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Short of using a different data structure, I'm not sure how you would get out of that one. The claim was that some of these leaks ("leaks"?) could be avoided by using a language wi…

> the pattern of allocating a vec as pseudo-RAM, using indices as pseudo-pointers, and never freeing anything till the container itself is unused Are you talking about hand-rolled …

You need to authenticate once. You will get your vaults locally and you will be able to access them without an internet connection

IMO, rustc_codegen_gcc is much more reasonable in scope. It also stands a chance of actually keeping up with subsequent Rust releases. I would be surprised if gcc-rs ever achieved …

The culture and ecosystem should definitely be a huge part of selecting a language.

Rust has a small(ish) but high quality stdlib. It does not aim to be Python. Like with any language, you have to know the ecosystem in order to be productive. That said, sure, havi…

> In french you say "Omelette du fromage". No you don't, that's literally "Omelet of the cheese". You say "Omelette au fromage", which is "Omelet with cheese". I do agree with your…

Thanks! This is exactly the kind of mistake that annoys me.

Wars are rarely won by single battles. That said, it really depends what period of history you are interested in. If you want to stick to the XXth century, Anthony Beevor regularly…

Hardly. This is in no way a historical treaty.

I have no sympathy for right-wing extremists, but EU countries still operate within the rule of law. You cannot deport people who are member of a legal organization, and I don't th…

I don't think any of the people they assassinated were even alive at the time of the Armenian genocide, so it's really not comparable.

Caesar's biography by Adrian Goldsworthy is excellent, but quite extensive.

Works fine here (Denmark)

Apparently, the native tribes don't get the right to choose.

> Rust is a compiled language. There's a compile step when you make a code change. That said, it really depends on what you're doing. If you are debugging something, it can be a bi…

The .NET ecosystem is a lot more mature than Rust's, there is no arguing that. As for code cleanliness, though, it's debatable. Rust has ADTs, Option, exhaustive pattern matching, …

Rust is amazing (but also frustrating), but RLS is, frankly, terrible. It is unreliable, slow and unstable.

There is nothing particularly outstanding about C#'s type system. It has reified generics and some basic type constraints, but so what? No option type, no ADTs, no pattern matching…

A database provides developers with the convenience of composing queries by concatenating strings. You still need to be really incompetent to do so in 2018.

I don't know what it's worth in terms of security, but it's really convenient. And Danish bureaucracy is the smoothest I've seen yet.

The article forgets to mention a crucial point: one of the Republicans' main reasons for not granting independence to Morocco was to avoid antagonizing the UK and France, who were …

The strategy of the Stalin-backed communists was to not alienate the middle class. The anarchists, on the other hand, were not about letting war get in the way if social reform, an…

In this particular instance, clearly not. However, a rule of "first come first served" does not do anything but validate domain name squatting as a business model. It's like patent…

Also known as "enabling domain name squatters".