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I'm not a huge fan of go because the language is essentially the fixed gear hipster bicycle of programming language. The whole golang started as essentially another version of the Plan 9 version of C started in the early 1980s. Even the golang mascot is literally a copy of "glenda" the plan 9 mascot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
The designers of go essentially decided to eschew every advance in programming language theory from after the 1970s and just recreate another version of C: an imperative, structured language with no FP/OOP features, generics, etc. with a focus on distributed systems. Go also has some significant drawbacks, like the fact that concurrency is pretty difficult and error prone, just as it would be in C. That's fine for some use cases but the idea that this could be a generally applicable programming language is nuts. Golang could probably be used in a lot of places where C, C++, Rust, etc. could be used.

But the idea of writing general purpose back end enterprise/web software in it is pretty unappealing to me. I sincerely hope it doesn't catch on in these spaces.
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>>17983
>>17990
Would it be a good idea to encourage NASA to use Ada so it will take more good Ada programmers away from programming military shit?

 

>>18002
The only portable threading library until c++11 was boost::thread, though they probably had a posix environment where pthreads were available to avoid such a beast. I wonder how both compare to the common-lisp quasi-standard bordeaux-threads.
>>18024
They would avoid any language with only a single implementation and no formal language specification whatsoever.
JPL follows a subset of the C++ MISRA coding standards. You can't write such a thing for rust, because it doesn't have the guarantees that let you know what unspecified behaviour to avoid or account for.
The limited hardware support and heavyweight toolchain (compared to C or Lisp) may also factor into the lack of adoption.
>>18039
Please say cxx instead of cpp. Cpp is the c pre-processor.

 

ugh, I'm less than 0.3 hours into learning this language and I already hate it.

 

>>18797
why are you learning it

 

>>18800
I'll be using it at my next job.


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>When it comes to sharing AI experiences with your friends, there's no place like fbi.gov. Today, we’re introducing new AI experiments, including an AI chatbot named Clyde, AutoMod AI, and Conversation Summaries, and launching an AI Incubator.
It's all so tiresome.
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>>18745
>materialism is when I have predictable interactions with my group of buddies from work/college/high-school
feeling isolated? try changing your personal consumption habits!(No pedophilic porn/lolicon or porn in /tech/ read the rules)

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLdL8ONEm4

TLDR + Modifications:
1. Watch multi mile circles with NVG and RGB cameras.
2. Watch at a resolution that you can see individual people and cars move.
3. Object Recognition to observe cars and humans.

Major concern:
We as the American Left expect CCTV and Phone cameras, not watch every single human and car within a 10 mile circle at the same time.
Our activism is not prepared at all.

 

>>18766
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/the-fbis-secret-air-force-watched-the-streets-of-baltimore/
already a thing… there was a good intercept story on the test program for 24/7 aerial surveillance over Baltimore that could track anyone at all times, and play back their movements (to help solve crimes like murders, they say), but i can't find it anymore. Anyways it's already been a thing.
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/historypolitics/federal-court-rules-baltimore-spy-plane-unconstitutional/
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/air-force-surveillance-plane-portland-protests/

 

>>18767
There is an episode of NOVA that i vaguely recall talked about this and showed some of the system. Episode I think was titled Computers v. Crime. It also talked about how AI is used in courtrooms and has a major bias flaw.

 

>>18766
>>18767
every day i grow more schizo reading this shit


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sup leftypol. so i have this simple script in Greasemonkey that i use for redirection

// @run-at   document-start

switch(location.hostname) {
case "www.example.com":
  	location.hostname = "www.example.mirror"
 break;


now sometimes i can't connect to example.com and get hit with a "The connection has timed out" page. now the problem is GM doesn't work in such pages. is there anything i can do? doesn't need to be js specific, i don't mind changing stuff in /host. i use firefox btw
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Instead of a redirect in some cases why not text replace the URL in links before it even takes you anywhere? Then you won't have to be redirected.

 

>>18761
sometimes I open a lotta links and it's annoying to edit 20 urls plus my internet is slow and I don't want to wait for things to reload again

 

>>18761
and you can't always directly edit them, you have to copy them(which is sometimes challenging eg google images) and open them in another tab

 

>>18755
might be a limitation of userscripts to only load if a page is valid. you might want to look at making a small extension and use the browser api to update the tab url
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/update#examples

 

>>18764
hmmm will check it tomorrow


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Time Travel isn't possib–

 

upvote!

 

upvote!

 

upvote!


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Why does software gets slower and slower despite hardware getting faster and faster?
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>>18718
not gonna waste 22 minutes on some game"dev"

 

>>18721
It's not like you're coding anyway, so that's a useless spook.

 

>>18721
From what I got skimming it, he argues clean code makes it harder for compilers to fully understand what you are trying to do thus won't make as efficient machine code from it.

 

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>>18721
his point is that some abstractions that trade performance for maintainability are not worth it
that thought alone is rather worthless, but the video, although it doesn't addresses it explicitly, points to a more important question:

>are our tools smart enough that we can write high-level code and expect the end product to be good?
they obviously aren't but the materials conditions are so, that producing and adopting better software isn't economically viable

>does this mean that we have reached a point where capitalism is obstructing the development of the means of production?
idk

 

>>18724
One day the dream of a sufficiently smart compiler will finally come true. Until then, do programmers actually care about what a compiler can optimize and what it cannot? For example I know of this and it sounds awesome but I wonder why it does not seem to be adopted anywhere else: https://docs.racket-lang.org/optimization-coach/index.html?q=compiler


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From the Guardian article about Bullshit Jobs.

