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by roarcher 3y ago
My VS Code instance is also using Rust Analyzer. Edit: I just disabled RA in both editors and restarted them. VSCode is now at 320MB and Lapce is at 770MB. Edit 2: To be clear, my above comments are meant in the spirit of an informal bug re
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Don't apologize! It's not like you've taken anyone's money. HN can be a tough audience, but I don't see any (serious) comments that are putting down what you've done--just pointing out issues they personally ex
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My experience on Windows 11 wasn't as bad as yours, but I opened a small Rust project with Lapce (~20 files) and it uses 1400MB of RAM vs VS Code's 900MB, and has very noticeable latency when navigating the code and typing. But li
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Fair enough, I removed the last sentence. Point still stands.
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> Patent protection does not stop me from building an equivalent of any item protected by patent. Legally it does, at least in the United States. That said, I doubt this company will search your backyard in the middle of the night to mak
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Huh? Having a bunch of roads at random angles explains the "even distribution of road orientations", by definition. How would it not? That's my point. The city is fragmented into tiny grids oriented at random angles. Wherever
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For any non-Americans wondering what happens if 4 vehicles arrive at the same time all going straight: Yes, it does happen, and it results in 4 people waving each other through, start-stopping in anticipation of each other, and finally some
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I used to live in Charlotte. Always wondered why the traffic was so uniquely awful there. Today I got my answer.
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Whoa, I remember reading about these things in some "How Things Work" book when I was a kid. Sad to see that this is what became of them, but I'm not surprised.
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As would I, and I work in tech myself. Technology is a wonderful thing, when used wisely. My argument is not that technology is bad. It's that every technology isn't automatically good just because it's technology and &quot
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I don't think this: > the benefit vs downside of most new technology is assymetricaly in favor of the upsides Follows from this: > primarily due to human nature being assymetrically good natured. Even though I agree with the seco
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A lot of that stuff is homebrewed with open source software, at least among the programmers I know. My coworkers who are all in on the latest Nest or Alexa crap tend to be young executive/management types who are overly concerned with
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> Brain implants can let me think pictures and music and feelings directly into/with other people. So this hypothetical device can insert images, sounds, and emotions directly into a person's mind? > Lets us record and repla
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Which will eventually include "reduced advertising", which you can get rid of by upgrading to Premium+ Ultra.
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In a similar vein, there's "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich and Leo Janos, which covers the development of the U-2, F-117, and SR-17 aircraft. Not about the philosophy of engineering per se, but it's a great perspective into ho
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> Just because you dislike it doesn’t mean it’s not a useful framework. You've got your arrow of causality backwards. People dislike it because it's a useless framework when taken in the simplistic way you've presented i
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The neutrons are an issue because they slowly destroy the reactor materials [1]. Point is, even with better superconductors we'd still be a long way from practical fusion power. They'd be a step forward, but they're not the k
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Cheaper and smaller than what? All the existing fusion power plants? We have to make it work before we can optimize it. Fusion still poses many engineering challenges that have nothing to do with the quality of our superconductors. How to n
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Even if it allowed infinite current, the only thing that would become "free" is what we currently lose to inefficiencies in the conductors. There's still the cost of generating electricity, maintaining the distribution infras
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When in Rome. Early in my career I was hesitant to call myself a software "engineer", but then everyone started calling themselves that, and quite a few of them can barely produce a working CRUD app. Calling myself a "program
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The calendar proposed by the article has the same problem, see the part about the yearend period and leap years. Yes, the issue occurs less often, but the question "what date is one month from today" still doesn't have a simp
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The TV commercial: https://youtu.be/ZdackF2H7Qc?feature=shared&t=13
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> And the whole crate terminology is just stupid. What am I, a dock worker or software designer? Of all the reasons to complain about a programming language, the package manager not being elitist enough is certainly an original one.
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> a few things they mention give me pause I don't think it's even a "they", as in an actual company with more than one employee. This appears to be a twenty-something guy with delusions of grandeur, no experience in n
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I'd have the same question about them. I'm not disputing that it works, I just don't understand how the body isn't constantly fighting it. Or leaking.
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This is pretty amazing, but I wonder--how does the body adapt to having a piece of hardware that extends through the skin? Does the body not see this as an open wound? It seems like being permanently impaled with a metal pole.
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Yeah it feels odd at first for sure. But like any other mammal, one of our social instincts is play fighting. You see it in kids with their roughhousing and horseplay, but as we get older it becomes less and less socially acceptable in most
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I second martial arts, particularly BJJ (though I haven't tried any others). Generally very chill people of all walks of life. And this might sound weird, but I do believe the close physical contact is both good for mental health and h
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The intended lesson of this article may be the "cattle, not pets" point made near the end, but I think there's another lesson hidden in it. This is the story of literally every single large project I've done under a tigh
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I do actually, because I've been through the process of disputing a debt before. All the creditor has to do to verify the debt is to show their records to the reporting agency, i.e., their justification for charging you. It's not

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