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by ris 6y ago
To me the question it raises is - does the rust borrow checker need to be part of the compiler or could it be separated into a standalone component? Is the borrow checker architecture-agnostic?
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by ris 6y ago
> this is exactly the sense of entitlement Now come on with your "entitlement". It's not as though we're talking about some random people who made some little package for their own use and decided to make it available
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by ris 6y ago
> Despite so many set backs in 2020, the US is still the most inclusive country at least in science and research. What makes you say that and what other countries are you comparing it with/do you have information for?
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by ris 6y ago
Problem is that ARM & AArch64 were considered a "weird architecture" by the non-Android linux stack until really very recently, and the migration to a new architecture is still not plain-sailing in many peoples' exper
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by ris 6y ago
https://sigrok.org/
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by ris 6y ago
It would, but that's not what you'd want in this case.
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by ris 6y ago
This is a very good point. In fact, I'd imagine insurance companies would actually be very interested to know that a bike is being ridden with illegal modifications...
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by ris 6y ago
The worst kind of nitpicks are ones that address lines that weren't even touched by your PR. (And that's not to say it's not sometimes useful to ask someone to fix something else they noticed, but to nitpick on it is the wo
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by ris 6y ago
The "single click applied suggestion" thing of course doesn't work if you have a policy of avoiding trivial commits (actually a very good policy) and your PR is already about 3 or 4 commits. Then the author has to sit down, f
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by ris 6y ago
> our Java and Python based stacks I always find it bizarre when python (and to some extent java) are lumped in as languages that you found Go or Rust a suitable replacement for. They're just such different ends of the spectrum - Go
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by ris 6y ago
One of the typical ways this manifests itself in reality is a dedicated local mapper adding or correcting a detail where they know that some common data sources are either wrong or out of date. At some point later a corporate mapper the oth
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by ris 6y ago
This article could have been written at any point in the last 5 years really, no matter how much the headline tries to make it sound like news.
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by ris 6y ago
I have a lot of thoughts about this and could talk for a long time, but it comes doBoth suck. Use Nix. Problem solved. The amount that people flap around the problems involved in software distribution with Dockerfiles, never actually solvin
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by ris 6y ago
I wouldn't exactly call that "addressing" it. It's vague hand-waving about some guesswork done by some un-named "trade experts". The later mentions are from Gove of all people. Any brexiteer reading this rather
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by ris 6y ago
So, yes, this is a comparison againt January last year, pre-pandemic. I'm in no way a brexiteer, but I do wish people wouldn't do lead articles with such easily refutable arguments. But of course, this is the Guardian - they know
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by ris 6y ago
Nix on macos only got a pre-built binary cache a couple of years ago - before that, yes, almost everything had to be built from the ground up.
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by ris 6y ago
> They need some form of locking around Python objects accessed from multiple threads, since Python has no ownership model. "Ownership models" are not a given. C++ has no "ownership model" and it doesn't lock aro
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by ris 6y ago
Do not take this as advice on removing watermarking, but it sure would confuse the decoding team at Zoom to encounter a file that had been sent over a watermarked Zoom connection more than once.
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by ris 6y ago
High Level Synthesis
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by ris 6y ago
> That is one shitty site. Yes, I don't think it gets much attention - I should probably have pointed at the github org which is reasonably active. https://github.com/verapdf > That's not really how PDF-stan
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by ris 6y ago
https://verapdf.org/
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by ris 6y ago
And fortunately we nowadays have validators that could be used to reject files with non-PDF/A features: https://verapdf.org/ Hypothetically a compliant reader is supposed to ignore non-PDF/A features encountered
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by ris 6y ago
Run around the block. Eat less. Somehow humans managed before the 00s explosion of gym culture.
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by ris 6y ago
> Curious, does one need to use nixOS for an optimal experience? My experience: no. I've been very happily using Nix on debian for years. Debian gives me my boring desktop apps (I have very very boring tastes), almost all my tinkeri
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by ris 6y ago
Absolutely. Most Dockerfiles I come across are very much not written in a robustly reproducible way. The stacking filesystems model is really not very flexible (if you want to compose two docker images with dissimilar bases to be used t
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by ris 6y ago
Um, nope. Couldn't figure out how to use the JOINs and gave up.
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by ris 6y ago
Before anyone gets worried that this means anything - it appears the author is using the term "crypto" in the "cryptocurrency" sense.
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by ris 6y ago
I'm currently using pwndbg, which is really just a few python enhancements to the gdb cli, mainly focused on developing exploits, hence the name. It's good enough for me, for now. Something I've realized about gdb in general
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by ris 6y ago
Timely reminder that S3 buckets support BitTorrent natively.
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by ris 6y ago
It does make me sad that we're having to build new "clones" of pieces of hardware that were made, very literally, in their millions because we're so hopeless at recycling and salvage as an industry.

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