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timlyo

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    Comment #43204191

    I use Fish as a user shell everywhere I can and end up using Bash daily for scripting and on servers/VMs/containers at work, I've also been using Nushell a lot recently for persona…

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    Comment #43087851

    Sadly that almost makes things worse, if it's off then it's a data point that helps to id privacy conscious people.

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    Comment #42813170

    There's Lix, although I'm not clear on if it's about changes to the language or if it's entirely focused on improving the tooling. https://lix.systems/

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    Comment #34624531

    In my experience the view of the police is pretty positive here in the UK.

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    Comment #31337918

    The company that I work for makes a b2b wholesale platform. We use Rust on the backend for its reliability. The performance is a nice bonus too.

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    Comment #28797284

    That's correct in the most of the English speaking world, apple juice is what it sounds like, cider is fermented apple juice (as far as I'm aware, it is in the UK). In American Eng…

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    Comment #27378857

    > Been smooth sailing ever since Did you stay with Paypal after that? I'd have run for the hills.

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    Comment #21989513

    Maybe even one that can randomise some settings to throw off fingerprinting.

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    Comment #20524104

    Do you know a good alternative?

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    Comment #19651572

    > Moreover, for some reason people tend to read only that first tweet while what I wanted to say is in next 5 tweets too. I find it concerning that Twitter has become such a common…

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    Comment #19367614

    Discord is pretty good, although it's gaming focused so not ideal if you're looking for something professional.

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    Comment #18881791

    Have you ever looked at Lutris? https://lutris.net/

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    Comment #17615689

    Syncthing instead of dropbox. Works great for synching music (and only music as I can just sync a single folder) and for replicating important files across multiple computers. I've…

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    Comment #17318738

    That and water is very good at storing heat meaning that it stays skin blisteringly hot even after the rest of the food has cooled down to edible levels.

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    Comment #17264020

    It's serverless in that there is no specific server running it. The website is distributed across Ipfs and the chat is peer-to-peer.

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    Comment #17225784

    I've enjoyed using Elm for client side development.

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    Comment #17194630

    There's a lot that can be done to shrink a Rust binary[0]. A copy of the summary: - Compile with --release. - Before distribution, enable LTO and strip the binary. - If your progra…

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    Comment #17080579

    Syncthing handles this pretty well. Only downside (upside in some cases) is that it's self hosted rather than a service. https://syncthing.net/

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    Comment #16910661

    Just [0] is a pretty great generic task runner incase anyone is looking for one. It's written in Rust so it doesn't introduce any new languages (single binary install) and it uses …

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    Comment #16550442

    Nixos can automatically upgrade. https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#idm140737316798064

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    Comment #16338669

    Did you consider the approach of scanning through the readme and looking for urls to known donation sites? Maybe this could be done separately to add to the list?

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    Comment #16273033

    >rkt on the other hand is a dead project Why is this? I've only recently started looking at it.

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    Comment #16203958

    The error message catalogue [1] mentioned at the end of that first blog is interesting, wonder if Rust would benefit from something similar. [1] https://github.com/elm-lang/error-m…

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    Comment #16167573

    http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cromulent

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