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by gibibit 2y ago
> For Compatibility with no_std tgts, e.g. embedded, Use the no_std feature. Note, this is not the recommended way to use Rust feature flags. They are additive and so the correct way to make a `no_std` compatible crate is to have a `std`
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by gibibit 2y ago
Might have the opposite effect. Like a Streissand effect... hacker sees that the app is mysteriously hiding a secret? Makes you want to hack it just for the challenge, even if you had no intention before.
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by gibibit 2y ago
Doesn't anyone else miss the old days of forums like PHPBB and VBulletin for collaboration? They had everything I needed, and nothing I didn't. Easily searched by Google. Actual pagination instead of stupid endless scrolling. All
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by gibibit 2y ago
Discord servers are not servers.
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by gibibit 2y ago
Ignoring the fact that the projector doesn't get to true black (noted by smusamashah), and supposing there's no diffusion that spreads the light of a pixel out to surrounding areas of the display panel, it would be possible to say
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by gibibit 2y ago
Good point, I hadn't even thought of this.
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by gibibit 2y ago
A bit clickbait calling it "infinity contrast" even if it's higher contrast than an LCD, is it still a finite contrast. Probably not higher contrast than modern OLED TVs, but a clever hack with stuff at hand. Just not up to t
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by gibibit 2y ago
It seems that each software design/development system, ideology, and practice has a good reason it was created, and has certain inherent benefits. Each may solve (or at least help with) some common problem. For instance, abstraction is
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by gibibit 2y ago
In the article, the claim is made: if many popular software products like Slack, VSCode, and Docker Desktop all use Electron, then it must be good. In response, I would say: while Electron makes it easy for the software developer to build a
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by gibibit 2y ago
I wonder how much this is going to add to the cost/effort of creating a new IOT product for startups/small businesses?
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by gibibit 2y ago
100% this. I thought the same thing immediately, "wow, this is fast and smooth and responsive!!" It's ludicrous how our computer hardware is 1000x faster than it was 30 years ago in 1995, but software is so bloated that it is
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by gibibit 2y ago
Linked in a the style where each word links to _a_ _different_ _page_ that doesn't correspond to the hyperlinked word. What do you call this pattern? It seems to be popular lately. I haven't been able to find a description of it,
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by gibibit 2y ago
Technically he is suggesting renting a dedicated server hosted in a Hetzner remote data center. So in some ways it's halfway between "cloud" and "on-premises" hosting.
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by gibibit 2y ago
I hope Google is NOT going to be a significant source of funding for the Internet Archive. Because I want to trust Wayback Machine and the Internet Archive to be unbiased. Google likes to influence search results, hiding ones it doesn'
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by gibibit 2y ago
It would be interesting to compare the Valve organizational approach to that of W.L. Gore, which has a unique and successful approach described in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" as it discusses the Rule of 150. A
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by gibibit 2y ago
Nice to see Rust (and Haskell too) released a fix immediately but Java is "affected, but won't fix". :)