fractalb

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by fractalb 6y ago
Rust without safety isn't Rust at all!
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by fractalb 6y ago
That would eliminate the need for Rust. Just imagine, if your C code can be converted into Rust, would there ever be a case to start a fresh project in Rust? It will permanently become an Intermediate language.
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by fractalb 6y ago
Those GPL'd(eg. GCC, Linux) projects predate their current corporate sponsors. The sponsors may go away anytime if they feel the project won't add any business value for them. I highly suspect if they would sponsor support any new
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by fractalb 6y ago
What if those bigcorps don't merge some improvements for getting an edge over the competitors? And, what if every one of those bigcorps do the same? How would that impact the project in the future?
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DearPyGui(github.com)
201 points by fractalb 6y ago|71 comments
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Case-Insensitive Ext4(lwn.net)
2 points by fractalb 6y ago|0 comments
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by fractalb 6y ago
> I get occasionally a slight tingling /shock from it when I have it plugged in. I always noticed it when the device was plugged in.
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by fractalb 6y ago
Yeah, I'm happy to keep track of all my third party software that I install manually and I never forget about what applications I have installed so far and I always update my packages manually when there are any security flaws and I ge
159.
by fractalb 6y ago
And UPI names are easier to remember than phone numbers. And you can change your phone numbers without any worries
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by fractalb 6y ago
> Webtransport is designed as a 'QUIC-native' client-server communication protocol to replace websockets. Is there anything wrong with websockets? I thought websockets were cool.
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by fractalb 6y ago
What is the successful text-editor project in Rust now? Xray seems to have been abandoned too.
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Swift-Corelibs-Foundation(github.com)
1 points by fractalb 6y ago|0 comments
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by fractalb 6y ago
> Why not just go one step further and just do the thing instead of nag the user to do the thing? At least, readability suffers. "".join(["a", "b"]) is a lot more intuitive than sum(["a", "b&q
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by fractalb 6y ago
map will return an iterator, not a list
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by fractalb 6y ago
> Yes, and remember... optimizing for code size is optimizing for speed. =) Not always. I think loop-unrolling is a common perf-optimisation technique. Even if the perf-gain is positive in this case, I highly suspect that it doesn'
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by fractalb 7y ago
A very nice article. It just made me observe that “there is no time when there is no motion”
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by fractalb 7y ago
Are there any benchmarks openly available to compare the performance of different open/closed source DB’s?
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by fractalb 7y ago
Buried if unmarried, cremated otherwise. I don't know if it's only our tradition.
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by fractalb 7y ago
> What's stopping people from forking the language at python 2.7? If you don't want to change/add something to the language, then why fork it?. You can just continue using it as it is!
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by fractalb 8y ago
It doesn't say anything about the order of assignment. It just shows that `node.next` wasn't evaluated to anything. `node.next` needs to be evaluated before doing any assignments
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Composable Error Handling in OCaml(keleshev.com)
1 points by fractalb 9y ago|0 comments
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by fractalb 9y ago
I don't think it's FUD. I have a few questions. Can we confidently say that the database won't ever be hacked in the future? Are we prepared to face such situation? Would the government let you know if the database ever got h
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by fractalb 9y ago
or ICC was optimized for benchmarks
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by fractalb 9y ago
3000 lines of Python to 100 lines of Java? 30 times smaller program! I thought Python was more expressive than Java.
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Setup.py(github.com)
2 points by fractalb 9y ago|0 comments
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by fractalb 9y ago
If the namedtuple is used so heavily, why not make it a part of built-in functions?
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by fractalb 9y ago
> There have been significant fiscal benefits - fake personas have been completely eliminated in the welfare schemes that are aadhar linked, saving a lot for the taxpayers. Oh I didn't know that. I used to blame politicians for our
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by fractalb 9y ago
Trivia: The first dictionary in Telugu which is still in use is written by an Englishman by name Charles P. Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Phillip_Brown
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by fractalb 9y ago
Corruption creates problems, but whining about it doesn't solve any. This open defecation habit hasn't been born out of corruption. It's been there for ages. Corruption does come in the way of solving the problem, if at all t
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by fractalb 9y ago
Our governments are in no position to pour money into educating people/changing their habits. All the planning that you mentioned needs money that we don't have(OR politicians don't want to spend)

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