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by nindalf 2y ago
I have a medium sized collection of Kindle books. I stay in the ecosystem because I enjoy the convenience of being able to read on my phone and tablet, and I enjoy being able to write and sync notes and highlights. I would have liked to hav
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by nindalf 2y ago
Interesting theory. So the UK with 14 years of right wing rule should be humming, but it isn't. Now you're going to claim that "oh, the Tories weren't right wing enough". Nonsense. Then I'll point out that 12 o
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by nindalf 2y ago
For a developer tool? Genuine question, how long does the JVM take to start? It used to be slow, but I don't know what it's like now. Check out the speed comparison of a few linters on this page -> https://astral.sh
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I immediately recognised the author’s name from Lifehacker in the early 2000s. Enjoyed countless hours reading that.
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Yeah, but it's a problem for the person who wants to run old software. It's their choice, I support that choice. As long as it doesn't affect me, I'm fully supportive. Of course I'll be affected if my data is stored
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by nindalf 2y ago
Yeah it’s not fair to expect volunteers to show up on weekdays, I agree with you. But equally, I don’t think it’s fair that packagers want to have it both ways. Packagers want to make subtle, possibly breaking changes to software they didn’
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by nindalf 2y ago
People who actually use Debian and similar distros will disagree. In their view there’s nothing wrong with shipping older, patched versions of open sourced software. The license says they can do it! So they grossly understate the problem, m
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by nindalf 2y ago
Just to be clear, this is the situation. A rando submits a C patch that breaks Rust code, a maintainer accepts this patch and then demands that the R4L devs fix the breakage introduced by someone else and reviewed by themselves. The rando w
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by nindalf 2y ago
Just curious, when you’re done removing all the UB, how will you know you’ve been successful? UB is hard to find isn’t it?
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by nindalf 2y ago
If you watch that YouTube link, you'll see the same guy Ted Tso'o accusing the speaker of wanting to convert people to the "religion promulgated by Rust". I think he apologised for this flagrant comment, but this email
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by nindalf 2y ago
Marcan links to an email by Ted Tso'o ( https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250208204416.GL1130956@mit.ed... ) that is interesting to read. Although it starts on a polarising note ("thin blue line"), it does a
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by nindalf 2y ago
> The sandboxing abilities of WASM are near unmatched, along with it's startup time and execution speed compared to native. Could you expand on this? I think everyone would agree with the first two of these - sandboxing is the whole
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by nindalf 2y ago
> And it's not clear if memory safety is the largest source of problems building software today. The Chromium team found that > Around 70% of our high severity security bugs are memory unsafety problems (that is, mistakes with C&
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by nindalf 2y ago
Are you sure? If I'm understanding correctly, the malicious code was introduced as part of the test code, so no matter who compiled it, they'd get a binary with the same (malicious) functionality. Heck, it might even have been rep
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by nindalf 2y ago
The answer is obvious to anyone with a passing familiarity with Narnia - the first 3 books featuring the 4 Pevensie children as main characters are an order of magnitude more popular than the others. On goodreads the first book has 2.96 mil
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Evacuation to a private residence belonging to an uncle. A mansion at that.
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The Pevensies were very privileged. This makes sense, because Lucy was a stand-in for Lewis’ goddaughter. It wouldn’t have made sense for her to be working class. The Pevensies were from Finchley, a wealthy area of London at the time. Unl
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by nindalf 2y ago
My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But s
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by nindalf 2y ago
Any reasonable reader would conclude that the Pevensie children are the main characters in that series. Indeed, that was the whole point - Lewis wrote Narnia for his goddaughter Lucy. That's why she's the main character! He wrot
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by nindalf 2y ago
I am not convinced by the author's thesis. But I'm also not convinced by your defence of Narnia. It's 4 white British middle class kids (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) who have the privilege of being sent to the country durin
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by nindalf 2y ago
I think it's presented in a way that makes him sound very reasonable, and make a wealth tax sound very stupid. - A small time founder losing 2/3rds of their stock - OH NO, wealth tax is terrible! - A businessman worth $162 of stoc
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by nindalf 2y ago
The actual proposals at the time I wrote this was a wealth tax applying to wealth greater than $50 million. That’s substantially different from one that starts at $0.
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Happy to. Here's PG misrepresenting a wealth tax - https://nindalf.com/posts/wealth-tax/
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by nindalf 2y ago
Just so we're clear, you're talking about weed smokers like the GP? You've gotten passively stoned?
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by nindalf 2y ago
> an iPhone running iOS 18.1.1? Bold move showing up before Apple even announces it Takes the sting out of the rest of the roast knowing that it was dead wrong to begin with. When the robot revolution is about to begin let’s mess with th
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by nindalf 2y ago
Rust may not be what you want to write, but it's what you want your coworkers to write.
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by nindalf 2y ago
Mate. Get help.
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I think their move away from a binary lock file to a text based lock file in this release makes this pretty clear - they shoot first and ask questions later. Any of those problems they've identified with the binary lock file are kinda
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by nindalf 2y ago
> Your initial comment in this thread accused me of lying wat. > have found zero instances of you admitting you were wrong about anything I was wrong about you. Certainly you're a commenter extraordinaire. I didn't think th
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by nindalf 2y ago
I meant I literally can't see your original comment to critique it because it's been deleted. But now I think even if I could I wouldn't bother. You don't seem like the kind of person who can engage in a discussion. You

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