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5 days agoIf all this piracy were running on anonymized networks like TOR or I2P, they’d have a much harder time taking down stuff and censoring it.
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373·5 days agoThe U.S destroying its own economy. Who could’ve asked for a better Christmas present? With Trump at the helm next year, it’s only a question of time before trade partners tell the U.S to fuck off and they stop ignoring decisions like these.
Eventually, painfully, slowly, we’ll move to memory-safe languages. It really is a good idea. Personally, though, I don’t expect it to happen this decade. In the 2030s? Yes, 2020s? No.
This. Unless the government starts introducing fines or financial incentives (like fines) to force the use of memory-safe languages, ain’t nothing gonna happen.
Maybe read the article…
We still suffer from the runtime errors that could’ve been caught at compilation time.
Difficult? How so? I find compiling C and C++ stuff much more difficult than anything python. It never works on the first try whereas with python the chances are much much higher.
What’s is so difficult to understand about virtual envs? You have global python packages, you can also have per user python packages, and you can create virtual environments to install packages into. Why do people struggle to understand this?
The global packages are found thanks to default locations, which can be overridden with environment variables. Virtual environments set those environment variables to be able to point to different locations.
python -m venv .venv/means python will execute the modulevenvand tell it to create a virtual environment in the.venvfolder in the current directory. As mentioned above, the environment variables have to be set to actually use it. That’s whensource .venv/bin/activatecomes into play (there are other scripts for zsh and fish). Now you can runpip install $packageand then run the package’s command if it has one.It’s that simple. If you want to, you can make it difficult by doing
sudo pip install $packageand fucking up your global packages by possibly updating a dependency of another package - just like the equivalent of updating glibc from 1.2 to 1.3 and breaking every application depending on 1.2 because glibc doesn’t fucking follow goddamn semver.As for old versions of python, bro give me a break. There’s pyenv for that if whatever old ass package you’re installing depends on an ancient 10 year old python version. You really think building a C++ package from 10 years ago will work more smoothly than python? Have fun tracking down all the unlocked dependency versions that “Worked On My Machine 🏧” at the start of the century.
The only python packages I have installing are those with C/C++ dependencies which have to be compiled at install time.
Y’all have got to be meme’ing.
Why do piracy apps still put their source on github? It’s just asking for trouble…
Was IPFS considered? I’ve tried it myself but it seems like an unstable product and I’m not sure if it’s living up to its promise…
The bloody managers are the biggest problem. Most don’t understand code much less the process of making a software product. They force you into idiotic meetings where they want to change how things work because they “don’t have visibility into the process” which just translated to “I don’t understand what you’re doing”.
Also trying to force people who love machines but people less so into leading people is a recipe for unhappiness.
But at least the bozos at the top get to make the decisions and the cheddar for being ignorant and not listening.
This is a great initiative and I wish there were more orgs that did this. However, I’m now convinced that we need opensource licenses which stipulate remuneration when used for financial gain.
Even the creators of languages don’t know their own languages 100%. I wouldn’t even call them the limit. So, I’m good enough in my main language that a lot of code doesn’t surprise me. And I try very hard to write code that others can understand as well when in a team.
You know, if they used the PR workflow with a CI that enforced standardised commit messages, this could be quite easily solved? Forcing everything through a mailing list seems to create more work for maintainers…
You know that comment does nothing?
111·1 month agoWhat did you actually do?
They can hire? I thought they were in danger of getting wiped out by legal costs. Have charges been dropped?
Is zig memory safe by design? If not, rust will “win”. Large companies aren’t going to hire for an unknown or unpopular memory unsafe language when they already have C or C++ - there’s just no contest.
Last I read, zig didn’t even have a standard string library. Unless that changes, it won’t even be a viable alternative to C/C++.
Edit: I checked and got this
the Zig language, like C, entrusts memory management to humans, placing full trust in human development. Zig then provides some memory safety checks to ensure memory safety. However, it still lacks the strict compile-time guarantees of Rust’s ownership system and borrow checker. Therefore, when writing Zig code, developers need to pay more attention to potential memory safety issues and ensure that errors and exceptional situations are handled correctly.
Maven and Cradle might be terrible, but C and C++ have fucking nothing in terms of dependency management. Even C# has something that few people use, but it has something. C and C++ are such a shit show to build. It’s so bad they had to invent languages to build them and they regularly fuck up (CMake, make, bison, scons, meson, …).
Pull a C or C++ project on a distro or environment and try to build it and you have to dive in the abyss of undeclared dependencies. And good fucking luck with glibc and glib dependencies. If the dev doesn’t know which version they were actually using, it’s up to you to find out. Fun for the entire family!
“Be nice”
No I want to be an asshole because I think they are assholes
“That’s not very nice”
don’t punch down
Wat?
Piracy isn’t only torrenting. Speeds are better on TOR than I2P, so streaming websites could host the data and allow users to download it directly (DDL). They could also be on TOR and I2P, then provide the DDLs on TOR and torrents on I2P - the best of both worlds.
Anti Commercial-AI license