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GTK is written in C, not JS.

The android phone app warns about suspected spam callers, and project fi has a spam filtering feature that has worked pretty well for me.

I switched to Dvorak years ago and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. It has downsides (awkwardness when typing on others' machines, difficulty typing with one hand whi…

A good lightweight alternative is js-joda. I recently switched from moment.js and I've been very happy with it. https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/

POWER9 is looking more and more attractive by the day.

Is it possible to match the end of a slice with slice patterns? Something like: fn foo(s: &[char]) { match s { ['a', 'b'] => (), [.. 'b', 'c'] => (), _ => (), } }

From the section on TypeScript: > enums, which are basically like Java’s enums. They really aren't. Java enums are somewhat unique in that they are full-fledged classes, not just g…

> Go has more of a focus on simplicity. But specifically on simplicity of implementation. Which often means pushing the complexity onto the developer. This line from the article is…

I experience something very similar. It turned out to be at least in part from eye strain induced headaches ("computer vision syndrome"). I started paying more attention to ocular …

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> We just don't provide Linux binaries, except Ubuntu Snaps, because it is extremely difficult to do. Have you considered packaging with Flatpak [0] as well? Very similar to Snaps,…

I do this, but not mainly to find bugs, though on rare occasions I do. I almost always find something , e.g. stylistic aberrations, overzealous changes from an intellij refactor, d…

> Who the hell would write prose by making all the verbs blue, the nouns red, and the adverbs green (or something to that effect). Slightly off topic, but I think doing this could …

Because gut issues have been implicated in a whole lot of common maladies, but the precise nature of the interactions of gut bacteria and their human hosts has yet to be determined…

I wouldn't quite call it "top hardware", but I've been very happy running Fedora on my asus zenbook ux305la.

Her talks are great too, I particularly enjoyed her strace talk [0]. [0] https://youtu.be/4pEHfGKB-OE

> Systemd, on the other hand, disabling their syslog is simply not an option You can set Storage=none and ForwardToSyslog=yes in /etc/systemd/journald.conf [0]. [0] https://wiki.ar…

> I said the good programmers would eventually be pushed out by webdevs who were not as good, and here Mozilla is making the Rust language, which is merely a crutch for people not …

I made absolutely no claim that my experience provided any sort of scientific evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants. I merely stated that if you're on antidepressants, and a…

> I look at it the other way: companies "pushing"[1] antidepressants not just on pregnant women, but on all of us, for years on end, should be putting out a very clear message that…

Articles reporting negatively on antidepressants should come with a huge disclaimer to those taking them that they should continue to do so unless their doctor / psychiatrist recom…

Probably not easily, if at all. Additionally, it's ARM so you'd be limited to what's available in Arch Linux ARM. There's a Linux version of the very similar Intel Compute Stick fo…

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