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Feature flags are great. Working on a crash / memory corruption in an optional subsystem? Just disable the subsystem to unblock coworkers on the same branch while you track down th…

I've encountered a few soundness holes in rust-lang in practice, but they've all been fixed before I managed to shoot myself in the foot with any of them: • `std::mem::uninitialize…

> If you define another language Rust-Without-Any-Unsafe, then maybe that one is safer than Fil-C. Just write `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]` at the top of your src/lib.rs, and track cra…

I adore unsafe, appreciate it as a feature... but it is an escape hatch. One that is sometimes necessary, one that is sometimes not necessary but might still be (ab)used for perfor…

> The myth of DNS “propagation” needs to die. What's the actual issue? Are you being frustrated by people laboring under the assumption that DNS records are being sent by carrier p…

> Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? Yes. No. Yes. I've worked in gamedev, helping ship code that ran on consoles. Nice fixed hardware targets. …

C++'s stdlib collection algorithms were basically all mutate-in-place instead of return-a-new-value until C++20 introduced ranges, and I still don't know anyone who actually uses t…

> But you can learn to phrase your WTFs about your colleague's code politely and constructively. I would even argue that this an absolutely basic skill for professionals. It typica…

I don't want the private API key I temporarily hardcoded in my public history. Nor do I want the drag of worrying about so much as sneezing in the general vicinity of a secret in m…

I'll note that speedrunners absolutely buffer mid-pipeline in Factorio, and not just for hand-crafting purpouses. Sometimes you're waiting for R&D, sometimes you're just running ha…

> That's the point, std::byte is for opaque bytes. You're not expected to do arithmetic directly just like you can't do arithmetic on void. That'd make a whole lot more sense to me…

To be fair, the `void*` is already a pretty big hint that you're in the danger zone.

> if somewhere in the plumbing you connect the wrong source to the wrong destination, you get no warning. A valid concern. I've been in the position of having to fix those bugs. I'…

> Fair point (although to be honest: 'complexify' feels a bit of an exaggeration here to me) Both uint8_t and std::byte require a header ( or ) which may expose you to platform x c…

TIL the horror that is the existence of non-serializable isolation. I'm a gamedev. I've worked alongside webdevs (frontend and backend) that build our websites and forums. Alongsid…

> I disagree that you'll find "many red flags for any job" If they're hiding the many red flags, that's the biggest red flag of all!

> If you're steeped deeply enough in that NDA-preserving culture If you've throroughly absorbed a culture of honoring non disclosure agreements (NDAs), which are legal contracts de…

> Like seriously, what's the point of explicitly allowing this? Explicit permission can be useful to preemptively cut off some questions from well meaning people who, acting in goo…

My trick: Walk to meals and other excursions/shopping in lieu of driving. If I leave on a walk for the exclusive purpouse of "exercise", I immediately feel bored, and like I'm wast…

My family accepts me just the way I am a bit too much. I can't bring myself to blame them, when past "reformist" pressures have been misguided/misapplied and backfired, but I recog…

Trade is just a combination of give and take. I give you X, and in exchange, take Y. Without the "take", it's not a trade, it's just a gift.

> Interesting you single out commercial and government entities but not people. What defines the difference? Bureaucracy? Concentration of resources? Legal theory? Not OP, but for …

I use a horrific mix of: • Markdown (most of my notes these days, supplanting my previous use of plaintext.) • Single-file HTML (when my use case for fancy documents exceeds markdo…

> One explaination for that would be stripping "out of scope" macros that the sublibrary depends on but wishes to avoid including. Another explaination would be the original source…

> no commit history, 10k+ lines of complicated code This kind of pattern is incredibly common when e.g. a sublibrary of a closed source project is extracted from a monorepository. …