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Many comments on generic methods. Perhaps this example will help understand a hopefully not-too-objectionable case of using them in practice. The math/rand/v2 package has a number …

Fair enough, but that leaves us with no way to represent zone IDs in URLs at all. Neither http://[fe80::4%eth0]/ nor http://[fe80::4%25eth0]/ is valid under RFC 3986. Given that ne…

> In theory, there is guidance for how to properly handle IPv6 zones in user interfaces in RFC 9884, but there's no such guidance for URLs. RFC 6874: Representing IPv6 Zone Identif…

Mint (T-Mobile MVNO) has been great for me, $20/month/line and my one experience with international travel was good ($20 for 10 days). I used to be on Verizon and the quality of se…

Sounds ridiculous, but worked on mine! So far, the fix has stuck, too.

Much more prosaic (if slightly embarrassing), I'm afraid: The update was non-trivial (this CL is simple, but there are some accompanying ones in x/text which are not) and it didn't…

To be very pedantic, there are two separate services: The module proxy (proxy.golang.org) serves cached modules and makes no guarantees about how long cache entries are kept. The s…

0600 and 0_600 are octal literals: octal_lit = "0" [ "o" | "O" ] [ "_" ] octal_digits .

In my experience, the Apple Watch blood oxygen monitoring was horribly inaccurate. It would report wildly variable results, often telling me that I had a blood oxygen level of 80% …

It means we're not confident the API is stable yet. There might be further changes before the final, non-experimental version, depending on user feedback and further experience wit…

> I really don't like how this article claims that the primary issue with Go's error handling is that the syntax is too verbose. I don't believe this claim is made anywhere. We've …

I have a 2024 Kia EV6, and this is pretty much what it does: Central screen displays CarPlay, backup camera, and infrequently-used settings controls, dials and knobs for most thing…

> I say this not to be flippant or sarcastic but rather to ask how our ancestors seemed fine with the above but we seem less so? Because by and large our female ancestors raised th…

The "move a branch from one commit to another without changing anything" command is "git reset". "git reset --hard" is "...and also change all the files in the working directory to…

I do almost all my cooking on cast iron—no philosophical reason, it just works well and once I figured out how to use it I found that I pretty much always reach for a cast iron pan…

A non-blocking send doesn't work in this case. Consider: User provides DoChan an unbuffered channel, and then reads a value from it. If the send is nonblocking and occurs before th…

Returning a channel avoids questions of what happens if sending to a caller-supplied channel blocks. DoChan returns a channel with a single-element buffer, so a single send to the …

Of possible interest to anyone testing concurrent Go code in general and time in particular, a proposed standard library package: https://go.dev/issue/67434

There are some interesting results in here, but the slower cases are a bit misleading. The majority of time in the slow cases is spent constructing errors, not in errors.Is. Some b…

In addition, Chinese characters encode more information than English letters, so a text written in Chinese will generally consume fewer bytes than the same text in English even whe…

The article doesn't refer to that incident, so far as I can see. It does mention Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped a year after the Stockholm bank robbery. The term "Stockholm Syndro…

Bluey is the only show my kid loved, and never wanted to binge watch. He’d watch one or two episodes and then want to turn the TV off so we could play Silly Hotel or Keepy Uppy or …

HTTP/3 is almost indistinguishable from any other protocol running over QUIC, and QUIC itself is almost indistinguishable from random noise in UDP packets. If you want to masquerad…

HTTP/3 is not vulnerable to this specific attack (Rapid Reset), because there it has an extra confirmation step before the sender can create a new stream. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 both ha…