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They may not be intrinsically more sacred than anything else, but ads in general are still something to avoid. The difference in reaction when adding a new ad to the web vs the CLI…

I didn't see that, but it might be because I block JS in general by default.

Depending on what syntax constructs are available, it's possible to achieve clarity without the verbosity or "line noise factor." For example, in Rust you could write that same cod…

WSL fails in a lot of use cases due to the NT kernel's poor performance when creating processes, slowness in the translation layer when accessing files, and the like. It's essentia…

I don't really like it either, but the "future use for expression-oriented operators" aspect makes it easier to swallow. I'd rather deal with some slightly odd notation that accura…

I built a workstation with a Threadripper earlier this year, and I couldn't be happier so far. The single-core performance advantage of Intel parts isn't that big, and you get a to…

Like this: fn leak() { // Create a 1KiB heap-allocated vector let b = Box::new(vec![0u8; 1024]); // Turn it into a raw pointer let p = Box::into_raw(b); // Then leak the pointer } …

Switching distros seems a little drastic given the problem. Why not just fix the AUR package? That'd probably take less time than reconfiguring everything.

You're considering network transmission time, by which cached JS is indeed free, but ignoring parse/JIT time and CPU usage as factors. Processors aren't getting any faster, and all…

I'm pretty happy about the GlobalAllocator stabilization. Now you can run Massif and Heaptrack on rust code without switching to unstable!

"Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" is pretty good. I read it a while back after seeing it linked here. https://www.amazon.com…

That's exactly the problem: they work well enough for some limited applications. Thing is, "well enough" isn't a reason to get people moving to MS's platform - if I already have a …

It doesn't get more web-scale than `/dev/null`. Unlimited throughout, zero latency, full availability and consistency even in the presence of partitions, and constant network usage…

I've run into it before, but it's not usually too serious. It only usually happens on lines with compound expressions or chained calls like this: foo.into_iter().map(|x| x+1) .filt…

I've been thinking about switching to either FastMail or ProtonMail for a while, and an open-source client solution for Linux would eliminate the only remaining reservations I have…

I use Pandoc ( http://pandoc.org ) on a regular basis for converting plaintext/Markdown documents into PDFs or Microsoft Word files.

And yet somehow neither of them can compare to text-mode editors built more than 30 years ago.

The hardware and OS are fine. The problem is the web platform and its towering stack of abstractions, combined with the occasional problem of focusing on aesthetics over utility. I…

Not quite. The societal acceptance of discrimination based on genome is missing, and that was a big part of Gattaca's impact. Unless that becomes a possibility, I'm happy that we c…