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In addition to deepening my knowledge of Rust Embedded, the challenge was to make the most of standard LEGO parts, the servo, the motor, and especially the power supply (LEGO Power…

You know, my first reaction after reading this was to appraise the quality of your writing, which convinced me your brain recovered. Wishing you health, of course. The world is bet…

Sorry (blog post author), the name of the field was given by AWS, I kept it as is on deserialization.

This disclosure has been added today, after some users here called them out for hiding that they were using AI to build it.

Termimad author here: I’m always a bit afraid, when I see the popularity of this crate, that it might be undue and that people may lose time trying to use it when it’s probably not…

We don't know exactly why nature can't do otherwise, but any complex brain has to sleep. Some animals, mainly sharks which can't stop or they would be asphyxied, deal with that by …

People who do robotics, is efficient stable balancing at rest something which is studied and applied ?

If you look at the article, you'll see the picture of such sculpture (a rather impressive one, by the way).

Imagine you have a big enum in Rust, for example an Error, with a dozen or more variants. When maintaining related code, for example a Display implementation, or routing to some be…

Is your master thesis online ? A link would be welcome (whatever the language).

Montaigne is at least the third French writer to be featured as a (good) static site generator, after Hugo and Zola.

This might even look like enough a reason to spend the rest of their life maintaining it.

Imagine you need to attach to some records a bag of data which you always fully need or not. This bag may have a tree structure, which is expensive to deal with in a relational mod…

Having vetted repositories of libraries looks neat but it's harder in practice than what the article lets appear. A problem for such repositories like the Debian one is that it can…

But not all normalizations are done to fight spam, not all of them should be interested in visual similarity. I normalize strings in searches not because of bad intents but because…

That's what's missing. When I click on a pointer, its owner should have the article replaced with a "GAME OVER" message.

broot can be used to replace tree (i.e. be non interactive): https://dystroy.org/broot/tricks/#replace-tree This is convenient when you don't want to browse or search, just want wh…

Fundamental research can also exist without looking at applied research. Understanding the world and finding the beauty in its fabrics is a legit goal per se, we're humans, not ant…

This is theoretically possible, and I actually toyed with the idea. I didn't do it in my deserializer because of the big value you have in Rust in being compatible with serde and t…

A lot of formats are Hjson compatible, notably JSON, and also what users wrote thinking it was JSON but they forgot some quotes or had a trailing comma so the JSON parser refuses i…

I previously argued that TOML wasn't good enough in this blog post https://dystroy.org/blog/hjson-in-broot/ where I show an example of problem which frequently hurts my users and l…