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Granting that I think X should have stronger content policies and technological interventions to bad behavior as a matter of business, I do think that the X Safety's team position[…

What you want isn't really "output C++ code that is pedantically equivalent to this Fortran code but with the array indexing fixed up", it's usually more like "translate this Fortr…

lol yep, you're 100% right.

Yeah, I totally get that, but I suppose my argument would be is if you're going to bother writing your driver in Rust, until there are more mature Rust bindings for the OS interfac…

That doesn't bother me per-se - those all caps names are pretty much all directly from the standard C bindings, and it makes sense to preserve that naming for the sake of having th…

I'm glad to see that Microsoft is investing in Rust bindings for WDK[0], but browsing the repo, there's really no point in using this over C since they haven't bothered to invest i…

And I don't know how I missed this, but attempting to use the `UNICODE_STRING` returned in `string_to_ustring` is a guaranteed use after free. If you're interested in writing Windo…

The code here looks to be essentially C with different syntax - every function marked unsafe, all resources manually managed. Sorry to be blunt, but what's the point of this?

This is kind of a weird framing. 30 days is longer period than probably acceptable, but most people get regular, lagging biweekly paychecks rather than getting their paycheck paid …

Given that their average post seems to only get 10s of interactions despite their account having 10 million followers, I don’t think they were getting much out of being on X anyway…

Believe it or not, a well equipped military is in fact a bipartisan issue.

Insane how many words the author uses to capture "costs are higher for US game studios because salaries are higher". There's no actual secret second thing and it's hilarious watchi…

> they're completely entitled to feel that way, if that helps them cope This is actually not a productive way to cope and it’s good advice to tell people not to cope this way.

Headline actors are inevitably going to be (already are?) selling the rights to their voice and likeness, setting up perpetual revenue streams for their estates, and in the next fe…

I can tell you from personal experience they will not repair Apple Watches - they recycle them and charge a pretty hefty replacement fee if you do not have AppleCare+. I had a Stai…

People like to key on proc macros specifically as scary, but this is basically true of any dependency you take. In fact, run time dependencies will often have _higher_ levels of pr…

I think OpenAI is probably held to different standards than Google. ChatGPT hallucinates incorrect information, and it's kind of adorable - the tech is early, they'll improve over …

> all of the teachers I know regularly work nights and weekends There's a difference between difficulty and exertion. > how important is the outcome It's pretty damn important that…

I haven't seen a lot of evidence actual teachers handle problem children all that well either.

I'm sure your mom is great, but teachers have low value over replacement. Teaching is not a particularly high skill or difficult job.

C++ coroutines[0] are also "function coloring", unless I'm missing something? [0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/coroutines

I think async concurrent code is just much easier to reason about, regardless of threading. Also, for intra-request concurrency (e.g. i need to grab data from N different sources t…

Fair point!

lol just saw this bit > "Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed, so it is critical we have a solu…

As a laptop owner, this actually sounds pretty good, because it heavily dis-incentivizes theft. However, as a laptop buyer, it's hard not to feel like Apple's security posture is c…