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I was talking about regular old today's Rust, not the specifics about become.

Ten minutes used to be the cutoff where you could provide an interstitial advertisement. This sort of turned into a sort of wive's tale, where people thought the algorithm would pu…

> In rust the borrow checker would guard against reordering such things It doesn't even get that far: Rust guarantees that things drop in reverse order of declaration, full stop. O…

> It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program. Depends on the semantics of the programming language itself. For some la…

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Hacker News has a wide variety of people in it, but certainly leans more toward software expertise.

"attestation" not "attenuation," thank you autocorrect :/

(Former oxide) Yes, custom hardware is a significant part of Oxide. You have to build your own to do that stuff, and that’s why they did. I alluded to some of the things upthread. …

(Former Oxide) An in-house team is most likely competing with something like Dell or VMware, not really Oxide. A significant part of Oxide’s value proposition is that you’re buying…

Exactly what I said here: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-see-a-future-in-jj/ I am still a huge fan and supporter of Oxide, and I'm really glad to see them still doing well.

Regardless if it's still true or not, the original purpose was not to re-write Gecko.

From the presentation announcing Rust inside of Mozilla: https://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf > We are not “rewriting the browser”. That's impossible. Put down the gun.…

I can't add on to my comment because it's been too long, but a great thread on how much work this is: https://x.com/sameenkarim/status/2083237928092721646

This is roughly the current state of things as I know about it, that said I haven't read a lot of git's mailing list lately so it's possible that there have been some other develop…

This feature was brought up amongst GitHub for years, possibly even a decade. And it was something that they didn't want. It was new leadership back in October that decided to buil…

You can't run MacOS in a VM on non-Mac hardware without violating Apple's EULA. > But what is send to the main repo can be easily scripted to run the CI on every commit. Sure, this…

Here is an example of a guide from OpenAI on how you should prompt 5.6 differently than their previous models. https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model#p...

This is one of the biggest changes to hit GitHub in many years. I'm really glad to see something like this deployed to one of the largest forges in the world, hopefully it will exp…

You can't have mac/windows/linux/whatever all locally simultanously. Not every project requires this, but for those that do, it's impossible. Also, it is much harder to enforce "ev…

I should let things go more often, it's a personal problem :) Thanks for the nudge, I'll consider it in the future.

I wasn’t trying to disagree at all :)

On non-Linux platforms, you must go through a system provided shared library rather than make syscalls directly. fil-c has its own ABI, and so it has its own libc that uses it. You…

This analysis is great, and I don't mean to knock it, but one of the things that it doesn't capture is, what choices does the frontend make that impact the amount of work that the …

It really depends on a lot of things. This design is possible, yes, but it also means that you can't have some of the same features as Rust has. Rust's traits can be "non-dyn safe"…

> What exactly am I missing? My point in bringing this up is to strengthen my compliment. Even though I disagree with aspects of Zig's design, the stuff talked about in this post i…