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by stymaar 10y ago
> sudo to root and largely do whatever they want Not anymore, even being root doesn't give you total control now[1], and custom kernel extensions are among the things that are prohibited. This «feature» bas been introduced in El Cap
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by stymaar 10y ago
The first time I went on a Rust doc page I felt exactly like you: «what the hell is this mess ! I understand nothing». But a few weeks in, it started to make total sense, and now I see the page you link to and I'm like «That's pre
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by stymaar 10y ago
> I think its more arrogant to suggest that some planning committee would be able to make better decisions for that individual. Objecting against the free market illusion is not advocating for a planification entity. Free market is a fal
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by stymaar 10y ago
Realizing that the sentence «big brother is watching you» accurately describes the world de live in ils kind of scary… It's something to rationaly know it, it's totally different to experience it in real life !
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by stymaar 10y ago
Async/await is a really wonderful addition to JavaScript !
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by stymaar 10y ago
I run AOSP on my phone, without the Google stuff. I was using FFOS for privacy and freedom reasons and I'm not giving up.
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by stymaar 10y ago
I use to have a Firefox OS phone (the Flame), but since I broke it last july, I switched to Android and 7 month in I still miss my FFOS phone :/. Android UX is just terrible, and the interface looks so slow (my new phone is a $400 phon
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by stymaar 10y ago
The borrow checker has limitations but I agree with gp: if you haven't fully internalized its rules, especially if don't understand why it is yelling at you at some point, then you should not go unsafe because you're most lik
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by stymaar 10y ago
What I usually do since I've been shown this kind of attack : - Ctrl-X Ctrl-E: open the default text editor on your system - paste your snipet here and review it - save the snipet in your editor, it is now run.
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by stymaar 10y ago
1) I have a totally different experience ! When your are writting code which must have a certain degree of genericity you end up having a ton of interface{} … 2) wat ? How having a null pointer a non issue ?! Empirically it causes fewer bug
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by stymaar 10y ago
The author also complains about the sub-optimal IDE experience with Scala and then says he moved to a langage that has none …
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by stymaar 10y ago
> Why would I even bother "owning" a car? What the more reasonable approach is time-sharing of multiple vehicles, like Uber. A huge problem remains though : how do you avoid having dirty/smelly/broken cars all the tim
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by stymaar 10y ago
> Chrome has had it for a years No, not really, not at all. Chromium has an equivalent (but more accessible and more user friendly) feature than Firefox profile, but it's nowhere close to this. The profile feature in Firefox and Chr
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by stymaar 10y ago
> I couldn't imagine myself returning to languages with exceptions and ternary operators, for example. Why ? Is it because no language with those feature is good (let say you wouldn't like to return to Java for instance), or is
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by stymaar 10y ago
> I'm not quite willing to dismiss Rust merely for being hard to learn, but after poking around in both Go and Rust for a few weeks, I feel like I could build a project in Go (slowly, and with a lot of googling), but I don't fe
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by stymaar 10y ago
http://** has been here a really long time without no-one complaining about it containing a «disappointed face» …
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by stymaar 10y ago
Weird :/ It works well in Firefox on my desktop from 2009 (with 4GB of DDR2) … Do you also have performance issues in Safari or Firefox ?
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by stymaar 10y ago
> And then if you deploy to your server and for some reason it has to update NPM, suddenly you have a potential of any and all of those thousands of packages to break, or interact poorly, or whatever. Since you have specified that anythi
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by stymaar 10y ago
It is most likely Blink under the hood[1], but the user agent doesn't give you any information on that subject. This is Edge's user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like G
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by stymaar 10y ago
I agree with you, semver doesn't make sens for every project. But it still make sense for a lot of executables, and not only library, let me illustrate that. Let say you create a cli tool, with a given set of command-line parameters. T
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by stymaar 10y ago
> Try to draw a line in GIMP (without first going to google). Have fun! (; GIMP is not a paint replacement. Since GIMP is primarily a tool for image retouching and editing, drawing a line is not it's most obvious use-case. > Blen
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by stymaar 10y ago
> An interesting approach taken by Go here is to avoid calling C as much as possible. They don't call the libc for system calls, for instance. This is also what allows them to switch the execution to an other goroutine just before t
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by stymaar 10y ago
>> somehow different from everything just being synchronous and using threads > It IS different. In async code every single line of code must be async I think you misread the gp. He was not saying that Go code is not different fro
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by stymaar 10y ago
In term of programming interface, you deal with them as if it was a traditional thread. (with its pro and cons: pro: all your code is sequential, it's intuitive to understand what the programmer wanted to do in a specific scenario. co
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by stymaar 10y ago
I personally find the nodejs async much more intuitive than goroutine + synchronous code in it, but this is a highly subjective subject. nodejs use to be pretty annoying when dealing with complex workflow in term of code legibility when it
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by stymaar 10y ago
Inrust you can tell the compiler to always inline a given function.[1] But you don't necessarily want to do that since you may not make the most efficient use of the CPU cache. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.ht
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by stymaar 10y ago
You don't usually code for one screen since you're not generally coding for yourself alone. IMHO unlimited line length + editor soft-wrap is the best way to deal with the problem since it automatically adjust the size to the reade
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Travel to the country of sexists and homophobes(medium.com)
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by stymaar 10y ago
> Nowadays even Steam is available for Linux, with more and more titles available. That should get you covered for a little while. If it doesn't, PlayOnLinux allows running Windows games on Wine. Most of the time, it works just fine
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A notable exception to this rule are Nvidia Drivers, which are close-source. When switching from the initial distribution to the newer one, you'll fall back to the free Nouveau driver and need to reinstall the NVIDIA zone by yourse

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