@filipefreire learning Go was a smooth ride for me too. Probably that's why I almost rage quit Rust cause I expected the same.
Been meaning to try out Tauri but I had a pretty bad experience with Loco. Opening a Rust codebase with a ton of boilerplate code that you barely understand will mess you up for sure

@ta1da couldn't agree more, I keep calling AI a glorified auto complete to see if it helps bring the hype of it down, without being too scientifically inaccurate 😆

"It's as smart as a PhD student now!"

- yeah right, last time I checked, all my PhD friends knew how many r's were in strawberry 😆

@filipefreire 😂 as inaccurate as some might say that is, I think it's much closer than calling them "intelligent". Otherwise we're setting a pretty low bar for that word lol

Makes me hope our descendents eventually crack AGI just so they can look back and laugh at our naivety

@livingcoder yup I know a bit of c++ but not really at an advanced level.

But I can't blame The Book here. I just never got as far as chapter 15. I decided to revisit it now and it all makes perfect sense.
Only thought I have is that chapters 12 to 14 kinda give the impression that you've learned enough to start building with Rust but they are some pretty important things after that.

@filipefreire same here. Usually I just read enough to get a basic understanding then I start building

I had been working on something and it was going well. Then I got over confident and tried to contribute to an open source project. The issue seemed pretty simple but I got stuck on it for a couple weeks and lost all my confidence

@mo8it yeah I did! Got as far as the vectors exercises if I remember correctly but it's been a while

Kept seeing this as a meme and thought I should try it out too #chatgpt

So maybe I should have read through The Book all the way to the end before rage quitting #rustlang

My biggest problem was smart pointers and I never made it past chapter 10

They're running out of ideas and all they've got left is hype to try to keep their share prices high, and convince VCs to throw money at them

There's this growing trend of tech companies announcing features and products that are months away and I think that's just a big sign that something is off.

We heard about Apple Intelligence back in June or something but the new iPhones won't even have it when they're released

Ever since I read Erik Larson's The Myth of AI, I just can't take any kind of AI hype seriously.

Plus, the tech industry has been drumming up more hype than actually innovating lately

@Prma can't say I'm a big fan. But I've had to write a lot of it so it's kind of grown on me. but I haven't done anything complex like PL/SLQ

@Prma sounds like I'm learning prolog then. either way, learning haskell would be an endeavor all on its own whereas learning prolog in the service of better understanding the BEAM languages feels more doable

@Prma lol! I like the idea that you're challenging the run time to keep both sides equal.
it does freak me out a bit though, even being able to have a variable on the right side like 3 = x. it offends me somehow

@Prma yeah tooling is so important. I still haven't got elixir-ls to work with vs code or zed work nix flakes. I managed to get it to work with devbox though so I guess I'll be using that for now.
Either way I think it would be so hard to go back and learn prolog. New languages have spoiled us

@Prma how about Haskell?

@Prma hmm i see. I found myself wondering whether they could have used a different operator for this though. I can't get past always thinking it's a simple assignment operator

Seriously though: I want (okay, demand) a version of Firefox with the "AI chatbot" functionality removed. Not disabled. Removed. I want all code which is specifically designed to connect to OpenAI removed from my computer completely. I do not care if the vampires have promised not to suck my blood. I do not want the vampires in my house in the first place.

https://mk.nyaa.place/notes/9xvolkux40ok0n1m

@mhwombat yeah I guess the hard part is figuring out which groups to add

Some wisdom from a Japanese gamer. As a designer I thought about it in the context of UX. But, really, it can be applied to most any challenge in life.

#Psychology #Gaming #Life #MarioBros #Japan