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They are not on the fence about Rust. They are on the fence about JPEG-XL when it entails a major increase in attack surface due to the current implementation being in C++.

Human civilization is very north biased. Almost 90% of all people live in the northern hemisphere.

Another aspect is that there is a large span in the amount of water you can let the rice absorb. A 1:1 ratio of water to rice (not accounting for evaporation) is all you need to co…

The fixed ratio doesn't scale all that well, because some of the water is absorbed by the rice and some just evaporates. Even with a lid on water still evaporates. The evaporation …

There are knobs on the f and j key so you can find the home row without looking. Similarly, physical buttons in a car can be shaped in such a way that they allow for feeling your p…

There are so many behaviors that fit that description that few would count as addiction. For example eating sweets or junk food, procrastinating, not drinking enough.

I have some experience with a German shorthand style (DEK) and it is more important to write clearly. Shorthand removes most of the redundant information that is present in regular…

You could make the argument that with strong headwind you should drive slower to optimize for efficiency.

It looks like the author is trying to set up a reverse pleb filter. "Only plebs would like this".

It's supposed to be royalty free, but there are patents for the techniques used in it which are used defensively. If someone has a patent to a technique used in AV1, then they coul…

The author himself doesn't seem like a scam artist but he looks like he falls for them. He said he heard about this technique from Michael Neill who he calls "a personal developmen…

The problem with residential solar is not the panels, it's the installation, connection to the electric network which differs from house to house and having to work with the homeow…

There are some related studies on the effect of wind turbines on storms and how wind turbines could protect against hurricanes by sapping a portion of their energy. While the answe…

1,000,000,000ng is 1kg, so that'd would be as much plastic as solvent by mass.

Light is only the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Mail them where? To do so, the company needs to provide an address where they would accept such correspondence and they may not do so.

I think op goes too far by including trailing slashes, but being liberal in what you accept (Postel's law) is a bad idea as the last few decades of the web have shown. Once you acc…

No, because it requires an &Vec and that doesn't implement Default and for good reason. Just ask yourself, where would the default empty vec live so that you could create a referen…

It's not an assumption, √x is defined to be the positive square root (the principal square root). The negative one is -√x.

It's not inadequate. Brightness diminishes for two reasons. One is absorption from cosmic dust (not that big of a factor), the other is that the object appears smaller, but the bri…

It's also cheaper if you don't. It's by far cheaper if you do.

That definition of what is valid or not depends on the type of checker. When you're talking about Rust's borrow checker, then you can take any property that it checks for, such as …

What is the drawing software used at e.g. 3:50 in the video? https://youtu.be/_7vPNcnYWQ4?t=230

This selection effect cannot explain Rust's standing relative to other new languages and neither can it explain why Rust's popularity (as measured by "most loved") increases over t…

When we kill them, we're shedding more of our blood than theirs.