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by mbrubeck 10y ago
There was also Patina, which formalized a subset of safe Rust's semantics, though it was done on an older (pre-1.0) version of the language: ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/2015/03/UW-CSE-15-03-02.pdf
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
This can happen because rg searches files in parallel, so the order in which it finishes the files can be nondeterministic. If you run with -j1 (single-threaded) then it is deterministic. To get deterministic output in multi-threaded mode,
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
I was able to build ripgrep from source for ARM, cross-compiling from my laptop running Debian, following the directions here: https://github.com/japaric/rust-cross#tldr-ubuntu-example (I haven't actually run it b
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
From the GPLv3, section 7: “If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.”
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
This is the second big browser component they've freed, after Chakra. I wonder if other Edge components are in the pipeline but waiting on technical and legal checklists to be completed.
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
> The title says Semi-automated what is semi about it the entire article seams to imply fully automated translation. Each machine translation is proofread and edited by a human before publication.
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Semi-automated content translation is coming to Scandinavian Wikipedias(blog.wikimedia.org)
39 points by mbrubeck 10y ago|16 comments
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Another driver says Tesla’s autopilot failed to brake; Tesla says otherwise(arstechnica.com)
10 points by mbrubeck 10y ago|7 comments
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
It downloads a regular Rust nightly build these days. It depends on the specific nightly date (because we use compiler plugins that link to unstable rustc internals), but at least we no longer have to build our own Servo-specific snapshots
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by mbrubeck 10y ago
No typo. A year ago they had authorized $140 billion, and had already repurchased more than $80 billion. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/04/27Apple-Expands-Cap... ($175 million would be less than
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
http://bugzil.la/1243363 is where Rust code was enabled for Firefox 45 beta/release on Linux and Mac. If I understand correctly, having it disabled on Firefox 45 beta broke the build because of a script that tests whet
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
You can now pass flags to Servo for Android just like on desktop: ./mach run --android -- -w https://news.ycombinator.com/ Last time I tried it, WebRender wouldn't render anything on my Android device, but th
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Nit: 0.00001% of 5.8 TW is 580 kW. (I assume you just misplaced a decimal point.)
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Part of the problem is that e10s Firefox by default still uses just one UI process and one "content" process, shared by all tabs. So a web page can't cause the UI to hang, but it can cause all other web pages to hang. Curiou
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Floating Point Demystified, Part 2: Why Doesn't 0.1 and 0.2 == 0.3?(blog.reverberate.org)
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Or even with just one quote: https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=%22moon It looks like it uses really naive word breaking, so it considers the punctuation part of the word.
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
The spelling in the captions can be hard to predict, and it's not good at fuzzy matching: https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=I+was+saying+buu-urns
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
University textbooks with Scheme/Racket as a primary language for examples/exercises: - Structure and Intepretation of Computer Programs (SICP), used for decades in MIT’s introductory CS course: https://mitpress.mit.e
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
> C has immense cultural value. Lots and lots of extant source code, important source code Yes, exactly! In my opinion, C for a programmer or computer scientist is like Latin for a medieval scholar. You don’t need to speak it fluently,
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
The article doesn't claim that interconnection is impossible, just that it requires extra AC->AC conversion hardware at each interface.
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Benefits of a single US electrical grid with high-voltage direct current(arstechnica.com)
26 points by mbrubeck 11y ago|23 comments
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The same group runs many other lottery games besides Powerball.
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Some recent research suggests that normal human sleep has always been in one continuous block in places near the equator. Then segmented sleep developed after humans migrated to places like Europe where sunrise/sunset times vary more.
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Here's another good "implement a simple garbage collector" tutorial: http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~maplant2/gc.html
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
RFC 2616 describes the 4xx error codes as “Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled.” In other words, the error has to do with the client’s request but it's not necessarily the client’s fault. For a si
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Chrome also took a long time to release 64-bit builds to Windows users. They weren't available on the stable channel until Chrome 37 was released in August 2014: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014&
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
The new search suggestions in the URL bar are disabled by default in Firefox; there's a prompt to opt in or out.
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
People interested in Swift at this level should also read Lattner’s comment on /r/rust about the possibility of extending Swift to include Rust’s statically checked ownership and borrowing concepts: https://www.reddit.c
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
I definitely know more women involved in Rust than I did a year ago [EDIT: in percentage terms, as well as absolute numbers] , but this might just reflect my own awareness rather than any greater trend. I don't have any non-anecdotal
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by mbrubeck 11y ago
Sadly, this isn't even unusual. Open source developers as a whole are 90% male or more; some older surveys found the number higher than 98%. http://readwrite.com/2013/12/11/open-source-diversity As a lo

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