Bobby_2021

No one should be expected to simply embody progressive ideals. Why would they, especially if it results in net harm to them? The elephant in the room in scarcity of resources. You need to solve scarcity of resources first, for which you need capitalism. Capitalism will be producing more inequality. These green people are shit scared of inequality and want to undo capitalism. Now they will bitch and moan that other people are underdeveloped while the reason they were so "developed" in the first place was because they were sitting on piles of cash. So you want inequality or not? You cannot fight against inequality in the name of social justice and still want to see more development in society. Development will come after capitalism. But that's what's the green agenda is against. The real problem is that green people are too underdeveloped to understand the mechanics of the modern world. These green people resisting capitalism will not yield any results more than how much USSR or China tried to undo capitalism. It's will ironically lead to more capitalism and more power grab like you mentioned.

I didn't say they were stage green. Simply that they were social justice warriors. They were real warriors. They were capable of ruthlessness. They were fighting against social injustice. They were true believers in their cause. From their perspective, only them being in power would deliver justice to society. Again they were "warriors" by the real definition of the term. I specifically mentioned that they were not the fake warriors with the blue hairs. I know they are different. But they are fighting for the same cause. Hitler was fighting for his race to be the best and be in power to run the society. Communists were fighting for their class to be the rulers of society. Blue hair SJWs in the US and Soviet communists have the same motivations. Just like conservatives in the US and german Nazis had the same motivations. You simply can't unsee them or even worse, see one and ignore the other. That's just blatant bias. One is fighting for their class while the other is fighting for their race.

Leo's assessment is correct. It's hard to deny that Nazis had a conservative appeal. The structural similarities that Nazis has to conservatisms is pretty much in your face. But he is wrong in trying to equate conservative Nazis to liberalism in the Soviet communists. The communists are more akin to social justice warriors. That's what they are. SJWs with more muscles and less blue hair. They are war with the fundamental injustice in society. The divide between the worker class and owner class. And that led to them killing 10x more people than the evil Nazis. Also Fascism is not a right wing exclusive thing. Leftists can as easily be fascists as much as right wing. In fact there are more left wing fascists in the world right now than right wing ones.

I can accept all that. But the Soviet communists killed more than 100 million people. I don't think anything could excuse that away. I am not here to speculate what could happen and what could not. That's too long and complicated of a discussion to take place here. Let's talk about the concrete numbers.

You don't know that. It's not like he was stopped from killing people. He simply lost the war. History could have been very different. Either way, the numbers speak for themselves. Leftists are capable of greater harm that the most evil fascist right wing extremists dictators in history. Ummm.. because they kill 10x more people? No one is defending the Nazis. It's simply the case that leftism has done bigger damage that the damage done by Nazis look tiny in comparison. It's a fact of history.

The opposite of a conservative Nazi would be a liberal social justice warrior. Which was communist USSR. Just because they didn't paint their hair blue does not mean they weren't fighting for social justice. Atleast in their minds, they were fighting against the evil capitalism and wrecked havoc on the world doing so killing 100 million people. These countries can't still free themselves from the clutches of communism despite ending it decades ago.

Conservatives vs Liberals is not an accurate assessment. You can be conservative and liberal at the same time. These are two discrete sets of ideologies that can be coopted by left wing or right wing at a point in time. Individual rights, Free speech is a liberal value, but the right wing is the champion of it at the moment, in the USA which is why the liberal vs conservative comparison doesn't even make sense. A liberal is not the opposite of a conservative. Conservatives vs liberals is not on the same spectrum neither are they mutually exclusive. Left vs Right is a valid comparison since they are on the same spectrum. So, are soviet communist dictators libs question is pretty meaningless. They don't have to. They were leftists extremists and they killed 10x more people than right wing fascist Nazis. Also I wonder why the definition of Fascism applies only to right wing. That some reall bullshit. Leftists dictators are the biggest fascists. To argue otherwise will need some real mental gymnastics.

We all know this is the scarcity age.

Android Phone companies are playing a dangerous game by squeezing out their low end phone market customers. If you pander them to buy a premium Android phone, they might as well switch to, hate to say it, an iPhone. I have been getting ads in system apps too. Reported it to the customer care and they said to bring the phone physically to their office for "physical inspection". Wtf. All their phones have ads in their system apps. A part of the problem is thag people simply accept whatever is shoved down their throats. A large enough group of people protesting is more than enough to get these companies to change their minds. But slaves be slaves. I will never buy any apple product though. Screw capitalism and all those who enable it. Unreal. Why do people even put up with this? They are slowly moving to "You will own nothing and you will be happy" kind of great reset.

They will cause problems wherever they go. Even against their allies if you piss them off enough. Infact they hold former allies with greater contempt than straight up enemies. Russia has plenty of ties with the terror groups in the middleast so this is not completely unexpected.

Are you a c developer?

I don't think my soul will allow me to work there. But I don't judge people who do. But not all those weapons are going to bomb teenager girls in the middleast. A lot of it is used to fight against evil. So take that into consideration.

