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New comment by boccko in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

boccko — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:47:58 +0000

Standard library is something you have to maintain for all eternity, with identical API. It had been argued that some concurrency primitives like channels would have been better outside of std (for rust, to be clear). Once dependency management is solved, a small std is beneficial.

New comment by boccko in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

boccko — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:50:19 +0000

I try to avoid resorting to ad hominem, but maybe it's just you? In general, no marketing would dial back the economy drastically, which I think is a good idea. Depends on your goals of course.

New comment by boccko in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

boccko — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:43:36 +0000

What? What does it mean for a comment on the internet to be non-zero accountability?

New comment by boccko in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

boccko — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:32:12 +0000

'You think people are inherently stupid and end up buying things they will regret.'

No. _history has unequivocally proven_ that people are inherently stupid and end up buying things they will regret. Or at least they should, if they were aware of the full extent of damage typical products cause.

New comment by boccko in "Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web"

boccko — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 10:02:48 +0000

Not exactly, he just chooses not to participate, which is fine. Many - me included - still think freedom of speech is important, so these systems need to be built, and hopefully, they will. We can also choose to participate.

New comment by boccko in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

boccko — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:03:08 +0000

My stomach lifted when I was reading this. You can't prescribe group percentages at any workplace, but you can try to externalize your inadequacies.

New comment by boccko in "EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]"

boccko — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:34:00 +0000

When they have a court warrant, it's not arbitrary. I think some rights were given to the people to combat government tyranny (right to bear arms for example), but combating government tyranny is just not feasible anymore, due to a set of factors, like our inability to organize behind a common cause. Anyway, the choice here is reserving our ability to overthrow an unjust system, or giving the government the rights to catch those who might want to unjustly overthrow it.

New comment by boccko in "Removing Holocaust Denial Content"

boccko — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:20:41 +0000

No it's not. Nothing should be undiscussable.

New comment by boccko in "Removing Holocaust Denial Content"

boccko — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:19:55 +0000

The Holocaust indirectly lead to (a the abolishment of centuries old anti-semitic laws (from Magna Carta) (b the establishment of the state of Israel. I'm not implying 'they won', but they are in a better place now than they were at the beginning of the century.

New comment by boccko in "Removing Holocaust Denial Content"

boccko — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:16:49 +0000

So factual observations pointing out the percentage of Jewish members in the boards of certain organizations will now get censored?

New comment by boccko in "Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems"

boccko — Sun, 24 May 2020 07:54:08 +0000

It's rather easy to dynamically link something that's not polymorphic.

New comment by boccko in "Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems"

boccko — Sun, 24 May 2020 07:52:15 +0000

Do you think issue at google is not knowing about/not using the proper tools?