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>The rust code was running circles around their Swift ones even when we tried to keep implementations the same. I've done Advent of Code a few years -- even Javascript implementati…

> What Rust does is flip this. The default is the safe path. So instead of risking forgetting smart pointers and thread safe containers, the compiler keeps you honest. For what it’…

Apple has pushed OS updates to help the Asahi team, though they did not publicize this, of course.

I used an iPhone 4s from 2011 until end of 2018. Probably most remarkably, I never put a case or any kind of screen protector on it. The thing was still practically scratch free wh…

> the article doesn't state Heroku by name Heroku is mentioned in the first sentence.

> Whatsapp is the de-facto communication tool in India and LatAm from experience And much of Europe.

As do many other countries. You really cannot live without it in much of the world.

Rich Hickey talks about this, calling it "hammock-driven development." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc Aaron Sorkin has also touched on this: > Most of the time, me wri…

I don't know the history, but there is supposedly a fixed set of Porter Duff blend modes, specific algorithms. For example, this C++ library: > Blend2D supports all Porter & Duff c…

They are typically referred to as Porter Duff blend modes, so I assume that these algorithms were invented mainly by those guys. (by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff)

Same. I've written probably more C++ than any other language, and I have a lot of respect for the language overall, but I recently had to use only C for something, and I found it r…

And here I thought you were looking for help understanding how normal vectors work to define the reflectiveness of a 3D surface, and I thought, that’s a rather specific item for gu…

I had to pull out the big guns, shift + escape. It will clear your anxiety, or at least help a little!

>Sweden seems to be a country with significant social pressure I'm curious what you mean by this?

Helix is a simple install, easy to give it a try and see what you think. For most people, there’s no configuration necessary to get started. I jumped through the hoops to get C++ t…

Helix is great! The out-of-the-box LSP for C++ is a major strength, no config needed for me compared to 100% of all other editors I've used. The context-aware popups are nice too, …