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Re:Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:21AM (#26012325)
It is sinister because re-education camp is a euphemism for concentration camp.
Re:Intro to images in Go – concurrency on Friday November 01, 2013 @10:35PM (#6657882)
Yep, I'm very excited about Rust. I think per task/process heaps is really key to getting concurrency and reliability done right. Also the type system and aim for zero cost abstractions seems great. That said, it is still pretty early stage so I'm holding off for the 1.0 release.
Re:Intro to images in Go – concurrency on Friday November 01, 2013 @05:35AM (#6652691)
Nice visuals! But this highlights one thing about Go that irks me coming from Erlang: sending mutable state over channels. Here the power of a node is modified in another nodes goroutine, which makes things much trickier to reason about. A better approach, IMO, would be to decrement the power before a node sends itself over a channel.