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by guitarbill 3y ago
> But really, for busy roundabouts, pedestrian overpasses are the only sane choice. Ugly as hell to look at, but easily more comfortable than underpasses. They're usually not accessible, or very expensive to do so. Also, why should
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by guitarbill 3y ago
What kind of argument is this? Sometimes, there are serious bugs in widely used products. So therefore shit vendors should get a pass when their 10 year old Apache instance gets owned? Because "security is hard, mkay"? No! It depe
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Even if by law the post-tax price is shown, is there any law preventing showing the pre-tax price also? Surely not. Seems to me giving people a shock at the checkout is a particularly evil way of making taxes explicit. It isn't like th
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Only the state sales tax is 0%, local sales tax doesn't have to be. So YMMV, which is kinda the whole point - that it shouldn't.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Disagree. Bait and switch is one symptom of the issue that the price is not what you'll pay. Which to be clear is awful. And that matters if you have to be careful about spending. Also, "everyone knows about them", really? If
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Agreed. It's also instructive to look at how C extensions are written for the CPython. I wouldn't necessarily expect a demo; but not mentioning it at all seems like it could lead readers down a path where they choose the "mos
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Honestly though, I would likely still choose to implement the logic in Rust as a crate/library in a workspace, the (C)Python extensions as a PyO3 dylib/separate crate, and a C FFI dylib as yet another crate. The benefit is that yo
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Edit: Yes it does, as ynik rightly points out, and documented here https://pyo3.rs/v0.19.2/types#gil-lifetimes-mutability-and-p... or here https://docs.rs/pyo3/0.19.2/pyo3/marker/str
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by guitarbill 3y ago
"just" undersells it a bit, mainly around type conversions. Also, there is no ctypes involved, as the result is a CPython extension that just loads on the Python side.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
I would not recommend FFI + ctypes. Maintaining the bindings is tedious and error-prone. Also, Rust FFI/unsafe can be tricky even for experienced Rust devs. Instead PyO3 [1] lets you "write a native Python module in Rust", an
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by guitarbill 3y ago
What's wrong with Python, Java, C#, etc? Conversely, while better at avoiding footguns than C, Zig doesn't provide quite the same memory safety - although to be fair, better is still worth it.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
> and in reality the police mostly can't be bothered to try and access the recordings obviously this is the case if you are a normal citizen. imagine how fast they'd access the recordings if a police officer was hurt, or to ide
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by guitarbill 3y ago
OMG WTF. When parent says "a bit", do a tiny amount of scrolling, or open it in a new tab. That behaviour is downright malicious.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
It seems so trite, especially in 2023, but please don't use sprintf. It isn't safe in general. (Even snprintf is tricky.)
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Apple's, Noto, and OpenMoji are far more legible to me than Teams. I'll take being able to quickly recognize the emojis over consistency any day.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Seems sensible... except who gets to decide what's a secret and for how long? And by "defend your actions in a court", you likely mean a court of the country who's secret you leaked? Or no? So would you for example agree
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by guitarbill 3y ago
If it's such a jam for tall people just to get their "legs in the area of the seat", how are they managing to put their feet - not legs - against the back of the seat in front? Curled up basically lying on their back? No, it
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by guitarbill 3y ago
I meant feet, not tall people. Some people kinda curl up and brace/wedge themselves on the seat in front. It's... something.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Maybe I'm not using my shell to the fullest, but 95% of commands are pretty simple, and not complicated queries. `ls` might have a bajillion flags, but `-lah` go a long way. Because fish's autocomplete, I don't have to rememb
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Honestly, some "adults" are just as bad nowadays. Jamming their legs up against the seat in front. Vigorously smashing the - admittedly sluggish - touch screens. Talking loudly for an entire 5h overnight flight. And worse...
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by guitarbill 3y ago
So it should be easier to find unpopulated, cheap land to build lines on between population centers, yeah?
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Until everybody insists like you on driving. Because of the increased traffic, it now takes longer. Not to mention trying to find parking. And with the extra traffic, it's dangerous to bike now. Oh well.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Why not? I dislike the Windows snapping behaviour for halves. Most macOS casual users won't need it. These apps work great and allow a lot of customisability that an OS-level snap might not provide. I'm but sure having it built in
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Also Rectangle, which I moved to from Divvy: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
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by guitarbill 3y ago
> But I would argue there's no practical difference between "crash due to segfault" and "panic due to index overflow" Nope. If you're lucky, you get a segfault. > imagine you're making a game Actuall
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by guitarbill 3y ago
It certainly doesn't excuse it, but it's hardly surprising. I'm not sure how principled I could be if I'd been through the same ordeal. But hey, two wrongs don't make a right.
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by guitarbill 3y ago
Kim Dotcom is not a fan of the West? Who could've expected that...
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by guitarbill 3y ago
You can see this at US airports already. Facial recognition is (sometimes? on international flights?) used, but you can opt out. If you do opt out, nothing bad happens. It's not even more inconvenient, the gate agent checks your pictur
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by guitarbill 3y ago
> Edit: Emergency alerts are solicited by owning a phone in a country that mandates that cell carriers send those messages. That's so pedantic, I'm inclined to disagree - if it's even correct. Not everything that's un
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by guitarbill 3y ago
> I’ll use Central European Summer Time (CEST) for time stamps, as the majority of Datadog’s engineering team is in this timezone. I’m also indicating US Eastern time (EST) for reference. I can convert from UTC to my timezone (TZ) in my

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