Do you include “traits” and “interfaces” under the title “inheritance”?

Laughs in SystemVerilog

Zig too.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.15.2/#toc-Zero-Bit-Types

No, quite the opposite. Models are largely a mass of random looking numbers that can’t be compressed losslessly.

Hp is doing laptop rental for non-commercial customers only.

When you reset “secure boot settings” did you clear the TPM contents? Would that have included a. private key used in the disc encryption? Then when you regenerated keys it will have been with a different seed and so different.

I don’t know much about his stuff, but that bit sounded odd to me.

Just a future looking statement.

Once you get more familiar with the terminal…

• You will want several of them, each set up to do different things.
• You will want more than a 3 line letterbox to see command output.

I know you’re not there yet, but don’t let the fact that you’ve adopted a particular setup limit you in the future.

Leave it at the office.

Of course, but this is a 6? year old. Read the question as a child would.

Put the following words in alphabetical order

All fine, but if they don’t know the word “alphabetical” the clarification is…

(The order they come in the alphabet)

Confusing. “They” refers to the words and alphabet contains letters. If it had been “dictionary” and not “alphabet” then that would be clear.

The question is poorly worded. It asks for words in the order they come in the alphabet. Words aren’t in the alphabet. Letters are in the alphabet, so they reordered the letters.

…paid to browse the web.

Shame the web doesn’t really exist anymore.

Is that down to anti-cheat software?

At that price you’re going intel.

I was thinking that number is far too low

Ironically cars can park and navigate, but not drive.

The encryption of streaming media is annoying, but it’s not what I fear. The ability to lock the software that I run on my hardware to “approved vendors” only is what worries me, and it’s what TPM promises. A security model where the only trusted party isn’t even the person owning the hardware.

Signal groups?.. Oh! That’s why people wanted usernames.

No. Signal is for people I know.

I recognise that different languages have different styles, strengths and idioms. One of my pain points is when people write every language as if it’s naughties java. Enough with the enterprise OoP crap.

I’ve also learnt languages like Haskell to expand and challenge the way I think about software problems. I learnt a lot doing it. That doesn’t stop a lot of Haskell code looking like line noise to me because it over-uses symbols and it being close to impenetrable in a lot of cases when you read somebody else’s code.

I think the aesthetics of Rust are the wrong side of the line. Not as bad as something like Haskell (or Perl), but still objectionable. Some things seem to be different even though there’s pre-existing notation. Things seem to be dense, magical, and for the compilers benefit over the readers (as an outsider).

I’ve been learning Zig recently and the only notational aspect I struggled with was the pointer/slice notation as there’s 5 or 6 similar forms that mean fairly different things. It has other new concepts and idioms to learn, but on the whole it’s notation is fairly traditional. That has made reading code a lot more approachable (…which is a good thing because the documentation for some aspects sucks).

Dynamic typing is a great feature at times. It’s a pain in the butt other times. One of the things I like about Zig is being able to have opt-in comptime dynamic typing. For a certain class of problem it’s really nice.

I think that’s a great set of criticisms.

None of these are sins of Rust, …

They might not be strictly language issues, but if they are symptomatic of idiomatic rust then they are “sins of rust”. Something about the language promotes writing it using these kinds of idioms.

Just like French speakers don’t pronounce 80% of the written syllables because it’s impractical to speak fast with all of them…language features (or lack of them) drive how the language is used.

(BTW the implicit return behaviour on a missing semicolon sounds like Chekhov’s footgun)