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> now I only touch nano when I need to de-crappify a vimrc file You can start vim with --clean to fix your vimrc.

Apple gets a cut of the payments made through them and yet they provide this option to the consumers. The FTC or the govt can force (?. I'm not a US resident and know nothing of US…

This is what Netflix's Terms of Use says, "If a payment is not successfully settled, due to expiration, insufficient funds, or otherwise, and you do not cancel your account, we may…

Why is it still the norm in the US to allow companies to charge their customers whenever they please, without the customers having any control? In India, businesses are required to…

If the primary concern is the lack of a common packaging format/app store, please consider publishing to https://flathub.org/ . It should solve these for you across all distributio…

Signal desktop runs as multiple processes. Did you add up all their memory consumption? On my Debian laptop, Signal processes consume about 700 MB of RSS in total, immediately afte…

This will mean a virtual memory allocation of 800 GB. Such large allocations can fail, even if virtual, depending on over commit settings.

What is the collective noun for programmers? Merge conflict.

You can format code as "Verbatim" (Ctrl+T), and it will not be interpreted as wiki text.

Can you share some details or point to articles describing the design issues with NATS streaming?

What's the best way to get patent encumbered media working with Fedora for non Americans? apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras, does it in Ubuntu.

This article points to an attack that applies to AES-256, but not 128. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_a...

I tried rust on this. https://github.com/tuxychandru/golang-challenge-rust/tree/ma... It was shorter in LOC than my go version, mainly due to try!, but the lines themselves were lo…

How do sum types make error handling safer (without also adding exhaustive pattern matching) or easier (without adding do notation or macros)? The point I am trying to make is that…

I said 2 things in very first comment. I never claimed rust doesn't have select. This is quoted from my very first comment in this thread, AFAIK, rust also doesn't allow selecting …

No the select statement of go. It is way more capable that rust's select macro. The tone of your previous comment made me feel that this thread is going in an unproductive directio…

I was referring to select statement, not async messaging support.

I was wrong about synchronous communication. Since most rust example use async channels, I missed the existence of sync_channel. However, even if that exists, rust's concurrency do…

Yes, that's what I meant when I said it not clear whether goroutines can be replicated as a library in rust "without compromising rust's core values". In fact, I mentioned no-GC an…

Rust's multi-threading most certainly is not CSP. CSP requires communication to be synchronous. Rust documentation states that send() will never block and channels have infinite bu…