Eji1700's recent activity
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Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp
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Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentEhhh given the context of the Bun author posting a blog making potentially false claims about the language I do think Zig gets to defend themselves. If they just dropped this after Bun moved to...Ehhh given the context of the Bun author posting a blog making potentially false claims about the language I do think Zig gets to defend themselves.
If they just dropped this after Bun moved to Rust it’d be bullshit but given they straight up said “oh yeah zig just can’t scale we were doing it right” I think you get to counter, especially if you have reason to believe it’s a blatant lie.
I am curious what all the fallout from this will be. It strikes me that both sides have objectively provable claims(either zig doesn’t scale well in buns case or bun had slop code) so it shouldn’t be that hard to point to “like this line here” but so far there’s a lack of that
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
Eji1700 LinkGoing through Altered Carbon and its sequels after finishing Dungeon Crawler Carl 8 Carbon and half way through book 2 broken angels: Book is better than the strangely inconsistent show. Book 2 is...Going through Altered Carbon and its sequels after finishing Dungeon Crawler Carl 8
Carbon and half way through book 2 broken angels:
Book is better than the strangely inconsistent show. Book 2 is eh from a couple of angles. Main issue is that while not frequent there are some seriously overwritten sex scenes. I won’t go into my full rant and confusion here but Jesus I get it he fucks.
DCC8:
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Comment on How diamonds are made (interactive infographic) in ~science
Eji1700 Link ParentTo be fair for screwing around in a hobby that's not the worst starting point when branded well known machinery is just wildly out of price range. If you're not looking to make professional grade...To be fair for screwing around in a hobby that's not the worst starting point when branded well known machinery is just wildly out of price range.
If you're not looking to make professional grade work it's probably fine. The core device on these things isn't that complex, so it's not the sort of thing that I think needs extremely fine tolerances or it's just going to break in 6 weeks.
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Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentYes let’s bully people into self reflection through embarrassment rather than the meaningful discussion in the original topic that already led to that.Yes let’s bully people into self reflection through embarrassment rather than the meaningful discussion in the original topic that already led to that.
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Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentAnd that couldn’t have been done in the comments? We need an entire diss topic which explicitly calls out the OP? This is basic bullying and the number of people defending it is disheartening.And that couldn’t have been done in the comments? We need an entire diss topic which explicitly calls out the OP?
This is basic bullying and the number of people defending it is disheartening.
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Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentI don’t care. The purpose of the topic is just “lol they suck” And? Just because they maybe shouldn’t have doesn’t mean a dogpile topic is justified. What possible positive discussion do you see...-
I don’t care. The purpose of the topic is just “lol they suck”
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And? Just because they maybe shouldn’t have doesn’t mean a dogpile topic is justified. What possible positive discussion do you see arising from this topic?
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Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentSo what? I'm not encouraging the view of the original topic, but at least there we had some meaningful discussion and some well meaning and well thought out posts to try and explain to OP where...- Exemplary
So what?
I'm not encouraging the view of the original topic, but at least there we had some meaningful discussion and some well meaning and well thought out posts to try and explain to OP where they might be faulty in their views.
This topic exists solely to make fun of someone. What possible gain is there? Who cares which is less mature? At least something positive can come of the other topic. What positive outcome is there here?
"Oh yeah op sure does fucking suck!". Wow, great.
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Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentYou're ignoring how incredibly childish it is to just make another topic to mock someone. This entire topic exists for people to come in and dogpile on someone else.It definitely reads as hostile, but that’s partly because the original post it’s paralleling in structure is hostile.
You're ignoring how incredibly childish it is to just make another topic to mock someone. This entire topic exists for people to come in and dogpile on someone else.
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Comment on Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentYou seem to be assuming people will go in through normal means. Identity fraud often has synergies with social engineering attacks. "Oh yes I'm mat, yeah I forgot my password, here's my passport,...If you have my passport that doesn't give you any kind of access to my bank account.
You seem to be assuming people will go in through normal means. Identity fraud often has synergies with social engineering attacks. "Oh yes I'm mat, yeah I forgot my password, here's my passport, yeah I can answer the security questions..." and so on.
