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The problem is that "master" means several things. There is Masters degree, master sword, master blacksmith, master copy, all of which have absolutely nothing to do with master / slave.

The Git "master" terminology came from "master copy". There's an email thread online where someone asked Linus Torvalds the origin and this is what he said.

The whole thing about it being about master / slave was some random uneducated person guessing, and they were wrong.

I agree that main is simpler and clearer, but it has nothing to do with racism.

Thunderbird is going hard on Rust all of a sudden. Recently they started using it in Thunderbird and now they're starting a whole service in Stalwart (written in Rust).

Super awesome.

Source? Really dislike all these unsubstantiated claims everywhere.

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx

Not an ORM, but uses Rust's compile time macros so you can write raw SQL and it will type check everything against either a real database connection or a JSON cache of the database's schema.

Absolute best of both worlds.

I'd absolutely qualify it as non-secure in this context. Signal is E2E encrypted but there are no systems in place where it understands who's added to a chat and validates access based on ACLs or anything. Authorization policies are critical in securing systems.

I thought you are going to mention that she's receiving an enormous amount of money from the government, even though she's Republican.

I can forgive someone for now knowing who specifically enacted some bill or something, but being simultaneously against supporting people with government handouts while relying on $400K from the government to survive? Wtf.

Four times???? We're almost diving by zero here. Sanders is basically infinity times more sane.

Yep, we disagree. The world and technology especially is an extremely complicated place. IMO any complex system that is built upon "humans should just know all this complexity and keep it in mind all the time" is fundamentally broken.

I think you're saying the same thing as what I am. If it's more complex than what you may think, the language should guard against it. If not, it should make it simple.

Rust, for example, is the only mainstream language where it isn't possible to read from a file handle after it's been closed. Doing so is a compilation failure. This is just a general invariant of "how to use files".

But you also don't need to think about allocating or deallocating memory in Rust. It does that fke you automatically, even though it's not GC.

JS can also be complicated when it tries to hide realities about the world. E.g. is a const array or object immutable? No, the pointer is. But pointers don't exist! /s

I mean, this is correct in many cases, unironically.

It should be one of the core purposes of a programming language to help humans to write the code they intend. If a language doesnt do that then it's bad.

No, it isn't just hype. The hype is justified.

Outside of security you have some very really world benefits, like performance gains in various scenarios as well as lots more people willing to contribute and a much better type system (more maintainability).

I feel like bananas would be cold as hell if they were growing that fast.

Maybe i should start saying I make $90 billion a year as a tax optimization

That's been debunked - we get so few minerals from water for our diet that it's almost nothing anyway. Almost everything is from solid foods or non-water liquids.

Curious if anyone can weigh in on this - is there much benefit to having fluorinated drinking water if you brush twice a day with fluorinated toothpaste and rinse with flourinated mouthwash?

I distill all my drinking water, but it's to remove PFAS and all the other garbage we've polluted the earth with. Not because of flouride.

Another method I've used extensively is to block code reviews on unmaintainability. Management has insight into high level stuff, but devs where I work dictate what gets merged.

Early 1900s doesn't mean 1900-1909. It usually means the early century (1900-1950). If they were born in 1945 then had a child when they were 30, that child would be 50.

Also, they might just mean that their mentality is like that of the early 1900s, not that their parents are necessarily that old.

I'm still appalled that my Yubikey / FIDO2 still doesnt work on Firefox. I have it as a passkey for GitHub, realized it doesnt work on Firefox, so they just prompt me for my password. That seems backwards to have password as a fallback, too.

If I punch you in the face, say you're a stupid bitch, then tell you I didn't mean it, wouldn't that be enough?

A Nazi salute is a Nazi salute. It isn't something you can accidentally do.