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I seriously doubt that most laypeople think that.


Why?


You can get texts, app notifications, and phone calls, you can play music and podcasts, you can download app updates, an app you opened earlier is still in the same state later. All with the phone screen off. They also know that none of these things are possible when their phone runs out of battery and dies. I think most people could notice the difference between these states and realize that screen off != phone off.

What I think most people don't notice is that the fact that simply because they can receive phone calls and notifications implies that they are in practice being tracked.


I've done end-user support for laypeople for 30 years - including their mobile devices. The least tech-savvy of them understands the phone is still on, after the screen goes dark.


Most laypeople would understand the tinfoil part of a tinfoil hat.


> Just say nothing, and be there for the longest time, silent and knowing.

Please don't do this.


2016


Too old to recognize the brand, but I'm not following the logic here at all. What kind of clothing manufacturer do you find most appropriate for a street tough?


Your dictionary is sure getting a workout in this thread.


If you're prevented from working a real job, you should receive jobless benefits.


Keep in mind this post is lolspeed porn, not a compelling argument against using a GC in your new project. If you're successful enough to have these problems, you can afford to rewrite in anything.


CMS replaced the guy who turned your .doc into HTML (this used to be a job). Many of these people became LAMP CMF specialists. That transition was at least a decade ago. Sysadmin roles have been under the most pressure since.


> Memory management is a distraction: Actually, no. I don’t use that many lexical lifetimes and use instead smart pointers. So yes, I have to understand the differences between a Box, an Rc and an Arc, but my productivity is not impacted compared to Node.JS or Go.

By throwing everything on the heap, I doubt you see much improvement performance-wise over Node or Go. You probably even come out behind idiomatic Go which makes good use of the stack. What's the point?


Eeeh, I run a few web services on a Rust stack and follow a similar pattern. Performance still tops a comparable Node/Python setup; I unfortunately am not a Go user beyond dabbling so can't comment there, but I suppose I'm just weighing in to say "I've not hit issues with this".

Often times, I Box something and tag it with a "review this" for later. If it somehow becomes a bottleneck, well, it's relatively simple to solve in most web-framework use-cases. Haven't really needed Rc, only needed Arc for shared data structures (rare).


It may also come down to what else the web service needs to do.

If you're just doing a CRUD app, you're probably right.

But if you're wrapping some complex logic that itself makes sense to writ in Rust, then I can see why you might want to write the web interface to it in Rust as well.


This user's views on criminal justice change like the weather.

> sep_field 4 hours ago [–]

> Fines and jail time would be a start at correcting policy. Especially jail time for cops who refuse to wear masks.

> sep_field 2 hours ago [–]

> yeah I think jail is best reserved for cops and politicians.

Perhaps it's best to not engage in further discussion with an obvious troll account.


that is in terms of the pandemic and masks. this is a different discussion with broader goals.

Calling me a troll is a personal attack designed to discredit me. I have very different ideas and motivations than you do, but I am a true believer, not a troll.


Don't play coy, the sole goal of your "discussion" and account is to provoke and upset people.


The purpose of my discussion is to educate and inspire a global Ecosocialist revolution. The purpose of my account in general is to have interesting discussions. I have some pretty extremist views and I'm quite vocal about them in some discussions, that doesn't make me a troll.

Now, do you have anything constructive to say or are you just going to continue personal attacks?


I think you're being called a troll because you're proposing incarceration as a solution, and that's a fundamentally antiscientific position. Inconsistency + agression usually passes the duck test for a troll.


I'm not a scientist and have never claimed to be one. Having antiscientific positions is not a problem for me because science is, in this country, primarily a tool of capitalists.

I'm a Earth-worshipping socialist, but not a Maoist. if I were a Maoist I'd be calling for executions of climate change deniers, but I don't believe in killing for any reason, so instead I am calling for imprisonment of those who seek to harm the Earth. these beliefs are internally consistent, though perhaps not what you expect.


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