What unlikely uses of technology have you found?

 

I used a toaster for drying rags once

 

>>18699
There's a reddit client that looks identical to outlook.

 

Protip: if you have a process spamming an obscure key like F15 every once in a while, Micro$oft Teams keeps your online profile into an "Available" state. I regained many sleep hours thanks to this.


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Twitter API becoming a premium service in a few days
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>>18332
same, with some hot accounts not accessible on some instances. what happens if nitter stops?

 

>>18332
Make sure you cycle through different instances if one stops working. https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

 

Lol this broke Twitter since a bunch of its own features were blocked from using the API

 

Does this nean nitter.net will stop working?

 

>>18695
I've often had better luck on nitter.snopyta.org than nitter.net (suggesting a rate-limit or site-specific issue) but it seem to be working fine.

>>18325
It would be trivially easy to make an alternate frontend since everything is pretty open. I'm surprised I haven't heard of one yet (protip: i didn't look)


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blu-rays are an unnecessary gimmick
reject false modernity, re-embrace DVDs and VHS
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>>18680
And M-Disc is designed to last decades when properly stored. Put a HD or solid state drive in a safe for a few decades and you there is sizable chance it will have data corruption.

 

>>18680
Yes..and…? I never suggested otherwise.

 

>>18683
I dont think ive heard of M-disk before.

 

>>18685
M-Disc basically is a writable disc that is close to the longevity of a properly pressed disc.

 

lol no


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What would be the most anti capitalist programming languages? What i mean by this is what languages would be widely used if what becomes popular wasn't determined by what companies hire for and put money into and the number of people coding in these languages due to past establishment in industry making it predominant. With that said also a language with memory safety and other precautions against potential exploits from bad actors and be more friendly for FOSS development so the language itself has to be open source to prevent possible shutdown from lack if further advances to it from companies. Do many languages fit this? If not perhaps one should be developed.
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>>18665
>I have seen complaints about it's white space sensitivity.
bikeshedding, the semantics are more important

>What do you think is the better memory managment system if not garbage collected?
it depends, it is a trade off, etc. etc. but OP's question was what would be popular, not better
the same could be said about julia optimizations and runtime, that's the problem of general purpose languages

 

>>18667
>anti-capitalist air conditioners.
Passive heating/cooling but otherwise non proprietary easy to source parts in an open hardware with a schematic provided.
>>18668
I am OP. When I said popular I meant so coder friendly but with good performance it would have to become popular if given enough freedom for people to choose such things over standards that may or may not be good. I know it's a weird way of putting it. For personal projects best language is whatever an individual wants they can handle. For small limited group projects what is best depends on their skill levels and personal preferences tthey can agree on together. For long term open source projects you need something that would appeal to enough people to keep it going and since you can't gaurantee every contributer is a good programmer you would need a language that has some idiot proofing without sacrificing too much for those of high skill level so you dont wind up with exploits in operating systems and programs that take a long time to find by people that would patch it instead of use it maliciously. These could be general purpose or purpose built languages. This is basically the principle i was going on.

 

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>>18669
trains are anti-capitalist technology

I understand your question, even if it is counter-factual and utopian. my first guess as I said would be those hobbyist languages that people use in their spare time. but even then, I have met people at my job that honestly like corporate tools like tfvc or adabas
people in this field are weird, specially those that only program at work

I guess you were expecting replies like
>all rust programmers and HN users will be relocated to collective farms hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest transistor

 

>>18676
I think it's more utopian to think you can always rely on a big tech company to support these tools indefinitely rather than replace them at whim. Using corporate tools is fine but it needs to be considered they can be dropped at any moment and you cant expect it would suddenly be kept going in the public sphere for long if it didnt already stand on it's own without big tech money and demands. Sure it may be the case for some things to survive though so long as they are open source and well documented and people legitimately like them rather than only like them because the limited options tech companies allow them to work with. I also know smaller tech companies sometimes let their coders have more freedom on what they use ive heard.

 

>>18681
Actually when i said smaller tech companies i really more meant startups.


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can you redpill me on NFTs? I know they're a scam, but can we use it to fund socialist movements around the world?

for shits and giggles I minted an NFT
https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/21128940023071335023824645527248015939074777217374729780283244897312868139009/
I was surprised by how easy it was. the only catch is that you have to pay the market something like $60 to have the NFT listed, which means that people have to sell a NFT for at least $100 to make any money.
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Screenshotted every post in this thread

 

>>13799
Based bourgeois hijacking prices of graphic cards.

 

Im thinking instead of NFTs you can make a crypto that parodies crypto and openly states crypto is a scam and the money from buying that crypto will be used to try to end crypto so they don't have to hear about crypto anymore and you can make random computer generated images as proof of purchase so it will work like NFTs to their view.

 

>>13836
>crypto parody
<only slightly more scammy than real money
<buy one and get the second for the price of two
<buy today!

 

>>13836
*actually uses the money to expand his funko pop collection*


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