objects with complex interdependencies. These patterns don’t map cleanly to Rust’s ownership model. You end up either paying performance costs (using indices instead of pointers, unnecessary clones) or diving into unsafe code where raw pointer ergonomics are poor and Miri becomes your constant companion.

The first half is obviously correct, this kind of data model doesn’t work well for the ownership model rust uses for its borrowchecker. I don’t like the conclusion though. Rust makes you pay the performance costs necessary to make your code safe. You would need to pay similar costs in other languages if you intend on writing safe code.

Sure, if you are fine with potential memory corruption bugs, you don’t need these costs, but that’s not how I would want to code.

The other thing bugging me is how miri being your companion is framed as something bad. Why? Miri is one the best things about rusts unsafe code tooling. It’s like valgrind, or sanitisers but better.

Now, the raw pointer ergonomics could be better, I’ll give them that. But if you dive deep into what rust does with raw pointers, or rather what they are planning to do, is really really cool. Provenance and supporting cheri natively is just not possible for languages that chose the ergonomic of a raw integer over what rust does.

Somewhere an accessibility developer is crying in a corner because of what you just typed

Edit: also, please please please do not use alt text for images to wrongly “tag” images. The alt text important for accessibility! Thanks.

Sorry where does the .deb version store the encryption keys if not in plaintext?

ICE-Agent: don’t threaten me with a good time

Did boss baby raise fears in parents that they might have to explain procreation? If no, then two mothers shouldn’t.

And just telling a kid that every constellation of parents are possible, it’s just that some matchups are more common than others doesn’t seem like daunting task.

I’m not convinced he wouldn’t try it. There have been repeated violations of the airspace of Lithuania, with live explosives.

NATO is expecting Russia to be able to do it as soon as 2029. That’s the deadline it set itself to become war-ready. 4-5 years seems like a good time to start shaping laws and law enforcement to handle a war too.

I also vividly remember everyone, me included, being very convinced that he wouldn’t start a war on Ukraine mainland outside of the krim. I think the same was the case before the Krim was taken. I don’t think we should do that error a third time.

I’m also not really knowledgeable enough to know if there is somebody ready to take over when Putin hits the curb. Common tales are that he doesn’t build up a successor out of fear of being replaced before he wants to. But I’m not gambling on that being the case. And I’m also not sure if it would be such a good thing if Russia falls into a deep power vacuum. A Russian civil war leading to multiple warlords taking over could potentially be even worse for the neighbouring regions than Putin.

Anyways: yeah UK does have big problems on it’s own. I don’t think it’s really important what exactly is the motivation if the current lawmakers for the drive towards more authoritarian laws. It’s important to recognize that that is a global phenomenon and that is driven by the current and coming economic crises.

Might also be in preparation of Russia attacking NATO territory. It’s always useful to be able to stomp anti war protests even if you are the victim (or ally of the victim). In the end it’s just crisis time, and the deeper the crises the more authoritarian the policies will become even if it’s just in response to an even further gone government.

Bridge to terrabithia

Wasn’t really to young but didn’t know what to expect and got emotionally crushed by accident. Just heard it was a good movie and put it on one evening.

Well click-through is getting worse and worse the more search engines just give answers themselves without losing you to the actual websites. This must also or even especially affect reddits ability to capitalize the user generated content through ads. Not sure if trying to enter a field that is currently killing itself by showing ai summaries instead of search results is a good move though…

You are not great at logic and analogies, are you?

Well if there can be good tenants and bad tenants, surely there can be good landlords and bad landlords, or is that not possible, all of them are automatically evil?

All of them do earn money just by owning property. I’m not calling that evil or good or bad. It is what it is. And I’m sure many landlords are nice enough people. I am against it though.

So by that logic, VPNs and Bitcoin should both be illegal because they can be used by criminals (even though they have legitimate uses too) because the underlying mechanism is the same

I’m not even sure where to begin. Neither of those, VPN nor Bitcoin, allow you to earn money simply by owning property. Both of them can be used legally and illegally, but that has nothing to do with landlords which are always able to rent out their property completly legally but are still always being a parasite. I’m not saying renting should be banned because one kind of landlords are evil and the others aren’t. I’m saying the mechanism of profiting off of property while exploiting the need for housing puts all of them on a spectrum between siphoning off a little or siphoning off a lot of the workers income.

So bad tenants being excused from any culpability means that all landlords are automatically evil no matter what?

Noones talking about excusing bad tenants. Stop building strawmen.

So you’re saying that poor people should just… not live anywhere and instead should live on the street? I’m not sure I get your point, because if that is your point, it’s not a very good one.

Or should those people just live on the street?

If you’d bothered to read my comment you’d have seen this:

Also, and this might be a weird stance for americans, I don’t think anyone should be facing the choice of being able to pay rent and ending homeless on the street.

Landlords, yes even the nice old man renting out his spare room, are making money simply because they already own property. Of course there is a spectrum between those and large corporations. But the underlying mechanism is still the same.

Is not living on the street not really something of value? I feel that is something of value, isn’t it?

Just compare it to buying property where you continously pay off your credit. You get something in return, ownership of a property. Just because you are too poor to afford that, thus being forced ot pay rent, you receive significantly less for the money you spend on housing. Also, and this might be a weird stance for americans, I don’t think anyone should be facing the choice of being able to pay rent and ending homeless on the street.

I dunno, I don’t have any interest in becoming a landlord but I commonly see people considering them as the most evil people in the world no matter what and it does confuse me a little bit.

They commonly siphon off income from workers to keep their properties value up. This is just pararsitic behaviour.

People always say landlords are always evil, but there are tenants who are weeks or months late on their rent, they destroy the place, etc, it doesn’t seem like such a dream job to me.

So bad tenants are an excuse to be an evil parasite towards every tenant there is? Also, being a landlord isn’t just a job. It is making more money from existing property by exploiting the need of housing of those that are not able to afford a place themselves.

It would still be someone else paying you to keep your properties value up while receiving nothing of value for their money. You wouldn’t be on the same level as an intentionally evil landlord. Just be aware that you would still be siphoning money from a worker into your pocket.

I swear my uncle is a good landlord. Keeps prices low, I swear he doesn’t rip off his renters. He would never do that.

If there were as many good landlords as I have heard this story we wouldn’t have any problems Kyle, sit the fuck back down.

Sorry that’s spelled jardoughneigh you uncultured swine. Give back that monocle at once!

I will never be able to read a sentence starting like that without Gabe yelling at andy as my inner voice

Now that’s something I’m gonna save. And pray that you’re not an agent trying to spread misinformation

Or just 10 billion into the school system? Please? Anything?

If I ever come home to 2.3 kids I’m gonna be so mad. Where is the 0.7 kids I’m missing?!