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About String::leak: > The caller has free choice over the returned lifetime, including 'static. Indeed, this function is ideally used for data that lives for the remainder of the p…

If you're in it for the long haul (1-2 years), I'd recommend working through the recommendations in https://www.teachyourselfcs.com/ . The Algorithms part, the Networks part and DD…

My book recommendation for learning calculus would be Calculus Basic Concepts For High School by Tarasov.

I'm not aware what exactly the German government has said in the past w.r.t mask usage. However, governments claiming mask usage was not required near the start of the pandemic fol…

Looks like they mentioned this here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy It's apparently being trialed to a limited subset of users.

DDG has a No Javascript based search.

My first thought when I saw the title was that it was due to Nagle's algo.

Small nitpick here. For drugs, novel drugs in particular, 20 years is actually the required amount of time for the pharma companies to actually turn a profit. The patent applicatio…

That issue was fixed in the latest release of uBlock Origin. That's why it required the additional permissions for DNS.

Lagunita appears to be retiring on March 26 2020. Are there any alternatives you'd suggest for the courses on Lagunita?

I've never used a media server before. What advantages does a media server offer over just storing stuff on a set of folders?

https://ferdychristant.com/amp-the-missing-controversy-3b424... is relevant to the discussion as well.

Personally, I prefer the Kinesis Advantage 2 for most of my typing work. It's more pricy than many other keyboards but I've always found dev work pretty easy with it.