[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I agree on everything you've said. Rust hype is a bit annoying and can be off putting. AI bros seem to have amplified the effect and I strongly dislike it. GUI is probably the worst area of Rust, but given the universality of Rust, I think it's expected. I found egui easy to use, though, but far from swift ui, still.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Having tried both Swift and Rust - you can hardly compare them. For me Rust is in a different league. Swift is a modernization and a step forward compared to ObjC, but Rust is a different paradigm altogether. Swift has IMO done a great job for Apple as a platform, but has not achieved universality and had not transcended the platform. Rust has achieved universality, but has not captured any platform in particular yet. Both have not and may never replace C/C++, though my biased opinion is rust may have a chance (at least with C++)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Honestly, I expect it will become increasingly hard getting a company willing to do something like this. Lately, all of the companies have started heavily enshittifying and I don't know many that still care about their customers. And it's a domino effect - they know you ain't going anywhere, all the others are just as shit. I remember a time where you had a 100 phones officially supported by Lineageos and were cheap. You could get a Xiaomi, Huawei for like a $100 and they would run lineageos almost out of the box. Or a Nexus 5 for a few extra bucks. As soon as they eliminated the competition, they've become closed entirely and are basically spying machines. I don't trust Motorola will be trustworthy in the long term, if they capture any market. Just a few months ago, they were caught hijacking affiliate links on their phones (link). I don't know when the consumer situation will change, but I'm not holding my breath for Motorola. Of course, if they make a good phone running GOS, I might try it if my pixel kicks the bucket.

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    Hi fellow haters. This video shows how LLMs are solving important math problems unsloved for a long time. I'm not a mathematician, but this flies against my biases of thinking LLMs are a marketing stunt and are overblown. Anybody competent in math or adjacent fields willing to jump in and clarify this progress? Cause, I'm having troubles making llm model solve a simple thing from time to time and here they are making progress with fucking Riemann hypothesis. This is hurting my ego, not gonna lie.

    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, you know that episode where Homer does pranks for Mr Burns and goes in and buys a no 1 spiderman from the comic book guy and eats it in front of him. That's how most people feel about book destruction. Nothing legally wrong, but disgusting nonetheless.

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    So, the end of the flap of my mini split deteriorated and crumbled - from just age, I don't know. The shaft of the motor just spun freely in the little nub, and the flap wouldn't open. I tried glue, but the brittleness of the nub made it just crack in a different spot. So this is what I came up with. Just a small brag. To me this is what 3D printing is all about.

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