EdwardDiego

162 ms·

1. 2431.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   Obviously the well known habit of JVM applications to leak memory. /s (Although being fair, I've met some Java libs that leak memory (looking at you, Couchbase), usually via poor usage of byte buffers. But Rust doesn't let yo
2. 2432.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   Someone tweeted about how people on a Rust subreddit were being mean about trans people, and other people said they were bad, and QED...?
3. 2433.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   Yeah, I feel like you could just rephrase Jim Jefferie's classic comment on gun control[0] and replace this entire blog post with "fuck off, I like Rust". [0] https://youtu.be/0rR9IaXH1M0?t=107
4. 2434.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   When you say Rust is 5/5 stability, define stability, please... > Stability: How stable the Synergy 3 service is likely to be (i.e. memory safety, etc). Huh. So, memory safety. And of course, the ever relevant "etc." Well,
5. 2435.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   RAR reminds me very much of Limewire/eMule/Kazaa days.
6. 2436.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   They said "partisan", not false or unrighteous? A partisan viewpoint is pretty explicitly stated: > The motive force of Brownstone Institute is the global crisis created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Tha
7. 2437.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   > What is not unusual to see is that front line firefighters will be reporting a wind travelling in toward the front of the fire, and that this completely contradicts what predictive fire behaviour reports suggest. What they are seeing i
8. 2438.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   Ah yep, so similar, but smaller than our typical block size of 500g. Although these days a lot of the fancier butter comes as 250g. This is probably one of my country's fanciest butter makers: https://lewisroadcreamery.co.nz
9. 2439.▲
   by EdwardDiego 5y ago

   In my country, "swill" is more associated with drinking alcohol these days, due to a misguided attempt at moderating drinking: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/the-six-oclock-swill-begins
10. 2440.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Oh yeah, I forgot about a "knob" of butter.
11. 2441.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    As someone not from the US, a "stick" sounds as precise a quantity as a "handful", a "dollop", a "pinch", a "dash", a "splash", or a "spoonful". An obvious analogy for th
12. 2442.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    I'm horrified that they don't have this data already.
13. 2443.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    2 gills, obviously.
14. 2444.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Fair point. Caulk might also be more of a British English word than American English word.
15. 2445.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    To be fair, if you don't live in the US, how would you know that a stick is a standardized measure? ...is it a standardized measure? (Out of curiosity, is it a regulated measure? Would I be prosecuted for selling a stick of butter tha
16. 2446.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Did you really need to be offended by that?
17. 2447.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Kiwi here, nope. We do have a grams marking on some brands' blocks of butter. But it's far simpler looking, it's just a "cut here for 50g, 100g..." series of lines.
18. 2448.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    That's interesting, I suspect a lot of Wordle's success derives from their curation of words to remove things like "abaft" and "imago". But then I see the NYT went and removed words like "caulk" and &
19. 2449.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    On #1 - humph was hard for me, I've never encountered it in my reading (maybe I'm not reading a particular genre that uses it? Is it something Jane Austen used?), only got it via a a last ditch guess, because I'm familiar wit
20. 2450.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Source?
21. 2451.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    My phrasing would be "NFTs alleged to be worth $200M"...
22. 2452.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    My phone screen suffered a bad accident, to the level of unusable. 4 weeks for a repair. I needed 2FA to access company services. Email, chat, VPN etc. Which of course, was on my phone. I emailed IT Support from my personal email to request
23. 2453.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Recipes: finding a recipe that doesn't start with 1000 words on why this dish makes the author cry because it reminds them of their dearly departed Nana, followed by anecdotes about Nana.
24. 2454.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Thanks mate :) Children are the ultimate expression of "the more I learn, the more I realise how little I know".
25. 2455.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    > I don’t give anyone any advice now other than … it can be hard, love your child, and spend a lot of time with them. That's probably the only generally applicable parenting advice. Glad you got an easy one second time around :)
26. 2456.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    On the violence imposed by nobility, I agree, the threat of violence, indeed, claiming the sole right to use violence, has been inherent to, well, being a noble, or being a government. That said, the nobility weren't monolithic, so Lor
27. 2457.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Thanks, I'll check it out :)
28. 2458.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Citation needed on that one :) How do you think elites took control, other than through mutual obligation? E.g., if you farmers grow the grain and give us some, us warriors will protect you from the other tribe who would burn your homes, en
29. 2459.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    Every child is a whole new world, a whole new potential, and a whole new problem. 1. My first child couldn't be calmed easily, although I found a song that somehow worked. [0] 2. Second child could be soothed by slowly rubbing from his
30. 2460.▲
    by EdwardDiego 5y ago

    For my oldest child, it was Dominion Road by the Muttonbirds[0], that calmed him, and only that. It was sheer luck I found that out. But, after having more children than you could fit in a regular car, I've realised that each child is