flabberghaster

flabberghaster wrote

Reply to learning rust is fun. disappointed to say i am now one of those insufferable rust people by twovests

I have been messing with it too and I like a lot of the features, but it can be extremely frustrating coming from a C background where it just lets you do whatever. "I know this is safe but the compiler won't let me do it >:("

In particular i'm having problems figuring out how to work with Sync and Send traits for sharing an object in a multithreaded context. I can do it with Arc but I wrote the object to be thread safe and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it let me share it.

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flabberghaster OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Computers are fun but as a society we have taken them too far. by flabberghaster

Yeah I agree with that. I think there's definitely good use cases for computers to help us solve important needs.

I also think there's just things we already know the solution to, but don't get enough investment interest. And under capitalism, nothing is invested in unless someone thinks it can make them money.

I was kind of just typing whatever was coming in to my head; it wasn't really as coherent as I'd like it to be.

I don't think computers are bad per se. It was more that I think too much human effort is being put in to unimportant things to make quick easy money, and currently the frontier of quick easy money is 'the computing space.'

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to USPS is distributing free test kits. Enter you address and you're good to go. (US only, sorry) by hollyhoppet

also EVEN IF YOU HAVE SOME from other sources, please order them anyway.

  1. You will have 4 more tests.
  2. You will make it slightly harder for them to say "We already tried giving out free covid tests and no one wanted them, so we don't plan to do anything like it again."

Get your tests and make the talking point slightly harder to use!

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