DixieDev

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by DixieDev 8mo ago
This line of thought works for storage in isolation, but does not hold up if write speed is a concern.
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by DixieDev 1y ago
Where I work we tend to write RFCs for fundamental design decisions. Deciding what counts as a "fundamental design decision" is sometimes self-moderated in the moment but we also account for it when making long term plans. For exa
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by DixieDev 2y ago
I would like to see improvements in the speed of feedback - particularly from language servers - but the value of those 'basic' guarantees is more than worth the current cost. Unexpected side effects are responsible for almost eve
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by DixieDev 2y ago
Your comment is far too reasonable. Go directly to jail. Do not pass ⅄OR.
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by DixieDev 3y ago
Nushell is quite nice. Tables are nice to work with and look at, and the cross-platform support is top notch. It feels like what Powershell would have been, had it been designed by people who have actually used a command-line before. The ma
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by DixieDev 3y ago
Where have you seen a service describing something posted less than 12 hours ago as being "posted last week" rather than "posted yesterday"/"posted today"?
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by DixieDev 3y ago
I got quite annoyed with Neovim config at some point and tried out Kakoune, and ended up contributing some window splitting code to the main repo for Sway. I liked it quite a lot, but it's not built with Windows in mind so I ended up c
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by DixieDev 3y ago
I feel genuinely insane trying to parse this site. It's a miracle that there's no mention of Web3.
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by DixieDev 3y ago
I'm mostly indifferent to it because it doesn't really harm readability, and it's not hard to know when to use it, but I can seem why it might be more strongly disliked. You can't entirely rely on it to know a dereferenc
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by DixieDev 3y ago
Is writing a simple CSS file and some HTML code really too much effort for a personal blog? Clicking around this site the only non-trivial things are the RSS feed and the paginated scrolling (which seems wholly unnecessary) on the homepage.
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by DixieDev 3y ago
Anyone got other useful tools for debugging within (neo)vim? Just seamlessly putting down breakpoints, stepping through code execution, and getting a fully fledged debugging UI experience (a la Visual Studio or Remedy BG)? This is possibly
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by DixieDev 4y ago
I think the official Zig website already does a good enough job at expressing what the the language has to offer, to the extent C devs can read a couple of pages and know whether or not they vibe with the language. The only thing it's
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by DixieDev 4y ago
I can't really comment on the nuances of the sound, but a digital piano will allow you to plug in headphones which is - in my opinion - invaluable in a home environment.
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by DixieDev 4y ago
I missed UO's hayday, but when I've played the big modern MMOs I find myself instead attracted to the idea that individual characters shouldn't be able to do everything. I feel like forcing players to interact if they want to
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by DixieDev 4y ago
This is my perspective too. Whenever I find myself having to use Windows (which these days is just for games with Windows-only anti-cheat), the annoyances feel so much more pronounced.
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by DixieDev 4y ago
Most likely you specifically don't have much reason to care about Zig. Meanwhile, C can still often be found in areas where high performance and precise control over memory are important - such as in small embedded systems and game eng
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by DixieDev 4y ago
It's a strange sentence for sure. Organising your programs around data and its transformation happens to mean you are aware of how hardware organises, represents, and transforms data, and accommodate that to keep things running smoothl
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by DixieDev 4y ago
It's seems clear to my family and friends that they have some sort of checklist for writers that includes garbage like mandatory regular sex scenes. In my case, they have _finished_ a tiny tiny percentage of their shows. They tend to s
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by DixieDev 4y ago
This shouldn't detract too much from your point, but for fighting games the situation is slightly different from most other genres: Modern fighting games, as well as older ones that have been modded to included this (such as Melee), ha
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by DixieDev 4y ago
I feel like they should probably advertise this fact somewhere, as I couldn't find it in their docs, website, or readme, and it is quite a significant detail.
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by DixieDev 4y ago
"Rust has mature and production ready frameworks in Actix Web and Rocket" Why is Rocket considered production ready when it's only just at version 0.5? Similar <1.0 stories can be found on crates for sqlx, rusqlite, and po
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by DixieDev 4y ago
Ok, sure, there are a whole bunch of reasons that my function might not actually finish. In this case, though, it's specifically not finishing due to invisible compile-time additions Zig is making to the function I've written. The
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by DixieDev 4y ago
Within main(), your snippet will give you an error at compile time "function with calling convention 'Inline' cannot be async". In my snippet foo() is invoked in an async context using the async keyword, and when foo() s
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by DixieDev 4y ago
My original reply is kind of sloppy, here's a snippet to better illustrate my confusion: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2290425 Specifically, examine this: fn foo() void { bar(); std.log.info(&quot
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by DixieDev 4y ago
This article was my first exposure to async in Zig, and I find it rather at odds with the "No hidden control flow" selling point of the language. fn foo() void { bar(); std.log.info("bar is finished"); ba
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by DixieDev 4y ago
Not everyone uses social media to watch anonymous users screeching their opinions at each other. It is a nice tool to cut down on encountering content you don't necessarily care for.
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by DixieDev 5y ago
PoW also favors those who are already rich it's just abstracted by one layer of them having to buy rigs for mining farms, instead of being hard-coded in the same way as PoS.
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by DixieDev 5y ago
I've been running Lineage OS without any Google Play Services and it's been pretty rough. A lot of apps from various APK mirrors just straight up don't work, even when they seem like they shouldn't be affected at alll. F
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by DixieDev 5y ago
Yeah, if you click too many links without an account it'll bring up a sign-up pop-up that takes you to the previous page when you close it. You can get around it by opening the link in a new tab, or save yourself constant hassle by dis
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by DixieDev 5y ago
Personally I haven't found Stack Overflow useful for anything in a looong time. At work, usually my problems are specific to whatever proejct I'm working on and my peers are the only real source of answers regarding that. At home,

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