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by robjwells 2y ago
One way that Swift is certainly not more convenient than Rust is the tooling. I use a 2018 MacBook Air, using macOS 12, which is now unsupported by Xcode. Meanwhile SourceKit-LSP is treated as very much a second-class citizen. But Rust 1.81
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by robjwells 2y ago
It’s not mentioned in the blog post, but 1.81 merges support into rustc for the Xtensa-based ESP32, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 chips from Espressif. It’s been great to see a microcontroller vendor really get behind Rust, even for its “older” des
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by robjwells 2y ago
Imagine you’re standing on a double-track section. From your perspective, the track on the left leads away from you, the track on the right leads towards you. As to why: having this uniformity is useful in placing, eg, signals (which face i
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by robjwells 2y ago
“About to be fixed” ≈ “this is the year of Linux on the desktop” Wake me up when a browser ships Temporal. Edit: Here’s Temporal on caniuse.com: https://caniuse.com/?search=temporal Handful of APIs in the Safari Technology
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by robjwells 2y ago
For those skimming, this is the controversy over J Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen. I highly recommend reading Dreger's article. Conway (and others, particularly Andrea James) conducted a years-long campaign of ha
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by robjwells 2y ago
You can see all of the TfL traffic cameras here: https://tfl.gov.uk/traffic/status/ Use the hamburger menu to enable "jam cams", and click on the icons to view the clips. They're 10-second clips tha
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by robjwells 2y ago
Help I'm Stuck In A Street Sign Factory Avenue
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by robjwells 2y ago
Even among current and recent MPs and Lords, we've had: O’Brien (5), O’Donnell, O’Halloran, O’Hara (2), O’Mara, and O’Neill. https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons?SearchText=%27...
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by robjwells 2y ago
While I agree with you, it's common that standards are not available without payment. For example, to get a copy of ISO 8601-1:2019 (as in, the date format standard!), it'll cost you $190. https://www.iso.org/stand
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by robjwells 2y ago
Narrowly on the matter of “clean feeders”, I’d recommend people (particularly of interest to those in the UK) check out Finches Friend. They make feeders designed to avoid the spread of disease (primarily trichomonosis) and their blog posts
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by robjwells 3y ago
This is a great post. I’d previously started to write a tree-sitter grammar for djot but bounced off when I realised I’d have to use an external scanner. Nice to have an article that sets out how to do so. Link in the post is currently brok
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by robjwells 3y ago
Somewhat related: ijq https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/
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by robjwells 3y ago
On MacOS HistoryHound gives you a searchable index of webpage content, though it doesn't store the full contents of pages in a way that can be viewed offline. https://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/
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by robjwells 3y ago
One of the people involved in the film this is related to (Pistachio Wars) is Yasha Levine, whose book about the history of the Internet, Surveillance Valley, is excellent (if controversial!). Background on the film: https://yash
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by robjwells 3y ago
Named in contrast to Basel Old Boys, apparently. (“Old Boys” as in former pupils of a school.)
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by robjwells 3y ago
So, that's a no then, since that would suggest installing it in a Linux VM?
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by robjwells 3y ago
Perhaps worth including the date that was in the original title (29-09-2023), since this is a regular quarterly update.
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by robjwells 3y ago
I wonder if this is a bug introduced in macOS 13 (Ventura). I've been watching the Activity Monitor inspector for Control Centre on my 2017 Air, running 12.6.8, and it's at 0.00, occasionally boosting up to 0.01.
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by robjwells 3y ago
Sadly Frayn will always be tarred in my eyes having been subjected to Spies in GCSE(? A-level? It all blurs together) English.
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by robjwells 3y ago
KPrepublic have a tester that includes all four of the Glove80 switches (Brown, White, Red, Red Pro) [0] and also a cheaper one that excludes the Red Pro [1]. (I ordered the cheaper one after reading the review.) [0] https://kpre
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by robjwells 3y ago
Thanks for this, very interesting. Prompted me into ordering a choc switch tester from KPrepublic, as honestly it’s the switches that make me hesitant (just unfamiliar). I’d been considering an Advantage 360 but have been put off by the rep
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by robjwells 3y ago
Love the dog. A bit like the “Cool Bear” asides in Amos’s articles (fasterthanli.me), a chance to pause & consolidate.
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by robjwells 4y ago
Christophe Lécuyer’s Making Silicon Valley is excellent. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262622110/making-silicon-valley... It’s about the development of high-tech industry in the valley generally, starting with vacuum tu
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by robjwells 4y ago
Interesting to note that very similar concerns have been raised by staff at the GIDS youth clinic in the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51806962 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56539466
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by robjwells 4y ago
Louise Raw wrote a book about the Bryant and May matchwomen and their 1888 strike, Striking a Light, which I recommend: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/striking-a-light-9781441114266...
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by robjwells 7y ago
I’d highly recommend Drew Neil’s Practical Vim[0] for much more like this; it’s broken down into easy chunks and gets into the _why_ as well as the _how_ of Vim’s techniques. Modern Vim[1], mentioned elsewhere in the comments, covers more a
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by robjwells 9y ago
Yes, that’s a good point (and, as someone who works in newspapers, something I’m well acquainted with). Perhaps my original comment was too simplistic; it is a thorny issue.
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by robjwells 9y ago
(Starting with the caveat that I’m not hugely well-versed in the GDPR:) I think that actively soliciting personal data from people (wherever they may be) and collecting or processing it entails a higher level of responsibility. The GDPR in
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by robjwells 9y ago
> I just wanted to point out that the reaction of the court isn’t as entirely pointless as it may seem on first thought. And I think you’re right to do so! Honestly, regarding the whole case, I think the court has erred in accepting the
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by robjwells 9y ago
> for playing devils advocate I can see the courts point: International websites have to respect local laws I think this is an untenable position as it would mean that any website, published from any country, hosted on servers in any cou

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