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calo_star

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    Comment #42675768

    > but for multi-threaded code Rust uses smart pointers like C++ That's not the whole story. There's also Send and Sync marker traits, move by default semantic also makes RAII const…

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    Comment #42506026

    `std::optional `'s style is more akin to using if x.is_some() { let x_value = unsafe { x.unwrap_unchecked() }; } everywhere.

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    Comment #37979834

    Book-films!

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    Comment #36568255

    When can we have anything effective against tinnitus...

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    Comment #36223299

    Do you find any notable downsides to using Brave? I was with Kagi until they introduced limit to the 10$/month paid tier.

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    Comment #36222680

    > - Google has a number of "sponsored" results at the top of search results, which look identical to the actual search results, other than having a "sponsored". That was the reason…

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    Comment #36206899

    > a hilariously negative caricature of a hypothetical experience using it. That's what Apple has shown, no?

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    Comment #35868647

    CoreGraphics often emphasizes it's ability to draw PDF, I guess that has to do with the Display PostScript lineage as well.

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    Comment #35747084

    What would be the particular difficulty with intrusive linked lists?

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    Comment #35716687

    It's the same in Haskell, Erlang and Elixir.

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    Comment #35683533

    Bing also doesn't do "site:" queries properly it seems.

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    Comment #35565215

    Erlang processes indeed do cooperative multitasking under the hood, something like yielding control to the scheduler roughly every 1000 function calls.

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    Comment #35395237

    Have they also banned TikTok?

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    Comment #35317565

    By training it with a LOT of data, I suppose.

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    Comment #35256498

    I'm rather sure that Amazon is a company that strictly makes the world a worse place.

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    Comment #35219144

    I was hoping to see some sparring with Zuckerberg.

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    Comment #35048575

    They are not relevant, the author made a totally irrational choice by benchmarking under Windows, not realizing the Deck is marketed as a Linux machine first and foremost, and they…

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    Comment #35005376

    You could also just use 3-phase AC induction motor.

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    Comment #34941211

    One thing I love about Elixir's syntax is that virtually everything is a call, take the if statement: if condition do IO.puts "true" :yes else IO.puts "false" :no end is just a cal…

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    Comment #34603157

    Sounds like Xiaohongshu without pictures to me.

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    Comment #34555707

    Depending on the size of your component that can't be built in Erlang, you may be able to use NIF and throw it on the dirty scheduler.

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    Comment #34513822

    Not to mention that no design is absolutely safe, and if security enclaves like Pluton get exploited to run backdoor, it'll be a lot harder for end user to detect.

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    Comment #33931949

    Safari's UI just isn't good for me.