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jplatte

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    Comment #17399273

    The KeePassXC browser integration also does it the way you describe where you choose a profile instead of having the firm already filled in when the page loads.

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    Comment #15814027

    There is one important difference between Box and unique_ptr though: unique_ptr is nullable while Box isn't.

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    Comment #15251736

    > In Python I have to figure out what the indentation is built from, spaces or tabs, and make sure there's no ambiguity there. The following program throws a TabError in Python 3: …

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    Comment #15251407

    I'm one of those people who are really confused about the whole Python project management situation. Is there a resource where I can learn the equivalent of common operations found…

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    Comment #15124054

    I see them in Firefox, with uBlock installed and active. This problem is easily solved by clicking the reader mode button in the url bar though.

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    Comment #14875763

    I know they use ripgrep¹ for their project-wide search feature. I'd imagine that the other native code would also be separate processes whose output is parsed, or in C / C++ / Rust…

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    Comment #14682802

    zsh can handle floating point arithmetic too, while bash can't.

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    Comment #14373638

    And he wrote a really nice article about the maze generation algorithm that he uses in Hauberk: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes... It has inspired me t…

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    Comment #14215441

    While it is not part of the memory safety guarantee of safe Rust, in practice it is much harder to accidentally leak memory in Rust than in C++. There is no counterpart to the C++ …

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    > Is the !g bang gives you personalized results as good as google results ? Including !g in your search query simply redirects you to a google search with the same query (minus the…

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    Comment #13975040

    > At least it doesn't force any casing on you, as some languages do. I'm not convinced that is actually a good thing. It really annoys me when two libraries for the same language u…

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    Comment #13685252

    It's not only a MIR issue, it's also an issue of how many optimizations should be allowed when you also need to be able to make some assumptions about your data in unsafe blocks. F…

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    Comment #13618586

    Hm, it might have to do with the way CSS works.. When I'm developing gtk+ Applications, I always do the UI in glade. It works wonderfully, even if I still have to do some stuff in …

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    Comment #13503964

    I'd suggest having a look at the new (unfinished, but that affects mostly the later chapters) rust book. Here's the ownership chapter: http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch04-00-under…