Just because you personally have proper 2FA setup doesn't mean the vast majority of people do, or that banks even ALLOW proper 2FA(since an email/SMS recovery is SO common and easy to bypass) because they know their customers will lock themselves out.
As for banks being liable, sure. Enjoy the 6-10 months of not having your money while you escalate and deal with investigations. About the only time fraud is easy for the consumer is credit card fraud, and only then because of unique circumstances around it.
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Comment on Smush in ~games
Eji1700 Link268 pts. I never like letter/word games. Seems extra brutal when you're dealing with so few vowels.268 pts. I never like letter/word games. Seems extra brutal when you're dealing with so few vowels.
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Comment on Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThis is by far the worst justification. Nation states aren't going to be slowed down in the slightest. They're the kind of entity that can just walk into a business or gov agency and say "we have...To be honest, a bit of unanonymity might be a good thing for social media. Harder to be a propaganda bot when you have to prove who you are to have an account. If the networks cared about such things, of course.
This is by far the worst justification. Nation states aren't going to be slowed down in the slightest. They're the kind of entity that can just walk into a business or gov agency and say "we have 400 new humans as of today, here's their info, make it happen".
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Comment on Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentSomeone with the first batch is going to be able to impersonate you on loans and maybe withdraw from your bank account. That's why people care.My identity isn't my passport or my credit card or my National Insurance number or anything discrete like that, it's a complex and ever-shifting arrangement of thoughts and opinions and preferences
Someone with the first batch is going to be able to impersonate you on loans and maybe withdraw from your bank account. That's why people care.
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Comment on Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThere are reasonable middle grounds. The only thing you want to know is the person accessing the computer an adult, so the only thing you need is an "adult user" key which is linked to a local pw...There are reasonable middle grounds. The only thing you want to know is the person accessing the computer an adult, so the only thing you need is an "adult user" key which is linked to a local pw and passed to the site.
Can you get around this? Sure? Do kids already get around LOTS of things designed to stop them from doing stuff? Yes. This is still a better step in the right direction instead of "no one knows anything but you clicked yes" vs "store every single persons ID forever".
All forms of ID check for decades have been "glance and go", with maybe tracking that "yes you checked an ID and said it was 18 plus" but nothing more. That's all we need digitally. Not storing the entire ID.
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Comment on Did Kamala Harris's silence on Gaza cost her the White House? in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentConspiracy's are endless goalposts. Russell's teapot and all that. Why not assume there's secret space lasers than can pinpoint accuracy rip off part of his ear put there by lizard people? There...To be clear, I don't actually think the shooting was staged, but I think your objection assumes certain invariants which aren't necessary to hold up the conspiracy.
Conspiracy's are endless goalposts. Russell's teapot and all that.
Why not assume there's secret space lasers than can pinpoint accuracy rip off part of his ear put there by lizard people?
There are rational, and more importantly, verified answers to everything you've pointed out. A huge one that gets look over is why would the Biden admin hide ANYTHING about this? What conspiracy somehow dodges literally every level of government, law enforcement, and recorded evidence, that still requires some level of conspiracy in the first place rather than just rigging the election which is certainly easier?
So i get you don't think it was staged, but there's always some "well actually even if that's true then..." around the next corner.
"Oh he wasn't shot it was shrapnel"
"oh actually it wasn't shrapnel it was a device"
"oh actually there were REAL bullets fired at the same time but only to hit members of the crowd"
"oh actually it was....." and on and on and on.
There is a photo of the bullet in flight just past trumps head. Of course it's AI or Photoshop or the fake shots into the crowd or camera's can't capture that or that journalist is a plant or whatever.
If someone is willing to look at that image and still continue coming up with excuses (or more often than not, ignore that it exists or not even attempt to look for it), then there's never going to be a line that's good enough.
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Comment on Did Kamala Harris's silence on Gaza cost her the White House? in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentI despise this so much. I agree, guns are a major issue that needs to be legislated better. That's why I learned about guns, so I could understand what's actually meaningful progress and what's...because they don't understand guns.
I despise this so much. I agree, guns are a major issue that needs to be legislated better. That's why I learned about guns, so I could understand what's actually meaningful progress and what's bullshit.
