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by cstrahan 3y ago
> It’s also not possible to write a non-trivial program in Rust. You should probably clarify that it’s not possible for you to write non-trivial programs in Rust. And that’s okay! No one comes into this world knowing how to do any thin
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> You know a lot about JRuby's use of FFI! Back when IronRuby (the Ruby implementation for .NET) was still actively developed, I decided to work on a port of the ffi gem for it. The JRuby code base provided some great ideas, thus my
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by cstrahan 3y ago
I thought it was pretty clear that the GP comment is suggesting that PornHub et al will simply stop serving to the EU, which is a perfectly fine, legal thing to do. If that’s what happens, you will need to use a VPN to access these sites, s
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> it's one of the first games that is using ECS and that I also have a deep interest into FWIW, I did read to the end of the line, but I parsed that as two separate assertions (with “and that” being a means to introduce the second a
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Which other 3 platforms come preinstalled? Edit: wait, are you talking about iMessage being preinstalled? If so, how does iMessage being preinstalled make it dwarfed by other non-preinstalled platforms? Are you suggesting it’s human nature
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JNI allows one to write C code that bridges the gap between the Java VM and existing C libraries. That C code must be compiled, and must follow some rather tedious patterns (regarding method signatures and other little details). It’s a bit
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I’ll also throw in Leah Neukirche ‘s xe as a better alternative to xargs: https://github.com/leahneukirchen/xe
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One more possible explanation: Maybe the employee sees greater potential at another employer (whether for positive impact on the world, or just better execution of their own vision, or whatever) and wants to pick up where they left off, ins
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> No truck should be able to go above 60 mph; that alone will make them much more unattractive. So people spend longer getting to their job site? I don’t get it. Sounds like a waste of human potential, keeping people on the highways long
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> How does that work exactly? How does one end up with a tint amount for personal consumption if someone else couldn't legally allowed to have enough to sell? Same way people acquire guns illegally in US states that prohibit gun own
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> No, that seems pretty super-user to me. Here's a play-by-play scenario. 1) Grandma is prompted to update to Sonoma, and so she does. 2) But note that the installer does not update the recovery partition. 3) Laptop reboots, and g
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macOS Sonoma Broke Grep(developer.apple.com)
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Apple introduced a bug in grep that, under certain circumstances, causes grep to assert.
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> I'm suggesting that the blanket assertion doesn't hold true that slow software is painful software. Software can be so slow that it's painful but "slow" from the point of view of absolute does not immediately m
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> Admittedly, I stopped reading just over half way, but the crux of the argument appeared to be that software should be fast, though I don't recall any justification for that philosophy other than suggesting that it is basically a t
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> Needs a README imho Is the “Description” section at the top not sufficient? “Description Using a bunch of analog crosspoint switches wired together into one bigger switch, Jumperless makes real, fully analog hardware connections betwee
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> that's what the host does in the other scenario to me. Is it, though? It seems apparent that, after the first guess, the host opens all but the last two doors, which just so happens to be 1 door. To check the math: Start with the
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by cstrahan 3y ago
Why should you expect ~2 million years of evolution to bread that out of us? The ability to start and control fires for warmth and cooking purposes greatly increases the odds of survival for individuals and their offspring. If I may perso
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> Other people being able to verify that an email really was sent by me does serve my interests, because such verification establishes trust. That's like claiming signing a contract isn't in your interest, because others will b
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> Proving something always comes with assumptions and caveats. Even if we're talking about proving something cryptographically, the underlying assumption is that crypto primitives are unbroken or that participants retain control of
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Their homepage literally says it is a “Zero-config Business VPN”. Not “implied” — directly stated. > That’s why I think it’s not a great press release. Press release? This a blog. It should be self evident that this is for customers and
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> […] if you don't understand that a DKIM-signed message proves the mailhost was authorized, and at least some of the headers could easily prove who sent the message. I’d love to hear more about this. If I send an email from the Gma
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by cstrahan 3y ago
Anecdote: early in my career, I worked on a dev team that feared software development. They tried to push as much logic as possible into Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures (the average length was around 10 pages). Look at all the code t
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by cstrahan 3y ago
Nice! For inspiration, you may want to look at `lf`: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
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by cstrahan 3y ago
> You can use that for selection as well, tap somewhere else on the keyboard. Doesn't appear to work. What does work is pushing a little harder (i.e. "force touch") with the same finger/thumb that initiated the move
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by cstrahan 3y ago
It's been a while since I looked at Alacritty, so I've tried to double check things, but feel free to add corrections in the comments in case I get some of this wrong. Features WezTerm has that Alacritty doesn't: 1) iTerm Ima
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by cstrahan 3y ago
Easy fix: Use a more featureful (and more spec compliant) terminal emulator, like Kitty or WezTerm, and enable the Kitty keyboard protocol. If you’re using iTerm, or Konsole, or Gnome Terminal, or urxvt, or… pretty much anything other than
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by cstrahan 3y ago
Tailscale is a company that provides a VPN (“Virtual Private Network”) service. If you don’t find yourself thinking “man, I really wish this one computer over here could share the same network with that computer over there, despite not bein
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by cstrahan 3y ago
Counterpoint: I found out the other day that friends and family were messaging me on Instagram, and I had no idea Instagram even had direct messaging support. For several years people were messaging me and I was completely oblivious.
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Hehe, you sound like almost every doctor I’ve had… despite having at least one objective metric to show that something was wrong immediately after contracting EBV: Testosterone and Estradiol dropped by (and remained at) about 65%. Took thre

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