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by crzwdjk 9y ago
It would be kind of difficult to have binary packages unless you have a stable ABI, and Rust doesn't have that yet. If and when it does get a stable ABI, binary packages would at least become a possibility. There are good reasons why R
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
The US also has lots of federally owned land which is "public" but used primarily by ranchers for grazing their cattle. It's not that unusual of an arrangement, and the ranchers have way more political pull than environmental
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
We have very similar signs in the Blue Hills Reservation just outside Boston, but the hours are rather more restricted (I think it's just Tuesdays). So it's not completely unheard of even in the relatively urban Northeast, probabl
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
I think the main culprit was Perl's mess of an OO system. While technically it was the same at its core as the Python one, the almost complete lack of syntax to support OO and lack of standards (especially in those earlier days) for ob
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
People always take up space though. The scaling problem comes in when people take up considerably more space when traveling than when stationary, so the transportation infrastructure ends up taking up more space than the thing you're t
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Or rather `let mut usage: &str`. Rust actually is kind of similar to C here in that the pointer and pointee can be separately const or mutable. But in Rust "const" is the default and mut needing to be explicitly declared, wher
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Anecdote, but a telling one: in my previous round of job-hunting, I had a success rate of exactly 0% with whiteboard coding interviews and a success rate of 100% with other interview methods. That's a pretty stark correlation.
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Not really. OpenGL in particular has to do a surprising amount of work on every call, to make sure the state hasn't changed and to update all sorts of things if it has, to manage the various buffers and make sure they're mapped in
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
You don't need to work with SQL strings though, you can work with ASTs or other higher level abstractions, and with Rust's macros and the infer_schema! machinery you can probably find a way to project the SQL types into Rust'
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
This is absolutely the right answer, even though it's not the option that I personally took. If you want to invest in actual property, it should be because you would enjoy having a side job as a property manager, and possibly because y
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
It's hard to say whether the long distance trains are viable as a transportation service, because they're also in the "land cruise" business and oddly enough that part seems even less profitable. It's the source of
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
> Thank goodness the early Pentiums stopped that madness The idea of a separate co-processor that only did floating point ended with the 387. The 487SX (that was the coprocessor for the 486SX) was actually a 487DX (i.e. a full 486, with
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
> which then turns up in the JSON decoder at ( https://github.com/rust-lang-deprecated/rustc-serialize/blob... ). There are no comments on the safety of that. Maybe there's a reason it's in a repository
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
Those are drivers for the regular GPUs that you plug into a PCI slot on an ARM server. I don't think they'd work with the onboard GPU on the Tegra SoC.
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
NVIDIA has actually contributed some code to Nouveau to make sure that it will work with the Tegra platform (the graphics engine there, unlike on every x86 platform, isn't behind a PCI bus). Also, the display part of the Tegra SoCs is
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
I've been developing a small self-contained web app to serve as a scoreboard for roller derby. It consists of a server written in Rust that mostly serves a bunch of static pages and javascript files, as well as a JSON API that the java
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
There's no a priori reason that property rights should survive a person's death, and plenty of arguments against allowing hereditary accumulation of wealth. Note also that currently the first $5.5 million is exempt, which is more
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by crzwdjk 9y ago
For some historical context, mod_perl development only started in 1996, and it got to version 1.0 in August of 1997, which is probably the first version that anyone would seriously consider for "high traffic use cases". It caught
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
The limits on "price gouging" that Amtrak is subject to thanks to Congressional micromanagement have not necessarily been a benefit. Trains run empty during the middle of the week, yet prices are still rather high compared to buse
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
> It is the government's place to regulate how prices get advertised. Indeed, the government has already done this, to mandate that advertised prices are all-inclusive, with all the taxes, fees, charges and so on included in the adv
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Dynamic routing is fascinating, but also potentially frustrating for the rider. Your trip to work could take 10 minutes, or it could take 30 minutes, depending on who else wants to ride at the same time and how "dynamic" your bus
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Works just fine on the NEC, where it's been in use for over a decade. The real problem is that this was a huge unfunded mandate imposed by Congress on the railroads, both public and private, which is why they've been less than eag
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Speaking as someone who is currently developing a web app with Rust: no, not yet. It's getting there, certainly, but the tools just aren't ready for general use yet and there's still likely to be a lot of change before things
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
I would assume that this is due to Prop 13, which limits local property taxes to 1% of assessed value, which means that municipalities have to drive up the price of land if they want to collect more revenue. In most other places without the
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
The ethos of suburbia is conspicuous consumption, especially conspicuous consumption of land, and actually using it to produce something useful makes it more of an investment. This is also why it's illegal to carve off part of your hou
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It's a good question. Whoever is responsible for the road/bike lane should probably be doing some traffic counts to see how things are working out, but who knows if they've bothered to collect the data. One problem with just
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Which rustup command is that? I could only find "doc" which opens the documentation in a browser, which is not much help if you've got no internet. Ah... I see. You have to run "rustup component list" and it'll
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Wifi spectrum usage is also managed to a large extent by spatial separation. There are still fairly strict power limits on 2.4GHz devices which ensure that they have a relatively short range, so while your neighbor might interfere with your
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Wait, that thing is a button? I never knew that. I guess you can tell because when you hover over it, the status bar on your browser says "javascript:void(0)". I feel like this bit of design might just be a little bit too flat.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
You don't need to go all the way to space to die of hypoxia, cruising altitude for modern jets is plenty good for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 (and several other examples of non-ai

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