tihal's comments

People might disagree strongly, but my recommendation for you is to look into lambda calculus for this.

There are two important concepts that can be generalized: - Substitution, the method of renaming and replacing variables - Abstraction, replacing a variable with another term (function) that can also serve as output

This should give you a more natural feel to concepts like parametrization or what it means that the solution to one function may be another function. Perhaps you might even look a bit into the simply typed lambda calculus which has given me yet more perspectives on the fundamentals of mathematics.

Thanks for the excellent share. Both the thesis and the blog behind it come at a perfect time as I am writing my own thesis on GAN-assisted anonymization of full-body movement data. Very interesting and well written dissertation.

The same no-goods that already caused the "mass resign" and other ideology-driven controversy in the last 12 months.

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/about/

Even that point is ridiculous. Ferris was released from the original author as "public domain" property. It is not a "gift" or "compromise" of the foundation, they would not be able to restrict Ferris' usage, even if they wanted to (and after reviewing their document, I am 100% they would love to)

The difference is that the R-word foundation goes above and beyond their (reasonable) interests of protecting their brand/identity. This is not about trying to fend off people impersonating as "Official Rust..." or "Rust Foundation ..." but tries to stop you from even having the _word_ "rust" or "cargo" in your domain name. Also there is some ideology-driven nonsense which is impossible to enforce but that does not stop them from the attempt to treat their community condescendingly like that.

We, the R-word foundation, hereby and publically do not endorse the online gathering under this comment, as it does not:

- follow local health guidelines

- may attract people wearing fireguns

These breaches of our big CoC are not appreciated and we will spend all of our sparse funding now to drag you to court.

I feel like a fool for learning - let alone advocating - Rust to this point. The "great resign" is merely one year ago and the foundation has learned nothing. It is reasonable for any organization to protect against misrepresentation, but this proposal is overshooting so far that I could not even take it serious at first. Some of my favorites:

  - They try to trademark the words "Rust" and "Cargo" which are common words in the English language
  - You can not use "rust" in your domain name(?!), course name, video name, whatever, unless approved by the foundation
  - Trying to impose a "Rust Foundation" approved CoC to all on- and off-line communities or events revolving around the language (the language, not foundation!)
  - All off-line events about Rust need to ban their participants from carrying firearms
  - Overrule any existing fair-use rights by prohibiting any modification (other than scaling) to the logo
  - You need to constantly state that you are not affiliated or endorsed by the Rust Foundation when talking about the language (e.g. you want to write a tutorial, book or even answer on Stack Overflow?)

Needless to say that most, if not all, of those rules will be impossible to enforce. The foundation can try by spending all their funds and energy to fight lawsuits because some kid in India used "Rust" in their domain name or a bunch of rednecks hold a conference with guns in their pockets, but that time and energy could be better used elsewhere.

This proposal shows perfectly everything that is wrong with Rust: The "Foundation" and language need to be separated completely. This board consists of some self-proclaimed experts with questionable backgrounds who are hindering adaption and alienate the community by living out yet another ideology-driven power trip. At this point it does not matter if the proposal gets passed, which I doubt, or undergoes a complete rewrite as the damage is already done and the foundation has shown their ugly face to the community. This is their third strike in a row and I doubt that the important steps towards industry adoption (like integration to the Linux kernel) will be unaffected - all thrown out of the window because someone on this board could not endure the idea of people hosting independent events about the language.

The only thing that will be open-ended is your OpenAI bill after giving your access key to this scammer scum

Thanks for your feedback!

Oh I forgot to mention: my application is not very heavy on computation or storage, I want to use payload primarily to not mess up authentication and spend hours after hours writing CRUD methods