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As a citizen of one of those countries, this fails spectacularly when your family doctor does -not- know best or just doesn’t care about his job, yet due to the huge scarcity of fa…

Why not have both? :) as far as "backup of human civilization" goes though, Mars has more potential: water, atmosphere (thin though it may be), higher gravity, and a day similar to…

There's also Swift's approach, which looks like exceptions but is really similar to Rust's approach under the hood. Swift also requires failable calls to be prefixed by "try" which…

Rust seems really great as infrastructure level code, but the tooling still has a lot of rough dyes when it comes to mobile development. I think Swift could play a decent role here…

The tooling for Swift is certainly miles better on iOS, but I do like Rust as a language. On Android the most comprehensive solution I've seen is Xamarin, but last time I tried it …

And even on Android this functionality has a lot of holes. As an example, just try to find a robust way of sending an email with multiple attachments that only shows email apps and…

But what are your earnings? Serious question, not trying to antagonize. There is still a tradeoff, right? Those in the valley work like dogs but there's also a lot of money out the…

This is a pretty neat idea -- I think I'll try this the next time I need to work on numeric code.

Anyone here using Rust on mobile? That's the potential usecase that interests me the most, but given that the tooling still has a lot to be desired, and a lot of mobile code is ven…

Swift does support this also, but they limited it so they could also get rid of semicolons entirely.

In fairness, it's harder to learn Rust as one has to be aware of when and when not to put semi-colons, otherwise the compiler chokes with an unhelpful error. It also looks very wei…

Even new diesel trucks from Japan do this in places like the Caribbean. Maybe the standards are lower but I haven't seen a similar problem with new gas cars.

Diesel can be really nasty, much worse than modern gas cars. Even having a diesel truck in front of me is enough to make me gag. It's one of the things I don't like about Europe or…

And since Android 4.4, access to external SD cards has been restricted unless you use an annoying API or have a rooted device.

Rust is getting there but still lacks type-level integers, and macros are waiting for macros 2.0. It would also be neat to have the ability to run any function at compile time, but…

How much will that Dell be worth vs the MacBook in 3 years? While not a fan of the newest MacBook, I don't have to be because they -last-.

My main beef with SpiderOak is that I have no way of verifying these claims, so why should I use it over, say, Crashplan, which actually does do a better job of backup. I'll just u…

If the spectrum is good, and there's no flicker, I think this could make sense in the kitchen or hallways. I haven't been that pleased with the LEDs I've seen but they are still be…

LLVM Kaleidoscope, or if you'd like to start with your own toy CPU, then nand2tetris on Coursera.

There's still the flicker and glare, and an unnatural "look". LEDs are not as bad as CFL's, I'll grant you that, but still not as good as an incandescent for the living room or bed…

Which bothers me less, as it's much darker, contains less blue light with flux or night shift, and doesn't flicker as many bulbs from the hardware store do.

Needs better build support, CI testing and better tooling to match C++ on mobile.

This is why I didn't jump on the spiral CFL bandwagon and why I won't jump on the LED bandwagon for some time to come. Good old-fashioned incandescents may be less efficient to run…

Elon musk was born in South Africa, and spent time in Canada before moving to the US. My point was more about it being possible for these people to achieve their heights in the US,…