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The word that I have seen in similar contexts is 'trusted', which I like and would have preferred -- the block has extra privileges and isn't machine verified. Some people tend to …

This reminds me of Freeman Dyson's research on British Bombers during WWII -- the data showed experienced crews didn't fair better than novices, but they didn't figure out why till…

As a Firefox on Linux user I checked one of those sites that tries to estimate how many bits each public aspect of your setup reveals about you. It turned out available fonts was b…

That's a great blog post. The `linux_literal` section is particularly interesting re: mmap.

> reasonable to conflate panics with unsafety if one is only used to "crashing" in the context of C. I suppose it's possible that's what generates most instances of this question, …

Go 1.7.4 and rust 1.14. Interesting discrepancy in the relative speeds of the tools we are seeing.

If you are running the program with `cargo run` that takes the same --release flag. Could be the machine difference though.

Pass the release flag when you build loc; `cargo build --release`. I see ~5 seconds for loc and ~34 seconds for loccount to count a freshly cloned linux repository. edit: woops, th…

> In this specific example, I saw that building the project required mucking with my rust version/setup and decided that the cost of that was too high for me to proceed. Agreed it …

I have a hunch that learning resources get a significant bump from people using upvotes as bookmarks. I think the ML results and demo posts are mostly getting upvotes because the r…

Notable for code archaeology: the docstrings weren't in the previous version[]. (He also switched from manually implementing counting behavior with a Dict to a Counter, added the P…

Of course the risk of a habit of flippantly walking across minefields is significantly more than the willingness to do it to save a life. It seems likely to me that the respondents…

I'm using it too. I've bound my most used Stump keys to windows-key combos so that I don't have to use the prefix key very often. E.g. windows-e to focus Emacs. For me, a big quali…

"Systems programming language" seems to be one a frequent definition miscommunication, right alongside "a Lisp" and "self taugt programmer". People use the phrases without acknowle…

Research into off label uses of unpatented drugs. (Inspired by the article recently posted here which pointed out that although a drug is being used off label to treat phobias, the…