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by maxk42 1y ago
Rust is doing a lot more under the hood. C doesn't track variable lifetimes, ownership, types, generics, handle dependency management, or handle compile-time execution (beyond the limited language that is the pre-compiler). The rust
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by maxk42 2y ago
+1 for Firefox on Linux. Several other services (like Instagram) now also accuse me of being a bot every time I legitimately log in with Firefox on Linux.
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by maxk42 2y ago
He's now actively hostile to the principles of open source.
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by maxk42 2y ago
Even if you were to outlaw the selling of all this sort of data, you're not preventing major players like Google and Microsoft from collecting that data and using it internally. Not sure what the solution is here, but I think most peo
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by maxk42 2y ago
Hello. I was in practically the same situation: I hosted a political site via cloudflare that some people took exception to. In my case they took the example of clearly satirical cartoons (that were uploaded by users - not my own content)
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by maxk42 2y ago
I memorize everything I work with. Knowing my tools makes me a better developer.
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by maxk42 2y ago
Your typing speed is not the limiting factor in productivity. You have to think carefully, plan a solution, then put out code without errors. Not using LSPs helps you accurately model the code in your head ahead of time and increases your
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by maxk42 2y ago
That's exactly the problem: You don't know the code. You're relying on autocomplete to tell you what the signature of the function you're looking for is. I rely less on documentation because I've got it all memoriz
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by maxk42 2y ago
This is an example of the non-determinism (in pseudocode): try { calculation1 = num1 / x; calculation2 = num2 / y; calculation3 = num3 / z; } catch (DivideByZeroError) { error("Which line failed?&qu
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by maxk42 2y ago
That was the third example I gave.
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by maxk42 2y ago
There's a critical difference between exceptions and what's happening in this article: exceptions create de facto nondeterministic behavior in programs. They cause every line in a function to potentially result in a return from t
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by maxk42 2y ago
I do not know the rationale, but this is the flip side of collective bargaining: if someone makes a bad deal on my behalf I can no longer deal directly with my employer.
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by maxk42 2y ago
The only single-character sigils I can think of are '&', '*', '\'', and maybe '?'. Am I missing any?
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by maxk42 2y ago
0 / 0 = Any number non-zero / 0 = No number
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by maxk42 2y ago
I'm not going to give it up for him.
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by maxk42 2y ago
The Inuit. The Kazakh people. The Sami. (In fact most Northern Europeans had nothing to eat but meat and maybe fermented vegetables for two thirds of the year.) The Masai. The Metis. Conversely, there has never been a vegan society. E
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by maxk42 2y ago
It's true. I ran into a friend of my wife's yesterday who is a nurse. The topic of food came up and I mentioned I haven't eaten any plants in over two years. She snidely remarked "How's that constipation going fo
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by maxk42 2y ago
Safe rust is harder than C.
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Techempower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 22 Results(techempower.com)
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by maxk42 2y ago
Not in around 15 years. You're thinking of when MyISAM was the default storage engine for MySQL. It has been InnoDB for over a decade. InnoDB is very reliable - I've never had a single data loss incident in all that time, and I
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by maxk42 2y ago
Prefer Tauri to Electron. It is 2024, after all.
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by maxk42 2y ago
Abandon WordPress now. Fork it or switch technologies.
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by maxk42 2y ago
Only because they're not used. If you're not going to implement the spec then is it really a spec?
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by maxk42 2y ago
I would like to point out also that C++ is not yet compatible with itself. Even GCC has dozens of C++ features it doesn't implement and it was the first compiler to implement 100% of C++11: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects
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by maxk42 2y ago
The cutoff point is not related to how many applicants there are. It's related to how qualified you are. I'm sorry there's no clear answer here. We've all just got to keep applying until we land that job.
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by maxk42 2y ago
Note that this suit was filed in Japan. Their laws may be very different from what most HN users are familiar with.
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by maxk42 2y ago
The top-performing Postgres instance among all benchmarks is v. 11.0.1008: https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/advanced-database-ben... And I'm seeing versions tested up through 16.3 which was released in
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by maxk42 2y ago
MariaDB scales much better, with native clustering support, native partitioning support, as well as better single-node performance: https://www.databasebenchmarks.net/benchmark-charts.html
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by maxk42 2y ago
I believe Crystal is worth a look here.
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by maxk42 2y ago
Mir is amazing for math books and sadly underappreciated in the US.

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