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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Remember kids, unsafe is not undefined behaviour. It just means you need to prove via unchecked English statements that your code is not UB.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I previously worked at Deno and even with all that tbh, I am not sure the http deps were the right way to go. I've really wanted to like them but package managers really have advantages. I would not say npm was the right direction. I a
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Apparently more than one are in hiding, TIL. Seems appropriate for the kind of folk that do this.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
You realize that this is the perfect way for foreign influence to destabilize western society, right? Democracy hasn't been hardened against social media and I'd prefer not to be another failed experiment like Brexit where we allo
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
It's clear it's a pandering to the provincial government base, and has zero legitimacy. This all stems from a boneheaded move to unify the right in Alberta to prevent another NDP leadership term - that term being something that ac
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
As an Albertan, I'm embarrassed that this is the image we project to the world, and sad that our punishment for collusion with foreign enemies isn't stronger or better enforced. One of the "separatist" leaders is hiding
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I've got an old datacenter KVM with a root password I've been unable to crack, even though it's an ancient DES one. Does anyone have a good cloud-hosted password cracker? I can't seem to brute force it, no matter how lon
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
PNaCl was a terrible idea. It was as bad of an idea as shipping the raw sqlite interface in the browser. I feel like some of the Google-sourced standards are the laziest, least-webby ones out there. There are some good ones that come from t
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
I doubt my semi-monthly marketplace usage is contributing more than it costs. If everyone used just the bare minimum free feature set, the company would not be viable.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
Meta is the worst of the worst. I don't use it other than a tombstone account with some family connections and a separate burner account we use for Facebook marketplace.
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
"Of the 4,000 skaters in the Skatepark of Tampa Database, about half are goofy (44%) and half are regular (56%). But this near equality between skate stances doesn’t align with statistics on handedness. According to Scientific American
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
If you want to understand prolog, you must understand the four-port model: https://grack.com/writing/school/enel553/report/prolog.html
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by mmastrac 5mo ago
It's hard to have zero deps - I put many hours into one to have no required deps in the end but it was not easy, and writing declarative macros to do anything complex takes work (and a proc macro often means a minimum of two crates). B
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
tokio is great and it's pretty performant, but you pay an allocation for every future unless you do some complex organization of your futures. Source: I worked on Deno, competed directly with Bun on HTTP performance (and won on some me
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
There still hasn't been anything concrete and useful built with this yet, right? Perhaps the gas is from fermentation.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
Maybe we should require a license to have kids if it's not working as it is.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
That's exactly my experience. What's interesting is that the taste is also very similar to the taste/sensation I get when I have a viral infection.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
None of them do with the exception of Stevia, which sort-of kind-of tastes a bit like rum, if I could describe it.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
It absolutely does not. The places on my tongue that taste sweet and the places that taste aspartame are completely different (the latter strongly at back of my throat, sugar strongly on my tongue).
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I don't think you understand. That's like saying mud is a preference over sugar. It's not sweet to me. It's not even in the same ballpark. I'd have to completely re-orient my taste buds because it literally tastes l
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I don't understand how prevalent Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners are when they taste so bad. They don't even taste sweet to me, just "wrong" in a way that permeates my entire mouth. Is this a genetic thing?
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I think "recompiler" is the accepted term in the art, is it not?
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I'm not sure if LLVM would support ones-compliment (does GCC even support that any more?)
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
Is there anything so satisfying that resets every 15 minutes or so?
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
Marketplaces are famously difficult to start - even Uber just started with black car service in a handful of cities and expanded from that. Find a trusted network of mules as your supply-side and expect to lose some money as you bootstrap.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I run a Rust webserver on a literal Pi3 in my basement and I think I managed to bench it up >1000 rps for standard loads. And that includes a bunch of tanvity querying as well. I suspect I could do 3000+ rps with some tuning and a more m
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
I think the ideal way for these LLMs to work will be using AST-level changes instead of "let me edit this file". grit.io was working on this years ago, not sure if they are still alive/around, but I liked their approach (just
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
This was a super interesting video to watch. I honestly thought SFP required more setup, but this explains why AliExpress is so ripe with USB3 and HDMI over SFP converters that are dirt cheap.
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
In one of my previous comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770124 ) I asked if Gas Town has shipped anything of value. I did not expect it to be an Ouroborous. (Edit, thanks MisterTea: https://news.yco
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by mmastrac 6mo ago
There is no way that this state of things survives long-term. Rationally, it's really no different than any other tool involved in production of your work product. FWIW not all cases have gone the same way, so there is likely to be a h

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