Point taken. But I am not pushing Rust simply because it's my favourite. It's objectively better at the same time. Who wants a software built with memory issues and takes longer to run while consuming a shit ton of energy. There are things that makes some languages objectively better. It's not merely a matter of preference. It should ideally be a scripting language. Made only for small scripts and executing small stuff where the logic of the code is too trivial. Seems like an over kill. You need to input the whole business logic to the AI very clearly for it to spit out code. If you are describing the business logic so clearly, you might as well write the code , without having to correct and fight with the AI. AI can only do boring tasks well. It fails miserably at creative ones. It's like having a prodigious intern to help you at all time. It only has the capacity of an intern and a very good at that. It's good to have it by your side. Like Github copilot. I would not use AI for any mission critical systems, or any software that I build. Atleast not directly.

Contributing to open source development in a domain of your interest is a nice idea. It's a trend to some level of free work to establish yourself before getting noticed for big roles. Having lots of half baked ideas on different fields is a good thing. All of that will be useful somewhere in the future. Diversifying is a good thing. Especially early in your career. CS is too easy to be a degree. Unless you are digging deep. The standard subjects do not offer anything deep. Except for maybe Discrete Mathematics. Good luck man. I love core CS and the philosophical aspects of it, although not proficient enough in the technical side. Hopefully Rust will save me. Not an expert to give solid advice yet. Good luck. I can tell you are on the right path already so keep at it.

Yeah a new class of languages emphasising memory safety is coming out and it may even be better than Rust. But developer ecosystem is a thing. A shitty language with a huge ecosystem will be easier to get work done than a perfect language with no support or eco system. Rust has a bigger ecosystem so that will make all the difference. Carbon and Zig were even poised to replace Rust sometime before. That clearly didn't happen and I hope it won't. Rust is good enough. I don't care if these new languages are 0.0087% better than Rust. Rust is 10x better than every other *popular* framework out there witha decent ecosystem that's steadily growing. That's what matters. It's unreal to me that people will simply accept what is given to them with no concerns of broader implications or philosophy. What about security? What about developer experience? What about Scalability? You don't want your code base to grow so large that no one wants to touch it. Nobody even cares about these stuff. For me these are like the elephant in the room. People simply think, oh this is nice enough to get sub optimal work done and barely pay my bills. And jumps on to it. They are accuring tons of technical debt that their codebase would be easier to rewrite in Rust from scratch than use it to build something good or add features. Then they look for "superheros" to save them from this pit. No wonder why they get burnt out so fast. They are paying for their karma. You will have to pay either way. Rust pays it upfront in full. Like a one time investment that consistently gives it's returns over time. Other languages will make you pay by squeezing the life out of you and make you pull your hair out.

Glad they learned the lesson.

I don't have the habit of preaching on social media but I already see myself pushing rust to every other dev. It's on! Most companies don't care about security until something breaks. Now they want security instead of following the correct practices like a professional right from the beginning. Prevention is better than cure. Java is my third favourite after Rust and C++. I can't bare having a runtime and garbage collector. And runtime debugging is the stuff of nightmares. How can you even track the flow of values on a variable in the runtime. Garbage collector is introducing non deterministic outcomes. Might as well use English then. 😂 Oh we have JS. Never mind. You cannot reason how the code executes because the JVM is doing most of the work. It's like a black box you have to believe in like it's the Bible. I can't get myself to code until I know exactly what the code I wrote does, preferably to assembly and the CPU. Even worse, in the workplace everyone simply want to get stuff done. How it works under the hood is of no interest to anyone. That's can't be me for sure. I would rather starve rather than go back to these inferior languages. I believe as humanity, that it's time to move on. From the olden days of clunky, awkward written code and a million frameworks, it's time to do work like a professional. A new era has come. Security, Speed & Scalability are not merely nice things to have. They are to be the basic features of every moden software. Not to mention it's climate friendly and consumes less energy to execute. No comments. Python is a joke. Java is indeed a nice language to be frank. But these things were the design choices of the 90s. All these hierarchies can induce Needless complexity if you are not careful. Also there are a lot of tools like maven and IDEs. I like a minimalist setup. I simply get in the terminal, work and leave. Peace. I can't stand all these extra stimulations. Rust allows me to get work done in a minimalist setup. That's heaven for me. Not to mention, once you learn Rust, picking up other languages are going to be a walk in the park. Rust is the best investment you can make in your programming career. My only regret is that I didn't find it sooner. Godspeed G. 🔥

It can be used for everything from web apps, back end, frontend using web assembly, embedded systems and even AI & game development. High performance on par with C, low memory consumption, Safety from bugs and productivity. Easy to manage large codebases. Super scalable. It's a young language, released in 2015 that is rapidly evolving. Rust is the future. Yup. Rust is taking over. Android, Microsoft, AWS all are heavily leaning in on Rust by using Rust to build their own tools, starting support for Rust and investing millions of dollars in the Rust foundation. It's steadily growing.

Just don't get excited too much. The same thing happened with msft back in the days and the hype was that they were about to breakup the company. Nothing of that sort happened. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft are all monopolistic entities.

Sleep early. If you are well rested you will naturally wake up early. Make it easier for you to wake up early by going to sleep early.

Apple has really won over capitalism. The best thing US govt can do is to routinely fine them over stuff. They don't even care about that anyway.

Ok. No donations for you.

Just make it public and we will send you "donations".

Does that mean he will get away with not paying?

Very important to acknowledge this. Which is why I don't go out of my way to criticize him. He was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition and people are criticising him for it. Jeez give it a break. Yeah he overworked in some unfortunate circumstances. Sometimes we do that as humans. Just allow it.