mswift42's comments

I'd like to point out that amazon is making ginormous profits, meaning increasing wages and ensuring safe working conditions would hardly make a dent in amazons revenue.

> It seems like most of the times, the result is a higher price for the customer, at least when things go well.

Can you substantiate this claim?

With the vast majority of goods the price is set by the market, i.e. higher wages would indeed result in a smaller profit margin and not in a higher price.

The contributor list is expanding :)

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No, I'm using gnome-shell which uses mutter as wm.

But using gnome tweaks you can enable Emacs Input, which if you are used to emacs key bindings, is really handy navigating in gnome-terminal or, as mentioned web browser address bars.

There are two things keeping me using Chrome.

1) Videostreams are way smoother using Chrome, at least on Linux.

2) I've enabled Emacs Input in Gnome. When I enter something in the address bar, both Firefox and Chrome show suggestions for websites below. In Chrome I can type Ctrl+n / Ctrl+p to navigate between the suggestions, because it respects my keyboard schema.

In Firefox this opens new browser windows :( and I've found absolutely no way to change this behaviour.

I don't think there are any.

However, you easily can install alternative readers on Kobo ereaders, see here for a list of some hacks:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295612

> Users banding together to send crypto anonymously toward their favorite sites and creators is not "parasitic"

True, but replacing ads you don't get compensated for with ads you do, is.

Brave's business model is to replace a web site's ads for which the web site gets compensated for, with ads brave gets compensated for.

What happens to the small sites that don't track users, but display some ads to keep the servers running? Hope that they get "rewarded with BAT's accordingly to the users attention" ?

Btw, I'm guessing you are a Brave employee, that many Buzzwords in one comment would otherwise be quite astonishing, how does Brave guarantee a users privacy? I assume brave "phones home" in order to replace ads with ads Brave gets compensated for.

Also, I read a lot about a transparent way funds are distributed among publishers, where is the code?

The first time I heard of Brave, I thought Oh cool, a privacy focused, chromium based browser. But I must say I'm honestly appalled by its parasitic business model.

Content creators are strong armed into becoming verified publishers, while users have to trust Brave that their data is handled properly and carefully.

Can anyone explain what "designed for good programmers" means?

get_iplayer is certainly more powerful than nip. However, afaik you cannot search for programmes by category with get_iplayer, which you can do with nip.

AFAIK the IntelliJ Rust plugin does not use the RLS, but uses an in-house solution.

Completion works very well, Error reporting however is good but painfully slow.

it is my understanding that the bad C++ compilation speed is one of the reasons behind Go's inception.

Go has a GC because its creators thought they needed one to support concurrency.

> Disregarding all critique of a language as "personal opinion" as long as you can "build cool stuff" with it.

GP said it's more valuable to evaluate a programming language by the projects people make with it, than by reading the 417th piece of perceived strengths and weaknesses of it. I think GP has a point.

> Go is a GCed language, so you can't really compare it to C++.

That's a very strange thing to say.

> If everyone followed this approach, we would never have ended up with amazing languages like Rust.

What approach would that be?

> Why try to improve C++ if you can build cool stuff with it, right?

Go improves on C++ in at least one regard, compile time. And there they succeeded spectacularly. While I like Rust, imagine how great it would be with Go's compile speed..

Have you checked how much a 200 GB sd card costs, vs a phone with builtin 200 gb storage ?

No, I mean that every chapter ends with exercises testing your knowledge about the chapter's contents.

This is not specific to this github site. I've recently read the O'reilly Programming Rust Book, not a single exercise in it, and the official The Rust Programming Language Book also doesn't have any.

Exercises, I want Exercises, no I need Exercises.

In order for me to learn anything, I need some form of "homework". If you want to teach me a new language, a new framework, I need to "get my hands dirty".

Working through exercises makes sure I actually understand what I am reading, and sometimes it even shows me I don't understand what I thought I did.