@clarfonthey @cwebber Sounds like a description of software in general - there's only a tiny sliver of people who are positive about LLMs but don't say anything
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Programming dragon from 🏴, largely focused on Rust
PetraI firmly believe that all 14 year olds should surreptitiously be given Pratchett by someone that isn't a parent.
Especially if they live in a household where they have to hide it because it contains witches.
They are books that teach you how to think, even in the face of extreme authority.
This is my story. I would be a much worse person without having Pratchett books in my life.
Elizabeth
emmatyping 🏳️⚧️People say you shouldn't compare apples and oranges but it seems to work fine for me in Python 3.14, I don't see what the issue is...
Babana
ety://glyphscribeHey, you, reader:
Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"
Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.
Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.
You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.
Ossie 
I think a lot about accounts of older "therians" who do not use or know that term. I think about this story from Tumblr. https://www.tumblr.com/questions-within-questions/770568290019999744/being-a-ranger-i-spend-a-lot-of-time-alone-in-the
mccSomebody linked me RFC 7565, which linked to RFC7564, and if that's the place to look this appears to be the list of disallowed characters in a Fediverse username, and I'm cracking up because it's *mostly* stuff you'd expect, except the very first category of banned characters, specially, is "pre-1700 Korean characters".
The fediverse is welcome to all. EXCEPT KOREAN TIME TRAVELERS. Did you just wake up from being frozen in ice during the Joseon dynasty? The IETF is targeting you PERSONALLY
@khleedril @mcc the compiler's fathoming is often deliberately limited (like type inference across fn signatures) because the language designers don't want the compiler making some kinds of inference. IMO you don't want implicit cloning anywhere, although maybe this example this would get away with implicit copying. (Which is fine because it's guanranteed to be a memmove)
@jamwil @mcc That's an interesting perspective - I thought the syntax was relatively small and it was much more viable to learn "all of it." Granted it's not quite as small as C, but I'd say it possibly has fewer sugars than python in terms of having syntax constructs for things that you can express in other ways, keeping in mind Rust needs you to express a lot more in general. (e.g. in types)
There's definitely a handful of constructs that you encounter so rarely that most people forget they exist (`@`-patterns most prominently IMO, also `for` lifetimes) but they're not sugar, they mean something distinct.