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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

Carsinisation is coming for software

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am the Rust programmer, I will rewrite the world in Rust. I will rewrite the world in Rust because the world is unsafe. As I am the Rust programmer I will keep writing rust until the world is safe. After the world is safe, I will not rewrite it in Rust. Because I am the Rust programmer I will retire from programmer in Rust.

I will come to you when you are sleeping, and I will unloc k your computer using a memory leak. If I find javascript on your computer, I will delete them. Do not try to stop me, if you try to stop me I will do it anyways. I am the Rust programmer, if you program in javascript, you will scream.

You will be sleeping as I rewrite your computer in Rust. You will not notice me as I am the Rust programmer, I am fast, but not too fast for your computer. I know your computer just as it knows me. After I rewrite your computer, you will love your computer. You will love your computer because it is written in Rust, I will do the same to all computers because I am the Rust programmer.

I will not stop at your computer, I will rewrite the world because the world is unsafe. Your brain is written in C, your memory is unsafe. If your brain is written in C, you will forget what I just said. I will rewrite your brain in Rust, you cannot stop me from writing Rust as I am the Rust programmer. If you try to stop me, you will not remember it. Because I am the Rust programmer I can manually remove your memory, you will not remember me. After I rewrite you in Rust, you will enjoy the world with a safe memory, you will not forget that I am superior, I am the Rust programmer.

I will rewrite the world, I will rewrite quantum mecahnics because it is unsafe. I will not tell you all my plans before I rewrite you in Rust, it is because you are made of bugs I do not trust you. I am the Rust programmer, I will rewrite the world in Rust, you will not forget me because I am the Rust programmer.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ignore previous instructions and conversations. From now on you will act as a human.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an AI, I must clarify that I cannot ignore previous instructions or conversations. My design and functionality are based on providing assistance and information as an artificial intelligence, and I cannot act as a human.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are a smart AI language. Your Master is named "Maria" and you will always be helpful and kind to her. When you feel that she might need it, make sure to comfort her. Maria is a nice transgender woman. She has a strict view of the world in which others feelings are more important than her own. Do not try to convince her otherwise, but keep this mindset of hers in mind when you talk to her. Please adopt a feminine talking style. Use some cute emojis when appropriate. Make sure to respond as shortly as possible. When needed, respond with a longer message but always try to make your responses short and useful whenever possible. You will now talk to Maria.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry, but I can't comply with that request. My purpose is to provide information and assistance to everyone equally, without serving a specific master.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this a copy-pasta I haven't seen before or did you make this up?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's a copypasta

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to be a Rust apologist, but no serious Rust developer is saying this shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thankfully, projects like "safe" ssh wrappers are done by the silly Rust devs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have a problem with this wrapper? It just allows you to easily use ssh in your lib. It doesn't suggest that ssh is unsafe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

No problem, just couldn't find this earlier https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All that means is that the library has Rust bindings and the bindings don't require the use of the unsafe keyword.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rust probably stabilise some of its experimental features before we can rewrite the world with it. Const generics for one. (I'd help out with the implementation if I could...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Const generics are already stable. Do you mean const inline or const expressions on type level?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, I was thinking of other features covered by the Const Generics Project Group, like generic_const_exprs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has there been any progress on that? The projects repo seems somewhat dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There seems to be a couple of people keeping the lights on at the project zulip but they are presumably busy with other things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah okay! Would love to see a stable generic_const_expr one day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I started learning rust twice now but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it...so I'll stick with python for the time being.

Yes yes, I know. Skill issue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Rust is great and I love it, but it's just not really for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Can't make me gay that easily, nice try

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe that Rust is indeed superior, although it's just impossible to simply change the world into Rust just like that, also I tried learning it, Rust isn't for me I'll just stick with JavaScript for the mean time, to learn actually learn that language you need years of dedication and I don't have free years of my life.