It drives me up a wall when you get something akin to "we're making flying safer by forcing boeing to put feathers on the wings!", or literally anything RFK JR has said about vaccines, in gun legislation and everyone eats it up or swears that anyone opposing it is someone looking for an excuse to hunt humans (which, yes, there are people opposing it for that reason, but that doesn't make it smart legislation).
I have 0 personal experience with weapons outside of some extremely rare range days and trips with friends. I do have friends/family in the military which can help give a primary source, but it's not hard to research the basics of what a firearm can and cannot do. We all acknowledge how unrealistic movies can be with gunplay, but then suddenly everyone thinks you just point the dot on a spot and that's what you hit when it comes to these theories.
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Comment on “There will be no mercy” in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentThis was never the point of the UN, nor would most countries sign off on agreeing to itI think the UN was much more proactive about attempting to prevent them in the 90s
This was never the point of the UN, nor would most countries sign off on agreeing to it
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Comment on “There will be no mercy” in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentI mean what do you even do? Send a few thousand more troops to die on foreign soil after spending billions? People who want to do things about this don’t actually know what to do. And that’s...I mean what do you even do? Send a few thousand more troops to die on foreign soil after spending billions? People who want to do things about this don’t actually know what to do.
And that’s before you get to the political problems of “okay you stopped it by killing a bunch of people…now what”. Run the country? Leave a vacuum with a “do a genocide and we’ll be back” note?
We just don’t have good answers for this even if you magically get buy in from everyone for generous reasons.
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Comment on AI adoption and IntelliSense in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah as long as that means you're using a parameterized query (sounds like ,not a typescript guy) that's basically standard. Programmatic clause building is what most of these libraries do anyways...Yeah as long as that means you're using a parameterized query (sounds like ,not a typescript guy) that's basically standard.
Programmatic clause building is what most of these libraries do anyways because that's all you're really passing SQL at the end of the day (sorta kinda...).
To be clear you can run into other problems, and there can just be bloat issues with trying to string SQL stuff together, but it's not like there's some gorgeous way to do it. Personally I just stick to dapper when I can as it's lightweight and gives most of the tools you need.
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Comment on AI adoption and IntelliSense in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentYeup, although where that line is moves depending on use case, and crosses into ORMs/micro-ORMS as well. This is why in my case I know a lot of multi line editor commands, but I do have the...If these queries are large in terms of the number of columns, but there's a pattern to them, I wonder if it makes sense to write code to generate the SQL somehow?
Yeup, although where that line is moves depending on use case, and crosses into ORMs/micro-ORMS as well. This is why in my case I know a lot of multi line editor commands, but I do have the ability to spin up quick scripts, however it seems like every SQL dev environment is slightly different, and a lot of tooling you'd expect to exist is just "oh yeah here's my pile of scripts from 20 years of dev". Hell even in basic 1st party stuff.
My most recent project is a web app
Yeah I've noticed they're decent here. If you've got a small app with a database to store information you're usually going to be okay.
On the other side though this is a big issue. If multiple people come out and just say "yeah zig doesn't scale" that's a problem, and a major project is a very loud datapoint on that.
We know the weaknesses of languages like C/Java/JS/Etc, but with newer languages the more they're tested the more we learn.
Even ignoring the money in the room, this is how coders have discussed this stuff. Linus is not known for his private beatdowns, it just wasn't as visible because you had to be a linux kernal dev or interested in that to even see it. It had similar ramifications though in that the outcomes of those shit slinging sessions often would determine major standards and tech adoption.
When everyone swears their product is the best (again nothing really new, just inflated thanks to the money) getting valid data points is important, and if you just hear "oh wow Zig just can't handle catching some memory errors while rust can" that's a BIG statement given that is probably one of THE largest problems in coding and any tool in this day and age not solving it leads you back to "might as well use C, at least I can hire for it" or similar problems.
Depends. Both sides could be providing code snippets they thought were unreasonable. It's not some awkward "well in this environment" performance metric which can be bullet proof or wildly variable. Both posts would be a lot more powerful with a "For example" code block of what they thought was being done right or wrong. If it's as egregious as they're both claiming (one migrating to a new lang, one saying they write out and out slop) that should be fairly easy to identify.
Yes if the answer is "well we have some slop, we all do" that's trickier, but we don't even have a starting point for reference to judge that.