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mre

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    Author here. I use the term 'genuinely' too often, but that's just me. I do that when speaking here as well. Suffice to say that I'm not a native speaker, so that might have someth…

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    Comment #46855449

    We use httpmock [1] for lychee, and it works quite well. Haven't looked too closely at the differences yet. [1] https://docs.rs/httpmock/latest/httpmock/

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    Comment #46556205

    https://archive.ph/wcArc

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    Comment #44775829

    As a counterpoint, I quite enjoyed the writing style. Not everything has to be summarized. To me, it was more about the human experience.

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    Comment #44229642

    My vote goes to .ws which redirects to a beer brand.

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    Comment #44080619

    Recently watched Mickey 17 and it reminded me a bit of Idiocracy. Maybe someone is looking for related movies.

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    Comment #43979374

    Fair point. Your wording was a bit strong, but I assume you meant well. I will update the article.

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    Comment #43979361

    Author here; thanks! I had the same impression, which is why I started writing these short-form articles about idiomatic Rust. The blog post overview is here: https://corrode.dev/b…

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    Comment #43979267

    Do you mean `Arc >`? Yeah, I agree. Wrote a blog post on that topic as well: https://corrode.dev/blog/prototyping/ The title is a bit of a misnomer, but it's about beginner-friendl…

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    Comment #43979158

    The thing is, once you internalized the concepts (ownership, borrowing, lifetimes), it's very hard to remember what made it difficult in the first place. It's "curse of knowledge" …

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    Comment #43979123

    For people who don't get the reference, this might be referring to the notoriously gnarly task of implementing a doubly-linked lists in Rust [1] It is doable, just not as easy as i…

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    Comment #43647888

    It's true that he no longer steers the project, but his first version shaped the internet as we use it today. At least one could how a modern version of a similar idea would look l…

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    Comment #43637770

    In my book that's not a guess, but a hypthesis, which is indeed a great way to narrow down the problem space. What I meant was to avoid blind guessing in the hope of striking luck,…

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    Comment #43637525

    The creator matters because they are the key to understand the reason was created in the first place and under which circumstances. You get to learn about their other work, which m…

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    Comment #43637194

    Author here. That's the answer. Or at least it used to be the answer when I still cared about analytics. Nowadays, friends send me a message when they find my stuff on social media…

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    Comment #43636895

    Author here. The site was down because I'm on Cloudflare's free plan, which gives me 100k requests/day. I couldn't care less if the site was up for HN, honestly, because traffic co…

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    Comment #43613595

    Sorry, it's fixed now.

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    Comment #43607272

    True, I should add the wrapping types. They are actually quite useful if you know that you have a fixed range of values and you can't go above the min/max. Like a volume dial that …

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    > However, their use is the exception, not the rule, and their use—in particular in combination—requires security expertise and investment that is not common. For them to provide r…

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    Comment #43230020

    If you're looking for a Firefox fork, a couple of options come to mind: - Floorp ( https://floorp.app ) - Zen ( https://zen-browser.app ) - Mullvad Browser ( https://mullvad.net/br…

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